How team assignment worked at Pivotal (at least on Cloud Foundry)
Why Pivotal engineers changed teams so often, and how those changes happened
Testing Transactions in Elixir
My favorite thing about this test is that it's not a test for whether these operations are happening inside of a transition. It might actually be better to do this with the first request as a subquery inside the insert, and this test will happily accept that solution.
Man, I miss pairing
I miss being able to do that raw volume of work. I miss the feeling of being on a team that pairs. The level of collaboration skill. The pace.
Mere Being 015 - July - urban grocery stores, document editors, the Weird Dude election
There are people trying to get us back to that disaster vibe – but – I dunno – society-as-a-whole has escaped TheGlobalChatroomSlashAnxietyReflectionMatrix and I think everyone's chilled out a lot.
Taking notes on a new codebase
let’s just get tactical write away, and talk about note-taking for dependency mapping
How to write better Bash than ChatGPT
ChatGPT by default writes verbose and somewhat naive Bash, but you can improve it a lot with a few directives.