@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.
New blog post out today: How and why I use pytest’s xfail: https://blog.ganssle.io/articles/2021/11/pytest-xfail.html
Male (bright blue) and female Variegated Fairywrens as seen from my veranda this morning.
The female was close enough that those shots aren't cropped.
Canon EOS 1D MkIV, 400/5.6L + 2xTC (effective field of view equiv to 1,040mm due to the 1.3x crop on APS-H sensors)
#bird #photo #nature #AustralianWildlife #VariegatedFairywren
@skunksarebetter Am I mis-remembering, or did you once recommend a CLI tool that would execute a terminal command in response to changes in a set of files? I remember it as being a recommendation for fzf
, but I’m not seeing that anywhere, and fzf
doesn’t seem to advertise that capability.
I should probably be less negative and more grateful that my employer has allowed me to work on this on work time. Thanks, Google!
Coming soon to Python: A basically full-spec iso8601 parser.
Though I’m already pessimistically expecting a bunch of comments like, “Finally, I still didn’t understand why they didn’t do that in the first place.” and “Oh this function is finally useful, thought the core devs were being intransigent on this.”
I signed up for unsplash to share my full-size photos.
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Programmer working at Google. Python core developer and general FOSS contributor. I also post some parenting content.