The more change descriptions focus on the purpose and intent (the "why") of the code, the more helpful they are during both review and future code archaeology.
Code comments are a great place for the nitty-gritty (the "how").
#coding #development #tips #til
"Trust Me: The False Prophet" on #Netflix was incredible. A huge level beyond most of the shows like this, put together by a woman who recently, painstakingly earned the trust of a self-proclaimed "prophet" (pedo) in order to gather enough evidence to help law enforcement put him away. Recommended.
Microsoft’s retiring their legacy Teams Webhook support at the end of April. If, like us, you need to migrate to their new offering, we’ve written a guide:
Code review get discussed as a way to improve code quality. It is, but it's also about helping developers better learn and grow from each other.
What #TIL, skill, technique, or gotcha did you first learn from a code review?
#development #developers
🤖 Review Bot 4.1 is now out!
Review Bot adds on-prem automated code review to Review Board.
This release features:
✅ Updates for Cargo, cppcheck, Go, RuboCop
✅ New control over review e-mails
✅ Enhanced infrastructure diagnostics
✅ Installation fixes
www.reviewboard.org/news/2026/04...
Too many developers are still stuck in the 1960s. We want to bring them into the 1970s and beyond.
Today, we're announcing Punch Card Review, featuring Column Commenting, Drop Detection, Coffee Stain Detection, support for common USB punch card readers, and more.
Contact us to learn more.
#Meta is just flooding us with web crawls and completely ignoring robots.txt.
We're live! Come join us! Q&A welcome :)
Our server just got taken down by a significant amount of traffic. What was notable is that it was all going through CloudFront -- and our server is not behind CloudFront. Someone else set that up and scanned through it.
The X-Forwarded-For headers were available.
It was Meta.
I’ll be on #Twitch tomorrow with Justin Khan from #Atari / Night Dive. He’s the producer of System Shock Remake.
We’ll be discussing the #gamedev industry, development practices, sharing stories, and whatever else we come up with.
Starting around 3PM PST at twitch.tv/chipx86. Follow to be notified
Twitter, BlueSky, Mastodon, LinkedIn, Threads... I find I don't post often anymore because it's just so dang time-consuming to engage everywhere.
Are other people using any tools to post across their personal accounts? I'm not interested in scheduling/analytics.
Review Board 7.0.5 is now ready to install!
Featuring:
> Installer support for more Linux distributions
> Linking repositories with the new Bitbucket API tokens
> Improved syntax highlighting
> Bug fixes and hardened security deps
www.reviewboard.org/news/2026/03...
#releases #development
3 story charming Tudor Lego set with people socializing outside and giant ducks on the roof.
The chimney sweeper is trying to get giant momma and baby ducks off the roof.
On the street, friends are having dinner under the balcony while a man carries a giant baby duck in his bike’s basket.
Along the side, a man approaches a cat by the dumpster while a pirate arms itself on a balcony.
Good #Lego set. Small neighborhood square with small neighborhood problems.
#ducks
I have just released some patches for the NES game Deadly Towers to make the experience a little more palatable, One just speeds up transitions and stops repeated music tracks restarting, the other adds no knockback and iframes on room entry. Enjoy! #NES #DeadlyTowers
github.com/refractionpc...
Going live in 10 minutes (3PM PST) on Twitch with Justin Khan from #Atari/Night Dive. We'll be talking #gaming, #gamedev, retro games, modding, and who knows what else.
twitch.tv/chipx86
Mechanical watch with a blue face on the perimeter, watch mechanism exposed in the center. Roman numerals, black watch band.
My watch, surrounded by a collection of tools, including a loupe, tweezers, hand-setting tools, and a back removal tool.
Decided it was time to build a new mechanical watch. I was careful to watch my steps, tick each box. Thought I messed up for a second, but in the end I had to hand it to myself… it wound up looking pretty good!
Did a little coloring while watching @hungrygoriya.bsky.social's stream last night showcasing SNES Maps volume 2 by @retrogamebooks.com. The coloring book is a lot of fun 🙂 Takes me back to childhood.
We're getting all our ducks in a row for a major release of Review Board that will be the backbone for all the new things to come (including #AI features that put humans first).
So happy to land #Jujutsu support in RBTools. This will work with existing #Git repositories in Review Board, giving users a choice as to how they want to get their work done locally.
Here is one of the dumbest things about vibe coding that I don't see a lot of people talking about
Imagine you're an open source maintainer and someone opens up a pull request against your repository that they vibe coded. They may or may not tell you they vibe coded it; it doesn't really matter… 🧵
After about 2 weeks of mostly being in bed with no energy thanks to #COVID, I finally had my first negative test. Feeling so much better than I did two days ago.
Back to getting the next major version of @reviewboard.org ready to release.
Finally got COVID, after so many years of avoiding it.
TeleSUR, #Venezuela live TV (English): famelack.com/ve/ZmbVMIEhv...
Fortune cookie: “You would do well in the field of computer technology.”
Ah good. I should give that a try then.
Some of us speak of putting 64GB of RAM in a machine for cheap, but others will have no memory of this.
Commodore PET on the counter at a restaurant. Also, baked potatoes are back.
It’s good seeing restaurants begin to computerize. I really think it’s the future.
#commodore #bakedpotatoes
My report today has information relevant to anyone in California.
A collection of 4 water ring toss games from Tomy from the 1990s: "Kittens", "Kellogg's Frosties", a blue "Pocket Waterfuls", and an orange "Pocket Waterfuls."
If we're gonna get a watercooled iPhone, the least they could do is stick one of these on the back.
Actually, hold on. I have a case idea.
Wrote a long one today. Can you tell
I tried very hard to be professional, despite circumstances?