J.C. Holder @jcholder@toot.thoughtworks.com

Scared a couple teammates with my maniacal laughter. And they were even expecting it. Practice pays off.

Cursing the single variable names in this legacy code.

We think of "duplicate code" as a cardinal sin of programming, but how much of that is an artifact of old coding practices?

Do we need to de-duplicate (and thereby couple) code so aggressively in this age of powerful IDEs and test-driven development?

Your tests *would* catch any failure to update code that should have changed in multiple places, right?

So many data breaches. I think we need to make companies and other organizations justify storing more than a certain about of individually identifying information rather than allow them to do so by default. They keep so much of this data *just in case* they need it later.

Tempted to re-purchase Bastion now that it's on the Nintendo Switch. That game, its music, and its atmosphere blew me away.

Can't wait to use Python 3.7's new @dataclass decorator at work.

Seriously. I'm that much of a nerd.

Got to play KeyForge with an employee from the client team last night after work. They won. Good times!

Misplaced my Zebra pens lately but really enjoying this Muji gel pen I've used as a backup. Might have to pick up more of them.

Oh, right this is what it feels like to actually be tired at the end of the day instead of wired.

Personal coffee challenge: Drink only one cup a day

Looking forward to this game: https://www.polygon.com/reviews/2019/7/23/20703825/elsinore-game-ophelia-shakespeare-hamlet-time-loop-golden-glitch-review.

(Reminds me: Past time to play Obra Dinn.)

Love the idea of outlawing phone location data sales: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/23/nyregion/cellphone-tracking-location-data.html.

I wish that more command line utilities offered YAML-formatted output so that it was both human readable and parseable with only standard libraries.

I want a browser extension that can detect when you've read a news story about a particular event and then filter it from your other news sites so that you don't have to get reminded of it constantly.

"Five Things You Notice When You Quit the News"

I can speak to all of these points after quitting Facebook and Twitter.

https://www.raptitude.com/2016/12/five-things-you-notice-when-you-quit-the-news/

Shout-out to a teammate for warning me before I made a poor wallet purchase (and no, it wouldn't have been from Amazon).

Could still use some thin wallet recommendations.

Still hopeful for some rampant de-capitalism-ization of "Internet," though.

Still salty about the rampant de-capitalization of "Internet."

Submitting some referrals! I hope they get hired!

Imagine if we fined individuals for misdemeanors like we fined companies: Jumping the subway turnstile would come with a $0.27 fee instead of a $100 one. Now imagine the inverse.