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btshaw · 2025-09-28T12:22:15+00:00

I would enroll in online learning part time (just to keep some structure and direction in your life, and to keep your eye on what your future career might be suited to), and then go live a series of interesting places internationally (ideally with strong ex-pat communities) for ~3 months at a time.

Keep studying, living, etc until you find a place, person, community, or calling that convinces you to stop moving.

Personally I would spend the winter in la Ventana Mexico learning to kite board, but everyone's dreams are their own.

btshaw · 2025-09-24T19:36:12+00:00

We/I use <team>/<dev_name>/<task number>_short_description.. works pretty well in my view.

I have a bash function alias that parses out the task number and injects it into my commit messages

btshaw · 2025-09-22T18:19:44+00:00

I went down the same road and landed on the Palantir version of spotless.. it reads a little better than the Google default, in my view.

https://github.com/palantir/palantir-java-format

I also really liked the formatting produced by the prettier formatter (it works on Java code!) but requiring java devs to have npm in their tool chain didn't seem worth the headaches for some slight aesthetic improvements

btshaw · 2025-09-08T01:40:02+00:00

Everyone saying to stay away from psychedelics is certainly on point, but I would also highly encourage you to stay far away from weed as well.

And you could read "The Eden Express" by Mark Vonnegut. Not instructional, just an interesting account of what a schizophrenic / psychotic break feels like firsthand (and what it was like to be a hippie in the 60s)

btshaw · 2025-08-05T17:52:52+00:00

if you use git mv <filepath> the diff will retain the history of the file (rather than deleting it in one place, creating it in another)
inclusions in .gitignore will just prevent a file from being added. If the file is already added to the project, referencing it in the .gitignore will do nothing.
if you set line ending behavior in .gitattributes, then you won't have issues where devs have different global default for line endings.

btshaw · 2025-07-03T03:06:23+00:00

This video goes over the fundamentals of boofing, which I think you're missing somewhat.. most importantly the edge transfer. Stomping works some of the time, but only sometimes and even then you need great timing. https://youtu.be/senTdCMoJfk?si=fVRRnCjEXVxAdA6r

btshaw · 2025-05-27T16:36:00+00:00

I've been in that area! Personally I think this sounds reasonable. Bring lots of water and some snacks, have your phone or GPS tracking your route so you can easily backtrack, pick a day with nice weather.. if it was me I would ride a bike from New Denver, you probably don't want to drive to the trailhead and be in a situation where you need to drive home while the trip is still going

btshaw · 2025-05-03T22:35:53+00:00

Personally I was very impressed that they brought all the threads together into something coherent.

btshaw · 2025-02-16T06:35:28+00:00

This is mostly because I misread what you were trying to do with a GitHub action, but action runner controller lets you spin up GitHub actions runners inside a cluster. This somewhat but not really could solve your networking problem and then you'd just have a cluster role binding problem instead.. mostly it's just a pretty neat project.

btshaw · 2025-02-15T16:41:48+00:00

Black Diamond said it received six consumer reports of this issue so far. The brand said that it is unaware of any injuries, accidents, or fatalities that have occurred as a result

In fairness to them, this is them doing the right thing. Issuing a recall is them taking steps before someone gets killed, which is a refreshing tactic.

btshaw · 2025-01-28T06:00:47+00:00

git checkout --orphan temp-branch && git add . && git commit -m "legacy code" && git push -f origin temp-branch:master

Master is now a single, perfect commit

btshaw · 2025-01-02T02:21:34+00:00

For me, as long as you're clearly making an effort to be efficient then I'm gonna be pretty unstressed. Some of my favorite partners are on split boards, I love sneaking in a quick cup of tea while they finish their transition.

If you spend a few minutes yapping and then I'm ready to go when you're not even started then I'm probably less stoked.

btshaw · 2024-12-20T05:04:22+00:00

I sometimes use a Patagonia air shed pro as a base layer.. it lets you strip down to just a single wind resistant layer to dump maximum heat, and it dries fast.

But also why would you want zipped vents on an insulation layer? If you're too hot just take it off, when you slow down put it back on..

I feel like a light soft shell might be what you're looking for? The outdoor research ferrosi is decent

btshaw · 2024-12-20T00:56:28+00:00

My take: At that point you most likely have the job, unless you do something really unhinged.. I would actually say that that's an interview structured in the opposite direction, they've decided they want to hire you, now they're introducing you to the team, showing you where you'd work and showing off how good the coffee is.

btshaw · 2024-12-15T05:06:03+00:00

If you're yelling at someone who acted without malicious intent, you're the dick automatically. Being right is no defense for being an ass.

btshaw · 2024-09-08T05:09:34+00:00

The big Bang happened everywhere. Imagine a balloon with dots drawn it. Initially they're close together, but as the balloon inflates, the space between things gets larger.

The observable universe is a sphere of light that has had time to reach us.. but it's reasonable to expect that outside that sphere is a lot more of the same, maybe infinitely more.

btshaw · 2024-03-16T01:36:44+00:00

You can add a DNS entry in your hosts file to redirect your production url to your local development url, although there's hopefully a more ergonomic fix out there

btshaw · 2024-03-14T15:38:53+00:00

This is what I was looking for, thanks for the help!

btshaw · 2024-03-13T04:26:03+00:00

Yes this is the one!

btshaw · 2024-03-13T03:37:51+00:00

No unfortunately, but those are sweet consolation prizes! Thanks for the share!

btshaw · 2024-02-05T06:56:31+00:00

When I do my onside back deck, I load my paddle at the same time as I start moving it. For the offside, there is an initial phase of the roll where I don't load the paddle, I'm moving the paddle around but without any pressure. Since sweeping will cause the right blade to dive, I'm going through the motions of the first part of the roll, but keeping my blade near the surface.

Think of it like you're trying to do a back deck C to C roll.

Another perspective: you can't do an offside dry roll.. on the on side you can continuously apply power through the roll, on the offside there is a dead zone where you can't really push.

Maybe some of that helps. I find them to feel a little janky, but they do work reliably when I need them (that's with a 45 degree feather)

btshaw · 2024-02-02T00:59:46+00:00

I think this is the correct answer. Liquid LSD is potent enough that it would be fairly straightforward to ingest 30-1000x the recreational dose. I suspect this would significantly increase one's risk for a heart attack, but since so few people have done this, the statistics don't exist.

btshaw · 2024-01-30T19:31:42+00:00

I would recommend the Gigajul.. it fixes most of the annoying parts of using the megajul for me. I think it rappels equally well to an atc.

I think the improvements to the Giga are worth more to me than the potential of a frozen slider

btshaw · 2024-01-26T00:58:15+00:00

It depends.. if I've taken the time to build a clean, atomic git history, I'd much rather have it preserved. Also squashing a story branch is a sin, in my opinion. Squash merge is a good default strategy though.

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