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Catherine Berry @isomeme.bsky.social · 3h

If you're lucky, that will manifest as an exception down the pipeline, further from the root cause and hence harder to diagnose. If you're unlucky, the pipeline will run to completion and produce bad output, with arbitrarily bad consequences. 2/2

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Catherine Berry @isomeme.bsky.social · 3h

One of my standard catch-phrases is "Fail early, fail loud!" Not throwing an exception (or however your language handles errors) when you detect that input or state is invalid just kicks the error down the pipeline. 1/2

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Catherine Berry @isomeme.bsky.social · 6h

Thanks to my British father, I call that last part the "fit and finish" phase.

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Catherine Berry @isomeme.bsky.social · 6h

As the old saying goes, "Code like the person trying to diagnose a server crash at 2 AM a year from now will have your home address and a loaded gun." 😁 2/2

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Catherine Berry @isomeme.bsky.social · 6h

I mentor less experienced developers where I work, and one of the things I stress is that we write code primarily for other humans, not for the computer. That's why things like thoughtfully applied naming conventions and coherent code organization are important. 1/2

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Catherine Berry @isomeme.bsky.social · 17h

And if I were a queen, failure to use the subjunctive mood appropriately would be a capital crime.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "The irony was that they called it the No Kings Rally, but if President Trump was a king, the government would be open. If President Trump was a king, he would've closed the nationals parks and the National Mall so they couldn't of had the rally out here."

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Catherine Berry @isomeme.bsky.social · 7h

I think every experienced software engineer knows this pattern well. Very often software development consists of trying things out until you find the right way to do it, and at that point, you're already done. You can't design what you don't understand, and you can't understand without tinkering.

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Catherine Berry @isomeme.bsky.social · 17h

And if I were a queen, failure to use the subjunctive mood appropriately would be a capital crime.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "The irony was that they called it the No Kings Rally, but if President Trump was a king, the government would be open. If President Trump was a king, he would've closed the nationals parks and the National Mall so they couldn't of had the rally out here."

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Catherine Berry @isomeme.bsky.social · 23h

Trump is a symptom. A healthy society would not have elected him. Nor would a healthy society tolerate and enable his abuses of power. If Trump dies tomorrow, we will still be in deep trouble as a society.

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Anne 🩵🩷🤍 [נעמי יעל] @tranniehathaway.bsky.social · 23h

Birds do it,
Bees do it,
Even educated fleas do it,
Let's do it, let's [ACTIONABLE THREAT REMOVED]

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Catherine Berry @isomeme.bsky.social · 23h

😁!!

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Catherine Berry @isomeme.bsky.social · 1d

It's not that knees fail more often than anything else. It's just that when they *do* fail, it's especially awful.

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Catherine Berry @isomeme.bsky.social · 1d

"A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit."

That may or may not be a Greek proverb. Either way, it's both true and crucially important. The future is counting on us to be strong and brave *right now*.

Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 3d

The revolution isn't a superhero coming to save us. It's a critical mass of human beings deciding to save each other.

Every day brings us closer. We might not get to see it. But SOMEONE will.

And that's enough for me.

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Sarah O’Connell @sarahoconnellshow.com · 1d

Just saw someone refer to posting on Bluesky as skeeting. Surely blooping is better? Kate blooped, Amy reblooped it, and now everyone has been blooping all day about it!

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Catherine Berry @isomeme.bsky.social · 1d

"A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit."

That may or may not be a Greek proverb. Either way, it's both true and crucially important. The future is counting on us to be strong and brave *right now*.

Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 3d

The revolution isn't a superhero coming to save us. It's a critical mass of human beings deciding to save each other.

Every day brings us closer. We might not get to see it. But SOMEONE will.

And that's enough for me.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 2d

Yes, we need an arms embargo on Israel asap. But we also need to stop selling weapons PERIOD, especially to genocidal regimes. Fuck the MIC.

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Catherine Berry @isomeme.bsky.social · 1d

As we were walking up the steps on our first visit to the British Museum, my friend turned to me and said "Proposed slogan: We looted the world and passed on the savings to you!"

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Catherine Berry @isomeme.bsky.social · 1d

That's exactly what the ladder wants you to think.

Catherine Berry @isomeme.bsky.social · 2d

And/or volume of spinach. 🙂

Catherine Berry @isomeme.bsky.social · 2d

Cool!! Some time in the late 1990s I wrote the world's most primitive gematria tool, "Achad". If you visit, you'll see it hasn't been changed since. 🙂 But it continues to get steady traffic, so apparently people still think it's useful.

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Achad - gematria engine

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Catherine Berry @isomeme.bsky.social · 2d

Yet somehow they did it with arrows and spears. And in the midst of the story, this makes perfect sense emotionally. In the end that is what matters. 3/3

Catherine Berry @isomeme.bsky.social · 2d

For example, if you think too hard about Eärendil and his crew killing the dragon Ancalagon during the War of Wrath, with the dragon's body crushing three large mountains as it fell, it makes no sense at all. A dragon that enormous wouldn't even notice if it was rammed by Vingilot at full speed. 2/3

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Catherine Berry @isomeme.bsky.social · 2d

That's one of my favorite Tolkien channels. He truly did get it. Tolkien treated magic and other fears like the Norse sagas did -- not surprising, given his academic specialty. Quantitative analysis isn't the point; it's about the flow of the narrative. 1/3

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'Gory the A'ight @gregoryaight.bsky.social · 2d

No, for real.

This young lady is great.

So happy for her.

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Sabrina Carpenter donates proceeds from ‘Short n’ Sweet’ tour to Transgender Law Center, fans praise her powerful act of support

Sabrina Carpenter has chosen the Transgender Law Center as a beneficiary of her Sabrina Carpenter Fund during the second leg of her Short n’ Sweet tour. The move highlights her growing role as both ar...

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Catherine Berry @isomeme.bsky.social · 2d

Habit?