Justin Wernick

South African software engineer and father. I write at Mastodon: @[email protected]. he/him.

[Steve Donovan @StevedInJoburg]

I wrote about the different philosophies behind Unix shell and Nushell #nu_shell

https://t.co/uzEJVIMqHt

[Justin Wernick @JWorthe]

@StevedInJoburg I've found that it can be useful for small things, but only if I can easily verify the correctness of what it's written, and throw out the bits that are wrong. In practice, this mostly means boilerplate code or code that I already know the solution but don't want to type.

[Justin Wernick @JWorthe]

It took me a long time to get to writing it up. I really don't have as much time for writing these days as I once did. But I've managed to put out my first blog post for this year. It's about how I'm using #emacs #orgmode to keep on top of everything.

https://t.co/VlMSagkzIS

[Alvin Alexander @alvinalexander]

Don’t tell anyone, but at least for now, the PDF version of “Functional Programming, Simplified” is free. 😲🥳

https://t.co/PMPmpUYJlo

[OpenTofu @OpenTofuOrg]

Our Response to HashiCorp’s Cease and Desist Letter: https://t.co/210jYa3jLu

#OpenTofu

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[K @KevinTrethewey]

Fake agile is a skills problem, skills problems are system problem, system problems are an incentive problem, incentive problems are an economic problem, economic problems are a global power game problem, global power game problems are a technology problem, technology problems can be solved by using Jira.

[Kent Beck 🌻 @KentBeck]

This is your periodic reminder there's no such thing as a fractional engineer. If you're assigned 50% to this project & 50% to that, then someone is willing to accept 0 productivity from you in exchange for not telling someone up front that their project isn't being supported.

[Justin Wernick @JWorthe]

@StevedInJoburg It's a semi-aquatic egg-laying mammal of action.

[Chambraigne Socialist @bombsfall]

when wolves first sat with humans by the fire it was all leading to this

[Justin Wernick @JWorthe]

I'm not a Christmas person, but I'm a sucker for Rust and December coding puzzles. So yeah, I'm going to join the Shuttle Christmas Code Hunt 2023!

This thing: https://t.co/8LsG1AHMi9 🚀

@shuttle_dev
#shuttlechristmas #scch

[Justin Wernick @JWorthe]

There's also a whole bunch of other great forges out there, as well as open source forge software you can self host if you want to.

[Justin Wernick @JWorthe]

I hear that Github is making some... interesting... decisions. Just a reminder that I wrote this thing a while back showing how you can set up your own git server from scratch. https://t.co/RiKLrZg7Gk

[Justin Wernick @JWorthe]

I wrote a thing. The really short version is that if you're writing software, I think it's a good idea to write software to make it easier for you personally to write software. https://t.co/Qtyavwjxew

[Justin Wernick @JWorthe]

@StevedInJoburg I've heard of a particular problem where smart people are really good at rationalizing things, which makes them susceptible to conspiracies because you get really good at figuring out good reasons why birds are actually government surveillance devices or the earth is flat.

[Alexis King @lexi_lambda]

so, the way this next optimization works is that GHC stares sternly at your program until it feels bad about itself and runs faster,

[Justin Wernick @JWorthe]

I wrote a thing about how I'm going back to listening to music the old fashioned way: with a big directory of files on my own computer! https://t.co/21wvhHLmyh

[Justin Wernick @JWorthe]

https://t.co/Et1M2qHnkV

[Justin Wernick @JWorthe]

@alienelf Trudge

[Justin Wernick @JWorthe]

@davefarley77 Of course we're agile, we're using Jira 😭

[Josh Sawyer @jesawyer]

Min-max. Save scum. Rest constantly. Murder every NPC after a quest finishes for more xp. Do whatever the mechanics implicitly encourage you to do. Face God and walk backward into hell.