Notes from a developer who writes ABAP on real SAP systems and hands that work to agents. Art, travel, the economy and books live next door.
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A reading guide to volume 7 of Minumsa's World Literature series, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness: Lee Sang-ok's translation, the frame that opens on the Thames, the course of the three parts, the lie told at the end by a narrator who says he cannot bear one, the argument around Achebe's critique, and what to mark as you read.
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npm's ^ holds the left-most non-zero digit, not "the same major", so ^0.2.3 never takes 0.3.0. Using real installs with npm 11.19.0 against a fake local registry, this note shows what each range brings in, what the lockfile, npm outdated and npm update each change, and how to move a 0.x dependency to its next minor.
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Four works by Vincent van Gogh from 1887 to 1889, a self-portrait, a drawing, a wheat field and cypresses, set in order to follow which way the strokes lie and where their kind changes.
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Why does a held document have no number, and why can’t a colleague find it? A fictional example shows what Hold and Park each leave behind, what happens to the number on posting or deletion, and what changes in S/4HANA.
'26/10/06 UPDATE
Korea's August industrial activity data showed output, retail sales and investment all down, yet the coincident index's cyclical component rose 0.5 points to 101.7. Trace the gap through the seven components and their volatility, and see why 0.6% and 0.5 points differ.
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Korea's August industrial activity data showed output, retail sales and investment all down, yet the coincident index's cyclical component rose 0.5 points to 101.7. Trace the gap through the seven components and their volatility, and see why 0.6% and 0.5 points differ.
A reading guide to volume 7 of Minumsa's World Literature series, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness: Lee Sang-ok's translation, the frame that opens on the Thames, the course of the three parts, the lie told at the end by a narrator who says he cannot bear one, the argument around Achebe's critique, and what to mark as you read.
npm's ^ holds the left-most non-zero digit, not "the same major", so ^0.2.3 never takes 0.3.0. Using real installs with npm 11.19.0 against a fake local registry, this note shows what each range brings in, what the lockfile, npm outdated and npm update each change, and how to move a 0.x dependency to its next minor.
Why does a held document have no number, and why can’t a colleague find it? A fictional example shows what Hold and Park each leave behind, what happens to the number on posting or deletion, and what changes in S/4HANA.
Four works by Vincent van Gogh from 1887 to 1889, a self-portrait, a drawing, a wheat field and cypresses, set in order to follow which way the strokes lie and where their kind changes.
An order number shown as 123 on the screen is stored as 0000000123. This note explains when the ALPHA conversion routine runs automatically and when it does not, when code must convert with ALPHA = IN, and which values get no zeros, using fictional examples.
Korea's consumer prices rose 0.3% during September, yet the year-on-year rate fell from 3.1% to 2.9%. Rebuild 2.9% from four published index values and see how last September, and last August's phone bills, moved this year's rate.
A reading guide to volume 6 of Minumsa's World Literature series, Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: the text Kim Wook-dong's translation is based on, the novel's four settings, the scenes in Chapters 15, 16 and 31 that build to Huck's decision, the argument over the last twelve chapters, and what to mark as you read.
Four paintings by Claude Monet, from 1864 to his last years, set in date order to follow where the edges of petals, a face, a cliff and lily pads loosen into brushstrokes.
A Python default value is made once, when def runs, not on each call. Using Python 3.12.14 output, this note shows why tags=[] keeps growing and a datetime.now() default stands still, and when to use a None default, a dataclass default_factory or a cache kept on purpose.
BINARY SEARCH trusts that the table is sorted ascending by the search key and discards half at each step. Using a fictional example, this note covers why an existing row is missed when the sort is absent or different, how to use sy-subrc 4 and 8 and sy-tabix on a miss, and the sorted secondary key alternative.
forEach never keeps the Promise an async callback returns, so the next line runs before the saves finish and errors never reach try...catch. Using actual Node.js v24.21.0 output, this note shows when to use for...of, map with Promise.all, batches, or Promise.allSettled.