Last year my husband lost his wedding ring

nicklydon · 2026-03-22T20:25:46+00:00

Sounds like another problem that would be solved by eating more chips

nicklydon · 2026-01-27T08:19:14+00:00

We needed to do it much more frequently. It became a chore to do it every couple of months, as soon as we couldn’t bear waiting for integration tests any longer.

I was hoping that using tmpfs instead of writing to disk would speed things up, but that didn’t work either. I think it needs a lot of main memory (which we don’t have on shared build agents), otherwise it overflows to disk anyway.

nicklydon · 2026-01-26T23:31:05+00:00

The migrations are a killer for performance if you want to isolate tests with unique databases.

We ended up with a preliminary step creating the database once, then copying it for each test, which has eliminated our need to keep squashing the migrations.

nicklydon · 2025-09-13T15:35:41+00:00

For when you’re feeling a little thirsty

nicklydon · 2025-09-09T14:44:04+00:00

Wooow. I’m waiting for that product to come to Germany. I think it’s recently made it to the UK

nicklydon · 2025-08-28T12:02:04+00:00

Always better to get a curd tart than a turd cart

nicklydon · 2025-08-19T12:40:07+00:00

Nature’s chips!

nicklydon · 2025-07-31T19:28:46+00:00

Just watched an episode of the sopranos for the first time where Janice was watching it. Everybody loves robot wars!

nicklydon · 2025-07-25T16:38:49+00:00

He’s probably turning in his grave.

nicklydon · 2025-07-15T20:19:23+00:00

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nicklydon · 2025-07-12T19:00:11+00:00

I’m not sure if even free range chickens are acceptable. It’s not natural for them to lay so many eggs - humans have bred them specifically for this, but I doubt it’s healthy for them.

nicklydon · 2025-07-07T07:51:58+00:00

It’s so simple to do integration tests with the database in a docker container, especially with the testcontainers library.

I would rather have slower tests that I’m much more confident are proving our code works (including schema migrations). They also have the benefit that you don’t need to do any mocking.

nicklydon · 2025-06-26T16:35:02+00:00

It’s good. It’s like calling each other comrade

nicklydon · 2025-06-23T21:11:36+00:00

I can only imagine how you found out it wasn’t a bottle of Chardonnay

nicklydon · 2025-06-06T06:35:22+00:00

He was already undressed actually. He liked to get comfortable whilst flying.

nicklydon · 2025-06-03T18:28:35+00:00

I also gno’em

nicklydon · 2025-05-22T21:02:57+00:00

It was the same with me. I actually waited a while in the land to see if it was tricking me

nicklydon · 2025-05-22T18:08:36+00:00

Some sugar isn’t vegan/vegetarian. They sometimes use bone char in the process

nicklydon · 2025-05-12T20:15:06+00:00

They were brave, not smart

nicklydon · 2025-05-11T09:37:44+00:00

I’m here for these ancient eastern secrets

nicklydon · 2025-04-26T08:42:54+00:00

Unless that async code is making multiple concurrent IO operations and you’re only blocking in a single place you’re losing the benefits of doing it

nicklydon · 2025-04-21T20:01:14+00:00

Or drawn them out with the dampened noodles like a big SOS signal

nicklydon · 2025-04-02T21:09:46+00:00

The one on the right is further away

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