Fats Waller, "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter".

This guy, one of the three people who could claim the mantle of jazz originator, is herein *stunning*. I mean. *Stunning*.
Jazz didn't come from theory, no one worked it out on paper. It came from incredible artists, making things for random doofuses like me.
It's one of the songs i sing to the woods.

My silly way to prove to the trees that we're not entirely without merit, we persons.
For real, yo, take a deep breath, this is *strong*, crazy strong, you got a combo here standing up on its hind legs doing the thing. On its hind legs, I'm saying, and supremely confident, relaxed into the zone.

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31 Jan
Successful microtest TDD depends on our ability to solve a goldilocks challenge: when we test our code pieces, do we isolate them too much, too little, or just right? Finding the sweet spot will mean letting go of rulesets & purity.
As is my wont, let me remind you, geekery isn't the only story going on around us. I write of it for my rest & comfort, and perhaps for yours, but it's a break from more important things.

Black Lives Matter.

Please keep working for change and supporting those who do.
The five premises we've been over: value, judgment, correlation, steering, and pieces, guide us in a complicated dance of software design. At the center of that dance is our awareness of -- and our manipulation of -- "dependency", how one part of the code uses other parts of it.
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30 Jan
It's c14. The free water is nearly done draining into my big reservoir. I have a tendency to go off half-cocked and start exploring right away, but what I need to do is get my mid-game build on. Image
The next food source will be shrooms and bbq, both of them take a while to come online. I'd need 44 shrooms for my planned 16 dups, but by the time I got all that, I'd be moving off shrooms anyway. I'm going to shoot for about 25 of them.
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30 Jan
Mindlessly hating on the founders is almost exactly as ahistorical as mindlessly loving them is.
Ya wanna signify, I get it, I get it.

They believed a lotta shit we don't believe. There was no one of them no *one* of them who wasn't complicit.
And me? I'm the innocent? You, we, we're the aggrieved innocent?
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30 Jan
Here's Dave Matthews Band, live, "Say Goodbye".



No video to watch. Just the hearing.
It's tray-hip to hate on him. But check this, accompanied by Phish tho you wouldn't notice, and John Popper, who you very very very much will notice.
This is one of my most beloved live recordings.
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29 Jan
ONI: offs, I let it run for two hours with no save. Now we start all over again. Good thing it's the second mini-Friday and mini-Saturday of the week. Let's begin again.
Same basic deal, a single column base. Last time I had good luck with a basic frame of 25 wide, but with small extensions out to the right. Hatches outside, dreckos inside. I found a *slick* drecko build that's three 4-by's tall and covers both kinds.
Gonna oxygenate everywhere, that worked well, but I got sloppy over time, and this time I'm gonna hold to the premise. The only real cheat: I happen to know the AETN /water geyser is off to the east. But I will still open up the west to begin, as that's how I did it last time.
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24 Jan
Because microtest TDD is more a "way of geeking" than a technique or a received body of knowledge, building one's faculties is a long and sometimes perilous effort. Let's talk about learning.
(I, too, feel a little relief just now, tho not as much as some, because recent events aren't an ending, they're the beginning of a lot of work.

Black Lives Matter.

Stay safe, stay strong, stay angry, stay kind.

Let's keep changing this.)
I want to approach the question(s) of learning TDD in some ways that are a little different from others I've seen. I've written two TDD curricula myself, and am involved currently in helping with two more. I see all of them, including the current ones, as "interesting failures".
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