Michael Melanson 🇨🇦 @michaelmelanson.net · 16/10/2025But overall, I think refurbishing a system test suite is a great project that it would probably be effective at. 000 0
Michael Melanson 🇨🇦 @michaelmelanson.net · 16/10/2025There will be all sorts of things you have opinions about coding conventions and you’ll need to convince it to do things your way. You’ll also need to tell it to not be lazy and cut corners. For example, I need to tell it over and over again to avoid mocks and use test fixtures damn it… 100 1
Michael Melanson 🇨🇦 @michaelmelanson.net · 16/10/2025That’s kind of an ideal use case for Claude actually. But be sure to give it one concrete goal at a time… e.g get this specific test suite working. Keep a close eye on it, especially at first. Tell it to do a bit of work, review the result closely and course correct. Let out the leash bit by bit. 100 1
Michael Melanson 🇨🇦 @michaelmelanson.net · 15/10/2025In Rails applications I’ve had good luck with having Claude Code write system tests, which use browser automation. But I agree that closing that loop goes a long way to being able to be effective at building features. Plus capturing the result as automated tests helps prevents future regressions. 110 1
Michael Melanson 🇨🇦 @michaelmelanson.net · 13/10/2025If there were a Quickview preview extension, or if it returned the data in a format that already has one (an image, PDF, etc), then this would be a functional app view when used in Finder’s column view with the preview pane. Then we can have the future as Plan 9 intended. 030 3
Reposted by Michael Melanson 🇨🇦Jake Lazaroff @jakelazaroff.com · 02/10/2025show this to anyone else you know who also assumed DHH was just a normal conservative dude rather than a raging white supremacist lunaticjakelazaroff.comDHH Is Way Worse Than I Thought | jakelazaroff.comDHH's politics are not normal. Maybe they used to be, I don't know, but as of right now the dude is_way outside of what most people would consider moral or acceptable. 29490174 490
Reposted by Michael Melanson 🇨🇦Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 03/09/2025I am old. I’ve been through so many waves of hustle culture. Outside of occasional crunch times, the overwork is always unnecessary, performative nonsense that provides cover for some combination of bad ideas, abusive leadership, disorganization, a total lack of strategy etc etc. 13519103 519
Michael Melanson 🇨🇦 @michaelmelanson.net · 01/09/2025This is a total guess but… it’s probably a composite of a few different data sources. The circles are where they use data from a local sensor, and the broad areas in between are where they use satellite information or something. 33141 314
Reposted by Michael Melanson 🇨🇦John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 24/08/2025This feels like a spot of good news www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...sciencedaily.comScientists found the missing nutrients bees need — Colonies grew 15-foldScientists have developed a breakthrough food supplement that could help save honeybees from devastating declines. By engineering yeast to produce six essential sterols found in pollen, researchers pr... 575250607281 25.1K
Reposted by Michael Melanson 🇨🇦Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 20/08/2025Today's AWS isn't the AWS of even 2020. www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/aws-in-...lastweekinaws.comAWS in 2025: The Stuff You Think You Know That's Now WrongOne of the neat things about AWS is that it's almost twenty years old. One of the unfortunate things about AWS is... that it's almost twenty years old 109621 96
Reposted by Michael Melanson 🇨🇦Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 28/07/2025So they found a 125,000 yr old Neanderthal fat rendering plant & I have thoughts. Knowing that they loved saturated fat SO MUCH that they industrialized to get as much of it as humanly possible? Makes me feel seen, heard, supported, etc www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...science.orgLarge-scale processing of within-bone nutrients by Neanderthals, 125,000 years agoNeanderthals intensively processed a minimum of 172 large mammals for grease and marrow fat, 125,000 years ago. 401310427 1.3K
Reposted by Michael Melanson 🇨🇦derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 21/07/2025Sorry for the string of videos, but this is amazing and makes me wonder if this is what life could be like if we all just logged off the internet. IG risolve 511128051783 12.8K
Michael Melanson 🇨🇦 @michaelmelanson.net · 20/07/2025It’s a superpower for a city. It means people can choose where to live and work independently of each other: you can choose the best place for you to live and work at the place that will best employ you (even two people’s work!). Those are separate decisions that don’t constrain each other. 110 1
Reposted by Michael Melanson 🇨🇦Scott Hanselman 🌮 @scott.hanselman.com · 17/07/2025Hey friends! I did a TEDx talk and it's now up on the TED Conferences YouTube. It's possibly the best and most important talk I've ever done. I would ask that you watch it, and please SHARE it broadly and widely. Thank you! youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg #AI #Tech #TEDyoutu.beTech Promised Everything. Did it deliver? | Scott Hanselman | TEDxPortlandYouTube video by TEDx Talks 55741281 741
Reposted by Michael Melanson 🇨🇦america.is.not.free @antifapatriot.bsky.social · 08/07/2025If you put googly eyes on the Pillars of Creation you get muppets 😄😄 12157552542 15.8K
Michael Melanson 🇨🇦 @michaelmelanson.net · 06/07/2025Yes this would be the band members as well as lights, sound, stagehands, riggers, drivers, managers, promoters, etc. They had two separate sound systems while touring, each requiring 4 drivers and a separate advance crew to assemble it. It adds up: $800k/month is 160 people making $50k/year. 020 2
