At #PyConUS2022

In this experiment Dr Rob Thompson of Reading Meteorology shows just how long it takes water to soak into parched ground, illustrating why heavy rainfall after a #drought can be dangerous and might lead to flashfloods. Dr Rob Thompson Water @ Reading

Published this tiny function I keep rewriting and using everywhere: has-shape. Very useful for AST stuff npmjs.com/package/@suchi…

📖 As promised, here is my article about callback refs and why they are better than useRef + useEffect if you want to do something with the element after it rendered: tkdodo.eu/blog/avoiding-…

IanColdwater

Welp… my husband got laid off from his job today 😞 This may be a long-shot, but if any of you work in tech and know of an open position that fits his skillset, shoot me a DM. (If you don’t, but would like to buy him a beer—he’s had a rough day: paypal.me/jprice 💖)

My book Ansible for DevOps is free for #AnsibleFest! Grab a copy using this link: jeffgeerling.com/ansible-2022

time to spend my weekly shitpost quota

spent an hour trying to debug failing lint unit tests. read the docs and fixed in 1 minute.

juniors: please stop trying to finish tasks as quickly as possible. you're messing up years of lying to the PMs

"I WADDLED to the kitchen each morning, letting out little PUFFS of happiness." - Claude

if you have a form with one text input and no submit button, the form will submit when you hit enter in that input if you have a form with more than one input and no submit button, the form will not submit when you hit enter in those inputs i didn't know that until yesterday

lazy.nvim quick introduction (and neovim concepts explained) - watch here :)

what is nvim treesitter? why is it a plugin? i thought tree-sitter was built in? how many videos is this guy going to make? can he get a like and retweet? what does :Inspect do? wow, very cool!!

My vimconf keynote is now live! It was an honor to be invited to speak and so I hope you all enjoy the video 😁 youtu.be/5u604lTkGAY?si…

Neither I nor ThePrimeagen liked that language benchmark that was making the rounds recently. Here's our complete walkthrough of why you shouldn't use it: youtube.com/watch?v=RrHGX1…

Please stop creating microbenchmarks without analysis. If you haven't read the assembly for each run, you have no idea what you're actually benchmarking. This creates a lot of work for people like me who have to clean up the wave of misunderstandings. It is very frustrating.

Merry Christmas: Full "Write Neovim Plugin From Scratch" 1: youtu.be/VGid4aN25iI 2: youtu.be/AXsnL16qSyk 3: youtu.be/8vmAa3dRpp0 4: youtu.be/04UpduLFvxk 5: youtu.be/zwEZJIXYnwI 6: youtu.be/V3B9WiJb9P0 7: youtu.be/BOXGIWWYfR4 8: youtu.be/tHJ7VHyQLe0

Bambu's firmware shenanigans are making me rethink ever recommending one again. They have to backtrack on it, or lose the goodwill of the 3DP community that is "open source but willing to give on value sometimes", which is not an insignificant sector.