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If you don't mind, could you reply to this toot with something you have accomplished recently? Work, hobby, whatever, but especially if it's something fiddly and technical that required quiet contemplation or problem solving.
Right now my feed is flooded with the omni-catastrophe even more than it was in, like, March of 2020, and I just want (and suspect we could all use) some reminders that progress is still happening and being effective is still possible
@glyph I've been helping out at work upgrading a project from python 2 to python 3. Last week we went from 200+ unit tests failing to 0. Mostly involving making decisions about where to use bytes and where string.
@Scmbradley @glyph On the subject of programming language version upgrades, my team at work has been helping a partner company to upgrade their outdated Microsoft SQL Server 2008 database to work on SQL Server 2022 as part of their migration from on-premises to cloud computing. It still needs some testing before they put it in production, but it's a huge step forward in their cloud migration that's been pretty much stalled out for the past 5 years.