Gaming, Random Stuff
I am strongly in favour of declaring the first round of a board game a practice round.
Year: 2026
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.
Random Stuff
My favourite sort of Halloween decoration is the one that has wandered slightly away from being scary.
Programming
“Run it at six” is incomplete information for a scheduled job.