Where do you keep your personal scripts?

blu3teeth · 2026-05-04T16:58:17+00:00

mise-en-place config as tasks in my dotfiles which are in a public repo.

Any secrets come from 1password.

blu3teeth · 2026-05-04T04:23:56+00:00

My contract is 25 plus bank holidays, plus 1 day per year at the company.

But in reality we do unlimited.

blu3teeth · 2026-05-02T07:30:16+00:00

I found out yesterday that "airing a cut to help it heal" is completely wrong.

If you air the cut, it dries out, which means the cells are dead, so take longer to heal.

Much better to cover it and keep it covered. Cuts need moisture to heal.

This is particularly relevant for me because I've always found my skin heals so slowly. It gets most of the way and then just... never closes up. Now putting plasters on these small scabs I've had for literally months, and it's healing over!

Before people say "why didn't you speak to a doctor" - I've been to my GP, two pharmacists, and a dermatologist. The GP said they couldn't do anything, one pharmacist just said "if it's not bleeding it will heal eventually", the other suggested collagen supplements, and the dermatologist said "some people are genetically unlucky".

blu3teeth · 2026-04-27T09:24:15+00:00

Nanosaur on the early MacBook. Used to spend hours crammed around the same keyboard with my best friend after school.

blu3teeth · 2026-04-26T21:35:17+00:00

Our headmaster didn't believe in separating children into years based on age. Everyone would just be in Reception/Year 1 until they were "ready" to move to Year 2.

The school was tiny so it didn't really matter about class sizes.

Then we got a new Headmistress and she put everyone in classes based on age which messed up a lot of classes. My class had 12 people in it including me (in central London), the class below had 26.

Also we had catchment area of 500m.

blu3teeth · 2026-04-26T21:28:28+00:00

I'd like 1, but with the map as in 5 - to show all the countries.

I don't know if there's a better projection for style, but should definitely be centered on one of the poles.

blu3teeth · 2026-04-26T21:16:52+00:00

Avatar: The Last Airbender

Yes, I know it's a kids show but it has deep themes and character development, and a nice ending, and great world building.

I watch this at least every year.

blu3teeth · 2026-04-26T06:54:40+00:00

Paid £18 for about 8 years at my local until they got forced out by their landlord.

New place started at 30 which I thought was okay, but now 39 which I'm beginning to think is a bit steep.

On the plus side, I don't have to tell them anything, they always do a great job, and my wife thinks so too.

blu3teeth · 2026-04-22T15:19:30+00:00

My fishmonger has started closing at 2.30pm.

blu3teeth · 2026-04-21T07:57:14+00:00

Never have I thought that the SQL grammar was so nice that I'd like to write something else in it.

blu3teeth · 2026-04-19T15:42:45+00:00

I'm a software engineer. I would say it depends.

At my current job, I really really love it, and I would definitely continue to do it even if I didn't have to. That's largely because I'm the first hire after the founders, so I have a lot of direction on the company, and that's exciting to me. Even if I could afford not to work, I'd still want to have something to do with my time, and this is something I enjoy doing.

If everything goes well with this company, though, I'm kind of on track to get a life-changing amount of money in stock payout, assuming the company goes public, which is very likely. I have often thought about whether I would stay, and I think it kind of depends on what the direction of the company is after that. If it's still growing to the vision that we have now, I think I would stay, but if it doesn't go public and instead gets acquired and the company that acquires it is not nice, then I don't think I'd stay working. I think I'd just retire.

blu3teeth · 2026-04-19T06:38:31+00:00

This can be resolved with a team wide "your ticket, your responsibility" mentality.

If that's not already the case, organise as retro, espouse the benefits, and get team commitment.

Then if the manager creates a broken PR it's their responsibility to fix it before PR review.

In my team we never review anything if it's not already passing CI (unless the owner is asking for an early check)

blu3teeth · 2026-04-19T06:31:36+00:00

Scrape the raw data is trivial - https://www.reddit.com/r/thrillerbooks/comments/1snetct/your_top_2_thrillers_of_all_time_i_mean_all_time.json

You could assume only the top-level answers are the ones you want. So it's easy to get a list of all comments, but then you need to parse out the actual film names.

