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I feel like I'm grinding at work, but work is easy. The expectations are reasonable, but every bug takes longer than I want to fix because the code is a tangled mess and it's no one's responsibility to clean up or collective confusion.

I don't understand how this app will get better when we're not talking as an organization about what makes it bad, or worse, just ignoring the heck out of why it's hard to change and hard to maintain.

And then I realize that part of why it feels like I'm grinding is that while I now have a bit of a life, I'm giving most of my mental energy to my employer. Like last night around eight, I sat on my couch and considered extracting a repetitious bit of code. I ran specs on the models it was repeated in, tried deleting it to find failing specs…

And this morning I realize that my job is to fix bugs on my little corner of the app, not make it prettier throughout, and that it certainly isn't to fix the app at eight at night. I made a few small PRs to the [Ruby Style Guide](https://g

The syntax of bash more complicated than a one-liner still trips me up.

Yesterday at work I wanted to write a short script to read each line in a file, and use Rubocop to auto-correct the issue type listed on that line. I googled how to iterate over each line of a file and got the following example code:

while read p; do
  echo $p
done <peptides.txt

Ingredients:

two big carrots
one pound of purple potatoes
five stalks of celery
half a large sweet onion
two or three sprigs thyme
two sprigs rosemary
an eighth cup kosher salt
olive oil

	#!/bin/bash

	for file in `ls ./posts/*.markdown`
	do
	shortname=`expr $file : '.[[:digit:]]-\(.\).markdown' `
	pandoc --smart \
	--from=markdown+yaml_metadata_block \
	$file \
	--output ./site/$shortname .html
	done

	require "active_support/all"

	def format_date_range(from, to = false)
	to = from if to.blank?
	return '' if from.nil? && to.nil?
	from, to = [to, from].sort

	if from == to
	month_day_year(from)
	elsif from.year == to.year

	<%# BEFORE %>

	<%# views/twiends_index.erb %>
	<div class="twiends">
	<%= @twiends.count %>
	<table>
	<tbody>
	<% @twiends.each do \|friend\| %>
	<tr class="<%= ("location-enabled" if friend[:geo_enabled]) %>">
	<td>

	module Base60
	# See link below for specifications of this Base60.
	# http://tantek.pbworks.com/w/page/19402946/NewBase60
	# Based off of the Base62 gem (link below)
	# https://github.com/jtzemp/base62/blob/master/lib/base62.rb

	PRIMITIVES = ('0'..'9').to_a + ('A'..'H').to_a + ('J'..'N').to_a +
	('P'..'Z').to_a + ["_"] + ('a'..'k').to_a + ('m'..'z').to_a

	class << self

	# Path to your oh-my-zsh configuration.
	ZSH=$HOME/.oh-my-zsh

	# Set name of the theme to load.
	# Look in ~/.oh-my-zsh/themes/
	# Optionally, if you set this to "random", it'll load a random theme each
	# time that oh-my-zsh is loaded.
	ZSH_THEME="robbyrussell"

	# Example aliases

	require "nokogiri"; require "open-uri"
	doc = Nokogiri::XML open 'http://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/apa/sfc?bedrooms=1&catAbb=apa&maxAsk=2000&format=rss'
	urls = doc.xpath("//rdf:li").map { \|entry\| entry.values.first }
	page = Nokogiri::HTML open urls.first
	# This page contains a div with an id of 'map' which has two attributes:
	# 'data-latitude' and 'data-longitude'. How do I get their values?
	# Something like: (???)
	page.css("div#map").???