A Mug With a Daft Face Has an Unfair Advantage
A mug with a daft face has a strong advantage over a perfectly sensible mug.
Engineering notes from the sharp end
Practical writing about software, systems, delivery, and things that behave strangely under pressure.
wade womersley – york based software engineer I write the way I work: direct, useful, and more interested in what holds up in production than what sounds clever on a slide.
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Food, Random Stuff
A mixed bag of Halloween sweets is a small economy waiting to happen.
Gaming, Random Stuff
I am strongly in favour of declaring the first round of a board game a practice round.
Programming
Checking whether a record exists before inserting another one does not guarantee uniqueness.
Gaming
A proper game manual could get the adventure going before the game had even started.
Programming
A webhook can contain perfectly sensible JSON and still fail signature verification.
Programming
A request ID in one log line is useful.
Random Stuff
One of my favourite things about furry conventions is how quickly the wonderfully ridiculous starts to look normal.
Software Engineer
A temporary feature flag is very good at becoming a permanent piece of the application.
Software Engineer
A test that repeats the implementation can pass while proving very little.