Author: Ross Wintle

I know the response to the Minecraft Movie trailer has not been 100% positive, but it turns out that the music on it (and the sung parts) are by an acquaintance of mine!

That’s quite a gig!!!

I still think… if you work in an environment where there is code review, you need to give the reviewer as MUCH information as you possibly can.

This might be in the code.

It might be in comments.

It might be in the pull request.

It might be in coding standards.

But I want context, descriptions, explaniers, and typehints.

And use tooling and standards to minimise questions.

Because writing questions well is effort!!

Oh heaven help my. New colleagues. I basically can’t review code without type information. My brain can not do it. And I have so many opinions about how you should write and structure code.

I’m kind and many comments are phrased as questions or marked as optional/style/nitpick. But even so. It’s got to be rough! 😬

What does this mean:

“Compared to human drivers, Waymo recorded 100% fewer injury claims”.

So… is that zero?

I note that this would be a good Cards Against Humanity card:

“Thanks to the power of Facebook and some lovely members of the community, we have finally found __________.”

There seemed to be a bit of a something going down in a Costa Cafe this afternoon. So I popped in to Facebook (a rare occurrence!) to check the local community notice board.

Nothing. So I searched for “Costa” in the group and the first result said…

“Thanks to the power of Facebook and some lovely members of staff at Costa…

…the teeth have been found!”

Which is great for the owner of the teeth. But also made me laugh out loud. Not what I was expecting.

My kid today: "Where’s my <I didn't _quite_ hear this bit>?”

Me: Did you just ask where your butt-hole is?

Kid: No, my BOTTLE!! My water bottle!!

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Intresting take: "Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships."

https://open.substack.com/pub/engineercodex/p/good-programmers-worry-about-data

I had this stupid idea to run a blog that’s notes from a future web developer.

“Argh. Had to reboot my neural interface this morning. Some things don’t change. Come on, people. It’s 2039, can we make reliable hardware yet?

At least my Brother printer still works. That things been going strong since, what, 2024?

Anyway, played with SkyDrop again. Neat tech. Sits on top of Zode.ds in the view stack and helps map stuff into the Visual Object Model (VOM).

Wonder what I can make?”

OK. I wasn’t sure what was going on at first, but this is the future!!
https://pawb.fun/@slyka/113028002924181756

Don’t normally share daily puzzles. But I was pretty chuffed with figuring this one out!!

Wordle 1,166 2/6

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Oasis reuniting in 2025.

Did you know they are named after my local sports centre, which closed during Covid times?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oasis_Leisure_Centre

They are hoping to re-open the sports centre in the coming years.

It had a large hall that hosted gigs.

This seems like the stars aligning? Might they…? Could they?!

(I suspect that’s a “definitely maybe”!)

📖 As well as all the other books I’ve written about today, I should make a note of the epic I finished earlier in the year.

Thank you Brandon Sanderson. Your work is excellent!

https://rosswintle.uk/2024/08/book-the-way-of-kings-brandon-sanderson/

We have inherited an air fryer.

I need all the air fryer tips!!!

#cooking #airfryerrecipes

📖 A third book! I got a Humble Bundle of Cory Doctorow novels as ebooks. Down and out in the Magic Kingdom was a weird and wild ride.

https://rosswintle.uk/2024/08/book-down-and-out-in-the-magic-kingdom-cory-doctorow/

📖 Second book I’ve read recently: Alastair Campbell’s “Living Better”.

Which wasn’t what I expected. And was also disappointing as a result.

https://rosswintle.uk/2024/08/book-living-better-alastair-campbell/