Tag: programming

Quick Bugs, Slow Fixes

Posted on by Morgan

The tortuga engineer has good guts but often seems slow compared to the rabbit engineer.

The rabbit engineer is quick at decision and gives impression of progress to the product owner often disappointed with the slow pace of change of the tortuga.

The tortuga is busy battle testing the draft he's about to integrate in the product, suddenly he finds out the new bugs were introduced recently by the rabbit, and decides to postpone his work while focusing on debugging the shit.

In the meantime, the customer complains because of the new bugs introduced in latest release by the rabbit engineer.

The product owner is worried and decides fixing this bug is a priority.

The tortuga engineer was already investigating the bug and proposes a fix.

The rabbit engineer cannot wait for the tortuga to fix the bug and already merges new changes in the stable branch so the new release will not only be bug free but also deliver new quality shit.

The tortuga is busy integrating and retesting all the new changes made by the rabbit as it seems those changes includes critical changes of the core authentication layer and library updates that had nothing to do with the features the rabbit was working on. And those changes break things.

The rabbit becomes impatient at the slow tortuga and decides to create a hotfix and deliver his changes to production.

The customer is still unhappy.
The product owner finds the tortuga slow. and indecisive and is happy the rabbit already can deliver a fix from his machine tonight while the tortuga will be busy with kids at home.
The rabbit says tortuga is not working hard enough.
The tortuga is tortured with all the shit that is being merged in the codebase by the rabbit.
The rabbit says it's time to hire more people and he knows other rabbits who can help and it would be nice if the tortuga worked more like rabbit is doing.

The tortuga suggests to focus on quality and teamwork and slow down but the rabbit and the product owner look at him suspiciously.

The product owner suggests the tortuga to leave the team if he's not happy with the way things are. Because here where we work, speed is important even if results are not perfect.

"fuck this shit man".

A few weeks later, tortuga has left.

The tortuga is working in a good team nowadays, where testing is a thing, quality is under control, documentation matters, and collaboration is a foundation.

Nerds Against Clutter: My Digital Downsizing Diary

Posted on by Morgan

Declutter and letting go.

  • Dropping Discord, Diaspora, Daily.dev, maybe Pixelfed and Mastodon next (done, by March 2024). Too buggy, too noisy.
  • Kissed Google Keep goodbye and embraced Obsidian even more, thanks to the Importer plugin.
  • Trying to escape the WhatsApp surveillance state. I'm axing useless groups left and right.
  • Scrubbing my old web presence. It's like digital housekeeping.
  • Using Syncthing now. Real-time sync across devices without cloud middlemen. Dropbox, you're on notice.
  • Deploying FDUPES for disk decluttering – it's a duplicate file slaughterhouse. Throwing inotifywait into the mix for smart folder monitoring, because who likes manual mess management?
  • Cut down on RSS. Using Wallabag, Miniflux. and Shaarli more. Bookmarking tools still suck somehow and I can't see a better alternative (yet) for my needs... yuck. Looking at the market for knowledge and bookmarks management tools, there is room for improvement in how we manage and consume information. Most of the hard work is on you for years with tools that connect to information.
  • Harnessing RSS-Bridge and Miniflux for streamlined info feeds. Using Changedetection for the unRSS-able stuff, i.e to monitor some indexes, lists, legal terms, release pages.
  • My tab hoarding was legendary, now capped at 18 with Tab Limiter. Browser zen achieved.
  • I have been known by my colleagues and partner to keep too many tabs open. My nerves cracked at reading other folks suffering same issue. So I decided to close a number of them, and limit each Window to 18 tabs with Tab Limiter.

Exploring and creating.

  • Blogging's up, but it's a discipline game. Need to turn Obsidian hoarding into public wisdom. Notebooks over phones, knowledge over scrolling.
  • Taming my Brave extension zoo with Context. It's like a digital bouncer for my browser. Funny, now I've more UX/Privacy oriented extensions than tabs.
  • Eyeing Geeqie to outsmart duplicate photos. Even my pixels need to be minimal.
  • n8n (Zapier/IFTTT alternative) is my new digital butler, still a bit rough around the edges. Coding my own automation magic because their recipes are just appetizers for my needs. For the record I'm now using it to automate RSS feeds triage and automate the web archiving of some bookmarks as I feel archiving beats bookmarking.
  • Diving back into Rust. Cooking up something for productivity and knowledge management. Stay tuned.
  • And of course, some snowballs and video gaming to keep things balanced and fun.

To be continued.

Level your productivity up with your shell’s history and aliases

Posted on by Morgan

Days ago I came across a blog post teaching about using your shell's history more intensively to boost productivity. I wanted to reflect on my own usage, and share some of my tips and tricks.

Over the time, I created a lot of aliases useful to me, and I also reused some from the community. In the end I accumulate so much aliases that I can't remember them all 🙂

I would spare keystrokes each time I use my favorite commands if I could remember the relevant aliases that would help me boosting my productivity :-), aliases which already exist on my local profile. Disclaimer: I'm bad a remembering them, my memory is full of other useless crap like passwords and movie quotes from pop culture.

Hence, I decided to develop a function to help identifying every possible undervalued aliases, based on my shell history. This function looks for the top commands I have used lastly and it lists aliases I could use to replace my commands and thus boost my productivity.

In my dotfiles, I named this function suggest_aliases.

Why is such function useful to me ? Let me explain with a concrete example:

In the past days or weeks, I frequently used some commands like git stash or ls -latr. Of course I have aliases for those commands, for instance the git plugin for Oh My Zsh provides useful aliases for git stash.

In this situation, my tool lists all the aliases matching to the commands I've given in my example above.

Here is a demo of the result it produces:

❯ suggest_aliases 30
==========  alias recommendations  ==========
 ✔ there is an alias for ls -latr :
 ➜ ltr='ls -latr'
 ✔ there is an alias for git stash :
 ➜ gsta='git stash push'
 ➜ gstaa='git stash apply'
 ➜ gstall='git stash --all'
 ➜ gstc='git stash clear'
 ➜ gstd='git stash drop'
 ➜ gstl='git stash list'
 ➜ gstp='git stash pop'
 ➜ gsts='git stash show --text'

This utility function returns several candidate aliases based on my recent commands usage. The parameter it takes is the size of the input data that is be used by the tool. The bigger the number, the more results are returned.

On a complementary note, Oh My Zsh includes the plugin alias-finder, which makes learning new aliases easier.

Example: 

$ alias-finder "git pull"
gl='git pull'
g=git

For my taste, I've a different workflow to find such aliases, which returns more results:

Example:

❯ ag "git pull"
ggpull='git pull origin "$(git_current_branch)"'
gl='git pull'
glum='git pull upstream master'
gup='git pull --rebase'
gupa='git pull --rebase --autostash'
gupav='git pull --rebase --autostash -v'
gupv='git pull --rebase -v'

where ag is an alias for 

alias | grep -i

In this case it returns the aliases provided by the git plugin for Oh My Zsh because that's what I get on my system. If I had created custom aliases for git pull, it would have listed them as well.

Finally, here is a demo of all the commands used previously 😉

That's all, folks. I hope this was helpful 😉 ! I would love to know if you get similar tips & tricks, if you do please share them 🙂 .

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