It’s Earth Day! Happy Earth Day Motherfucker! Perhaps this virus is Mother Nature finding a way to eradicate the most dangerous thing on this world to her: mankind?
Anyhow forty days was the time Jesus spent in the desert. We be like Jesus and living in our own desert. But be more like Jesus and be kind to your fellow humans. Except for Republicans. Fuck those guys.
Once again. I got nothing for you today.
Is this the beginning of the end of the daily blog posts? Come back tomorrow to find out!
4/20 hunh? I would love to be high right now.
I’m loving these “out and about” videos because of the different views of places not only during this pandemic but just during normal times. I wish to be out there, too.
Another Sunday. It was a nice day. That’s it. I spent all day on my couch just watching YouTube videos. My streaming television service seems to have Cinemax and HBO on for free. Meh. I don’t care.
Kill American Capitalism dead with the rona. If you support it, may you die with it as well. We need a new way. Fuck those guys, and fuck you, too. Fuck your feelings. Something better needs to be born from all the dying going on.
This was originally going to be the reason I wrote about software development on the 36th day of lockdown. I got so into writing about the books I was reading I couldn’t pivot to this story. Here it is now as a link of the day. Go read and ponder how we got into this mess. Surely it isn’t a Legacy Code issue is it?
I’ve said before that I am bored of television. Bored with YouTube. Bored with the internet. So I am trying to read. There’s the stack of books on my nightstand (and on shelves, and even on the floor) that I have not read. I’m trying to get to a few of those.
Currently, I am reading both Developer Testing and Working Effectively with Legacy Code. Both are very good reads and contain important points to think about while programming. Previously, I had only skimmed portions of the books. I’m trying to be more thorough now with the infinite time on my hands.
In the former, the book describes the roles of testing code from a programmer’s perspective. What to test, how to test, why test are topics covered. I’m reading it, because at work, I am running into the absurdity of failing tests indicating the product isn’t working where the failure is cosmetic in nature. It is perfection as the enemy of the good. I understand their point, but it is a hole we dug for ourselves because of a non-iterative approach.
In the latter, the book describes how to approach legacy code and systems when dealing with changes. It really sharpens the idea that all code is legacy code even the code you wrote five minutes ago. You have to be aware that it will change, and you have to make it ready to be changed. If not, legacy code gets rough. I’m reading it because of the code we’ve got is legacy and needs changing. Unfortunately, we changed it via throwing the baby out with the bath water and started from fresh. Jesus is that a mess.
Finally, I think I glanced at a few chapters in Clean Architecture. It’s really next on the list. I’m finding it useful as I approach my work. Our architecture isn’t clean, it’s dirty like a Big Ball of Mud.
Weird to write about software development at a time like this. Weird that I am reading books about it. Weird that I’ll tag it with the rona tag. It is just a weird time.
Out and about in the rain. It’s been nice weather. It’s been somewhat cool. I don’t look forward to the warmer weather coming especially if we still have to wear a mask.
Did I say this already? What’s the protocol for shopping online during this epidemic? There’s nothing doing and I feel like spending money, but is it morally correct to force people to pull your orders in the middle of all this madness? While other people are working in this madness, should I contribute to their being in perilous positions? I’m not sure. I really want to spend money. I am bored.
