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2020-12-14

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hackers.town: 2020-12-14 Mon 01:02

Narrowly won a fight against the urge to write this utility script in Perl. It’s for work, after all. They mostly expect Python from me.

hackers.town: 2020-12-14 Mon 19:15

Log messages scrolling past so fast the eyes tell me it’s scrolling backwards.

-oh hey there’s the bug-

Look, no way am I messing with the debugger to figure out which entry’s busted. Debug printing, so I can see the patterns bubble up.

hackers.town: 2020-12-14 Mon 19:21

@GeoffWozniak It doesn’t always work, but when it does — oh that feels nice.

hackers.town: 2020-12-14 Mon 22:57

Far enough into the metaprogramming with this Python script (don’t judge me you don’t know me) and it’s cool but one thing for sure I miss Perl warning me about void contexts right now.