Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org

Got in two consecutive games of Tigris & Euphrates -- a classic!

#RiverMonth

The tearful-speeches-to-plot-developments ratio is reaching unsustainable levels.

Back pain is down to "I slept in a weird position because the dog was on the bed" levels.

Overheard: "Grocery shopping is much easier when you stop caring."

It seems like there's a "deez nuts" joke in here somewhere.

Um.

Place a raindrop anywhere in the contiguous US and watch its path to the sea.

https://river-runner.samlearner.com/

#RiverMonth

Session 5 of my furiously ad-libbed #FateCore space campaign. Our heroes arrive at Fía, the homeworld of Katsan the underaged bartender, who is undergoing puberty and will therefore soon gain a gender. The coming-of-age ceremony involves a river rafting trip (because #RiverMonth) and consuming a hallucinogenic herb. Along the way, they find a severed foot, fight a monstrous crocosnake, narrowly avoid going over a waterfall, and meet a creepy stranger. While Katsan is in the cave and deciding on the third gender, the mermechs who are guarding the ship send word that an asteroid is rapidly approaching the planet. It won't hit the area near the party directly, but they will be in the path of a catastrophic mud tsunami in a few hours.

Lines:

"Hello. I’m Edgelord Grimdark. You’re all doomed. That’s not my doing, it’s just a general fact. Enjoy your day. All hail the Patriarch." (He has the voice of Edgar Oliver.)

“Can we pay a pretty girl to talk them out of this?” “I was thinking a stoner, but that’s better!”

“Tell them not to microwave fish in our ship.”

“Why are we going to Space Florida?”

“Are you looting corpses for clothes?”

#ttrpg

@rastinza I think some have it set up to run the tests every time you compile or commit.

@rastinza It feels like modified lines is closest to "how much have you changed the software", which is the best estimate for "how many bugs did you introduce". That said, it's probably more dangerous if the ten lines you modified are in ten different files.

My main point is to urge people to run their tests more often.

How often should you run your tests?

Often enough that the average number of bugs you add between tests is less than 1.0.

Otherwise, when you run the tests, you've added *multiple* bugs, which makes debugging vastly more difficult.

Some games for #RiverMonth.

https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/236649/river-games

Threw my back out practicing with my fireknife this morning. Might try Hua Tuo's classical pain remedy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hua_Tuo#Fictional_accounts

Fun fact: If you know someone's mobile number and carrier, you can text them from email.

https://support.betterimpact.com/siteguide/receiving-text-messages/

@dev_nadine Very solid!

Possible polish:

any([i in text for i in list])

It's certainly shorter, but only clearer if the reader can handle "in" being used in two different ways.

I'd also argue that "list" is not a good variable name, because it shadows the function for turning something into a list. The Scheme convention is to use "ls". The worst choice is "l", because it looks too much like an upper-case "i", a "1", or even a vertical pipe "|". So maybe:

any([w in text for w in words])