#convoluted β Public Fediverse posts
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π₯³π Introducing possibly the least exciting syntax tweak ever: "Generalised plusequals"! Because who doesn't love adding more cryptic keywords to their already indecipherable codebase? ππ₯ Congratulations, you've managed to take a perfectly fine operation and make it even more convoluted! ππ€£
https://leontrolski.github.io/alt.html #GeneralisedPlusequals #SyntaxTweak #Codebase #Convoluted #ProgrammingHumor #HackerNews #ngated -
π Oh, look! Another groundbreaking tutorial on how to reinvent #the #wheel in #Golang, because existing durable execution #solutions just weren't #convoluted enough. π€¦ββοΈ Dive into the #DBOS universe where #buzzwords reign supreme and practical usability takes a backseat to verbose documentation. πβ¨
https://www.dbos.dev/blog/how-we-built-golang-native-durable-execution #Tutorials #Reinventing #HackerNews #ngated -
Rambling "How I Spent My ${DURATION}" braindump.
Last week I was carrying bags of water softener #salt into my furnace room and noticed a small #limescale deposit on the floor in the middle of the room that hadn't been there a few days before. Directly above it are a bunch of water #pipes going off in different directions. Found one 90 degree elbow that had more than the usual accumulation of green stuff on it, like a tiny #stalactite. Okay, water #leak found.
I was going to wait for the weekend to fix it, but it seemed to be speeding up, so I did it Wednesday. I had to cut a chunk of #convoluted pipe out of the system that was way more complex than it should have been. It had to go around other #pipes and join another #pipe and around some joists, but the #plumber who put this in 40 years ago had a #fetish or something. No word of a lie, it reminded me more of the Windows NT "pipes" #screensaver than anything else.
In a volume about the size of a 2L bottle of pop, there were 4 #elbows, 3 #unions, and five little pieces of pipe if I remember correctly. I soldered together a matching jumble of parts ... and then couldn't solder one side of it in, because it's at a local low point, and I couldn't get the last dribbles of #water to stop. Any water wicks the heat away and the #solder doesn't stick.
Ended up using a #flex line with #sharkbite connectors to replace the whole thing. What a shame, I was proud of my replacement.