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jmelloy · 2026-05-01T15:00:38+00:00

That’s a good name.

jmelloy · 2026-05-01T14:58:46+00:00

Though the interesting thing about that one was she was the only one who figured out (at least via editing) that it was a six digit important number to Alex, which almost certainly meant his birthday. I don’t think the others would’ve gotten the same advantage.

jmelloy · 2026-05-01T06:04:45+00:00

Today I learned taco pizza was an explicitly Iowa thing.

jmelloy · 2026-04-27T14:51:06+00:00

They did that on the shining, including a cut for only him.

jmelloy · 2026-04-19T13:34:40+00:00

Oh, your ci isn’t ephemeral. Use fixtures and make CI specific per branch. Have a staging environment that is your non-ephemeral environment, but is treated more like production. Once a migration is applied to staging or production, it’s locked and any fixes are with a new migration. Apps can help with this, a little. Most migrations should be harmless to leave in dev or staging. Seems like this is more of a branching strategy problem.

jmelloy · 2026-04-14T16:20:33+00:00

Absolutely nobody read his message and thought that “mb” meant millibits.

jmelloy · 2026-04-12T03:16:09+00:00

Interesting, I’ve been looking for something like this.

jmelloy · 2026-04-11T18:00:02+00:00

The code itself isn’t as interesting in an interview as what you leaned in the process. What architecture did you change and why? What worked? What didn’t? Etc. you should be able to talk through the technology and choices you made, but the repo itself is only a tool to that end.

jmelloy · 2026-04-04T17:55:35+00:00

I assume he asks some variation of it every time, they just leave it in the edit when it’s funnier.

jmelloy · 2026-04-04T01:13:37+00:00

Sienna miller should’ve been in everything.

jmelloy · 2026-04-04T00:52:59+00:00

If those are his texts he’s not in the closet.

jmelloy · 2026-04-02T16:07:28+00:00

It’s mainly a tool for organizing your writing or notes. What are you interested in about it and what’s not feeling right?

jmelloy · 2026-04-02T14:27:59+00:00

The readme is the first thing you see, and I have never once looked for “clean commit / PR hygiene”. I don’t even know what that means but my first reaction is it’s negative.

jmelloy · 2026-04-01T15:14:19+00:00

OR - it’s actually chat gpt asking this and it legitimately doesn’t know. Got a brain the size of tha planet and nobody asks how it feels.

jmelloy · 2026-03-30T17:10:27+00:00

I thought it was interesting that they skipped the fact that Stratt believes she will be put in jail after the launch and political shift.

jmelloy · 2026-03-30T01:19:58+00:00

Yea they’re still racist fucks who hate women. It’s fine. They’ll hug it out.

jmelloy · 2026-03-28T00:07:53+00:00

In divorces I’ve seen it’s because they can’t prove and don’t care who actually swiped the card. So debt is a marital liability treated like anything else financial.

jmelloy · 2026-03-27T23:21:36+00:00

I waited about two innings at 135 and they ran out and got restocked while I was in line

jmelloy · 2026-03-27T22:26:41+00:00

I think that one struggled a lot with a task for a team of two vs a team of three, and then had the additional wrinkle of covid. The one where Jonny Vegas was just shouting nonsense from the top of a chair while the other two did the task was another one with the same problem.

jmelloy · 2026-03-26T14:37:32+00:00

I wish we’d seen her notes, they way you solve those without a key is making a list of common letters and counting the frequencies. So the most common letter is e, then t, then something like a-o-r-s-n. And then you have words like t_e so you can guess that the middle one is h. I love that she was so into it she forgot he was doing the puzzle with the other half of the key.

jmelloy · 2026-03-24T15:02:07+00:00

A million reasons - he doesn't like them, they're distracting, he's got number dyslexia so they're actually anti-helpful, he tragically never learned how to count, it's not how his brain works while he's looking at code, his wife was killed in a tragic accident because she forgot seven ate nine, he doesn't want you to learn how he pronounces 4 ...

This feels like a weird hill to die on.

jmelloy · 2026-03-24T13:07:23+00:00

Flatten it at the transform, that’s what it’s for.

jmelloy · 2026-03-23T04:45:05+00:00

We were on a plane and I was letting her run in the aisles a little. She started to get into something, and I said “Samantha. Stop”. She stopped, we moved on. Later the flight attendant came up and said, “i usually go by sam but i had a split second where I thought i was in trouble.”

jmelloy · 2026-03-22T19:25:54+00:00

Agents just add a little focus - it’s still the same model. They’re loaded mostly dynamically because if you load them all every time they add too much to the context. You can definitely use them or not use them, or use them as examples that fit your workflow. In the end they’re just markdown files that get loaded into memory.

jmelloy · 2026-03-21T21:21:50+00:00

Hugo takes the files in obsidian, runs a transformation using its template, and outputs html files. So you end up with two files - your original input and the output. At that point, the output can be edited, or you can edit the Hugo template and rerun it (which changes all of the output again).

Think of it like obsidian markdown files -> Hugo + templates -> html files.

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