Sam Livingston-Gray

geeksam@ruby.social

Writes code, not too much, mostly Ruby. Located in sunny* Portland, Oregon. He/they.Objectivists will be blocked on sight; libertarians may be tolerated as long as they keep it to themselves.* YMMV

Posts

Post #4274580
Recruiter emailed about a job description that included this bullet point: &quot;The ability to write a TDD that a staff peer trusts and a product lead can understand.&quot; I&#39;ve been practicing test-driven development for 20+ years. If this toot were an image, I&#39;d be zooming in tighter and tighter until you could see pixels: - &quot;The ability to write a TDD.&quot; - &quot;Write a TDD.&quot; - &quot;a TDD&quot; &quot;Weep for the future, N...
Post #4274579
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@irvingreid/117010017864827970 ...okay that would make more sense, but mine is still funnier 😂
Post #3474938
Current "road trip to visit family" status: hanging out in the car at a recreation area just off I-5 while my kiddo excavates the [rest of the] bones of a coyote whose [then fresh] head we took home on a road trip to visit family in March 2025 #Parenting #SpecialInterest #BoneCollecting
Post #1971735
RE: https://ruby.social/@CoralineAda/116505866248133822 This, but also it killed one of the funnier joke formats. Here, watch this: &quot;I forced a bot to watch 1,000 hours of dystopian sci-fi and... it launched a cryptocurrency&quot; See? Dead as a billionaire&#39;s heart.
Post #1971734
&quot;Amazing to think that it could get more embarrassing to be Richard Dawkins.&quot;
Post #1971733
When hobbies collide: using a lumber rack to store personal electric vehicles! (Guessing Bora didn&#39;t anticipate this one.)
Post #991923
RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116331940556649057 This thread—or, rather, the code this thread is describing—is just bananapants, clownshoes, barking mad. It is my sincerest hope that any &quot;engineer&quot; who has &quot;contributed&quot; to a project like this be forevermore unemployable in this field.