Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Find Your Humanity!

I've been delving into the seedy underbelly of full-stack web engineering and came across this splendid post. 

A Dispassionate Examination of the Empirical Evidence Regarding Positional Punctuation in SQL

A little bit from the article:

Our commas are silent acts of rebellion against the ruthless optimizations—the bullet journals, the working lunches, the life hack listicles, the Medium posts about the habits of highly successful people - that trade our humanity for marginal productivity gains. With every trailing comma we write, we cry out: We are writers; we are creators. We are human; we are large; we contain multitudes.
Enjoy a few minutes of escapism (unless you deal with databases all day, but you'll find it funny too)!

Saturday, July 16, 2016