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dream.20150110: whale kisses

by Rob Friesel

On your way home, you stopped off at the gas station to tank up. And while you’re there, you happened to notice that a truck was unloading Heady Topper. Because why not? you grabbed a four pack and paid for it when you paid for your gas. Only all of the cans were already open — not empty, just open.

We’ll just have to drink them fresh you think as you get back into your boat to sail home. There is a fog along the water so you steer gently through it, looking for landmarks and seeing occasional flashes from a lighthouse near your home. Then a whale breaches. Then it nudges the boat. It sees (??) your son aboard and nudges the boat again, coming a little higher out of the water with its giant whale lips pursed. It does this again and again. You try not to panic, but the whale keeps circling around planting whale kisses on the hull and desperate for someone’s affection.

“Code that has been merged and not deployed is a loaded gun.”

by !undefined

Baron Schwartz, Why Deployment Freezes Don’t Prevent Outages:

Code that has been merged and not deployed is a loaded gun. If I merge in my changes and don’t deploy them, and you then merge and deploy yours, you’ve just deployed mine too. This was more than you bargained for. It’s now more likely that your deployment will break something, and harder for you to fix if it does.

I prefer to think of these more as “environment freezes” than code freezes, but that’s just the name on top of the same thing. There’s a lot of smart things being said in here, and I can’t think of any points with which I disagree. A freeze lasting longer than the duration of a demo (e.g., a few hours, max) is damaging.

That being said, this extends pretty easily to any code that isn’t merged to master and deployed to at least some environment. Even without a code freeze, the longer you wait before you build and deploy, the more likely you are to experience some pain and suffering. (Hence my choice of pull quote here.)

search term haiku: December 2014

by Rob Friesel

All seventeen syllables from a single search this time around:

What does it mean when
the browser loading circle
goes counterclockwise?

“Search Term Haiku” is a series wherein I examine this site’s log files and construct one or more haiku poems from search terms and phrases that led visitors to the site. Where possible, I attempt to keep the search phrases intact. However, as these are haiku poems, I do need to follow the rules.