Marketer: let's get an engineer on to talk about how easy it is
Me: engineers don't talk about easy. We talk about what was hard.
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the value of an abstraction is not revealed by the happy path.
Abstraction exists to help me with complexity. The complexity is in the failure cases.
Tell me what happens in various failure cases, and I'll tell you whether this abstraction is helpful or 💩
Build for after the revolution. Build the social structure that will serve us then. Build it now, where we are, and make the systems we hate less relevant.
Claude Code: I did it! We’re done.
Whitney Lee: Telemetry or it didn’t happen!
The trick to enjoying history is
knowing more about history.
Each book is more interesting for everything I already know that it intertwines with.
A typo like 'enviroment' can easily turn your production dashboards into pumpkins
- Liudmila Molkova, on using Weaver to validate your telemetry #kubecon
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This post brought to you by the htm library for JS. It converts your jsx-looking string to HTML, without using JSX.
The code strikes me as elegant.
When I pass an extra closing tag, the exception says "h.push is not defined"
When I miss a closing tag, it returns the wrong type.
https://www.npmjs.com/package/htm
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so I wrapped it in bumpy code, to at least give my future self a better hint.
https://github.com/jessitron/hny-tricks/blob/1e90435b00ebc7911423471f17259c7c5d4f9ff6/src/htm-but-right.ts
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@schmudde haha yes if I had been able to x ray the dryer... Or if I had sat down and watched the whole correct video... I would not have attempted this!