A healthcare technology company in the Star Wars universe called "Bacta Basics"

At what point does the pursuit of best-practice drift into perfectionism?

Is it a bad idea to keep my guitar picks in the same container as my thumb tacks?

A question that every developer has to ask themselves at some point is: “should I do what feels easier for me now, but makes life harder in the future for my users, my teammates, and myself?” There can be other factors that influence the decision, but the answer should be NO.

I had to sit down and make myself understand unicode today only to realize what I REALLY needed to understand was how to not forget to set flags on a regex.

Ah good, a zero % chance of snow.

Reading about the Projen project generator this AM. I'm SO in, because the CLI tool has a command called: clobber `hard resets to HEAD of origin and cleans the local repo` github.com/projen/projen

As it relates specifically to JavaScript, I don't find "functional" codebases easier to read. That's like saying "Italian is easier to read than English", while knowing how to read Italian. It's gonna take me a while to learn Italian.

I can't believe I'm doing this, but after all, it's a bleak, cold existence, and the citizens are restless. They are cold and hungry. What's an overlord to do? gleam.io/aHRMr/frostpun… #Frostpunk

Hey Orange & Rockland it’s been a pretty rough year for power outages here in Southfields NY. Momentary outages wouldn’t be a big deal, but it’s happened several times this year, for several hours each time. Drive for 10 minutes in any direction, there’s power there. Why so frequent?

Last night it came back on after 5 hours, and it just went out again. Orange & Rockland

Double-edged swords: invented to increase effectiveness in battle, and along with that, introduced new risks. The additional edge was an acceptable risk, that could be managed with training.