RC Day 53 - Brain Soup

I am definitely making good on my commitment to pair every day.

• Today was another Python pairing day, in what I now realize was a kind of long session (but which I would definitely have continued if we’d had the time). We spent some time extracting a smaller class from a large class. We didn’t finish, but we did introduce numpy’s polynomial class in place of some custom code, which will tidy things up nicely. On the right track, and I’m stoked to see how much nicer it gets when the refactor is done.
• Also had a long coffee chat/nerd-out with another Recurser on state machines. I’ve been looking into xstate for managing any non-trivial component-local state in Svelte, but had my eyes opened to a whole world of state machines in embedded and distributed systems. Was a totally mind expanding chat, both focussed (state machines), and meandering (the browser as an embedded system) in the best way.
• Rust Rodeo! Fun to see something compiled to WASM. The Rust Evangelism Strike Force have come for Make.
• Only solo programming I did was daily ExecProg exercises, and a tiny state machine implementation as an exercise in a course. I’m ok with that!
• Really liked my fellow Recurser Isaac’s new post May Contain Hackers.

My brain is soup, but it was a good day.