Captain Neckbeard

It's a trap! Our cryptosystems can't repel a neckbeard of that magnitude!

[captneckbeard]

docker-machine and direnv

If you have a project whose development environment is based on Docker and uses docker-machine, using direnv could save you some repetitive manual configuration.

I had a bit of trouble figuring this out from scratch (it turned out to actually be deceptively simple), so I’m sharing the envrc here for posterity.

# ignore errors here, which are usually due to machine already running docker-machine start default || true eval $(docker-machine env default) export DOCKER_MACHINE_IP=$(docker-machine ip default)

[captneckbeard]

An elaborate baseball metaphor

In this game, the opponent has home field advantage.

In the top of the first inning, our team started off the game with a walk followed by a long foul ball that, after a replay challenge, was ruled a home run.

For the rest of the game, the other team’s pitcher has been crazy and erratic, but has been saved at every critical point by phenomenally lucky defense.

Our pitcher, on the other hand, has had steady control and command of the strike zone for the whole game. His teammates superstitiously stopped talking to him in the dugout around the fifth inning, for fear of jinxing a no-hitter in the making. He’s okay with that - it feels fragile, like talking about it or naming it could tear it all apart.

A walk and a stolen base in the seventh inning were a cause for worry, until an amazing jumping catch by the shortstop started a double play to end the inning.

And now, the bottom of the ninth inning. Our pitcher is showing the strain of long and intense effort. He walks the first batter, then hits the next one when trying to pitch inside. The third batter hits a soft ground ball to third, but reaches on an error when the third baseman drops the ball and then a run scores on a wild pitch to the fourth batter.

The game isn’t lost. The no-hitter isn’t even lost! All we need are three more outs.

THREE. MORE. OUTS.

[captneckbeard]

This week in the Supreme Court

Yesterday:

The law that took America’s healthcare system from worst in the industrialized world to... well, still worst, but *slightly* better - totally legal.

Today:

Even _homosexual_ humans have basic human rights.

WAY TO GO, AMERICA!!! EARTH-SHATTERING STUFF!!!

Maybe we can send people to the moon someday.

[captneckbeard]

Beautiful is better than ugly. Explicit is better than implicit. Simple is better than complex. Complex is better than complicated. Flat is better than nested. Sparse is better than dense. Readability counts. Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules. Although practicality beats purity. Errors should never pass silently. Unless explicitly silenced. In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess. There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it. Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch. Now is better than never. Although never is often better than *right* now. If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea. If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea. Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!

The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters

[captneckbeard]

It's taken me a lot of years, but I've come around to this: if you're dumb, surround yourself with smart people; and if you're smart, surround yourself with smart people who disagree with you.

Isaac Jaffe (Robert Guillaume), Aaron Sorkin's 'Sports Night'