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- 12:36, 7 April 2024 Pull request (hist | edit) [441 bytes] Andrzej (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Commit goals == * make life easier for the reviewer * separate refactoring from actual changes * make it easier to undo functionality in the future by reverting a commit * small enough number of commits to avoid crude merge-time squashing == Commit arrangement == * although in practice refactoring is done as needed, any such commits should go first Category:Programming")
- 12:15, 7 April 2024 Commit messages (hist | edit) [245 bytes] Andrzej (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Frequently used commit messages for work in progress commits, before squashing into a smaller number of commits for pull request and merge. * undup * port to new api * refactor * refactoring * conciser * experimentally Category:Programming")
- 13:38, 6 April 2024 Access:Security card (hist | edit) [20 bytes] Andrzej (talk | contribs) (Created page with "read user += Andrzej")
- 13:38, 6 April 2024 Security card (hist | edit) [1,048 bytes] Andrzej (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* https://www.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/1bx7x6s/missing_context_on_tasks_is_a_huge_deal_breaker/ * security related tickets are the worst for this - certain individuals insist they can play the security card and bypass prioritisation/planning because 'security is important' to keep development busy for a month with work that doesn't otherwise appear to have value for the business or customers. normally i'd call that negative work ** of course security is impo...")
- 21:58, 30 March 2024 Access:Roadmap (hist | edit) [40 bytes] Andrzej (talk | contribs) (Created page with "TODO")
- 13:05, 26 March 2024 Change advisory board (hist | edit) [338 bytes] Andrzej (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* institutionalised bikeshedding * thoroughly tested changes get delayed, also see fear-driven development * broken changes get waved through, leading to incidents Category:Waterfall")
- 16:01, 25 March 2024 Semantic versioning (hist | edit) [405 bytes] Andrzej (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* users need to be wary of breaking changes regardless of whether you've declared them * so don't bother declaring them, just use an integer so that every release is potentially breaking * provide a migration path whenever something is deliberately broken == Upgrading == * upgrade to latest release to get a required new feature or security fix * otherwise leave it, it's fine Category:Programming")
- 11:56, 25 March 2024 Americans (hist | edit) [103 bytes] Andrzej (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* the missing u can now be found in poring * phased for fazed * could care less")
- 11:20, 25 March 2024 Code freeze (hist | edit) [319 bytes] Andrzej (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* typically imposed to 'reduce risk' following a major incident ** like making the whole class do a lap of the pitch because timmy ate some mud * actually increases risk due to concentration of changes just after freeze lifted ** in particular, prod-specific functionality untested during freeze Category:Waterfall")
- 10:37, 25 March 2024 Pip-tools (hist | edit) [406 bytes] Andrzej (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{lowercase}} * declare what your repo actually uses in requirements.in * use pip-tools to maintain and check requirements.txt ** use requirements.txt for testing and deployment * lib setup.py should read requirements.in ** an extra that i call frozen can read requirements.txt if you want to depend on the lib along with the dependencies it was tested against Category:Programming Category:Python")
- 23:19, 24 March 2024 Access control (hist | edit) [639 bytes] Andrzej (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Resource == * individual page * all pages in a category * special page == Access == * read * edit * delete * move == Principal == * user * group * user category ** need a way to link user to category when that user page is not editable == Ideas == * restricting a page should be as simple as linking to a restriction category * if you link a category to a multi restriction, it applies to all pages linking to that category instead ** this could be a more general b...")
- 20:18, 24 March 2024 Lazy Python (hist | edit) [793 bytes] Andrzej (talk | contribs) (Created page with "For Lurlene to be a useful live coding language, it needs to actually satisfy the live coding requirement. Currently updating a global does not update that global in any object that has previously referred to it. The obvious solution is to refer to a global by indexing into the globals dict every time, but we'd like to be able to write natural code and have Lurlene update the references.")
