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On your first day at the new job, squash every commit from the repo into a single commit with message "Legacy code" and force-push to master.
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This meme was a small moment of enlightenment for me a long long while back
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Writes and Write-Nots: paulgraham.com/writes.html
Here's a Bash script that stitches together `llm` and `files-to-prompt` (from @simonw) to run an iterative TDD loop to make a set of tests pass.
codeinthehole.com/tips/llm-t…
This effectively automates the green part from the standard red-green-refactor loop.
Notion tip: trick your colleagues into thinking there's a collapsed section by using ▸ as the page emoji.
cc @NotionHQ
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subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz331twi
ALT I was really annoyed the other day when the staff at the Odeon cinema said that they wouldn't accept a £5o note when I was paying for my pick 'n' mix. In the end I has to pay with two twenties and a ten. Gustav Fox, Haggerston
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On TikTok there is AdjusterTok, where work from home insurance agents video their side of calls explaining how car insurance works to irritated people, and it’s quite sobering stuff. People don’t really know what insurance is, it’s just some magical thing to make stuff better.
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Where are the racists now????
Probably still celebrating!!!! 🏴
#EURO2024
Baby steps in using LLMs to *edit* Vim files in place:
til.codeinthehole.com/posts/…
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Farage looks like he's sold monorails to Brockway, Ogdenville and North Haverbrook...
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This is a very revealing quote from Billy Bragg. If you're independent-minded (paulgraham.com/mod.html), you often find yourself on the same side of an issue as people you dislike. So if he's shocked by that idea, it shows he's not.
Is anyone working a system for federating custom emoji between systems? I need Notion and Slack to share the same set.
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To be a good writer, you have to be annoyed by bad writing. You're unlikely to get your first drafts exactly right, and unless you're annoyed by what you got wrong, you won't fix it.