Weeknotes 166

Somehow it is September. This is disappointing.

Code review antipatterns

In this case, that’s to make the patch as good as possible, according to whatever definition of ‘good’ the development team as a whole has agreed on.

We recently discussed this at work. What is “good”?

Our bed started squeaking. I knew this would happen because all metal-framed beds eventually do. I didn’t know it was metal-framed when we bought it or I would not have bought it. Anyway, how to stop it? I have no idea other than to tighten all the screws and bolts, and hope.

We joined a free, local, walking tour this weekend as a way to get to know some more about our new home. It was led by a very dry humoured older gentlemen and was very informative. Time well spent.

In an effort to control eating I decided to do some meal prepping on Saturday. This would give us a stock in the freezer for when we’re feeling particularly lazy – laziness is when pizza is consumed. Good plan. Unfortunately I did not plan to remember to put the food in the freezer before going to bed.

Are you aware how difficult it is to connect a PC to an Apple Studio Display? No? Very difficult. It. Is. Tricky.

I had seemingly forgotten everything about this since when I tried last time. The only evidence being a stack of only nondescript cables in my drawer.

After trying many cables I did eventually get a picture on the Studio Display from my PC, but I had to reboot the monitor (a.k.a. unplug it, wait 20 seconds, and re-plug it) with the PC connected in order to make it happen 🙄

Despite what was very obviously going to be a hassle every time I wanted to use the PC, I was pleased that I had at least something showing on-screen. That was until the flickering and visual artifacts showed up during Age of Empires IV.

There was a brief dalliance with the idea of getting a Thunderbolt 4 expansion card to add to my PC which would allow a direct Thunderbolt to Thunderbolt connection, but that was quickly over when I realised my motherboard does not have the requisite connections to do so.

I’m at a bit of a loss now, so I’ve just ordered a load more rando cables from Amazon in the hope that one of them gives a better result.

I have been slowly continuing the High Performance SQLite course I purchased. I’m finding it a bit of a slog to be honest, but not because the content isn’t good, because it is, I’ve just lost interest. I’m trying to watch one video a day to get through it even though I’m not really taking in any of the information.

I’ve only gone and read another book – The Trading Game by Gary Stevenson.

2 out of 24 read ✅