- 13:29, 22 March 2024 Status (hist | edit) [98 bytes] Andrzej (talk | contribs) (Created page with "just had egg toastys for lunch")
- 10:23, 22 March 2024 Tomorrow's world (hist | edit) [106 bytes] Andrzej (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-pixar-uses-hyper-colors-to-hack-your-brain Category:Exciting")
- 23:32, 21 March 2024 Perfectly triangular egg (hist | edit) [123 bytes] Andrzej (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* [https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08927TWYR toasty maker] * 2 squirts of spray oil * salt Category:Recipes")
- 16:19, 21 March 2024 Twelve Factor (hist | edit) [1,033 bytes] Andrzej (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* logging goes to stderr not stdout * environment variables are too crude for typical config workloads Category:Programming")
- 14:52, 21 March 2024 Defect driven development (hist | edit) [5,016 bytes] Andrzej (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Copied from [https://web.archive.org/web/20151103111048/https://weblogs.java.net/blog/kcpeppe/archive/2011/11/29/defect-driven-design-makes-comeback the original] by Kirk Pepperdine. == Defect Driven Design Makes a Comeback == In 1996, a group that I was working with devised a development process which we called Defect Driven Design, otherwise known as D³. We were a bit disappointed by not surprised that D³ never really caught on but just recently I saw a glimmer of...")
- 14:47, 21 March 2024 Static types (hist | edit) [596 bytes] Andrzej (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* weird that params and return types are obsessively typed, but not exceptions * all their stated advantages can be achieved via unit testing, which you need anyway * lightweight mocks redundant in the absence of static types, you can just use the test harness as a universal mock Category:Programming")
- 12:57, 21 March 2024 Comments (hist | edit) [648 bytes] Andrzej (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* comments distract from the code and are too easily lost in conflict resolution, or moved in reformatting ** the initiated do not need to re-read the comments * use self-documenting names in preference to comments, add a new function if necessary ** this is of more use to the uninitiated * when working on a ticket, that can be the decision record and commit messages should already refer to it * the readme doesn't have to be behind a pull request wall, it can simply cont...")
- 21:21, 20 March 2024 Quotes (hist | edit) [1,472 bytes] Andrzej (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. – Don Knuth * The joy of coding Python should be in seeing short, concise, readable classes that express a lot of action in a small amount of clear code — not in reams of trivial code that bores the reader to death. – Guido van Rossum ** You don't worry about the 1000 things that happen when you open a file, you just believe that 'open' does what it claims to do. Believe the same for a...")
- 21:09, 20 March 2024 Pull requests versus pair programming (hist | edit) [1,137 bytes] Andrzej (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* I believe pull requests can be a cheaper way of achieving the same benefits as pair programming * But this requires a lot of discipline from the developer and the reviewer == Good article == * https://mtlynch.io/code-review-love/ of which i 100% agree with most points * writing a description should be a simple case of linking back to the Jira ticket * put cosmetic changes (if absolutely necessary) in their own commit so reviewers don't have to consider them * the rev...")
- 21:05, 20 March 2024 Monorepo (hist | edit) [278 bytes] Andrzej (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* does not scale * out of control build time * out of control complexity * invest in shared code instead * also see Frameworks versus shared code Category:Programming")
- 21:04, 20 March 2024 Frameworks versus shared code (hist | edit) [167 bytes] Andrzej (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* a framework is like a synth you buy in the shop, sounds great until there's no knob for the idea you've got and then you're SOL Category:Programming")
- 21:00, 20 March 2024 Formatting (hist | edit) [611 bytes] Andrzej (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* half the available effort in the ecosystem seems wasted on writing formatters * claims made by formatters don't check out in practice, e.g. you actually have to think more about formatting when one is in use * make the ide present each developer's preferred format, with the committed format optimised for resolving conflicts * nobody needs at most 80 columns, join us in the 21st century ** a column limit causes similar code to be indented differently which interferes wh...")
- 20:52, 20 March 2024 Testing (hist | edit) [913 bytes] Andrzej (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* manual testing is a terrible use of resource, invest in automated testing whenever possible * unit tests are supposed to be fast so developers can run them frequently without getting bored * your mocking is dysfunctional if it involves writing things twice * unit tests are for verifying behaviour and enforcing it * an integration test can be used to check the parts unit tests can't reach, in particular that the service can communicate with its immediately adjacent serv...")