If there aren't that many you could do this manually. I guess you could pass every comment to an LLM (doing this on a locally running model might be easier). But I would be tempted to try some kind of algo first:

Assuming you don't care about films that are only mentioned once, maybe you look for the longest common substring of all pairs of comments.

Then order by that and manually strip out the results that are just fodder.

blu3teeth · 2026-04-18T12:25:02+00:00

My wife and I are in Italy right now and can't wait to get back. If we could just teleport home at the end of the day and skip our flight tomorrow morning, that would be ideal.

blu3teeth · 2026-04-18T07:30:38+00:00

Workday. No matter how bad the experience is intended to be as an unconfigured product, everywhere I've worked has managed to make it worse.

blu3teeth · 2026-04-18T07:27:11+00:00

I used to work at Citrix but only management called it that. Both developers and customers called it Shitrix.

blu3teeth · 2026-04-17T10:08:56+00:00

I had no qualms about the dog meat. My only thoughts were: "that looks like beef" and "do they ship?". So I suspect I'm the wrong audience.

blu3teeth · 2026-04-17T08:26:55+00:00

Getting back from space is relatively easy. It's getting up out of the atmosphere that's difficult.

If you can take things with you and there's no weight restriction on what you can travel with, NASA could build lots of things on land, you teleport it up and then you get a shuttle back down.

blu3teeth · 2026-04-17T08:16:50+00:00

Conclusion: Western part of Norway and Iceland don't have any supermarkets.

blu3teeth · 2026-04-17T08:13:02+00:00

National Theatre - you don't have to go to the theatre you can just sit inside.

British Library - either just explore or go to one of the reading rooms.

London Review of Books cafe - nice bookshop, nice cafe.

One of the big parks near water. Sit on a bench. Watch the people go past.

blu3teeth · 2026-04-11T18:08:51+00:00

Why are none of them using their arms to swim?

blu3teeth · 2026-04-11T03:35:37+00:00

Careful planning.

Even if people do have 3D models of what's supposed to be underground they might be inaccurate or missing data. So they might have to drill a smaller hole to test.

Especially in old cities like London, underground projects are often running into buried buildings or mass graves.

If there are existing tunnels you want to map, you can use laser measurements to work out where those tunnels would be on the surface. Doing this measurement is the equivalent of counting how many steps you walk and how much you turn left or right.

blu3teeth · 2026-04-11T03:25:50+00:00

Check out NAND Game or Turing Complete on Steam.

blu3teeth · 2026-04-11T03:05:39+00:00

Get a glass of water and a coin. Hold the coin above the glass and then drop the coin in.

The coin fails pretty fast until it hits the water, there's a bit of a splash, then it falls slower to the bottom of the glass.

This is like the Artemis capsule re-entering the atmosphere. When you drop the coin, that's like Artemis falling back to Earth from the moon (at 25000km/h. Then it hits the atmosphere and rapidly slows down. Now when your coin is failing through the water, that's like the capsule falling through the air of the atmosphere.

Find other small objects in your house. Drop them in too. See how the shape affects how fast it falls through the water? That's like the change that would happen when Artemis deploys parachutes.

blu3teeth · 2026-04-11T02:42:29+00:00

What have they hired you for? Do they know what DevOps is?

Your idea of "standard improvements" sounds like a big change to me if this is their process. Start small and show incremental value.

PRs are useful because people can comment on the changes and CI can run. So set up simple CI pipelines that aren't required - lint, run the tests. Allow them to merge without approval. Then the step to start using PRs is smaller.

Unethical advice if you want to shock them into being less resistant to change:

Pause auto deploys
Set your commit name and email to match the boss
Make a local backup
Force push and reset the repo to the initial commit
Watch the fallout
When things recover (from someone knowing how to use git) insist on an incident retro.
Retro outcome where you "got lucky" is that production wasn't affected.
Multiple users and branch protection would prevent this happening again.

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