I can see that working well especially in a project where you can push to production fairly often, our project only has 2 moments every year where new features can be pushed to production. The exception is major bugs and security patches.

Anyways our main branch is always ahead of production. New features are branched of main, and can only be merged when the entire test suite passes, this is unit tests, integration tests and automated functional tests take about 5 hours (this project has been live since 2010).

We make release branches so we can always use them for bugfixes etc.

I think it kind of depends on a project what works best. For us a main branch that is only updated twice a year wouldn’t be the best way, I think.

Even if that wasn’t true, do you know how much energy it takes to turn energy into mass (unless I don’t understand the tech and it works like a 3D printer or something). If a society has this much (free or at least affordable) energy, even without a replicator there is so much abundance.

For test data I like to use different movie or comic book names for different epics.

So when we start a new epic with multiple user stories I decide this will be all star wars, or matrix or donald duck characters, etc etc. The nice thing about it is when certain test data gives unexpected errors in other parts of application its easy to track where the test data is from.

Jan Smit (in Dutch)

Yeah if bugs didn’t exist I’d be homeless too

Wow China really dropped the ball on this one.

In Europe when you book ahead of time and are not too specific about the dates you can fly much cheaper. If I want to go from Amsterdam to Barcelona I can get a much much cheaper flight. Why would I go for the option that is slower and more expensive?

I wish trains where cheaper I’d take them more often.

I once heard someone make the argument flying is cheaper because a plane can fly from one airport to almost any other airport. So when you own a plane you can use it in a much more flexible way. A train can only go over a fixed track, yes you can use switches etc. But when you build an airport basically any plane can go there immediately. For trains it doesn’t work like that. Make matters even worse in Europe usually train operators are national and most trains don’t cross borders beyond a few stations.

If only he knew his discovery would lead to the worst car rental company he problem wouldn’t have published

What my company used to do, person A asks for higher hour rate. Manager can’t get approval from his manager.

Person A quits, but is told you can always apply for the job again. Request for a new hire is made, people show up, also person A. In the end person A is hired for a better hour rate.

I do know a scrum coach that tried this only to be not hired because person B showed up and they liked him more.

Didn’t the Swiss remain neutral during the entire war?

Too many features but also autocomplete isn’t working? So I guess you do want many features?

Vibe coding is closer to script kiddy

I think I have been subconsciously trying to improve my gut biome as an adult…

Yes but I felt adding the “je” part would make it more confusing for non Dutch readers.

In the Netherlands basically everyone uses whatsapp. In the beginning people would say send me a whatsapp or something like that. But pretty quickly people started to shorten it to just app. So people will say stuff like I just got an app (instead of message), it drives me nuts. Like my family chat group is called “app group”.

Physical media yes, CDs or DVDs no. Most discs I burned are probably unreadable by now. I remember my favorite artist explaining how he probably had to stop making music because it just wasn’t financially viable. So I decided to buy all his albums (I had all the albums in mp3 format for years). Its about 10 years later, all the CDs are lost or destroyed (most in my car). I still have a NAS with the original mp3s I downloaded 20 years ago.

Ik heb een keer 112 gebeld toen ik laat op de avond een man met een schroevendraaier en hamer een deur zag openbeuken. Politie was vrij snel terplekke.

Overigens na het bellen riep ik iets van “lukt het?”. Hij riep ja woon hier een sleutels kwijt. Ik zei oh ik heb al 112 gebeld, maar dat vond hij prima (achteraf bleek hij er ook echt te wonen).

Anyway politie was er snel en waren vriendelijk.

Ook wel eens 8844 gebeld toen de buren in vorige woning weer eens tot in de nacht herrie aan het maken waren. Werd eigenlijk ook vrij snel opgelost, klagen heeft ook echt geholpen, daarna was het een stuk minder overlast.

I bought bee flower seeds, its a pretty large container (think half a Pringles can). I just sprinkle them around in my neighborhood. 😁. Can’t wait for the day weird flowers are starting to popup everywhere.

I visited auschwitz when I was 15 on a achool trip, the entire place felt very dark. But I was too young (and stupid) to really understand the horrors that happened at that place.

I always knew about the gaschambers, but never really thought about how it was done, until I saw this video recently

https://youtu.be/_p5Yvl2PbBU

It made me realize just how fucked up these people where.