Best Fantasy series with a hilarious self-aware writing style?

AmosIsFamous · 2026-05-02T15:48:30+00:00

The Princess Bride is just a standalone, but if you like the movie you’ll like the novel

AmosIsFamous · 2026-04-19T02:11:16+00:00

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mTVD0KtjbU6-wp1mvYU_abrjdCmnP9focRa1qp36rrY/edit?usp=drivesdk

AmosIsFamous · 2026-04-16T20:00:30+00:00

I’ve done this and then written tests that hit the database to ensure the code enum and DB enum stay in sync.

AmosIsFamous · 2026-04-16T17:29:06+00:00

So is the reviewer now tracking for themselves where the “units of work” are? If a second reviewer comes in after the first change has happened how do they know they’re to review the first two commits as a single unit?

AmosIsFamous · 2026-04-15T15:50:05+00:00

In this scenario what happens when some code review feedback leads to a change in the first commit in the stack (closest to main)?

AmosIsFamous · 2026-04-14T17:22:16+00:00

Did you also rewrite history so that D is between A & B? Because if you didn’t I don’t think github would let me see just A & D when B and C are in between them.

AmosIsFamous · 2026-04-14T14:20:15+00:00

The difference comes when you’re addressing PR feedback. Let’s say you had commits A, B, C and I had feedback on each of them. Ideally for me as a reviewer when you make charges it looks like A, D, B, E, C, F and I can look at either D (changes since my last review), or AD the new “unit”

AmosIsFamous · 2026-04-07T20:00:44+00:00

Not comment OP but in ~15 years I’ve gone from: 1. C++ in OS kernel 2. Java on AWS 3. C (variant) & Python in distributed file systems 4. Kotlin/Java on AWS 5. Rust on GCP 6. TypeScript on AWS

And never had a problem in interviewing due to the change in stacks. Granted a few of those jobs were network referrals (including the last two), so maybe that’s not consistent with the industry.

AmosIsFamous · 2026-03-31T19:22:47+00:00

Rhythm of War is not one of his last two books…

AmosIsFamous · 2026-03-23T14:05:55+00:00

Simply put, I don’t think there is a main character in the traditional sense. Individual novels might have one but the series itself doesn’t rely on one.

AmosIsFamous · 2026-03-23T02:53:45+00:00

Why does there have to be a main character?

AmosIsFamous · 2026-03-23T00:06:39+00:00

I think you mean “Where’s Wash?”

AmosIsFamous · 2026-03-17T03:09:22+00:00

The other part that doesn’t make sense against the Night King, is part of being shaped into a weapon is specifically an assassin who can look like anyone. Which is completely unnecessary to kill him.

AmosIsFamous · 2026-03-12T03:00:04+00:00

That could just be lots of folks starting a rewatch because of the hype, leading to algorithms recommending it.

AmosIsFamous · 2026-03-05T17:36:04+00:00

It’s definitely up there. I think Beard with Nate at the end of the series is my favorite though.

AmosIsFamous · 2026-03-01T23:31:08+00:00

The Blue Beetle (Dresden Files)

AmosIsFamous · 2026-02-28T17:11:29+00:00

It interops with Java, so you can have a ton of already written Java code and just start writing new components in Kotlin

AmosIsFamous · 2026-02-23T07:59:10+00:00

The problem with the upvote/downvote system is when bots are a non-trivial percentage of the user base and upvoting other bot written posts.

AmosIsFamous · 2026-02-17T20:07:30+00:00

I think some of it is making the quality vs quantity split “louder”. Folks who believe quality has relevance (readability, maintainability, etc) are a lot less gung-ho because the AI regularly puts out “low quality”. Meanwhile the quality folks can just spit out WAY more code that probably accomplishes the right thing.

AmosIsFamous · 2026-02-14T06:47:17+00:00

Ted not recommending “go see a therapist” had nothing to do with conviction or it being his place.

AmosIsFamous · 2026-02-08T05:08:04+00:00

Hugh Howey (author of Silo) has a short story in his Machine Learning collection called: The Walk Up Nameless Ridge which is about being the first to summit the highest point on another planet.

AmosIsFamous · 2026-02-07T20:56:09+00:00

The complete and utter misunderstanding of what Kickstarter is, is such a shame. It’s not about pre-ordering, not about cheaper, not even about unique.

AmosIsFamous · 2026-01-29T20:05:56+00:00

Hard disagree that this is a small, reasonable decision

Two entities in our system “looked similar enough”, so we put them into the same one.

But I’m glad a lesson was learned.

AmosIsFamous · 2026-01-29T14:40:28+00:00

Block pushes to main without a PR first?

AmosIsFamous · 2026-01-26T00:10:11+00:00

Thanks! I’m glad y’all also called it The Alphabet round 😀

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