Posts from 2014 - Wilfred miniblog

The perils of committing to interfaces early: http://t.co/e9WgdUWEl2

Playing with django_reversion. It's one of those packages you realise it's easy to reinvent badly.

Hubot is excellent. It gives you tons of functionality out-of-the-box, and a framework for you to build on easily.

The more I look at Dylan, the more I like it. It has many of the Common Lisp features I like, and avoids some I don't like. No eval though.

I don't dispute there's much great content on public domain sites like Project Gutenberg, but I do find it hard to find things of interest.

ipdb/pdb gotcha: `c = 1` calls the command continue, rather than assigning. Solution: `!c = 1` (using ! in general is wise).

Git works well, but I've never seen a dev say "Since $GIT_HOST is down, just push your branches to me directly." Feels fairly centralised.

I look forward to the day that not storing data on versioned file system is an optimisation, not a default.

It's really hard to Google for status code services. Eventually found https://www.statuspage.io/ http://t.co/axjisEOQJk

Cripes. `UPDATE my_table SET a = 5;` is the same as `UPDATE MY_TABLE SET a = 5;` unless you quote the table name.

I'm impressed with Ansible. There are fewer concepts to learn to get up and running (compared with similar tools I've used).

I'm averaging 3 blog posts/year. It's still a hugely worthwhile activity.

Using Travis CI with Jekyll is a fantastic way to find build errors. Otherwise it's easy to use a different Ruby version that doesn't error.

Blogged: Lisp Is Just Syntax: http://t.co/Q39SBSxYTX (#lisp, #python and a ridiculous transpiler!)

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