Lars Wirzenius @liw@toot.liw.fi

Oh dear, using Google Docs makes me quite ranty on mastodon.

The Jez Humble and David Farley 2011 book "Continuous Delivery" is still excellent. A toot-size summary: automate everything about building, testing, and deploying; keep everything in version control. There's a few hundred pages of details to do it well, but that's the core.

How hard can it be to build a secure light bulb? It seems it's too damn hard.

Insecurity of Things. Meh.

I will just say that hating people because of whom they love is a pretty nasty thing to do.

There's a thing happening in relation to Pride marches in my country. I have a very strong opinion on that, but expressing it would not achieve much, and would only serve to offend people who identify with the group of people about whom I have an opinion, whether they participate in the thing that I have opinion about. There's no point in me offending a lot of people for no gain, just to blow off some steam.

So you'll have to imagine an offensive thing here.

Timezones. Grr.

Calendaring. Grr.

Facebook launching a currency is like the mafia starting an insurance business.

My next goal is to build, test, release, and deploy every time the developer stops typing for more than 300 milliseconds. I won't even wait for them to save the buffer, I'll just take whatever they have in the buffer and pretend it's been saved and committed and pushed.

Having to manually save files and commit changes is such an unnecessary overhead, which slows down development and progress for no good reason at all.

This toot may be a joke.

For those who can't read the book, the summary is: automate everything, keep everything in version control, and build, test, release, and deploy as often as you possibly can.

We read "Continuous Delivery" by Jez Humble and David Farley at work, for a book club. It was first published in 2011, which seems like a different age now. But it's still an excellent book, even if software recommendations have aged a little.

In the morning, a mug of tea makes the morning be oh so much better. But two litres of tea later, I'm starting to think maybe I'm drinking too much tea.

In other news, "operationalize" is the kind of word that tends to irritationalize me.