Weeknotes 76

A slightly shorter week again. Away at the weekend visiting family.

I watched my first two Christmas films of year – Violent Night, and The Guardians of the Galaxy: Holiday Special.

I enjoyed them both, but David Harbour in Violent Night does a great job of being a jaded Santa Claus.

It’s that time of year again – Advent of Code. The code required for Advent of Code is so far removed from the code I write daily. I don’t know what that says. Nothing I write at “work” approaches “algorithm”. Maybe it should.

I have enjoyed attempting Advent of Code in the past, but not sure I’m up for it this year.

I enjoyed A Heart That Works by Rob Delaney. It was brave, and funny, and tragic. I can’t even begin to imagine their pain.

If you’re a parent, I would give it a miss.

I re-mapped the Raycast Emoji picker to the macOS default which is Ctrl + Cmd + Space.

A reminder that there are data types available specifically for storing IP and Mac addresses in Postgres (and other databases).

Terrible news this week that Chris Seaton, of TruffleRuby fame, has died. Tenderlove and Searls both wrote nice tributes. Such a shame.

ChatGPT is genuinely amazing. Yes, it probably can’t be trusted to be 100% correct, especially in terms of code correctness, but for generating ideas, or jumping off points, it seems incredibly valuable.