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9d ago
inSaw a bakery in Savannah proofing dough in a old pie case and now I want one
Wait, 78 degrees with zero heat source? What's her secret?
10d ago
inUpdate: a 20 minute talk with a Delta mechanic in Atlanta fixed my connector pin problem
Have you noticed this kind of thing happens way more when you are not even looking for help? Same deal at a hardware store when a guy told me to rub a candle on a sticky drawer rail, or the time a waitress told me to put a dry paper towel in with salad greens to keep them fresh. It seems like the best tips come from people who just happen to see your problem and have been there a hundred times before. The internet is full of long write-ups but nothing beats a person standing next to you who has done the job for twenty years. There is something about the random timing of it too, like your brain is stuck in one track and a stranger resets it in ten seconds. I try to pass stuff like that along now whenever I catch someone fighting the same battle.
16d ago
inInstructor told me my Python code read like a list of chores, so I started naming things like people
I used to be all about short names, like x and tmp, thought long ones were a waste of typing. Then I had to go back to a script I wrote six months earlier and I could not tell what half of it did, which was a real kick in the teeth. Now I write stuff like skipped_tracks and renamed_count and future me actually gets it right away. Yeah it is more keystrokes but you only type it once, you read it a hundred times. Plus when my wife glances at my screen she can kind of follow along now, which is funny.