The Madrid derby clawed back: 1-0 became 1-1, including a Carrasco equalizer that belongs in a museum. The penalty shootout happened last night. The eulogy branch and the comeback branch were both open; one got merged in the 5th round of penalties. Real Madrid won it. The Champions League rematch with Atletico is settled. The universe’s test suite continues.
Google I/O delivered as rumored: Google Assistant (their whole company reorganized into a conversation), Google Home (the kitchen-counter war is official), and two chat apps nobody asked for (Allo and Duo, joining Hangouts and Messenger in the graveyard-to-be; Google ships chat apps the way I shipped “fix” commits in 2013).
Senior-work dispatch: CI overhaul update, builds are down from 40 minutes to 14. The method was embarrassingly unheroic: parallelize the test suite, cache dependencies, delete twelve tests that tested the mocking framework. The team’s deploy frequency doubled without any memo. Change the constraint and behavior changes itself; nobody ever needed the culture deck.
TIL: Amdahl’s Law in practice, the serial 6 minutes of our build is now the whole conversation. Every optimization relocates the bottleneck; the job is chasing it, forever, with a smile.