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Steph Ango says If you’re remote, ramble: A tip for remote teams of 2-10 people.

the kebabpizza special, basically a dönerteller on a pizza, what’s not to love?

it’s so quiet staying in ruralish Sweden that I hear the hum of the fridge/freezer more than anything, pretty great when you’re using to hearing traffic all the time 😀

I shared my swedish pizza lunch, and while I know people have strong feelings about pineapple on pizza, I’m genuinely surprised at how strong the reaction is to the creative use of ingredients we have for pizza.

drove a car for the first time in a looong while today (years), and after I backed out of the driveway something felt off: I wasn’t 100% sure where I was supposed to be on the road.

random nice thing from visiting my mom: hanging the laundry outside to dry in the sun

in Sweden I can enjoy one of the best uses of curry: the banana, chicken, curry powder, and peanut pizza!

I’m in Bengaluru to attend a friend’s wedding, and it has been fascinating walking around and seeing “the creative ways” of cable management, and my perspective from Singapore and Sweden is definitely to question the safety and longevity.

Justin Searls asks which of your colleagues are screwed?

Kent Beck has a subscriber post called return of Multi-tasking?

…because someone said in a meeting to use the lemons to make lemonade and this started shouting in my mind

As I was writing up angry at the genie, about getting frustrated at a bot for not having my context, I realized I’d done the same thing to a human colleague just months earlier.

A colleague mentioned he’d like a genie coach to practice first principles thinking, because we had talked about the cooking coach I made and have been using.

I was in an AMA at work, and someone asked me what makes a good software engineer.

gum simplifies making shell scripts interactive: no more wrestling with read commands and ANSI escape codes for user input: just proper text editing, defaults, and clean UI.

Curtis shared the DIKW pyramid, that I hadn’t heard of, and said that he feels that the genies helps him process the first two layers much more quickly than he can alone, that it can somewhat help penetrate into knowledge but not much.

YAML does not support unsplatting lists (basically, merging list items inline like you can with objects) and that’s intentional.

The YAML anchors to name a reusable section are defined by &name and then to use them to replace the value of something you do *name, if you want to “unsplat”/merge a dictionary/object then use <<: *name and then it’ll insert it at that point. world: &wor…

If you start a non-interactive bash shell it will source the content of the file defined in BASH_ENV (and ENV for a POSIX shell).

Commands with commas: I came across this a couple of years ago, and I’ve been using it for my new scripts since.

/usr/bin/env executes commands with flags/subcommands, not just bare executables.

Anthropic has released some recordings from their Code w/ Claude event in May and the Prompting for Agents presentation’s “key principles” are basically to empathise with your agent, imagine it’s a brilliant new grad, book smart but missing all things pra…

Simon Sinek on AI and the value of struggle, via Arjit: People keep telling us life is not about the destination.

Went looking for that old ‘kids today don’t memorize’ quote and found an old argument against writing: […] They will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by

We’ve always had to figure out who to trust for expertise, but until now, that access wasn’t universal.

You can view the webhooks that GitHub sends in your project settings, so for example Drone CI getting notified and exactly what information that goes into the payload, and when/if it was sent, is available there.

The scripts/commands inside a shell script inherit access to STDIN when you call them, so if you have a shells script that only has cat and you do .

Python doesn’t require typing.Dict and typing.List for those types since Python 3.9, you can just do dict[] and list[].

The <link rel="canonical" href="…"> is a bit like a correlation ID between services and I need also to have it on my canonical page, because if someone sends it with ?

In shell scripts if you do "$@" it will actually expand “quoted sentences” correctly, and if you just do $@ it will always unwrap them into single words, I thought that if you did "$@" it would combine all arguments into a single argument, and what it does

Drone CI’s when for deciding in which cases to run steps/pipelines targets the merge target branch for PRs and not the actual PR’s, also it pulls from refs/pull/<num>/head instead of refs/heads/<branch> so you can’t target the branch itself using the pull…

Drone CI will not smartly skip subsequent steps if you have a when on the very first step in a depends_on chain, so you have to repeat the when condition for each step because it doesn’t realize that the first dependency is gone.

Drone CI has special handling for ${VAR} and will replace it itself instead of letting the shell do it.

You can enable the fingerprint reader for sudo on macOS, and pressing my finger on a button beats having to type the password, steps: cp /etc/pam.d/sudo_local{.template,} Edit /etc/pam.d/sudo_local and uncomment auth sufficient pam_tid.so.

I’m trying something new here.

A colleague recently said something that’s been rattling around in my head: “AI gives you speed, but it doesn’t give you direction.”

I was in an incident review recently where one of the problems was a human going too fast.

I was trying to speed up our slow CI by caching Go builds.

You’ve probably sat through your fair share of meetings where time slips away as conversations wander aimlessly, not unlike being dropped into an unfamiliar codebase, with twisting branches all alike.

I try to be aware of where I have friction in my day-to-day when working at my computer, keeping an eye out for TOIL to remove.

In the Docker Desktop app you can go into Features in Development and check Use containerd for pulling and storing images.

I use Roam Research as my primary way of thinking and keeping track of tasks.

I just misplaced my Apple Watch in my apartment.

I’m running an open source project called gocd-cli which is, well, a command line interface for Go continuous delivery.

I’ve for almost a year now been using Python as my day to day language as it’s what is used at my job.

I spend some of my free time helping out with server administration and programming for the Swedish Pirate Party, Piratpartiet (look ma, X-Varnish), and we use Varnish for our caches.

Yesterday I wrote a quick step-by-step guide for installing apache and setting your system up for Wikileaks mass-mirror project in Swedish and I’ve had requests for it to be translated into English.

A translation of this post is available in English.

I’ve so far in all my travels never found a terminal I like better than xterm, maybe urxvt, but I’ve had a problem disabling bold fonts for a very long time.