This happens when I outsource reading the docs to AI agents.

wait… there was a function for that? Why did you tell me to build this house of cards

It was 900mb raw and compressed to 1.6mb after cleaning.

That’s how much junk data there was.

Combing through that log is the only way to prove and identify where a big was introduced so I can fix it.

You’ll miss out on some primo maple syrup

Most recently:

I had to parse an html table with a column of printed python dictionaries, the dicts wrapped a mixed delimiter list of SQL statements of various types.

It’s truly an abomination.

I’ve never had to use pythons AST module to parse data before…

Yeah, they’re about pakled intelligence now.

Is that the new ifixit one?

No, it’s one of the few use cases of emacs.

Stuff like openWRT routers get a pass.

If it has a local host API I would use it because it never has to connect to the internet.

Anything in my house smarter than the IKEA remote control light switch gets crushed with a hammer.

I’m mostly joking, but most of what I code lately is integrations and data tools where 90% of the thing is configuration and lining up different tools.

It’s a lot of load data form yaml, build json, throw that into a tool and the build a report kind of glue. I’ll use pydantic and stuff where it makes sense, but I’ve been spending a lot of time lately between lua and python and javascript.

I used to do more system and engineering stuff which actually required a lot of planning, but that’s just not what has paid the bills for me the last few years.

but we still get that tech debt sprint?

And halfway interesting means beyond a medium blog written by someone with 3 months experience trying to pad their resume, and not following standards beyond default linting rules at all

Lately my approach to dev is “I don’t care about your language feautures, I’m going to treat it like lua and just stuff objects with data and write bare functions to process them”

Unless I need to engineer something complex, everything is dict[any:any].

I’m sure you’ll get a sprint to clean up the tech debt and a pizza party. Management promised!

Man I sure hate the trans agenda of checks notes wanting a place to pee in public without being harassed?

Seriously fuck all this, trans rights are human rights, and insanely easy to accommodate while hurting absolutely no one.

That takes me back

I’ve been party to dumping legacy systems and lift & shifts a few times.

Good fucking luck.

Knowing nothign about this, a project like this would take at least 2 years even if you are dropping a ton of use cases and dependencies.

They should sell a charger called “ba” and then a two pack called “banana” and a four pack called “bananana”

I think fediverse being the ocean is apt.

We’re just here, with wave after wave eroding the shore of the island that is Reddit.

Reddit has very weak leadership in my opinion.

I wouldn’t be betting on them, especially when their user base is going to want them to stand up for them and the Elon fiasco shows Spez won’t.

It’s a tinderbox before the next large Reddit protest happens again and more niche communities splinter off to the fediverse.