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Cake day: August 2nd, 2023

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  • Over the last ten - fifteen years, I’ve written lots of scripts for production in bash. They’ve all served their purposes (after thorough testing) and not failed. Pretty sure one of my oldest (and biggest) is called temporary_fixes.sh and is still in use today. Another one (admittedly not in production) was partially responsible for getting me my current job, I guess because the interviewers wanted to see what kind of person would solve a coding challenge in bash.

    However, I would generally agree that - while bash is good for many things and perhaps even “good enough” - any moderately complex problem is probably better solved using a different language.








  • This post is the second time today I’ve seen an Animorphs reference. Before those, I hadn’t thought about the franchise in years and wouldn’t have remembered that controllers were a thing. Strange, since the book series was a huge part of my childhood.

    In case you’re curious, the other one was a JonTron video. I think he was caught in some kind of scandal, so I’m not sure whether to still like him, but I did enjoy the video. I was also somewhat astounded to realize Shawn Ashmore was Jake.

    https://youtu.be/BmA2QVEEpQ8