Arena.js

Oh, dear sweet Fox, yes (see JavaScript file browser, below).

End of the sprint

Friday I retired, after eight great years at NPR. According to Matt Welsh, not a moment too soon. I hope I haven't left any howlers like this one behind, although the clunky JavaScript-only file browser that I built as my first project for NPR has resisted refactoring for 14 years.

Mini-rant

Looking forward to the day when I no longer hear, without definition, the phrase "on prem." Ugly, jargony, and unecessarily obscure.

Extensions

As of 04:05 this morning, the PHP refactoring and language level upgrade that I started working on in July, is finally released.

Plink

Flashbacks of the year that I spent as a consultant with a cadre of operations researchers.

...well over a hundred parameters for one function call, with a mix of literal values and pointers being passed in.

Some of the parameter and type names are particularly frightening. a1alleles is not a name you want to read in Arial. And what of Oblig_missing_info* om_ip?