On your first day at the new job, squash every commit from the repo into a single commit with message "Legacy code" and force-push to master.

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Allow @g__j to help you with that answer, Tim #bbcqt

This meme was a small moment of enlightenment for me a long long while back

Writes and Write-Nots:

Here's a Bash script that stitches together `llm` and `files-to-prompt` (from @simonw) to run an iterative TDD loop to make a set of tests pass. https://t.co/KI9bFJMhCV This effectively automates the green part from the standard red-green-refactor loop.

She'll come back at a critical moment as Sue White.

Notion tip: trick your colleagues into thinking there's a collapsed section by using ▸ as the page emoji. cc @NotionHQ

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On TikTok there is AdjusterTok, where work from home insurance agents video their side of calls explaining how car insurance works to irritated people, and it’s quite sobering stuff. People don’t really know what insurance is, it’s just some magical thing to make stuff better.

Where are the racists now???? Probably still celebrating!!!! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #EURO2024

Baby steps in using LLMs to *edit* Vim files in place: https://t.co/0xp6ce89Fc

Farage looks like he's sold monorails to Brockway, Ogdenville and North Haverbrook... https://t.co/TyvgfpPBoq

Beware when using the 💋 emoji reaction to reference the KISS principle. Can be misinterpretted.

Andrea Cohen

This is a very revealing quote from Billy Bragg. If you're independent-minded ( https://t.co/ogMaJHrydF), you often find yourself on the same side of an issue as people you dislike. So if he's shocked by that idea, it shows he's not.

Is anyone working a system for federating custom emoji between systems? I need Notion and Slack to share the same set.

To be a good writer, you have to be annoyed by bad writing. You're unlikely to get your first drafts exactly right, and unless you're annoyed by what you got wrong, you won't fix it.

Today's bug bear: newline characters: ⛔ Don't use them to add whitespace between paragraphs (adjust your tool's paragraph spacing value if you need to do this). 🟢 Do use them to break up your almost-always-too-long paragraphs.