https://www.hillelwayne.com/tags/newsletter/ Recent content in Newsletter on Hillel Wayne Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Tue, 14 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/indiana-pi-bill/ Tue, 14 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/indiana-pi-bill/ I originally ran this on my newsletter last year but I like it way too much to let it rot in the archives. Enjoy! Happy Pi Day!1 To celebrate I want to get away from software for a bit and talk about something special. You may have heard the story that the Indiana legislature tried to change the value of π, to something like 3 or 4 or 3.15 or something like that. https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/cross-branch-testing/ Mon, 28 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/cross-branch-testing/ This was originally a newsletter post I wrote back in December, but I kept coming back to the idea and wanted to make it easier to find. I’ve made some small edits for flow. There’s a certain class of problems that’s hard to test: The output isn’t obviously inferable from the input. The code isn’t just solving a human-tractable problem really quickly, it’s doing something where we don’t know the answer without running the program.