augustl.bsky.social
@augustl.bsky.social
author, programmer, less space than a nomad, lame
We solve for this with iteration velocity. We're not bogged down with tech dept mudballs, and are able to keep moving forward fast.

But there's a limit to how smoooooth we need something to be. Spending hours to polish something we'll later throw away will kill us for sure.
December 19, 2025 at 2:07 PM
There was no real reason to have this as a repetable, so now we add the `create trigger` statement alongside the `create table` statement in our versioned migrations.
December 19, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Very Plato dualism pilled
December 18, 2025 at 7:23 PM
can't tell if it makes more internal or external. I think more external. It's "my" but it's also a separate outside thing that's not really you. "My brain" also ticks me off, as if that's some kind of atomic stand-alone entity
December 18, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I also have a problem with things that is too much a thing. "My ADHD", or generally any "my" and a diagnosis, ticks me off. Like it has a spiritual life of its own.
December 18, 2025 at 4:05 PM
XKCD 10k people every day etc. But clearly this team was heavily exposed to the issues with cross system comms over a network. They just didn't seem to care about the edge cases and the 1 of every 1000 operations that got botched.

Not sure what the sensible trade-off was in that situation.
December 18, 2025 at 12:29 PM
reminds me of the good old Knuth saying about why he doesn't use e-mail:

> E-mail is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things
December 1, 2023 at 8:02 AM