Textarcana

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by Textarcana 2y ago
Coming back from a long hiatus to post this.
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QA Wolf AI [video](youtube.com)
1 points by Textarcana 2y ago|1 comments
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Measure the Cadence of Commits in Your Git History(medium.com)
1 points by Textarcana 7y ago|0 comments
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by Textarcana 9y ago
LOL I am the author and I didn't know what that comment meant when I saw it above!! Derp and I will go fix my broken links now :) Thanks for the heads up!
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by Textarcana 9y ago
This is a good idea.
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by Textarcana 9y ago
The fact you thought about it enough to write 3 paragraphs about it shows the stickiness of my click-bait technique. You may not like my post but you will remember it.
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by Textarcana 9y ago
Yep. I spend a lot of time qualifying and hedging on these ideas in the work I do for software organizations. These blog posts are my opportunity to just lay my true opinions out for people and see what happens :)
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by Textarcana 9y ago
While I appreciate the spirit of what you are saying, the average time on page of 3 minutes 45 seconds (across 2k uniques) indicates most visitors are continuing past the paragraph you claim would be problematic.
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by Textarcana 9y ago
That's where I was going when I wrote this post. Logging and log analysis is a large part of the continuous delivery tooling that I've been working on for the past 7 years.
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by Textarcana 9y ago
Weird it just worked fine for me. http://infiniteundo.com/archive/filter-by/text
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by Textarcana 9y ago
Hey you saved everyone a click! I am the author of the post and I approve this summary :)
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by Textarcana 9y ago
Yeah, way ahead of you on that one. http://infiniteundo.com/post/87172935713/first-rule-of-hacke...
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by Textarcana 9y ago
Vernor Vinge and Charles Stross spring immediately to mind. Also James Tiptree, Jr. was a CIA analyst in the 50s and 60s so probably was a regular user of the early government mainframe systems.
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by Textarcana 9y ago
Yes, I write intentionally click-baity blog posts. You got me.
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json_schema: a jq wrapper that prints back a high-level view of a JSON document(github.com)
2 points by Textarcana 9y ago|0 comments
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Millionaire teachers: a lucrative online marketplace for lesson plans(tampabay.com)
80 points by Textarcana 9y ago|37 comments
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“The Rule of Three” is a TERRIBLE strategy for code refactoring / reuse(infiniteundo.com)
2 points by Textarcana 10y ago|0 comments
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Sparkler: graphs in your terminal that are just a tiny bit fancier than spark(infiniteundo.com)
1 points by Textarcana 10y ago|0 comments
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Etsy's former Test Arcthitect wrote up 13 howtos on dev environment lifehacks(infiniteundo.com)
4 points by Textarcana 10y ago|0 comments
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Tight coupling is good when you are writing tests(infiniteundo.com)
1 points by Textarcana 10y ago|0 comments
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Etsy's original training deck on software defects(infiniteundo.com)
2 points by Textarcana 10y ago|0 comments
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Devops sketchbook by noah the etsy pipeline architect(infiniteundo.com)
2 points by Textarcana 10y ago|0 comments
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Use jq to write Git log and Git log --stat to a single JSON document(infiniteundo.com)
1 points by Textarcana 10y ago|0 comments
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The way tech manages workers runs counter to all current science on productivity(infiniteundo.com)
3 points by Textarcana 10y ago|0 comments
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How to enable syntax highlighting for diff(infiniteundo.com)
1 points by Textarcana 10y ago|0 comments
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by Textarcana 10y ago
"who created it" implies a causal chain of events whereby someone is responsible for the bug. This is Safety-I thinking. John Allspaw addresses this when he states that "there is no root cause" for an incident or bug. So
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by Textarcana 10y ago
> discovery does not bring about its existence. I would argue that it does but this is a matter for phenomenologists. The practical result is that it's as if the bug never existed. Beyond that let's agree to disagree. #93 N
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by Textarcana 10y ago
Ok. I was just extrapolating out that if from a microsecond to a half hour 10^9 which is within a couple of orders of magnitude of the age of the universe in seconds, then from a microsecond to a year would result in a ratio that when expre
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by Textarcana 10y ago
#84 I am basing on Dijkstra's statement here that "from a microsecond to a half an hour of computing time confronts us… with the ratio of 10^9" See here: http://infiniteundo.com/post/117192619718 "T
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by Textarcana 10y ago
Wow. Thanks for the detailed response. I will try to answer point by point. #2 that tight coupling can ever be good comes as a shock to the learner #3 any breakage is an opportunity learn from and about failure — also when it's broken

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