Renée @reneestephen@mastodon.social

Just look as this chonky boy living its best life. Revenge of millions of goldfish kept in tiny tanks. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/ontario-wild-goldfish-climate-change-1.6434384

This is gonna become a blog post once I catch up on my sleep.

If you are in product development or sales engineering, heed my warning as it is WISDOM borne of pain and hours spent squinting at error messages and specs:

A POC or demo IS NOT A PRODUCT.

It is not production code--and so much the better that it isn't, for many reasons.

But I was thinking like an engineer: trying to build something for posterity, reuse, future needs.

What I needed to build? Something to illustrate what is possible. It WAS fun but... I would like those two days back pls 😂

Finally, as I neared the end getting of my purpose-built thing working and polished, I realized two things:

1. I had misunderstood a fundamental convention concept that would have actually made ALL my attempts work fine, and

2. When in ran through it end-to-end I didn't even NEED the cool functionality I had designed. Three lines of js would also have totally done the trick 😂😭

(I threw those in there too whynot 🤷😂)

🪡 I just spent two days writing a module to do a thing for a demo, and the reason it took two days was that I was trying to tie it into an ecosystem of popular modules.

First I had to learn it's classes and so on, and when I did I realized that wasn't gonna work the way I needed...

So I retooled on another approach: still had issues with something that should have been simple. So finally I said fuckit and just wrote my own purposemade thing, extensibility bedamned.

A lot of people were calling this & a lot of people are genuinely fucked now: regulators completely abandoned their resps to agressively give a shit. But wow so much hilarious study docs re the psychology of bubbles. It's an ill wind. https://twitter.com/tiktokinvestors/status/1494076067669168130

Semple is at it again, making cool paints that are absolutely not for Anish Kapoor. I admire the full dedication to this bit, right down to the cookie consent.

https://culturehustle.com/collections/black/products/black-3-0-the-worlds-blackest-black-acrylic-paint-150ml?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=paid&utm_campaign=SOUP+-+INTERNATIONAL+TEST+TOF&utm_term=CANADA&utm_content=DUCK+COMPARISON+BLACK

Who just got sprayed in the face at 60psi when testing the garden irrigation and an emitter blew off?

THAT'S RIGHT, IT WAS ME.

actually kind of refreshing, now that I am used to the idea of not being dry for the rest of the day...