In a data-rich environment, we can use the Builder concept to make DSL's for our Making application. This often makes testing the hard business core of our code both faster and easier.
Folks, I love sharing my geekery with you. For me, it brings much comfort. I hope, tho, you'll join me in working for change that isn't just about code, but about the larger world.
Black Lives Matter.
We've spoken in the past about using our codebase to do more than one thing. We always use it to create our shipping app. But we can and do use it for an app that improves our *making* process. We call that the making app.
At some point a person reaches an age. And at that age, it's not in years, it's in living. And at that some point, one understands what a lovely song this is.
Then, caught up by her charm and her voice, one encounters "Lay Down".
Approaches in software development -- or anything else -- that don't take ordinray human failings as their starting point are prone to dramatic failure. "The Impossible Human" is, well, noticeably uncommon. Let's dig in on that.
More geek joy comfort food from me today, but please think & work outside the monitor by enabling and encouraging change in our wider world.
Black Lives Matter.
Some years back, I made content for a CMS that had a whole lot of overlapping parts, each with its own special language. I found it very difficult to express myself quickly & cleanly, and, it being me, I complained about it a lot.
"It puts the database on its browser skin, or else it gets the hose again." This task occupies the daily life of a great many programmers. Today, I want to throw out some random sparks of advice for people working in that setting.
Folks, my ideas about changing code are deeply intertwined with my ideas about changing the world, which is a far more important activity than any kind of geekery. Let's geek out, for sure.
But please keep working for change, and supporting those who do.
Black Lives Matter.
In enterprise IT, it is commonplace for backend folks to work on problems shaped like this: there's a web endpoint controller on the top, a database on the bottom, and some simple or complicated business logic in the middle.
ONI: c51, and a couple of building tips. That space next to the musher is going to be infinite food storage. I need it vacuumed out and filled with chlorine.
The stairs down & up on the west are actually a working liquid lock. We usually make permanent ones, but I won't need access to this room, so I really only need the lock for a short time. Two dribbles of water is all it takes. It won't last long, but I don't need it to.
The fastest & easiest way to a vacuum is to fill all the gas tiles with a solid, then use diagonal deconstruct. Whatever was in them is gone when the tile is built, and you get vacuum when it's destroyed. Wouldn't work in this case, but it's the best way.