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Re:Lambda Land on Saturday October 03, 2026 @08:44PM (#49949390)
I've never been praised for removing lines of code that were no longer relevant or needed. It's more work than adding lines, but rarely gets measured.
Re:Local-First and Portable CI on Thursday May 28, 2026 @06:34PM (#48316487)
Went all in on just in a previous role. All the Jenksfile shrunk to manageable complexity, except the not just ones.
One thing I've been meaning to look into - how to adapt 3D perlin noise to produce gaussian noise - given a specified (scalar) mean and standard deviation.
I tend to be picky about code reviews. I'm aware that it causes friction and can come across as unreasonable. It works, we're done, right? Well it's likely to be my problem to maintain this code at some point in the future. Overly complicated? Unstated assumptions? Lack of test coverage? Fits well with nearby things? Solving a problem is fun but software engineering is more than just the fun parts.