davidfactorial

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by davidfactorial 4y ago
This is one of the best articles I've read in a while about the philosophy of software testing, which has felt opaque to me at times. Nice to have this person's high level thoughts all spelled out.
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Principles of Automated Testing(lihaoyi.com)
1 points by davidfactorial 4y ago|1 comments
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by davidfactorial 4y ago
Go off into the woods, literally or not. I went back to my parents house for a year and that's how long it took to overcome my burnout. Life is finally starting to feel exciting again. I'm now exploring spirituality outside of rel
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by davidfactorial 4y ago
I think the Reverse Emulation was one of the most technically impressive hacks I've ever seen.
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by davidfactorial 4y ago
The best thing I ever did for my hands was putting ctrl to the left of the spacebar where alt usually is. I hit it with my left thumb. I never have to contort my wrists. And it works across all programs, not just vim/emacs. Capslock is
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Harder Drive: Hard drives we didn't want or need [video](youtube.com)
266 points by davidfactorial 4y ago|41 comments
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by davidfactorial 4y ago
sure - email or tweeter me, links are in my profile
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by davidfactorial 4y ago
The ability to use even a small amount of arbitrary code really increases the utility for me
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by davidfactorial 4y ago
Congrats on the 2.0 release! Python support and the key/value store is super cool to see. Recently used Pipedream very successfully on a freelance gig to create a search widget powered by a client-editable Airtable base that auto-feeds
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by davidfactorial 5y ago
i think you may have suddenly helped me to finally grasp the true essence and nature of tdd. woah this makes so much more sense
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by davidfactorial 5y ago
Incidentally the few games I have actually finished were all Ludum Dare games with a very short timescale of 2-3 days.
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by davidfactorial 5y ago
I relate to this a lot, having also started and then not finished a lot of games like the author. Perhaps it seems obvious to say, but I have only recently fully internalized that making games is not the same activity as playing games, and
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by davidfactorial 5y ago
Oh my goodness this is the out loudest I have laughed at a tech thing in a long time. Cheers to you :)
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Bootstrapping (Compilers)(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by davidfactorial 5y ago|0 comments
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by davidfactorial 5y ago
I'm a large fan of Django/Python for anything CRUD-like. It has been my go-to web framework for the better part of a decade and I continue to be impressed with it. "The web framework for perfectionists with deadlines" ta