Great seeing you as well, Ian! Looking forward to meeting up again!

For the modern motion-detecting ones, a cheap IR strobe light works well as an addition to a travel kit.

I love that Pivotal was so willing to say no to users—no custom states and no weird estimates. They stuck to their guns.

This reads so much like outie facts from Severance

It baffles me why people can’t spend 10-30s answering the question “why does this commit exist?” Then again, everyone probably uses `-m` so git doesn’t spend the next 5 minutes launching their bloated Electron editor to write a good commit message.

This

I’ve wanted such a thing before, particularly with things like property-based tests. The killer feature would be binding the seed to the one used by `-shuffle`, so you could get complete reproducibility of a CI test run.

That smells of check-the-box security certification

Also, welcome to the club! Here’s our two new boys. They’ve been home from the shelter a week now :)

Having a great pet sitter is a godsend for travel. Many do the friends/family/neighbor route for pet-care while away. We prefer someone with a business so it is literally their job. They spend time with the cats and send daily pics and updates on food/water/litter usage—some even administer meds.

Computers are jerks

Nix has a lot of warts on Mac, and a non-trivial learning curve, but I can say that it is very good at preventing dynamic languages from spreading their crap everywhere and bringing it all into some consistent, isolated form.