Ricky Hussmann

Really appreciative these days that version control and testing is considered a good practice by the field in general. Appreciative that I’m old enough to have this perspective.

Reflections on my second job. About everyone used SourceSafe. One of the engineers championed CI with CruiseControl with limited adoption. Management and senior engineers asked why you should write tests when you could be writing code. Deploys were burned to a CD. Seems crazy.

Reflections on my first full-time job. It was in a research lab at my university. CVS was petering out in favor of Subversion, but SourceSafe was the real dominant force. No one used source control anyway. Seems crazy now.

Uh oh, I think something… broke (or didn’t).

It’s Trevor!!!! @trevormcleod

It may be 86 degrees today, but I’m still breaking out music for the fall.

What sort of remote pair programming tools are people using? Prefer something that allows bidirectional interaction like ScreenHero (RIP) or UseTogether.

Had a thought yesterday. Everything we see, from an inch away to 10 miles: a small particle of light travelled from the sun, to that object, and then bounced into my eye. If someone else sees the same thing, from somewhere else entirely, the same happened for them. That’s crazy.

Anyone have experience with O’Reilly Learning access through ACM (learning.acm.org/faq/oreilly…)? Was looking into the O’Reilly Learning subscription, but if you can access all the same stuff through ACM, seems like renewing my membership would be a sweet deal.

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Insomnia.

Trump is such a dumpster-fire.