Learning Day: Recovery
This weekend I did one of my learning days but instead of my preferred aggressive pace I took it a little easier.
Due to a family emergency last week I have been stressed and a little upset this past week. Before you ask: I am fine, but that doesn’t mean that I am as put together as normal. I had already earmarked this Saturday to be a learning day and didn’t want to squander it, but I also knew I wouldn’t be able to focus as much as normal, so I chose to take a middle ground.
Instead of watching a day or two of conference videos on youtube I literally watched two videos (neither of which are worth linking to) and spent the rest of my time “sharpening” my leatherman.
I started by migrating, a few, of my OSS, packages into the leatherman. This simplifies things for me if I ever need to change the interface of any of them, and helps me ensure that everything gets the same care (like linting) I put into the leatherman.
Next I took a huge simplification pass on my netrc fork. It felt great.
I removed a silly dependency. I removed a less silly dependency too.
I migrated a bunch of non-Go
html
used in tests to testdata
directories
and then told github not to count them as my
code.
I added some new tests. I fixed issues raised by a linter. I fixed a race condition that was detected by a test.
Finally, I spent a bunch of time migrating from TravisCI to CircleCI. I wouldn’t have done this except my Travis builds were failing in pathological ways that I couldn’t reproduce and word on the street is that the future of travis is uncertain anyway. If anyone is interested in the original failure, here’s the error I was getting:
# github.com/frioux/leatherman/cmd/leatherman
/home/travis/.gimme/versions/go1.12.2.linux.amd64/pkg/tool/linux_amd64/link: running gcc failed: exit status 1
/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/go-link-147863353/000008.o: unrecognized relocation (0x2a) in section `.text'
/usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Bad value
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
Migration to CircleCI was annoying but generally it worked well and the resulting system is faster and more flexible than it was with Travis, so at least there’s that.
Depending on how I feel tonight I have other plans; I’d like to remove my
dependency on github.com/headzoo/surf and refactor debounce such that it’s
testable (without sleeps.) Both of those tasks are easy and the latter should
produce much cleaner code anyway.
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