May the :helpgrep be ever on their side

After a while you got know which stack overflow questions were a waste of time, and you used that knowledge for years.

People have been hm unable to quit vim since before I was born.

I left my last two jobs due to those DOA projects.

I do more data stuff than programming, but management is the same.

Putting the “no” in zapfino

Weirdly I can’t find lua references there

There are a few that someone just left behind in the 000s, but they can’t be relied on.

I hope vibe coding is a joke like “I just paste from stack overflow”

But I have met people who do just paste from stack overflow, mixed indentation and casing and all.

Inner peace coding is the best feeling in the world. It’s like crack, nothing feels the same after.

SQL auto format is still mostly terrible

The only half decent format is to start from the Mozilla style and then make it more sane.

I’ve been playing with sqlglot lately and want to start using it for diffs.

I’ll check out both, thanks!

ed is the standard editor

Same with neovim

I was able to do that

Turns out there was a second bug which triggered this one, and a bug I found in this script that I thought was responsible was happening silently for months.

Now three bugs are squashed

Yeah, I don’t consider most code complete unless it’s safe and reproducible. I love make, currently using npm but you can set up scripts with it. Automating the build process was the very first thing I did.

This project is a piece of work. There’s effectively no documentation, and every now and then I find something new like this. The stuff I’ve fixed up so far has been much much more reliable and performant.

Part of me just wants to rewrite the whole thing, but I need to ship features so we can sell the product and pay my salary.

At least I’m not a cog in a huge corporation getting my soul crushed every day. I actually love fixing weird stuff.

Cron is a scheduler to run a program at a set frequency

He does charge a consulting fee to “fix” these issues

Almost all of them are dumb shit like this, where something is built in super hacky and dumbass ways.

What’s extra frustrating is the previous guy did create a git repo of these types of hacks, but this one doesn’t live in it for no discernible reason.

Yesterday I laughed at this, today Excel stripped leading zeros from a sheet of UPCs and converted them to floating point.

Also format as Text apparently means nothing

BABASH includes the following changes from bash:

• The kill command has been replaced by baptise and exorcise. baptise prevents a program from spawning a daemon, and exorcise terminates daemons.
• All quoting must be annotated with a bible verse number
• Due to manpage shenanigans with touch, touch has been renamed to exalt. Attempting to access the manpage for touch will be reported.
• Using pipelines will no longer do clean up for the user

halve and double are inverses, right?