This happens when I outsource reading the docs to AI agents.

wait… there was a function for that? Why did you tell me to build this house of cards

It was 900mb raw and compressed to 1.6mb after cleaning.

That’s how much junk data there was.

Combing through that log is the only way to prove and identify where a big was introduced so I can fix it.

You’ll miss out on some primo maple syrup

Most recently:

I had to parse an html table with a column of printed python dictionaries, the dicts wrapped a mixed delimiter list of SQL statements of various types.

It’s truly an abomination.

I’ve never had to use pythons AST module to parse data before…

This would make me want to do even more degenerate things in the game

My little buddy is mine. I won’t share his name because it’s rather unique, I mostly call him little buddy or gremlin.

He’s a black shorthair cat. We got him as a rescue kitten and I loved him as soon as I saw this uglygoofy kitten run across his cage (over another cat) to get pets.

The first two weeks we had him all he did was have diarrhea in the closet and scream, he was very underweight and looked like a bat. Once he got up to weight he’s been healthy and active since.

He’s got a lot of personality and quirks. He follows me everywhere, he’s a total copilot cat. He’s very loud, he likes to sing the songs of his people. He loves playing and we have all sorts of dumb games (I play Air bud style soccer with him and he’s pretty good, and he really likes being chased into his cat tube or under the bed).

He’s also an anxious cat, which I think resonates with me because I’m rather anxious. But he seems to know when I am and just lays with me and it’s very nice.

He’s a very dumb cat, but weirdly easy to train. He responds to his name and a few commands or words, but he also gets lost easily and cries if he can’t find us in the house.

He sleeps with me every night and doesn’t like when I don’t share bathroom time with him.

Those are rookie numbers

Yeah, they’re about pakled intelligence now.

Is that the new ifixit one?

No, it’s one of the few use cases of emacs.

Stuff like openWRT routers get a pass.

If it has a local host API I would use it because it never has to connect to the internet.

Anything in my house smarter than the IKEA remote control light switch gets crushed with a hammer.

I’m mostly joking, but most of what I code lately is integrations and data tools where 90% of the thing is configuration and lining up different tools.

It’s a lot of load data form yaml, build json, throw that into a tool and the build a report kind of glue. I’ll use pydantic and stuff where it makes sense, but I’ve been spending a lot of time lately between lua and python and javascript.

I used to do more system and engineering stuff which actually required a lot of planning, but that’s just not what has paid the bills for me the last few years.

but we still get that tech debt sprint?

And halfway interesting means beyond a medium blog written by someone with 3 months experience trying to pad their resume, and not following standards beyond default linting rules at all

Lately my approach to dev is “I don’t care about your language feautures, I’m going to treat it like lua and just stuff objects with data and write bare functions to process them”

Unless I need to engineer something complex, everything is dict[any:any].

I’m sure you’ll get a sprint to clean up the tech debt and a pizza party. Management promised!

I’ve got an old grey lady and she looks so much like your cat, she even does that monkey tail curl

Best of luck, I am sorry, it’s always tough.

I’ll keep you in my thoughts

I’m sorry for your loss.

I had a similar experience, my grandmother went through brain surgery when I was young and after had severe dimentia for the rest of her life. My memories of her are split into a before and after category and honestly it is really hard to comprehend how I felt when she passed, especially whe it was so hard to remember the “her” memories after so long. I loved her a lot.

There’s no wrong way to feel, take your time and make sure you process things in your own way. And thank you for sharing, hopefully this community can help you with any support you need.