Best Practices thinking considered harmful. 🤷

I like test names that are full sentences. Doing this for its own sake is unnecessary. It’s probably wise to practise this for a year, then decide when you still need it.

For me, quite often, a combination of the test group name (often naming a behavior) and test function name (often naming a special case of that behavior) suffices, even though it is not a full sentence. (Example: test class SellOneItem, test method productNotFound. Is this not clear enough?)

Test function names that merely repeatedly duplicate details (“conversion should…” to start 12 test names) indicate a test group trying to emerge (“Conversion Tests”). Insisting on full sentences for its own sake often either masks this risk (and delays helpful refactoring) or represents redundancy (merely reiterating what has been helpfully refactored).

I have found this attention to full sentence names most helpful for tests whose audience is not programmers, since those folks are not accustomed to common source code conventions and patterns. For Programmer Tests, I think “should” turns this helpful advice into a risky overstatement.

Pump and dump of penny stock. 🤷

When it’s a purely reference archive, keeping it longer can lead to pleasant trips down memory lane.

When it’s mostly a database of potential projects, burning it every two years is probably helpful, particularly for folks who are prone to feelings of guilt and shame.

You aren’t gonna do it and that’s probably just fine.

You don’t mess with the Zohran.

Yes.

Visidata, maybe.

4 trillion trillion?! Wow.

Everyone has to start somewhere.

I try the latest episode, then if I like it, I start from the beginning, unless it’s a current events podcast.

Watching the fire in the hearth, no?

I had it, thanks to this series from 2016: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt4877736/

Where have I heard about this before…?

https://youtu.be/jAdG-iTilWU

Icelandic: very very far top left.

The whole notion of “deserve” here is nothing more than a silly story we tell ourselves because other people teach us to believe it. It’s real, but you can change it. So maybe try changing it.

Instead of “I deserve a boyfriend” or “I don’t deserve a boyfriend”, try thinking “This is just a dumb story. It doesn’t mean anything. I either have a boyfriend or I don’t. That’s it.” Maybe it changes something in you. Maybe it doesn’t. Maybe it takes time and many repetitions. It doesn’t cost much to try.

Peace.

“Sorry, I can’t help you.” Why? Because sometimes I hand out random favors, but not today to you.

“summation” is also related to summary. All these words are related to reducing a collection of things to a single thing. A sum reduces a collection of numbers to its total. A summary reduces a collection of thoughts to its essence. A summation is effectively a synonym for a summary.

The word multiplication describes the operation applied to each pair of numbers. The word production would refer to the act of multiplying an arbitrary collection of numbers. Just as it would be for addition and summation.

It would fit the pattern.

Having insufficiently pale skin.

It looks like Russian uppercase and lowercase to me.

Scrabble is not a language game, but instead a spatial and arithmetic game using arbitrary strings of letters. Don’t look to it as a reflexion of the state of English as she is spoke.

Something something German lecturer after two hours twelve verbs at the end finally understood the whole lecture.