I once got assigned a work project to add new functionality to the web service of a recently-acquired company.

The meat of their codebase was a single lua file to handle web requests, query value from Redis, and then progressively filter out items in a loop. Of course, because Lua has no continue statement, the file was a long series of if / else blocks. It was clear that the development style was to just keep adding new things to the loop. There were, of course, no tests.

I asked the former CTO of the acquired company (now in a sales) why they went with Lua. His reply was something about how if Lua is good enough for fintech, it should be great for web services. He must have been good in the sales role, because when I learned how much our company paid to acquire this crappy Lua script, my jaw dropped.

Anyway, that’s all to say that in my sample size of 1, Luarocks has been the least painful part of Lua.

Since this will be a facility owned by a public university, I think the city would see no property tax revenue from this project. So why should a city trade its health and/or morals for a nuclear weapons datacenter and not even get anything out of it?

American chip flavors suck compared to some of the cool imports.

BBQ? Sour cream and onion? Fuck off. Oh, but if you want some variety, there’s nuclear-melt-your-tastebuds chili lime!

It’s gotten worse since “All dressed” became a rarity in my local store. All the delightful flavors come from visiting import grocery stores now. Cumin lamb, grilled squid, and thai larb are my favorites. And fuck, if anyone can figure out how to sell “todo rico” in my town I’d die of sodium intake.

I’m in favor of more variety. I just wish they became mainstream instead of remaining one-off production runs.