- 20:38, 20 March 2024 Second system syndrome (hist | edit) [529 bytes] Andrzej (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* https://wiki.c2.com/?SecondSystemEffect * organising code the 'right way' and not the practical way - if the next developer needs something to be in a certain place they have the resourcefulness to consider it already exists and find it before duplicating any effort, the power to move it themselves, and also they won't have to guess where to put it. unit and integration tests that were written with behaviour enforcement in mind will flag any issues and can be tweaked a...")
- 20:36, 20 March 2024 Examples (hist | edit) [1,792 bytes] Andrzej (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Bad consensus == * A majority can agree and still be wrong * Checked exceptions, unpopular because of a blog post ** Now the compiler can tell you what params your function takes and what it returns, but not how it can fail * Markdown, popular despite having significant trailing whitespace ** It happened to exist at the right time * Continuous integration builds that can't be reproduced locally, or on anything other than one specific CI service or imperfect clone * P...")
- 10:20, 20 March 2024 How to deliver software (hist | edit) [2,744 bytes] Andrzej (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishment * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_repeat_yourself Category:Programming Category:Wisdom")
- 23:01, 19 March 2024 Roadmap (hist | edit) [608 bytes] Andrzej (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki") originally created as "Backlog"
- 21:58, 19 March 2024 Egg toasty (hist | edit) [91 bytes] Andrzej (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* spray oil * egg * celery salt * bread * hellmann's Category:Recipes")
- 11:04, 19 March 2024 Advent of Code (hist | edit) [136 bytes] Andrzej (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* https://adventofcode.com/ * great way to improve programming skill, scope management Category:Programming")
- 22:34, 18 March 2024 Pyven (hist | edit) [117 bytes] Andrzej (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{lowercase}} {{Dev|pyven}} Category:Software")
- 22:34, 18 March 2024 Pyrbo (hist | edit) [156 bytes] Andrzej (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{lowercase}} {{Dev|pyrbo}} Category:Software")
- 22:33, 18 March 2024 DSSI (hist | edit) [51 bytes] Andrzej (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* http://dssi.sourceforge.net/ Category:Wisdom")
- 22:33, 18 March 2024 Diapyr (hist | edit) [85 bytes] Andrzej (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{lowercase}} {{Dev|diapyr}} Category:Software")
- 22:32, 18 March 2024 Aridity (hist | edit) [53 bytes] Andrzej (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{lowercase}} {{Dev|aridipy}} Category:Software") originally created as "Aridipy"
- 22:29, 18 March 2024 Libcarstairs.py (hist | edit) [216 bytes] Andrzej (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{lowercase}} == Example config file == * You can copy the below text or [{{fullurl:Template:libcarstairs.py|action=raw}} download it] <pre<noinclude></noinclude>> {{libcarstairs.py}} </pre<noinclude></noinclude>>")
- 22:29, 18 March 2024 Transferring files (hist | edit) [256 bytes] Andrzej (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Write image to floppy == * Prepare an image using e.g. Steem * If necessary, format the disk on the ST * In Linux, do not mount sudo setfdprm /dev/fd0 dd ds sect=9 cyl=80 dd if=image.st of=/dev/fd0 bs=512; sync Category:Wisdom")
- 22:25, 18 March 2024 Pym2149 provenance (hist | edit) [300 bytes] Andrzej (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{lowercase}} * Initially based on code from Steem which is GPL * As of [https://bitbucket.org/combatopera/pym2149/commits/9e0064b 9e0064b] no Steem-derived code survives, see issue [https://bitbucket.org/combatopera/pym2149/issues/3/ensure-all-gpl-code-is-gone #3] for details")
- 22:24, 18 March 2024 Carstairs (hist | edit) [1,061 bytes] Andrzej (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Releases == * File:Carstairs-jessie.zip * File:Carstairs-precise.zip == Usage == * You need a DSSI host, these instructions assume it's [https://www.renoise.com/ Renoise] * Put the <code>.so</code> file in <code>~/.dssi</code> '''or''' add its dir to <code>DSSI_PATH</code> ** Note if <code>DSSI_PATH</code> is set then it must include <code>~/.dssi</code> explicitly if you want Renoise to look there * If you now run Renoise you should see Carstairs in th...")
