Leon Mika · Scour

Grand final bocce match at Fitzroy Gardens. Congrats to Foxy for winning the season.

Oof! Glad that’s over.

Also saw a flock of pigeons enjoying the morning.

Saw an ibis this morning, but not a bin chicken. This is a Straw-necked Ibis.

You offer me Parmesan cheese for anything, you’re not getting it back.

It’s funny how some days, your overthinking of what to post results in nothing being written. This is me not overthinking it (with a bit of assistance ...

The Colour of Production

lmika.org·11w·Hacker News

A bit frustrating that I asked my IDE to rename all instances of a method, and it did around half of them, ignoring the interfaces the type implements. I kno...

This is green grass. A week ago it was brown grass that hasn’t seen rain in about a month and a half. What a difference a week and two rainy days makes...

Been riding the Metro tunnel to work in the morning, but I think I’ll switch back to my old commute. I’ve been touching off after 7 AM which mean...

Coding agents may help with coding, but it’s been my experience that the biggest time sink in software is dealing with all the rubbish associated with ...

🔗 Pixel Envy: On Software Quality

Will the solution to my problems really be at the end of an infinitely long social media feed?

Missed my tram but thanks to the horrible traffic due to the rain, managed to catch it by walking to the next stop. Managed to lap the tram before it too, be...

🔗 Steve Yegge: You Should Write Blogs

The thing about DNS is that you’ve got one chance to get it right, otherwise your SOL for a good 15-20 minutes.

After almost 3 years to the day since buying it, my roll of cling wrap ran out. Took a lot less time to go through than my <a href="https://lmika.org/2022/02...

Getting software ready for go-live is a bit like landing a plane. Get what you have ready to go early, and once you’re done, just land it. Final approa...

I’m always at a loss of how best to represent a small number of items with a large number of properties in an SQL database. Tables feel great when the ...

Sometimes a TIL (today I learnt) should really be classified as a WTTMD (wish they told me this).

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