It’s always surprising to me, even though it shouldn’t anymore: Pretty thorny coding project problem because a dependency update/runtime configuration conflict led to an edge case relatively deep in the stack. Tests that never failed, failed all of a sudden with unclear Errors, nobody in the team knew anything and even the internet was pretty unhelpful.

Programming is a lesson in patience and perseverance sometimes.

Music

Previously

On the one hand I’m baffled that Apple Music doesn’t have a dedicated “Rock” radio channel.

On the other hand I have never listened to so much Country music in my life before coming back to Apple Music.

Yeeha! 🤠

I am more and more of the opinion that relying on semantic versioning conventions (e.g. using "module": "^1.2.3", in your package.json) is a bad idea. A convention is not a guarantee. Something like Renovate is safer, especially in combination with a good test suite.

Blog

Yesterday I tried to write three different blog posts about three different half baked ideas and published none. I aborted them one after another after being dissatisfied with their individual messages. Too much hot take, not enough general validity.

I swear: Someday I will write a blog post again.

DailyDogo

Alt for today’s DailyDogo (she has been such a good girl, with her mom on a business trip for three weeks and whatnot…)

(I’m also immediately put off by any app/piece of code calling itself “blazing(ly) fast”.)

One of the best things I’ve done recently in terms of emotional hygiene is giving myself a time limit of ten minutes every day on Instagram through Screen Time.

There must really be some compelling evidence that changing your visual corporate identity is worthwhile. I just don’t know about it.

(Context: 1Password changed their brand: 1password.social/@1passwor…)

Today especially the afternoon walk with the dog was memorable: We saw Napu’s friend Obi out of pure chance! We had already walked long by that point, but she was totally ready to take an extra round with him around the block.

At work some pretty intense code review sessions, where I was the reviewer. I can tell that I’m getting better at this.

Survived the day pretty well, all things considered. Dentist appointment showed no holes in my teeth, exterminator came and went, Napu and me went for a nice 5km walk in a national park around here. I played around with my new steam deck. Talked to my business tripping partner on the phone for a couple of hours. Lots of stuff out of the ordinary for a Wednesday, not enough sleep the night before. I can still feel a low humming of anxiety in the body.