- 22:23, 18 March 2024 MIDI (hist | edit) [384 bytes] Andrzej (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Currently MIDI support is Linux-only, as all the cross-platform midi libs suck. == Install == * sudo apt-get install gcc libasound2-dev * Get 0.4.1 from http://pp.com.mx/python/alsaseq/ * Ensure the midiconda python env is activated * Follow the instructions == Usage == * Channels are 1-based, everything else (e.g. program numbers) are 0-based")
- 22:21, 18 March 2024 YM2149.org (hist | edit) [468 bytes] Andrzej (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<div style="float: right"> __TOC__ </div> == Software == * {{highlight|Carstairs DSSI plugin}} * See Category:Software for more == Atari ST fonts == * See File:Atari-fonts.zip for details == Resources == * There are some documents in Category:Reference * Recordings taken of a real YM2149 (and other sources) are in Category:Observations * For Category:Wisdom and any other categories see Special:Categories == Contact == * ht...")
- 22:20, 18 March 2024 Pym2149 (hist | edit) [2,115 bytes] Andrzej (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{lowercase}} <div style="float: right"> __TOC__ </div> YM2149 emulator in Python, NumPy and a little Cython where it matters. The aims of this project are to demonstrate it can be done in Python (done), accurate emulation (now probably the most accurate implementation out there), and interoperability with existing tools (MIDI support). Unlike other projects, we don't emulate the rest of the Atari ST. * I'm not working on this any more, it's become more about making Pyt...")
- 22:19, 18 March 2024 Accuracy (hist | edit) [2,044 bytes] Andrzej (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{| class="wikitable" ! Buffering !! Test !! Eval |- | period buffering for tone || {{test|qtonpbuf}} || toggle not reset |- | what happens to old countdown || {{test|qtonflip}} || used as prefix of new countdown (of half-wave) |- | what if old countdown bigger than new || {{test|qtinheri}} || start next half-wave immediately |- | does toggle flip on period change || {{test|qtonflip}} || it does not |- | period buffering for noise || {{test|qnoipbuf}} || new period applie...")
- 22:18, 18 March 2024 Running (hist | edit) [5,855 bytes] Andrzej (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* Here's a brain dump of what I've learned over a decade of running for fitness * Not everything on this page is running-specific but most of it is * I like running because it suits me and is the most efficient way of burning calories, but you may prefer other cardio == Advantages == * Feel less tired * Sleep more soundly * Get ill less often and with reduced severity ** But flu will still knock you out for a week * You will want to eat more, which is fine as food is g...")
- 21:37, 17 March 2024 Articles (hist | edit) [355 bytes] Andrzej (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/dec/30/dont-quit-booze-just-drink-differently-15-ways-to-change-your-life-without-trying-all-that-hard * https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/02/12/a-teens-fatal-plunge-into-the-london-underworld * https://hypermedia.systems/extending-html-as-hypermedia/")
- 21:33, 17 March 2024 Development methodologies (hist | edit) [1,970 bytes] Andrzej (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* Sweep it under the carpet-driven development - never investigate any root cause, just throw code at the screen until the problem appears to go away * Plate spinning-driven development - we don’t have time to write automated tests, instead n developers must perform an increasing amount of incomplete manual testing forever * Fear-driven development - tests would expose bugs so don't write any, deployment to prod would expose bugs so let's not do that, and so on * Pearl...")
- 21:24, 17 March 2024 Management (hist | edit) [293 bytes] Andrzej (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/ind-vs-eng-andrew-miller-bazballs-doubters-englands-truth-only-truth-that-matters-1418996") originally created as "Bazball"
- 21:22, 17 March 2024 Lamb soup (hist | edit) [102 bytes] Andrzej (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* heinz lamb soup * season all * mint * roasted garlic * tabasco habanero * okra Category:Recipes")
- 11:07, 29 February 2024 Hypercare (hist | edit) [114 bytes] 172.18.0.1 (talk) (Created page with "* period of a few weeks after the Big bang release when you expect users to find major bugs for free Category:Waterfall")
