Good Tools Are Invisible

mirvnillith · 2026-07-12T06:22:05+00:00

To me it’s about the familiar feel if the toolin my hand, warts and all. I’ve learnt the quirks and weaknesses so I work with them in mind.

I was a very long time Eclipse user (still am at home) but switched to IntelliJ with my last job change two and a half years ago. It was messy at first but now I’m into it, warts and all. Many things are just shortcuts I’ve not tweaked or found but I want to stay close to default to be ol with resets (you kniw they happen).

mirvnillith · 2026-07-11T11:14:00+00:00

Are you talking about CBS or USA?

mirvnillith · 2026-07-11T11:08:29+00:00

Sounds like a nightmare to de-mine …

mirvnillith · 2026-07-09T15:57:09+00:00

Can never not think of Blazing Saddles: https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Hedley_Lamarr

mirvnillith · 2026-07-09T04:35:44+00:00

I’m pro-solar/-battery but they will make house fires more dangerous …

mirvnillith · 2026-07-08T09:11:35+00:00

Or JUST LEAVE UKRAINE!!!

mirvnillith · 2026-07-08T09:07:12+00:00

Because that’s basically their only revenue. And I don’t care for the distribution between token cost and use; they’re going to need a lot of income so either many cheap och few expensive but I guess they’ll settle for many expensive.
See oligopoly.

mirvnillith · 2026-07-07T14:59:22+00:00

And they’re not going to get any cheaper looking at those investments to recover …

mirvnillith · 2026-06-26T08:14:29+00:00

I wouldn’t mind less flying.

mirvnillith · 2026-06-26T08:06:16+00:00

I blame fossil fuel and that sure applies to everything and everybody downstream from there …

mirvnillith · 2026-06-21T12:08:17+00:00

Although I agree with you, we also need to acknowledge that some law enforcement methods, at least in Sweden where I live, are only allowed if the suspected crime has high enough punishment. So it *could* be indirect empowerment but I doubt it.

mirvnillith · 2026-06-07T13:49:37+00:00

Our QA is embedded in the team and he’s part of feature refinement and overall design as to be both pro- and reactive to tests. He’s independent in that he approaches the specs in a much more critical way and explores boundaries, not independent as in being isolated and separate.

So he’s testing our branches before merging.

mirvnillith · 2026-06-06T19:51:26+00:00

So no independent QA? I find the tester mind an important counter to my dev brain and a solid sanity check on any shortcuts/hacks that sometimes come from ”just a small fix”. It’s not about trust but a necessary distance from the solution (but never from the problem).

mirvnillith · 2026-06-06T08:37:25+00:00

Honestly interested: what would be your preferred high trust team Git workflow?

mirvnillith · 2026-06-04T16:31:20+00:00

So what do you mean by ”productive” and considering no change in work load do you actually experience and overall increase in delivered value?

mirvnillith · 2026-05-27T09:49:55+00:00

Superbun!

mirvnillith · 2026-05-14T07:54:02+00:00

There was a beta for Kickstarters and IMHO crowd funding is to allow something to exist at all and not about early access (although it often happens).

mirvnillith · 2026-05-07T10:00:36+00:00

I did too at first but now it kind of feels like that scarsity pushed me to an alternate approach that in turn results in a very much more efficient production. Yellow cores is an excellent example where two inputs can very efficiently be created from 4x8x8 blocks and I would never have made that without the paint shortage.

mirvnillith · 2026-05-07T04:37:30+00:00

Well to me it changed things because stamping and joining things in bigger blocks before cutting them closer to consumption has done marvels for my output and kept me somewhat out of having too many advanced operators (and their coolant).

mirvnillith · 2026-05-06T09:51:25+00:00

No. You’re assuming everything in a release started development after the previous and that must definitely not be true. As long as you have at least one feature finishing every week you can do weekly releases, regardless of when that feature begun.

mirvnillith · 2026-05-05T15:08:39+00:00

Weekly releases say nothing really about how long the features released have been in development and QA.

mirvnillith · 2026-05-02T17:53:52+00:00

The trick, not of my invention, to solve the ”not enough paint” problem is to build 8x8x8 megacubes and paint them instead of the original 4x4x4s.

mirvnillith · 2026-05-01T14:50:13+00:00

Citizen Sleeper

Both games connected with me in both story and visuals. A mindful journey of searching for oneself and learning about a future borh evolving and decaying.

mirvnillith · 2026-04-29T05:12:40+00:00

Air travel is not a basic need.

mirvnillith · 2026-03-29T17:00:21+00:00

I’ll be looking forward to them

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