My delight span for new (non-spaceflight) domains, previous testing has shown, is about 90 days. That is about how long it takes me to go from “wow, what does that crazy domain term mean??” to “ok, so a Foo can Frajble a Bar but only if it has been previously Blerged a Baz, but what about X? Arrrrgh, X”

Themes this month:

  • Tech debt identification and cleanup
  • Big coordinations with other teams
  • Weird bugs, concurrency
  • Timezones
  • I’ve been ‘handyman’ twice in four weeks and even though it was my idea and the best idea for my schedule, it is still draining.
  • Testing ruby with java O.o
  • Hipchat being flaky/broken (but still getting the job done)

Fun moments:

  • “can you ELI5 what a pull request is and does” (from someone not on the development team)

Quotes:

  • ‘@here what does “failed permanently” mean?’
  • “operation fix our shit”
  • “I will keep an eye out for lack of tomatoes on pull requests”
  • flaming bodhran!!
  • “Facebook gatekeeper is the north star for features flag management”
  • “tell me that’s not prod”
  • “I don’t think that the naming matters unless it conveys the meaning”
  • “We can talk about what I think, and then we can talk about what you think”
  • “As some of you may have already found, new locks have been placed on the restroom doors” Basically never what I want to hear
  • “don’t think of it as a password / even though that’s what it is / it’s a two part API key”
  • “I only add the @ignore if you pay me in unmarked bills first”
  • “I can’t imagine a migration causing the whole database to be dropped.”
  • “Why is that normal?”
  • “This is only the code, I will now work on adding tests”

Pet peeves

  • “bang it out” urbandictionary “To do the job quickly, and cheaply, cutting lots of corners along the way. The finished work appears shabby and unprofessional. Phrase is frequently used by amateurs.”
  • Comparing your coworker to a Pantene commercial
  • “I’m glad you were able to find something to comment on there” on a comment on a PR

Best code I’ve seen:

  • Can’t show it here, but there is some stuff about testing the contents of migrations which is fun