Michael Melanson 🇨🇦 @michaelmelanson.net · 05/07/2025Might I suggest a skateboard?media.tenor.coma man wearing a music band shirt is carrying a skateboard over his shoulderALT: a man wearing a music band shirt is carrying a skateboard over his shoulder 1100 10
Michael Melanson 🇨🇦 @michaelmelanson.net · 04/07/2025Yup, I’ve gotten a couple of these emails too in the last couple years. Maybe two, in roughly 2023-2024, I think. 010 1
Michael Melanson 🇨🇦 @michaelmelanson.net · 28/06/2025At least no one has told you about wirecode yet, so we’re all still safe for now. 110 1
Michael Melanson 🇨🇦 @michaelmelanson.net · 28/06/2025What is on your position on the production of paperclips? 120 2
Michael Melanson 🇨🇦 @michaelmelanson.net · 23/06/2025I was in grade 9 for Sept 11 and on that day one of my classmates rolled his eyes at all the fuss. I told him that you don’t attack the US and not have them go to war with you. If they do, Canada is likely to be dragged along. Guess who was a few years away from being prime soldier age? Us. Him: 🤯 110 1
Michael Melanson 🇨🇦 @michaelmelanson.net · 21/06/2025Depends. If that’s your internal cooking temperature in Celsius, I’d say you’re overcooked. 000 0
Michael Melanson 🇨🇦 @michaelmelanson.net · 12/06/2025This set actually does. It has yellow and blue eyes that you can choose between. 270 7
Reposted by Michael Melanson 🇨🇦Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Prime Minister Mark Carney laments Pride 'backlash' and rolls out money to make 2SLGBTQ+ parades safer 'We can take pride in how far we've come but we should also recognize there's far more to do,' PM says /1 thread #Canada #PrideMonth www.cbc.ca/news/politic...cbc.caCarney laments Pride 'backlash' and rolls out money to make 2SLGBTQ+ parades safer | CBC NewsPrime Minister Mark Carney raised a Pride flag on Parliament Hill Tuesday to kick off a month-long celebration of sexual and gender diversity while saying there's a brewing "backlash" to these sorts o... 20829161 829
Michael Melanson 🇨🇦 @michaelmelanson.net · 10/06/2025It’s been like 20 years but I’m still salty that it took off instead of Darcs or Mercurial. 120 2
Reposted by Michael Melanson 🇨🇦zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 08/06/2025Gives a whole new meaning to “personal software.” Scrappy, by @jrcpl.us and Pontus Granström, is a research prototype that helps you make software for just you and your friends. Hat tip: @scripting.com. pontus.granstrom.me/scrappy/ #software #scrappy #LittleAppspontus.granstrom.meScrappymake little apps for you and your friends 57122 71
Michael Melanson 🇨🇦 @michaelmelanson.net · 06/04/2025If any Americans are worried about being seen as “cringe” right now, they’re far too naive about the seriousness of the situation they’re in. 040 4
Reposted by Michael Melanson 🇨🇦Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 27/03/2025americans what the fuck did you do to the bloc quebecois 1094276738 4.3K
Reposted by Michael Melanson 🇨🇦The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 25/03/2025Trump team accidentally texts Canadian invasion plans to Ian Hanomansingthebeaverton.comTrump team accidentally texts Canadian invasion plans to Ian HanomansingTORONTO - Following reports of Trump Cabinet members including journalists on private Signal threads, Trump officials have reportedly texted similar plans for an invasion of Canada to anchor of CBC's ... 501079332 1.1K
Michael Melanson 🇨🇦 @michaelmelanson.net · 21/03/2025I was thinking more of the new UUID v7 format. This way you’d be able to guarantee collisions can only happen for people born within the same millisecond, and even then with one in 2^74 probability. As a bonus the identifiers would be sortable by birth time. 040 4
Michael Melanson 🇨🇦 @michaelmelanson.net · 14/03/2025Oh damn I should have realized it was from today. For some reason I thought it was from some earlier event. 030 3
Michael Melanson 🇨🇦 @michaelmelanson.net · 09/03/2025This is true in the same way that the US has not been at war since WW2, because that was the last time they issued a declaration of war. Trump cannot unilaterally withdraw from NATO, but he can just… stop participating in the alliance, even undermining it, while still being nominally a member.true.in 041 4
Michael Melanson 🇨🇦 @michaelmelanson.net · 06/03/2025Wait what? Shopify is doing case studies on Nazi merch sites?! 010 1
Reposted by Michael Melanson 🇨🇦Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 06/03/2025I don't think the average American grasps how concerned the average Canadian is about the annexation threat. A lot of Americans are brushing it off a backburner ridiculous thing from Trump -- but here in Canada, our prime minister is literally telling us tariffs are part of an annexation plan. 1051305272 1.3K
Michael Melanson 🇨🇦 @michaelmelanson.net · 05/03/2025I’m referring to the Conservative Party leader. 120 2
Michael Melanson 🇨🇦 @michaelmelanson.net · 05/03/2025Except that one guy. We don’t talk about him. 110 1
Michael Melanson 🇨🇦 @michaelmelanson.net · 02/03/2025That’s called going out in a blaze of glory. 000 0
Michael Melanson 🇨🇦 @michaelmelanson.net · 14/02/2025The answer, in case anyone was wondering, is “absolutely the fuck not, you can fuck all the way off with that 51st state bullshit”. Just in case there was any question. 000 0
Reposted by Michael Melanson 🇨🇦Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/02/2025Trudeau: "There's not a snowball's chance in hell that Canada will ever be the 51st state" 24508044513434 80.4K
Reposted by Michael Melanson 🇨🇦Aaron Patterson @tenderlove.dev · 12/02/2025I wrote a blog post about how we can make FFI faster in CRuby railsatscale.com/2025-02-12-t...railsatscale.comTiny JITs for a Faster FFICan we have a faster FFI for CRuby? Yes. 57724 77
