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[Will Farrington @wfarr]

Eventually you stop shaving the yak and just become one with it

[Will Farrington @wfarr]

Today's fun brought to you by repeatedly telling the Agent to *not* refactor every single API client and instead only refactor the one API client I specified.

[Will Farrington @wfarr]

Each new day working with Agents to work on software projects is full of surprises. Sometimes, the good kind. Often times, though it's got me feeling more like this: https://t.co/eF20L8oW1H

[Will Farrington @wfarr]

@chacon I don't think it's like particularly earth-shattering stuff, but the amount of time it has to save for $20/month to be worth it is not very much. 😅

[Will Farrington @wfarr]

@chacon It's not uncommon for me to select a block of code, and use the "Edit" function to have Cursor refactor that block for me, or to write tests for it, or in the case of tests, make N variants for different inputs/attributes/whatever. It also tends to hallucinate less there IME.

[Will Farrington @wfarr]

You can write POROs in app/models. It’s totally allowed. You can model a domain without every model being an ActiveRecord model. You don’t have to make verb module soup.

[Will Farrington @wfarr]

Every time I walk into a codebase full of 4736 service “objects” that are just modules with a call method

[Will Farrington @wfarr]

@jnunemaker I am pretty familiar with how Heroku encrypts and stores app configs internally and feel much more comfortable with what’s going on there.

And we use terraform for managing our config on the apps themselves (which is, eventually using HCP Vault under the hood).

[Will Farrington @wfarr]

@jnunemaker Running away from the poor ergonomics and security posture of the symmetric encryption implementation it is mostly (for Heroku config) 😅

The Shopify internal impl it was inspired by used asymmetrical encryption of values only, so merges and diffs both worked much better

[Will Farrington @wfarr]

@mscccc Cool, that makes sense. Thanks. The project @p_ch mentioned in his reply seems interesting - gonna have to give that a look.

[Will Farrington @wfarr]

Never has anything tripped the urge to be a BOFH and drop a line like “a lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine” as the request for a meeting for Boxing Day during my time off

[Will Farrington @wfarr]

@samlambert insert the beckham documentary "who asked for this feature" meme here

[Will Farrington @wfarr]

1. Dudes rock
2. Hell yeah, brother

[Kalshi Football @KalshiFB]

FOOTBALL GUY ‼️

[Will Farrington @wfarr]

@holman Like finding a needle in a stack of needles

[Will Farrington @wfarr]

@austinlouisray If they happened to accidentally DM me with a couple tickets after you secure yours, that sure would be crazy

[Will Farrington @wfarr]

I don’t think I’ll ever do better than this Spotify Wrap highlight from the other year though 😂

[Will Farrington @wfarr]

For reasons, my music listening is split across Spotify and Apple Music, but I’m getting a kick out of how different they are because of my bimodal usage

[Elamin Abdelmahmoud @elamin88]

if you’re in bed stay in bed

[Justin Gray @JustinGrayWSB]

DeKalb County says it's now 7 polling places currently evacuated because of bomb threats in the last hour of voting. County CEO says those voters will get to vote. @GaSecofState said earlier threats in Cobb & Fulton were likely Russian. We expect an SOS update soon