Cal Irvine
@calirvine.com
Software developer, parent to two humans, and two dogs. Work at Shopify. Code, climbing, photography, making things, cooking things, and the great outdoors. Location: Toronto 🇨🇦
Does anyone know anywhere hiring early career folks? I’ve got someone who worked a couple of years before being laid off in 2022 tech reductions, he stopped looking when he couldn’t get any traction back then. He’s hoping to rejoin the industry now and I’m helping him train back up.
A couple of months back I turned off all AI autocomplete features in my IDE, and TBH I feel like my brain has completely healed. I still leverage AI heavily, but always as a conscious choice. Goodbye “LLM pause” when my brain was waiting to see what the AI thought before thinking on its own.
I feel like git push —force should work even during a GitHub outage.
My current AI take (constantly evolving) 1) if you fundamentally understand the problem to be solved and the green path, AI is pure accelerant 2) if you need to stray from the green path then it’s actually not that helpful at all 3) if you don’t know what you’re doing it’s doing more harm than good.
I love when I try to write a tricky TS type and I’m having trouble so I ask AI and it tries the same 8 things then says “maybe it’s impossible? IDK 🤷🏻♂️”
Put their names on a plaque.
TOBikeShareBot@toronto.raccoon.bike · 6mo agoYesterday there were approximately 500 Toronto Bikeshare bikeshare trips Most used station: Bleecker St / St James Ave (19 trips) Least used station: Brimorton Dr / Orton Park Rd and 733 others (0 trips) Active stations: 1007 #bikeTO
I’ve already shoveled this twice today. Snow day confirmed for tomorrow.
Is it my birthday? github.com/vitest-dev/v...
feat: implement `aroundEach` and `aroundAll` hooks by sheremet-va · Pull Request #9450 · vitest-dev/vitest
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I find the Taipei 101 climb event to be like 90% uninteresting. Generally free soloing does not excite me that much, but even in that world I’d much rather see people climbing actual cliffs. Like surely soloing El Cap (way taller than this building) was both harder and more interesting.
Anyone on here have a good recipe for red dal? Prefer rich and creamy to soupy.
Lmao it converted my db from PG to MySQL when I wasn’t looking?
Cal Irvine@calirvine.com · 7mo agoK, this Ralph thing is actually really good. Still not a silver bullet, but with a good focused plan it’s really surprisingly effective.
K, this Ralph thing is actually really good. Still not a silver bullet, but with a good focused plan it’s really surprisingly effective.
Holy shit I actually finished it. I’ve been working on this for at least three years. It better fit.
OAuth in a phone call was not something I ever thought I would have to figure out, but here we are. Been a hell of a year so far.
The thing that’s never made sense to me is that the “we must own guns to protect ourselves from tyranny” people and the “it’s ok when law enforcement murders people” people are the same people.
Turns out the only thing I had to do to fix my printer that’s been broken more than a year is actually try for more than ten minutes.
Finally finished this sweater (for my 3yo daughter). Body and one sleeve took me 3 weeks, sleeve two took my 3 months. Finishing things is always harder than starting 💀
I love how during the election so many Americans told people with opinions to “mind their own business” Unfortunately America, as much as we wish it weren’t the case, your business is our business.
I know this will probably be controversial, but the Minecraft movie was actually kind of good.
So someone asked me to make a change on a PR. It’s a good shout, and I’m going to do it. HOWEVER I copied the code in question from him. Should I also fix his usage in the same PR, or is that too passive aggressive? 💀