Michael McNichol

On top of a mountain right now

[Michael McNichol @codingtogether]

The Risk Legacy Electronic Die Roller prototype test run.....lets rock and roll fam...no mercy

[Michael McNichol @codingtogether]

At war with local postmaster. Today took an unexpected twist

Months of threats they'd hold my mail..they finally did it

I call..finally..we exchange words. Postmaster says: "I need to find who is using my name!"

Have I been fighting an imposter postman ghost this past year!?!

[Michael McNichol @codingtogether]

@gunnarmorling Is this more along the lines of black box testing? Because in that case it just sounds like integration.

If not I'd be interested in someone's example of why they wouldn't test a private method beyond "simplicity"

[Michael McNichol @codingtogether]

How uncanny that when combining equal parts Owen and Luke Wilson you get older brother Andrew Wilson.

[Michael McNichol @codingtogether]

One day I will share the story of how I changed to 300 amp service without shutting off upstream.

Hint: Not my brightest moment...but I technically survived.

Conventional flow serves no purpose, just think about electron flow and you'll be safe.

[Michael McNichol @codingtogether]

Three things to un-exist:

American Standard - British Imperial Standard will always be dumpster fire. Metric - Be smart, upgrade, move on

Tremolo Bar - Tremolo = volume, vibrato = pitch. Vibrato Bar

Conventional Flow - Electron Flow only. If ground is solid, go ham

[Michael McNichol @codingtogether]

ChatGPT will be the UX Designers worst nightmare.

[Michael McNichol @codingtogether]

@dashaun @Raspberry_Pi @RetroPieProject Clean! Gorgeous work DaShaun

[Michael McNichol @codingtogether]

and this is how I found out about Brothers Solomon.

Plans for tonight ✅

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So can I ask why @OrvilleIV and @arnettwill have not sat in a room and created an entire series just by ad-libbing and stream-of-consciousness chatting?

Merely the creation process would be a show.

@batemanjason could be there to try and keep them on track...keyword try.

[Michael McNichol @codingtogether]

How my night's going ❤️

[Michael McNichol @codingtogether]

Me, field trip, 3rd Grade, Zoo has Jurassic Park. They're working on robot T-Rex and the neck skin was moving so realistically.

The words came out before my mind could hit the brakes.

"Is that thing real?"

That teacher looked through me into my future and snatched my soul.

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@Stephan007 Ha, I love it. Motherboard, daughter board, etc. It carries a lot of meaning

Not orthogonal but feels "uncanny valley" to see. Something vibing there though, love it!

You'd be a real hero (legend perhaps?) if you drop a first-cousin-once-removed for a refactoring joke

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Whenever I start off a sentence with "Well theoretically..." I feel like a pretentious bag of hammers

It's my equivalent of "Umm.." and I use it in equal measure...soul-crushingly equal measure

[Michael McNichol @codingtogether]

Me: If this is true, the Wu-Tang Clan could be dangerous!
Son: I don't know what that is.
Me: What?!?!?
Son: I don't know movies dad.

My dear boy how I have failed you.

[Michael McNichol @codingtogether]

Neighbor being kind cutting grass with riding mower.
"Anything I can't run over?"
Thinking he meant branches etc as I just trimmed I say all good

Minutes later I watch from the porch frozen in horror as he beheads two good sized lavender bushes

God bless you Jim but DAMMIT!!!

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Wait, you're telling me that the insulin manufacturing process is no different than how we make yeast bread yeast and alcohol!

I have a small vat of sourdough yeast in my fridge right now that cannot die fir years despite my ineptitude (it's bad)

Why is insulin not free!?!

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The thing that makes coding hard is not learning a new syntax/language, it's that you are learning to use a new lens to view your problems and sometimes a different world

Similar to spoken languages echoing and influencing each other, your code reads like a caveman speaking

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💡

Teaching kids lab safety in a comedic fashion but realistic

I'm thinking "Arrested Development" alway-leave-a-note guy style

No glasses while angle-grinding, ahh the blade was not molybdenum and shattered into my eyes, so much blood!

Just kidding, joke angle grinder.

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@omniprof Relatable! With those drawn and quartered or racked medieval tortures I sometimes think: "If I could just have 5-10% of that...might be nice"

One thing I did at home that helped in addition to yoga; hang from a pull-up bar.

I used wrist straps and built up endurance over time

[Michael McNichol @codingtogether]

I wince every time I: $>sudo apt seach

On the other hand I accept this is who I am, I will not stop, and I have made peace with it

Of all things taking me down the "accepting myself" journey I never guessed this would be my catalyst.

Linux you rascally little Buddha