React is what powers your Windows Start Menu.

It can become pretty bad quickly, with just a small project with only 15-20 files. I’ve been using cursor IDE, building out flow charts & tests manually, and just seeing where it goes.

And while incredibly impressive how it’s creating all the steps, it then goes into chaos mode where it will start ignoring all the rules. It’ll start changing tests, start pulling in random libraries, not at all thinking holistically about how everything fits together.

Then you try to reel it in, and it continues to go rampant. And for me, that’s when I either take the wheel or roll back.

I highly recommend every programmer watch it in action.

I met a guy who would say “pan forward” and “pan it in an angle”.

You folks still say bot? I my company, we say AI.

My pro open-source teacher in HS pushed for all of us to use the handful of Linux computers and recommended GIMP over Photoshop. He even said we can download GIMP at home for free.

Back then, searching for GIMP gave you bondage suits.

And because we were immature fuckwads, we played real hard into that joke, to a point where the principal had to send a letter to parents about how to actually find free open-source software with links.

I don’t know what half those things are but I laughed at the words “Breast Mints”. No idea what it means.

Nah. It’s just a paradigm. I hated it when I studied it in the 2000s, and have gained some appreciation of it 20 years later.

What I realized isn’t that I hate OOP, moreso I hate how old ass books/old guard developers used OOP.

Could also be related to c++

But I want AI to convert my mp3s to Oggs and vice versa 😭😭😭

Not some stupid “conversion library” or whatever that is

I would have disagreed with you when Pis were like $50 and chaining 3 Pis together with a hard drive was a fun project to do self hosting.

Now to get to the beefiest raspberry pi, it’s $120. And in the range, yeah, for price and reliability, use a mini-pc/laptop.

In a room full of dickheads, it’s often the loudest dickhead that gets their way. Often it’s the CEO.

Pretty much. These commenters seem to believe engineers are given all the resources needed to deliver everything in time in perfect condition.

I just realized I have no idea who pays for Let’s Encrypt. I just run the server commands, automate it, and move on.

Joplin.

Ive been paying for Workflowy and honestly, I’ve reached my limit of cost vs value.

I needed a way to do more than just bullets, like Evernote without the bloat, or OneNote/Notes without the megacorp, something I can export and read 100 years from now.

I was surprised how often I use it, and slowly weening off of Workflowy.

https://m.economictimes.com/magazines/panache/instant-karma-employer-who-replaced-his-tech-team-with-ai-asks-for-new-developers-on-linkedin-heres-what-happened-next/articleshow/116625826.cms

Politics in my sci-fi? Yuck.

Gonna go enjoy my politics-free shows like Star Trek, Star Wars, Black Mirror, Westworld, and The Man In the High Castle.

IT team is in charge of backups. They swore up and down that everything was fine and backups are working correctly.

For my department because I believe in Happiness, asked them to send me a backup. It was garbage data.

Then I learned how they verified the backups were working if the file size was bigger than 0kb.

That’s exactly what I tell tinkerers.

You can be a Windows IT person for a decade and not really know anything except how to copy and paste something.

You do the same for Linux, and at some point, everything clicks.

On the DevOps, and scaling side, yes.

But not on the general maintenance side.

We hired a IT guy who had a decade of experience with Windows Servers. The dude was not a good fit for our linux-heavy IT team. Didn’t fully know commands or how the OS worked.

He was still a smart dude, and he moved to the AWS team, where there’s a lot more GUI aid.

As a Linux user, I shit on Linux tutorials being obtuse because the solution is often like “then sudo [command]” and now run these 8 other commands. But at least with Linux commands, a smart person can piece together what’s going on.

Windows, it’s even worse. It’s like a bunch of black boxes talking to other black boxes so after you right click to enable that property and add this registry key, you then have to reboot into your bios to turn on “Fuckboi” mode and take photos of your asshole for verification, then log into your Microsoft account to get this Powershell script and now you can finally see your children again.