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(It's been hell and this is my journal) |
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September 24, 2020 |
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It's been a while since I've written here, because it's been hell. I |
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probably don't need to extemporize a whole lot about it, I think we've all |
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been suffering our own hells as of late. Mine is the Northern California |
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variety with wildfire and liberal (me) panic. |
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Not much related, I think I'm going to try to keep a daily journal, right |
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here. I really only have the personal resources to maybe write once a day |
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in one place, and keeping a public journal, even if I don't read it, is |
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enough of an exhibitionist hook to maybe keep me writing. |
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So, to start, what's on my mind today? My thoughts of the professional and |
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constructive kind have turned to the idea of low-friction pull requests. I |
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would like to explore this further and maybe write up something about it. |
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It seems like anymore that 30% of my work is just getting my code through |
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various procedural hurdles. If I could lube it up and slip it through |
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faster, more's the better. |
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Because really, I get disproportionately angry when some pedantic co- |
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worker holds up getting a feature out because he prefers dangling commas. |
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I have too much pride sometimes, I have a lot of trouble getting past |
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these things without having some sort of mantra or manifesto to rely on. |
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Aside from that, I'm just tired today. I pulled an all day coding session |
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trying to get a feature to send out event logs yesterday under some tricky |
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situations. I got the job done, but I'm depleted. There's only so much of |
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me to go around, and when I start borrowing, I'm left with empty holes |
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that take a bit to fill up. I'm not a 10x coder, nor a HaX0r, and I can |
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often care less than I should about my profession. |
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