ethangunderson.com
Elixir and observability stuff. Principal engineer at Cars Commerce.
Weird coffee person. Food enthusiast.
Father to two đŚ, living in Minnesota, USA.
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A long known irony of automation is that as you automate the most frequent (and easy) cases first, people are left to handle both increasingly rare *and* challenging situations, with less practice.
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Hm, I probably need to go back and read the patterns book and tease out the pattern vs whatâs in Rails.
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Not at all.
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I think Iâm going to try and switch to Obsidianâs web clipper.
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When I was working on a budget app I used Money and couldnât figure out why none of the docs were correct and I was missing features.
I was looking at ExMoney docs. đ
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Seems like a big miss that there's not a Laravel @pragprog.com book. Is anyone working on that?
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The leopard will never eat *my* face.
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This is really cool and looks like it would have been a ton of fun to work on. đ
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It took me a bit, but then I cackled.
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I thought we were calling them âcracked developersâ now?
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My last tax person was more surprised than I was about how much I owed. The only thing I could think of was âIâm paying you how much for this service?â
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Thereâs something very therapeutic about watching the snow fall while doing some dishes. I miss it for sure. Also, thatâs a killer sink.
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Have you heard/read about motivational drivers stuff from Bill Joy? He touches a lot on this topic. Different people have different drivers. Sounds like you would rate accomplishment pretty highly, but not so much recognition?
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Thereâs something very satisfying about reading that comment on a site that is just CRUD for comments.
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Last year I went to two Disney parks. This year I will probably bring the family and do the same. That being said, the location doesnât really impact my decision to go. I brought my son with to the last Aurora conf too and that was in the middle of nowhere.
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I wonder how many apps have convinces like this? We have something almost exactly as what youâve proposed. It really helps remove a whole class of configuration bugs.
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Thank you! I canât believe I havenât been bitten by this before. What a surprising default.
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iex(15)> List.wrap(123)
~c"{"
iex(16)> String.to_integer("123") |> List.wrap()
~c"{"
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âWhen something goes bump in the nightâ is one of my favorite phrases when talking about this stuff.
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Have you seen the YouTube channel where the guy opens a variety of locks by essentially just smashing two locks together? Locks are a scam.
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If you haven't seen the Reddit Grilled Cheese Rant of 2014 here you go. www.reddit.com/r/grilledche...
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We have at least one position open over at Cars. cars.wd12.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/cars/d...
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I like the idea of ignoring the cost of humans. Much more manageable.