{"id":10838,"date":"2007-12-31T16:38:41","date_gmt":"2008-01-01T00:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2007\/12\/31\/10838.html"},"modified":"2007-12-31T16:38:41","modified_gmt":"2008-01-01T00:38:41","slug":"how-to-annoy-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2007\/12\/31\/how-to-annoy-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"How to annoy yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I just looked at the submission-processing code for <cite>SH<\/cite>, where I found the following comment:<\/p>\n<pre>\n    # I was going to add code here to deal with story titles in\n    # all caps, but it turns out we almost never get those.\n    # But I wrote the code, so I may add it at some point anyway.\n<\/pre>\n<p>I figured it was time to finally add this. So I went looking for the code that I allegedly wrote.<\/p>\n<p>No sign of it anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>What was I thinking? Did I set out intentionally to annoy my future self?<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fermat%27s_last_theorem\">Fermat<\/a> felt like this when he looked back at his copy of <cite>Arithmetica<\/cite> a few years later.<\/p>\n<p>(Added a few minutes later: found it! Whew. It was in my ~\/bin directory, where I sometimes write Perl snippets. Not sure why the file didn't show up when I did a Spotlight search for a particular variable name that's in it.)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just looked at the submission-processing code for SH, where I found the following comment: # I was going to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}