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I had a coworker who left our team less than a year in because we would not cut down our development loops. By development loop, here I mean, if you want to write some new feature in a code base, can you test it locally, deploy it somewhere, test it closer to its real running conditions, and then make it live. But you typically need to do this many times, REPL style, because typically cannot predict statically if some patch has the intended outcome. So that’s why it’s a loop. This is also the itch of the Continuous Delivery [1] author, Jez Humble. I recall when my coworker was there, most of our code base was scattered across code islands, water gapped, through ship captains who could island hop you from one island to another. Testing was often impossible because of various databricks dependencies. Deploying to staging was sludgy, you know, slow and kludgy; you had to know about undocumented steps. Jiggle the keys in your ignition to start your car just right without shearing them off, after hearing your starter struggle-rattling. She’s still seaworthy, after a few attempts, you hear the car starts. My coworker’s frustration came to a head when he started his first and possibly last support rotation. When things failed and he found much of the team was perfectly fine with the inadequate pace to Jez-Humble a patch to a bug through to production, that led him to discuss this with the team. He had a few good approaches to help get some of our systems to be more, turnkey. But there was too much resistance to change and he left. Maybe I am more masochistic when it comes to tolerating slow and painful change. ...

Hugo suddenly serving only 404s locally while GitHub Pages worked Trying something new here. I have in this post, asked Chat GPT to turn a full troubleshooting thread into a blog post. I did not edit it–maybe except a tiny one–, because my goal was to document this particular weird problem without really spending time on writing a blogpost. Actually I think the result is pretty good, sticking very nicely to reality. It is not in my voice or my style, but that’s ok, I literally just wanted to document the thing and move on. ...

Feel like I’m not seeing what the Ralph Loop community is seeing. They say it’s simple just write a task list and run your Ralph loop until the tasks are done, easy! But most problems cannot decomposed into sub problems easily. This is South Park and Underpants Gnomes. This is Russel Peters and Baking a Cake. This is literally why waterfall project management doesn’t work as advertised. This is why pi planning con at best align on high level goals but is terrible at the decomposition. but there are clearly many many people on the internet who are fascinated by this workflow. If you already could decompose a problem in such a way, then you would just write a program after all. Am I missing something? ...

original prompt Fun hyper realistic image of a judge looking person with fake white wig and classic robe, doing a single handed jump shot in basketball , kind of like in style of this photo I provided a photo of someone in the middle of doing a finger roll, which is good because jump shots are further away from the basket unlike finger rolls. Anyway learned a new term! ...

Used ChatGPT’s DALL-E here. Original prompt Fun image where someone is wearing a detective hat , but the hat is made out of a detective 😆, as a joke ,so maybe we have some regular person telling there friend like “hey check out my new hat”, and sort of a detective is like sitting on their head and they kind of look like a hat somehow 😂. Because they are in trench coat and have spy glass. ...

Augmenting your intelligence feels like a high. It’s a powerful drug. It feels thrilling and amazing when you use it but when the high wears off there are racoons in your kitchen eating your trash and you are half dressed sleeping on the floor. You have a headache. You have to go to work now and actually do work. But all you can think of is the next high. And if you get to day dreaming about your next dose, then that helps fulfill one of the attributes of addiction. The other is if it interferes with your ability to fulfill your role at work. Are you at the point where you can no longer function at work without using? And how are your relationships. Are people commenting on you spending a lot of money on your new ehhem activity? ...

text to image with ChatGPT DALL-E. original prompt , paraphrasing slightly Let’s explain the concept of the sort of self congratulatory thing sometimes seen at company all hands type meetings, where, you see the first 20 minutes is VPs just congratulating each other. And it evokes the feeling of watching all the people who paid extra for Business Class during airplane boarding. Where you think, Okay cool you spent your money for that. ...

Planing on a plane. Used ChatGPT’s DALL-E here. prompt Lets make a fun hyper realistic image with a normal looking scene in an airplane of 737 size , where we see all typical activities, of a plane in flight, but also to make it funny, instead of several rows on one side , is a wood worker, “planing” some wood with typical woodshop vibes. The woodworker , a woman, just happens to be there , no one is concerned, everything is Normal ...

Note on creating this image Original prompt to Chat GPT Realistic Image of someone in shorts pulling a pocket out, inverting it, revealing a small hole the pocket lining has. They are of the facial expression sort of like “hide the pain harry”. They are holding a slightly screen cracked telephone in their other hand. This image has a second vertical pane as well, on the right. This pane is further split into top and bottom, the same person shows they are putting now their phone into a thin hat, and their mood is like neutralish. Now the last bottom pane here, we see them half way, putting their thin hat, that visibly has the geometry of a phone rectangle , into their pocket. Now their facial expression is “clever” . And there is also a thin frame at the top where a title reads “Hat Pocket” The panes, arranged, are like this , ...

Note on creating this image Original prompt to Chat GPT Realistic Image of someone in shorts pulling a pocket out, inverting it, revealing a small hole the pocket lining has. They are of the facial expression sort of like “hide the pain harry”. They are holding a slightly screen cracked telephone in their other hand. This image has a second vertical pane as well, on the right. This pane is further split into top and bottom, the same person shows they are putting now their phone into a thin hat, and their mood is like neutralish. Now the last bottom pane here, we see them half way, putting their thin hat, that visibly has the geometry of a phone rectangle , into their pocket. Now their facial expression is “clever” . And there is also a thin frame at the top where a title reads “Hat Pocket” The panes, arranged, are like this , ...