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Hello, my name is Judas Gutenberg and this is my blaag (pronounced as you would the vomit noise "hyroop-bleuach").



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   the effort necessary to limit the scope
Tuesday, October 12 2021
I'd been hacking away at an data migration issue for the past three or four days without much to show for it. The main problem was that to test the migration, I was running most of the entire thing, which took too long and made me lose track of the nature of the test I'd be running by the time the run finished (this has been a common problem at this particular workplace across a wide range of technologies). So this morning I decided to put in the effort necessary to limit the scope of a migration test so that it would run as quickly as possible. In so doing, the migration went from taking over an hour down to only about four minutes at most. This greatly accelerated the rate at which I could zero in on the problem in the migration, which was about setting the end dates for certain inventory items that could appear and disappear over time on a parcel. Realizing the value of such prep work reminds me of another axiom I've known for a long time: if a software tool will provide any at all, it's almost always better to build it than to work without it, even if the effort to build it takes a little longer than the time-savings it provides. This is because a tool can then be modified for other uses on other projects.

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I wanted to go to Bubbie's for lunch, but it's apparently gone back to being closed on Tuesdays. So I drove out to the Red Hook Hannaford and bought a tray of ready-to-eat grape leaves (along with other groceries like tofu, kimchi, and pasta). But the grape leaves were kind of gross, like maybe they'd expired, and I couldn't quite eat the last one. (I took that one out and threw it on the ground for the english sparrows.)
On the way home from work, I stopped at Home Depot to get non-carriage 3/8 inch bolts and 5/16 carriage bolts (along with nuts and maybe washers) for the dock project. I also got two of what I thought were 15 amp GFI/AFCI circuit breakers, but later I would realize they were only GFI. (In the censored part of this entry, I'd learned that all the circuit breakers at the cabin need to be AFCI).
Gretchen had evidently taken my Chromebook with her to the hospital in Westchester when she went to visit Powerful, so I was forced to take a clunky old Core-2-Duo-based laptop into the tub with me when I took a bath. I'm pretty good at keeping such devices out of the water, though this one was a little heavy for holding up continuously.


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