Sad to hear about the death of Marc Johnson; he was an incredible skateboarder who I grew up watching. Perhaps more than any other skater; he was the epitome of being incredibly talented and hardworking but also never taking things too seriously just having a blast being different and weird. His skating was like a cocktail of Mullen’s technical abilities and Gonz’s weirdness.
Still an insane part:
It’s encouraging to see heads of state around the world condemning the video of Itamar Ben-Gvir taunting detainees; but they don’t get it. The international community’s abject failure to act during the genocide of the last two and a-half years has taught Israel and Israeli leaders that they are 100% immune. If there have been literally 0 consequences for the deaths of over seventy thousand civilians and the total destruction of all hospitals and universities then what do these leaders with their “strongly worded” condemnations expect is going to happen?
My daughter uses the same backpack I did 30 years ago! Hail to the once great, and again trendy Jansport.
I also love that she’s adorned it with some finger knitting!
Donald don’t threaten us with a good time!
Asked late on Thursday whether he would consider pulling US troops out of Italy and Spain, Trump told reporters: “Probably …"
Updating some Backbone.js code… What a blast from the past, over the year’s I believe I’ve worked on three Backbone projects. It’s fun to dig into legacy hotness from 10 or 15 years back it allows you to judge the code with more clarity. The code today was pretty clever, the Backbone stuff I worked on a year ago; not so much.
New script to kill the rails s: lsof -i:3000 | grep "ruby" | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -15
I’ve set that as a workflow in Alfred that runs when I hit command-control-r (⌘⌃R). I set this up last year because I find Rails gets hung up and control-c isn’t enough to kill it. However, prior to right now I was using lsof -i:3000 | xargs kill -15 which would also kill Firefox (Zen), grep for Ruby and then grabbing the specific processes fixed this.
I think I’ve always used args and params interchangeably; TIL parameters are what the function accepts and arguments are the values passed in. For example in Elixir:
def my_func(name, age) do
...
end
# above name, and age are parameters
# then at the call site:
my_func("Travis", 34)
# "Travis" and 34 are arguments
Just read the term “React Engineer”, I know it’s cliche but I need to scream into the void on this: there is no such thing as a “React Engineer”; engineers are licensed professionals and highly regulated, slapping components together to “make the graphql look pretty” is not an engineering job.
I get that these terms are conflated, but I never call myself a “software engineer” because I didn’t do an engineering program.
Whenever I get a spammy text my first move is to run:
loadtest -c 50 -n 1000000 --rps 10000 https://spammy_url.com
They generally don’t use beefy servers so it’s fairly easy to crash them at least for a few minutes. Thinking of creating background script to run this constantly for any spam texts I get, might be enough to spike a Lambda or Vercel bill a bit.
I’m a firm believer that 40-60% of jobs in the modern world do not need to exist. AI is driving those jobs out of existence, unfortunately it is not doing so by creating a simpler more utilitarian world, instead it serves as a multiplier for that waste and will likely create even more layers of pointless abstraction.