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David Celis

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i strive to write code that’s readable enough not to need code comments… but when you’re dealing with time and duration, it’s really difficult to keep things straight. i’ve been working with time a lot as i work on FireHydrant’s upcoming on-call product, and something i’ve been adding a lot to my code that deals with time is visual comments. for example, take this test about requesting coverage. the intended result is visible at a glance without having to juggle eight timestamps in your head!

A code snippet showing a specification test. The scenario involves requesting on-call coverage during a one week period, with three on-call shifts being affected by that request. The first shift starts before the period but overlaps with the beginning. The second shift is right in the middle of the period. The last shift, like the first, overlaps with the end of the period. The coverage request, three shifts, and expected result of the coverage request are all laid out in a code comment that display as a timeline.
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I checked in at Cart-Driver / Denver / CO

the only thing that could’ve made this pizza better is if the dough had been naturally leavened 😩👌

A bowl of salad with mixed greens, baby artichokes, pickled onions, sliced fingerling potatoes, and pickled onions.
A perfectly leopard-spotted pizza topped with thinly sliced roasted lamb, sliced fingerling potatoes, chimichurri, pickled shallots, and a drizzle of aleppo-peach jam.
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I checked in at Little Owl Coffee / Denver / CO

i might drink this every day if i lived nearby 😬 might need to figure out the right timing/ratio for this corn chip milk so i can make it at home

The “sopaccino” again: a cappuccino flecked with cinnamon from a cinnamon syrup, and milk infused with tortilla chips.
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I checked in at Nozomi / Denver / CO

woke up feeling like utter garbage (the altitude finally hit me in a bad way) but i slowly came back to life enough over the course of the day to eat some good sushi. it’s impossible not to feel better when eating sushi

A black, stone serving plate with a colorful assortment of nigiri sushi on top.

I checked in at Little Owl Coffee / Denver / CO

one of this coffee shop’s specials is a “sopaccino”, a cappuccino with cinnamon syrup and milk that’s infused with TORTILLA CHIPS. it is WILD.

A cappuccino with a beautiful rosetta, flecked with cinnamon.
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i feel like i’m going fucking crazy. can someone please explain to me why Vips would be increasing the file size of a WebP when saving it with 90% quality???

> File.size(webp.path) / 1e6
=> 1.222172
> Vips::Image.new_from_file(webp.path).write_to_buffer(".webp", Q: 90).bytesize / 1e6
=> 1.763958
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I checked in at Zuni Street Brewing Company / Denver / CO

I checked in at Uchi / Denver / CO

love to get excited about an omakase dinner and then discover after sitting down and ordering a drink that they don’t do it for solo diners 🙃

I checked in at Our Mutual Friend Brewing Company / Denver / CO

i decided to record the air quality when i post because why not 🤷

A laptop on a table next to a beer, outside in the sun. The laptop is displaying a code editor that shows the code for this website.
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