Barnaby Walters

New policy: refuse to make significant changes to systems built under time pressure until they are fully understood, i.e. have been refactored, have good test coverage etc.

Writing increasingly ridiculous lines of code due to #pandas not handling integer NaN values. Going to have to do a big refactor soon.

Twitter observation: shared, known bounds allow for the communication of infinity

Also relevant: Politico-Media Complex #GE2015 #bookmark

Reading Don’t Think of an Elephant to cheer myself up post-#GE2015. Focused on US politics, but relevant wherever there are language-using humans. ESSENTIAL read.

#KSP scientific instrument malfunction gives insight into Kerbin’s internal structure; continents rest on dense mushroom soup layer; nature of lower levels still unclear:

#GE2015 is bringing back memories of checking last election results on my brick phone from a tent at a hurdy gurdy festival.

I’m not sure any of my bowls are profound enough for this soup recipe:

#TIL there’s a crater on Mercury named after Turlough O’Carolan as of yesterday! http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/news_room/details.php?id=283

Send a one-line drawing to the moon! I drew a hurdy gurdy: http://www.moondrawings.org/drawing/ubuafrct surprisingly difficult with only one line of finite length.

Steaming is rapidly becoming my favourite way of cooking things.

Any ideas why the Icelandic locale in #python+natsort doesn’t correctly sort Icelandic characters alphabetically (aábcdðeé etc)? I just implemented a rather awkward hacky way of sorting them using the alphabet and natsort.versorted, but would rather find a way to correct the root issue.

Just released mf2/mf2 v0.2.10! This long-awaited update is all the hard work of @dissolve333 and contains some minor parsing algorithm fixes and support for parsing <area> elements. Thanks Ben!

Based on the numbers of people dressed up as traffic cones, I’d say it’s probably graduation day in Reykjavík.