Mine looks a little like that. It’s my job though. Everything’s on GitHub.

It’s hard. I love Harry Potter. I love Ender’s Game. But their authors hate the people I love. Not personally. They don’t know them and hate them anyway. It makes me sad. I want to share those books.

But I guess it’s better to share books by people who don’t hate my friends. I’ll always have Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. I’ve been sharing The Golden Compass with my kids lately.

Harry Potter was good. But I can live without it in my life. I think I will keep sharing Ender’s Game though.

I’ve been listening to the Andy Serkis reading it lately. First experience since I was a kid. It’s surprisingly nuanced for something so old and so baked into the popular culture. It’s kind of amazing how flattened my memory of it from childhood is.

Dune as well. And Snowcrash too

Amazing

We squash. I’m not really interesting in your local journey to land the change. It’s sometimes useful during review, but after that it’s mostly the state of the main branch I care about. It’s what I need to bisect anyway.

I don’t like commits that are just references to issues. Copy the issue into the commit message so git blame tells you something useful. Unless it’s just closing a simple big. Then the title and issue reference are plenty.

Depends on the project I imagine.

I wonder what my last commit at each job was. I’ll bet it was boring. About 10% of my commit messages are genuinely interesting.

I think the last new instruction the JVM added was invokedynamic like 10 years ago. I believe they did it so lambdas could be called efficiently. Polymorphic incline cache and stuff.

But the JVM has grown more complex in other ways. The way to force simd instructions is pretty wild, for example.

I don’t know enough to call it a mess or not. It works though.

A while ago I read a book where a town got nuked. Only it was just a rumor spread on Facebook. Town is fine. But tons of people believed it. Set up road blocks and stuff. For years.

edit: I thought, “there is no way people would do that.” Oh well.

Start with animation for fun. Watch Grave of the Fireflies.

Now you are ready for Spirited Away or, my favorite, Porco Rosso. It’s not the best. It’s just my favorite.

Now Schindler’s List. Then The Usual Suspects.

Pair Treasure Planet with Muppets Treasure Island. You deserve the break.

Maybe do The Matrix next. Pair with IP Man I guess.

Seriously half of the IMDB top 100 movies are from this time range. They aren’t all going to fit you. They don’t fit me. But they are worth watching for what they bring.

It’s not my favorite but it’s fine.

My entire professional persona is tied to the username I thought was super cool when I was 12. I’m so glad it’s not offensive and only a little lame.

Although it was his first day in charge, Sliney had an over-25-year background in air traffic and management in the FAA.