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Cake day: July 7th, 2023

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  • Not a nurse but I worked a lot of manual labor jobs that had me on my feet moving all day (e.g., home renovation work) and I can say that your body eventually gets used to that kind of work and the soreness becomes a persistent dull ache that honestly isn’t bad. Kinda like if you just work out daily.

    Nursing may be different, and my experience may not apply, but I would think that you will get used to it.

    Honestly the only thing I never got used to was standing in one place at retail work. Standing all day in the same spot is not natural and the body rejects it.












  • Learning to work the clutch and feel the friction zone is a more difficult skill than some want to admit.

    Learning to drive a motorcycle was a bit overwhelming, I remember my instructor talking about applying the brakes with right hand and foot while disengaging the clutch with the left hand and downshifting with the left foot… and thinking “how the hell is anyone supposed to keep track of all that!”

    I do miss my stick shift though, it was more fun to drive even if less practical.








  • Rails is great for starting an app, you can get something to a functional MVP state in a ridiculously small amount of time. We used to do rapid prototyping where we could be shipping it to the client in like 2-4 weeks. I haven’t found anything that comes close to this elsewhere.

    But you’re right that the big trade off is jumping off is effectively impossible, because Rails is your app. Most criticism that I see (and feel is valid) is that unless you’re willing to do a whole rewrite you will be on Rails forever. I think this is a more reasonable trade off than I see represented online; “long terms Rails is a nightmare” comes up a lot and I don’t think it’s that bad.

    I personally like that we’re seeing options for both strategies here popping up. More options is good for us as devs.


  • I remember learning about how to use this back in the day and what a game changer it was for my workflow.

    Today I like to do all of the commits as I’m working. Maybe dozens or more as I chug along, marking off waypoints rather than logging actual changes. When I’m done a quick interactive rebase cleans up the history to meaningful commits quite nicely.

    The fun part is that I will work with people sometimes who both swear that “rewriting history” is evil and should never be done, but also tell me how useful my commit logs are and want to know how I take such good notes as I go.