Glen Mailer

I'm a software developer at @geckoboard, formerly @CircleCI, and a recreational triathlete - Now mostly at @[email protected] - he/him

[Glen Mailer @glenathan]

Been doing this a lot recently, very satisfying when it comes to make the actual change: https://t.co/LEskiaYtAx

[Kent Beck 🌻 @KentBeck]

for each desired change, make the change easy (warning: this may be hard), then make the easy change

[Glen Mailer @glenathan]

@QuinnyPig Isn’t this all kinda pointless anyway since they’re still controlled by US corporations? Are any of them really actually “sovereign” in a meaningful sense, or is this just marketing?

[can @can]

your db query is slow? just add this! boom, now you are ai-native instead of lazy!

[Glen Mailer @glenathan]

@jessitron Regression testing, but for the conceptual design of the system?

[Glen Mailer @glenathan]

@martinrue Best solution imo: stop using multiple domains

[Glen Mailer @glenathan]

@matteocollina @nodejs Are you able to share clear repro steps? I tried feeding that sample payload to an app of mine and I did not get a stack overflow or a crash - it was just rejected by Express - so I’m not sure what I’m missing or whether I’m affected

[William Thomson @Williamgallus]

Fiscal rules are relatively new. They didn't exist until the Maastricht Treaty in 1992. They spread across the globe following neoliberal politics. They are purely political in nature and are not based on any solid economics.

[Glen Mailer @glenathan]

@simonw @obie I care a lot about how individual choices will lead to understandability and malleability over time

I tend to work on long-lived software owned by small teams

I’m not entirely anti-coding-agent, but I struggle to justify spending the time to really invest in learning the tools

[Glen Mailer @glenathan]

@mitsuhiko We use ULIDs and this is a major reason I dislike them

Imo, much like UUIDv7 they’re too big, don’t fit into URLs nicely, and aren’t recognizable enough

Back when we just used autoinc you got to know the numbers for your most pathological customers - that’s much harder now

[Glen Mailer @glenathan]

@jlongster @Vjeux I wonder if anyone now codes with their own preferred formatting and resets to prettier only when they’re finished

[Glen Mailer @glenathan]

@simonw @mitsuhiko And it hasn’t even improved at being internally consistent within a page! Which is one of the core principles of react data architecture!

[Glen Mailer @glenathan]

@floydophone Sleact

[Glen Mailer @glenathan]

@ProCyclingStats the design tweaks look nice, especially on mobile - but I ran into a small bug:

When filtering by team you don’t get the actual times anymore, you just get “ for everyone unless they were at the front of a group

[Glen Mailer @glenathan]

@bostonou I’ve hit 100% of my deadlines in the last decade, it’s not that hard.

The key is that almost none of my work has real deadlines, but when it does, we take them seriously

[Glen Mailer @glenathan]

@martinrue getFullYear is not stupid, but I suppose there’s no good way to remove getYear that doesn’t break a non-zero amount of existing code

[Glen Mailer @glenathan]

@csswizardry Are you headed down for Frontend North?

[Glen Mailer @glenathan]

@csswizardry Yeah, that’d be good. I’ve got a 6 month old now so logistics are harder than they used to be!

[Glen Mailer @glenathan]

@csswizardry @ChaponFlo I am, yes!

[Glen Mailer @glenathan]

@csswizardry @ChaponFlo That’s the idea, yeah - most releases should only touch a few files, and it tries to group them together through some heuristics

node_modules should change rarely, for example

[Glen Mailer @glenathan]

@csswizardry @ChaponFlo When configured correctly, webpack splits the bundle into a number of “chunks” each chunk contains a bunch of source files, and has its own name and hash.

The idea is then that any change only invalidates a subset of chunks

[Glen Mailer @glenathan]

@csswizardry A correctly configured bundler is supposed to put the same files into the same named chunks, so most releases shouldn’t modify most chunks