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farfalle & pasta
Monday, January 9 2017
The cold weather continues, though at least today there was leftover chili to help us face it. Later this evening we cooked up a box of that bulk shipment of farfalle pasta Ca had sent me as a secret santa present and mixed it in with chili. It was a little weird but delicious nonetheless. How can combining two of the best foods from completely different cultures be wrong? It's very Ray (as in Ray & Nancy); his formula is to combine two disparate cuisines and then dump in a bunch of oil.
This evening I tried again to release the code for the N-instance-supporting email server code, and initially it seemed to work. But then after a minute or so, it became so bogged down by waiting database calls that the queuing process ground to a halt. Eventually I had to roll back the changes. Mercifully, though, this time only a smattering of duplicate emails were sent, mostly to people in Latin America. When I later took my bath, I could actually relax. I didn't think that much about what the problem could be, though clearly something in my code was causing the problem.
I've been humoring my boss Da by allowing him to control the process of code release onto the live server. But doing it that way is a little like showering with a raincoat on or playing piano while wearing two catcher's mitts. I panic and need him to do something, and all I can do is ask on Slack. And then either he'll respond or not, sometimes flipping something between two states without making it clear that he has done it. He's a frontend guy and it's not clear that he understands the gravity of the matters at stake, though I don't see how he couldn't.
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