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grumblehound | 1 month ago | on: “Nothing” is the secret to structuring your work

I've been using clipboard history for several years now. I could not go back. I realised it released an unknown continuous pressure on my brain I wasn't aware of.

grumblehound | 1 year ago | on: Why Scrum is stressing you out

I didn't mind our daily standups at the last place. They were usually short (10-15) mins. It was all the bullshit and developer grovelling at the end of the sprint, and the lack of allocated time to actually plan future work, that was the problem. I saw people time and time again cutting corners to meet their imaginary deadlines. I'd get sent PR's to review after hours by people in different teams the day before scrum deadlines. It was insane.

The standups themselves were fine and actually I thought they were pretty helpful, especially during covid times.

grumblehound | 2 years ago | on: Particle Life

Reminds me of Hiroki Sayama's Swarm Chemistry:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpN-DE3o6u8

https://bingdev.binghamton.edu/sayama/SwarmChemistry/

grumblehound | 2 years ago | on: Wait, what's a bookmarklet?

I made a little bookmarklet a while back that allows you to spawn a little man that walks along the top of elements: https://divwalker.arbitrarydata.co.uk/

I'm still not bored of it.

grumblehound | 2 years ago | on: Scientists may have found mechanism behind cognitive decline in aging

I recently quit my dev job because it was too stressful and I was burning out. I seemed to almost instantly get better at thrashing my motorbike in the twisties... I'm not sure why exactly but it feels like a weight was lifted and it just allowed me to focus and enjoy being in the moment a bit more.

grumblehound | 3 years ago | on: When Google paid websites to promote Firefox

I still use it!

grumblehound | 3 years ago | on: Write Posix Shell

I tried https://plumbum.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ recently and it was quite good. You might want to write a wrapper function depending on what error or newline splitting behaviour you want.

grumblehound | 3 years ago | on: Shell script best practices, from a decade of scripting things

Shellcheck is a godsend. I'm not a linuxy guy but have had to write some bash at work for gitlab pipelines... I was getting very frustrated with it until I found shellcheck and it instantly resolved a lot of annoyances I had. I added it into the pipeline for the repo that holds the CI scripts (using the koalaman/shellcheck-alpine docker image) and installed the VSCode extension locally. Super simple.