Jonathan

Every software team has a folk memory of some traumatic, disastrous previous feature that's taken on archetypal significance. In refinement meetings or standups someone will say "I just don't want this to end up like... *campaigns*", and everyone will nod solemnly

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filter_map is a really handy ruby enumerable I just discovered! It saves you looping twice over some enumerable if you only want to include some elements according to a particular condition. (Previously, I would have used reject). So these two snippets are equivalent:

The most friendly thing you can do to help PR reviewers is to add little inline comments throughout the github diff to point out important stuff. More useful than a summary of all the changes in the PR description, imho

@lukeadamhawker these are gorgeous 🌳

Don’t learn to draw, draw to learn ✍️ - The trees are mainly teaching my patience 🙏 - 3 years into this project and I look forward to the years ahead filling up more sketchbooks. - #trees #drawing #sketchbooks #sketchbooktour #thewoodlandtrust

the main limitation here is just the the context: having to copy and paste stuff into a chatbox. Once this thing's in IDE's it's going to be completely transformative

it's also surprisingly good at debugging. The value here is twofold: it generates good ideas, and it acts like a rubber duck to organise your thoughts with (just like a good colleague). Today, it helped me solve a tricky intermittent bug that's eluded me for a couple of months

GPT-4 feels like having a genius personal tutor. For coding, it's very good at generating the first draft of a class ("please write a PORO ruby service object that accepts X and Y and produces Z"), which you can iterate on (even doing followup requests like "write the tests")

openAI's business plan is to build a really intelligent AI and once they've done that ask it how to make money. wild

lmao

Getting crucial Buddhist wisdom about England's World Cup loss 🪷

Some things I've used chatGPT for in the past few days: - Write an email in German to my landlord telling them about black mold in the bathroom - Write a haiku referencing an inside joke for a friend - Explain the syntax of a confusing Typescript function (inc followup Qs!)

@NLRG_it the bot can code, but can it maintain code? probably yes, but can it relate better to people than me? also yes

this "npm for rubyists" article by @matthewpearse just helped me a ton 👌 matthewlehner.net/npm-basics-for…

Never once managed to pronounce the word 'idempotent' correctly on my first try

I find it funny that, looking at writing that's "about" productivity, there's overwhelmingly more written about tech/tooling choices than about emotional management (seems like at least 100:1) when emotional management dominates tech choices at typical margins in industry.

Reading rspec documentation like

Out-of-context Slack screenshot of a hot take about Rails classes and why thinking that it constitutes object-oriented programming is a recipe for disaster and they're better treated as configuration objects without feature behavior in them. Enjoy!

love to tempt fate when naming my commits

The faker gem for generating fake data has a whole module for weed lol github.com/faker-ruby/fak…