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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/12/15
Food for thought:
[Wayback] xahteiwi.eu – Meaningless Metrics, Treacherous Targets
A common feature of organizations in the software technology industry (but certainly not only in that industry) is their fixation on metrics, measurements, and quantifiers. I understand that this is frequently done and advocated for in the spirit of making management more objective, less arbitrary, more scientific, and perhaps fairer. But since they say that the road to hell is often paved with good intentions, here’s a quick summary of what we know about about the undesirable side effects of such an approach.
Basically, when the metric becomes the goal, it will not reliably measure the underlying figures any more.
By [Archive] Florian Haas on Twitter: “I wrote something long-ish on metrics over the weekend. I’m pretty certain this won’t go unchallenged, as people tend to have strong opinions on this. 🙂 “.
Via [Archive] Kristian Köhntopp on Twitter: “In writing this, @xahteiwi had probably done more for the advancement of SRE as a practice than one hundred conference talks could do. Thanks for that.… “.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/12/14
An interesting thought: [Archive] Kristian Köhntopp on Twitter: “Basically, show me a Python regex with \d and without ASCII flag, and I can show you a bug, often exploitable.… “
Basically, input parsing is still very much underrated by most systems and a constant source of peculiarities and therefore bugs, or phrased differently: [Archive] Kristian Köhntopp on Twitter: “In many cases an uncaught exception, and hence a component crash.… “
Kris also states [Archive] Kristian Köhntopp on Twitter: “Again, Python is not alone in this. Perl, when “use utf8;” is active (which it should) also does this, so every single fucking Regex needs a ‘/a‘ at the end. Nobody ever asked \d to match tengwar or klingon numeric symbols.… “.
The point is in the last few words as Arabic numerals are so white spread over the world that the ten digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 , 9 they represent should be the de facto \d pattern, but aren’t in Python as per [Wayback/Archive] re — Regular expression operations — Python 3.10.0 documentation: /d (emphasis mine):
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/12/13
Today it is 5 years ago that Paweł passed away. For me it is hard to believe that I’m still around and this post feels like yesterday: R.I.P. Paweł Głowacki – you will be dearly missed, not just in the Delphi community
Thinking about you today Paweł!
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/12/08
For my link archive: some links related to the Visual Studio Code built-in terminal and its’ known issues.
All of the above links started when I looked for [Wayback/Archive] vscode terminal wikipedia – Google Search.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/12/06
For my link archive for hosting private projects built using technology based on [Wayback/Archive] ASP.NET documentation | Microsoft Docs:
If you also are using other technologies than ASP.NET, Heroku might be an option:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/12/03
Since all three editions of [Wayback/Archive] The Cloud Resume Challenge Guidebook were on my wish list as I wanted to practice more cloud computing skills in a structured way during my reintegration after the long series of procedures that (hopefully for a long time) got rid of my metastasised rectum cancer, I was really happy to win the bundle late 2022:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/12/01
With [Wayback/Archive] rawgit.com having sunset years ago, but still having a [Wayback/Archive] few links to it from my blog, it was time to take a closer look at the alternative [Wayback/Archive] htmlpreview.github.io.
First of all, htmlpreview needs more examples. I might submit a pull request for it later, as it is open source at [Archive/Archive] htmlpreview/htmlpreview.github.com: HTML Preview for GitHub Repositories.
Second, some actual example URLs, based on content I previously accessed through rawgit.com.
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