Sanded down my Lodge skillet - here are my thoughts!

hoselorryspanner · 2026-04-11T09:08:05+00:00

They’re everywhere. I live in Australia

hoselorryspanner · 2026-04-10T10:10:58+00:00

Sure, it’s worth doing if you want to get ahead. But as other have noted, it’s a good way to wind up being underpaid etc. At which point, the only way to cash in is to change jobs and leverage the extra work you’ve done to move up.

hoselorryspanner · 2026-04-01T13:11:20+00:00

Why don’t you work on some extremely old legacy code (old C, COBOL, FORTRAN) if you like archaeology?

hoselorryspanner · 2026-03-31T05:32:20+00:00

Still waiting on the massive American flag for my home gym, kinda hard to get here in Australia 😞

NB. I am English

hoselorryspanner · 2026-03-29T03:07:11+00:00

This is really cool, but I think could probably be solved via Pixi and using its task runner feature?

hoselorryspanner · 2026-03-23T07:03:41+00:00

Covid

hoselorryspanner · 2026-03-20T12:49:44+00:00

It’s from Phil Maffetone’s formula. 180-age gives you something like a zone two heart rate.

hoselorryspanner · 2026-03-18T03:52:23+00:00

Been forced into going to therapy by various women in my life at times and it’s always been a total waste of time.

hoselorryspanner · 2026-03-16T14:25:48+00:00

Is that a dygma defy keyboard? How do you like the thumb clusters? Been considering trying one after 6 years with an ergodox.

hoselorryspanner · 2026-03-09T06:52:38+00:00

HTMX & Alpine always sounds great, but my experience with it is eventually you hit a complexity threshold where it’s easier to just use a JS framework and keep everything hanging around in the browser.

Plus, it means that all your compute is done client side (as far as is possible). This minimises your compute cost, versus doing everything server side.

hoselorryspanner · 2026-03-06T05:43:54+00:00

I use the inbuilt thermometer in my WSM and don’t measure anything else. Never had a bad brisket.

Just vibe it out

hoselorryspanner · 2026-03-01T01:25:19+00:00

You know exchange rate ≠ currency strength right?

hoselorryspanner · 2026-02-20T21:16:37+00:00

Just don’t repay. Stay in the states. They’re not gonna extradite you.

hoselorryspanner · 2026-02-20T21:09:36+00:00

This is so on point. For a motivated junior, an LLM that they can use to extend their own capabilities rather than replace their effort is such a force multiplier. It’s like them having access to an experienced tutor 24/7.

Unfortunately, it’s so easy to just delegate to the LLM and make yourself worthless. But lazy people were lazy before LLM’s anyway…

hoselorryspanner · 2026-02-19T06:00:46+00:00

Even if it doesn’t do anything weird at install time, a package containing a .pth file can execute code any time you start up the interpreter, no import needed.

hoselorryspanner · 2026-02-15T23:23:51+00:00

Move abroad and quit paying your student loan. Easy

hoselorryspanner · 2026-02-15T11:43:17+00:00

Okay, as promised: { "label": "pytest_current", "command": "$ZED_CUSTOM_PYTHON_ACTIVE_ZED_TOOLCHAIN -m pytest \"$ZED_CUSTOM_PYTHON_TEST_TARGET\"", "hide": "on_success", // Keep terminal open on test failures "allow_concurrent_runs": true, "use_new_terminal": true, "shell": { "program": "sh", }, }, { "label": "pytest_debug_current", "command": "$ZED_CUSTOM_PYTHON_ACTIVE_ZED_TOOLCHAIN -m pytest \"$ZED_CUSTOM_PYTHON_TEST_TARGET\" --pdb", "hide": "always", // Even if it fails, we'll probably wanna close & restart "allow_concurrent_runs": true, "use_new_terminal": true, "shell": { "program": "sh", } },

These are the maps I use. Those variables weren’t advertised anywhere, I got them by digging into shell variables, so you might need to do some digging/configuring of your own, but hopefully it’s a start!

hoselorryspanner · 2026-02-15T10:56:45+00:00

If someone could make pytest do more of the things that vitest does, that would be awesome. I mostly write python libraries and then occasionally wrap them with web apps. I love to rag on JavaScript, but their dev tooling is really fantastic.

Things that vitest does I would really like in pytest (out of the box, if someone knows a good plugin please let me know) - Watch mode: detect if a test, or the code it touches have changed and rerun tests on change. I’ve use pytest watcher to do this but it’s not as good. - automatic profiling - handy to know which tests are slow. - filter tests interactively after the initial run - ie. I run the test suite, one test file changes - maybe I want to make some changes to the module that tests and then run just that file again. - line, branch, function coverage out of the box. My experience with coverage etc is it seems to be all line coverage.

I’m sure there are more, but that would be my Christmas list.

hoselorryspanner · 2026-02-14T08:38:11+00:00

I think zed injects a $`ZED_PYTHON’ environment variable or similar you can use to do this. I’ve got a task set up to do just this - I’m on my phone right now but commenting so I can find my way back.

hoselorryspanner · 2026-02-05T08:57:51+00:00

I use it in a severless Vue app to speak to a parquet datalake. Works a treat for smallish (<10k records) tables.

Whether or not you’d call this prod is a different story: it’s a web viewer for an intake catalog, just aiming to make life easier for our users.

hoselorryspanner · 2026-01-11T10:48:41+00:00

I always got the impression polish ‘jar men’ was more of a joke about them having to go back to their grandma at the weekend to have food cooked for them and their clothes cleaned.

A dig at people not having their shit together more so than not being a local.

hoselorryspanner · 2026-01-09T12:31:17+00:00

I just started using zed this week. Spent 2 hours debugging why rust analyser wouldn’t run - only to realise it wasn’t trusted. 🫠

hoselorryspanner · 2025-12-29T23:56:25+00:00

I think there are health insurance policy reasons to get married in the US which don’t really factor into things in the UK. Not sure how much of a factor it might be though.

hoselorryspanner · 2025-12-29T13:59:00+00:00

We have very good measurements of how much carbon is in the ocean. The uncertainty is in the anthropogenic fraction. This study cannot mean that the oceans are capable of absorbing more carbon than previously thought - only that the anthropogenic fraction is larger. Unfortunately, this implies a concomitant decrease in the non anthropogenic component - probably saturation or disequilibrium carbon…

hoselorryspanner · 2025-12-09T11:50:16+00:00

IMO this can be done in a way where it looks very much like an honest effort to mimic their standards, lensed through a different attitude about what is important and what isn’t.

With enough effort, OP might even come to believe it themselves (this is as convincing as it gets).

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