Weeknotes 257

THE PRESSURE

I am jealous of those projects that shipped a horrible bug at some point in the past that made the world burn for a while. They got attention and some of them then got funding and financial muscles to get them staff and hire multiple full time engineers. I sometimes think we would be better off if we also had one of those.

I was discussing something similar to this recently. Doing the job of proper software engineering, where you change the code to work a different way, whilst maintaining a running system, doesn’t get any attention (or in this case, funding) at work. You get the attention when you fail or when you add a new feature.

CSS vs. JavaScript – “Exploring the performance implications of different animation strategies”

We saw Christopher Macarthur-Boyd on Thursday and he was excellent. I’m really glad I got to see him after losing Here Comes The Guillotine. That concludes our planned comedy outings until July when we see Daniel Kitson, which I am hesitant about, not because he isn’t the best comedian of his generation, he is, but because of what happened last time.

We tried a Korean tasting menu for dinner before the comedy. It was an interesting experience, but I would not bother again.

I had some time to kill on Sunday so decided to treat myself to a cinema trip. I went to see Backrooms. I thought the first half was good but it lost it’s way in the second. I’m probably too stupid to notice what the message of the film is.

What Is a Dickover?

Daniel Jalkut via Gruber

My take on AI is, essentially, everybody who’s against is too against it and everybody who’s for it is too for it.

I don’t want your PRs anymore – Seems fair to me.