code that changes together, lives together
indirection is great! one of the best things you can do to look smart is recommend pulling out some shared code and make both sides point at that, this is how i pass job interviews and contribute to meetings i haven’t been paying attention to.
it makes the code more complex, but for a good reason.
if you have a program b that consumes data from program a, that is simple:
(data in -> program a -> data out) -> (data in -> program b -> data outthat is great. but later, you learn there is going to be a new program c that consumes data from program a. it might be a swell idea to pull out code that is used in both places into a sharedlib, once you notice they are always changing together.
now you have something more complex! data goes into program a, program a maybe talks to sharedlib before sending it on to program b and program c who both talk to sharedlib. indirection! it takes a little longer to track down where data is being transformed, but you get a benefit in that you can make a change to sharedlib and it will be picked up by the programs without having to make a change to all three.
the idea is to make code that changes together live together.
similarly if you have a bunch of code in repo a and a bunch of code in repo b that requires a PR in both places any time there is a change then it might be good idea to pull code from repo a and repo b into repo shared too. code that changes together, lives together. if you find over time that it’s requiring a change to repo a and repo b and repo shared any time you make a change, then maybe you’ll want to put all of those in one repo.
however: don’t pull things out into shared libraries simply because you believe they may one day be used by other things, wait until you actually need them, wait until you can see it will reduce churn or duplication to separate it. never introduce indirection simply because you believe it may one day reduce duplication. DO REPEAT YOURSELF, until you can see the patterns. do not introduce configuration, shared code, environment variables, overloaded functions, dynamic dispatch, delegation, …, until you can see that it will make the codebase better.
do not use any indirection at all until it is needed. constantly watch your repos, if there are a lot of examples of two (or more) repos requiring synchronized PRs then either make it one repo or pull the shared concept into a new package that both of the others depend on.
idea: start screaming never stop
force faux bold and oblique website fonts
EDIT this does not work reliably across browsers so ignore all of this
today i found out about a little trick you can use to force the browser to synthesize its own bold and italic for a font, when you really want it to.
i wanted to change my font to be Geneva, to fit with my new Macintosh System 1 inspired theme. it doesn’t have bold and italic styles. with web fonts, if they don’t have bold and italic styles the browser will go ahead and imagine some. this is something people try to avoid. that’s great for Adobe but im different.
i’m not using web fonts (falling back to other fonts on other platforms). it doesn’t happen with local fonts, though, so what do we do?
@font-face {
font-family: 'Geneva';
font-style: normal;
font-weight: normal;
src: local('Geneva');
}that’s right! define a web font @font-face whose only src is the local font you want, and state that it only has a “normal” style and weight.
you could also use this to have an alias for your font stack by adding more font names to the src, e.g. “src: local('Geneva'), local('Verdana');” but that’s probably an even worse idea than what i’m already doing!
let’s go
week 31; 2022
hello darling!!!
ok. i didn’t take notes this week so i’m a little light on info. i spent a lot of the week working on programming projects (work, lima, imessages, partyfingerd, docfiles, etc) and learning languages (zig, go, deno). sofia finished the last essay for her diplomat. she did rly well, i’m proud of her. i’m gonna need to start starting work later, because i keep falling asleep so late and waking up so early. also thinking maybe i should take a couple days holiday to live in the city a little more.
i got a little sick again this week. i get sick a lot ever since getting the diabetes. i think maybe i let my blood sugar get too high and became a breeding ground for all mystery viruses. i ate cherries and drank tea and started to feel better on Saturday, which was lucky for it is Sofia’s birthday weekend.
i made a new theme for my blog which focuses on readability and is inspired by the web design of my friend’s blog in 2002.
we didn’t manage to go to the frida kahlo museum. it’s ticket-only and was sold out :-(
saturday we went to plaza toreo to get cute clothes and boots. we ate at a restaurant called perros & burros, which we were skeptical of but turned out to be delicioso. maybe we will go back and get one of their 4 foot long hot dogs. i drank 2 litres of beer with our delicious fajita lunch and took some very pretty pictures of the birthday girl. we shopped for clothes, i got some nice new shirts and a pair of slip-ons from vans. we bought matching shits the colour of frida kahlo’s house. we got some (a lot) of weed from a nice chap, and went home and drank beer and smoked weed from a pipe the birthday girl fashioned from a carrot and we talked and laughed and watched half of a movie and fell asleep.
Sunday we played some Mario Kart, spend a while trying to work out what the lyrics of the last verse of The Pogues - Fiesta is actually trying to say (using her native spanish and my native ability to understand shane macgowan when he talks), then we went to a big park and walked for a while, then to a place for burritos and margaritas, and then to walmart for groceries, and then home. she has left now to visit her cats.
in mexico you don’t get any vacation time until you’ve worked at a job for 1 year.
what programming languages can be used in embedded devices? c, c++, micropython, circuitpython, tinygo, zig, rust, ulisp… are there others? anyway i’m a sleepy little bitch and need to go now. xx love you, see you in the pyramids.
oh, p.s., i added more features to partyfingerd so you can now use the userpart to ask for a specific post. for example, this post can be read by running finger week-31-2022@chee.party.
2.5.5. Vending machines
Vending machines SHOULD respond to a {C} request with a list of all items currently available for purchase and possible consumption. Vending machines SHOULD respond to a {U}{C} request with a detailed count or list of the particular product or product slot. Vending machines should NEVER NEVER EVER eat money.
finger me
i’ve added a feature where you should be able to get my latest blog post by fingering me in the terminal:
finger session
source code here: chee/partyfingerd
remember that if code is GPL and you want to use it legally in a non-GPL context you can always contact the copyright holder and offer to pay them for a license to use it in your work