We still sent them, of course.
Coincidentally, we also put in a little card for each of the parents with mine and my wife’s contact info in case the other parents want to get in touch. 😅
Maybe these delicious cookies my wife & son made will minimize the flood of imputations…
Giving my glasses a valedictory tour of the house before they shoot me in the eye with a laser tomorrow, presumably changing my prescription.
The last post (at least for now) in my series on xfail is now live: “xfail and code coverage”
https://blog.ganssle.io/articles/2021/12/xfail-coverage.html
@bagder An Easter egg that actually caused some problems that sound kinda annoying to debug: https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/405783
man -w
used to print gimme gimme gimme
at 00:30, as a reference to the ABBA song.
Seems like that just caused someone’s test suite to fail and not like a problem in production, but it is indicative of how unexpected behavior, even if a fun idea, might not be fun for all your users…
No easter eggs in curl https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/12/06/no-easter-eggs-in-curl/ - With the risk of completely ruining my chances of ever being considered a fun person, I’ll take you through my thought process on why curl does not feature any Easter eggs.
Today’s #science experiment with the boy: dissecting a turkey bone to see the marrow where new blood is made!
TFW the doctor tells you your shoulder bone is dissolving because you lift weights too much.
(See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteolysis#Distal_clavicular_osteolysis)
A pseudo-TDD workflow using expected failures, wherein I describe how you can use xfail and VCS history rewriting to make a TDD history even if you didn’t do TDD (this probably makes more sense once you’ve read the article):
https://blog.ganssle.io/articles/2021/11/pseudo-tdd-xfail.html
It is wild to me that
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eel#Commercial_species
*Some scientists managed to get some new eels hatched, but they died after 18 days. Not exactly a good foundation for aquaculture.
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