I feel like I’ve been going crazy, web searching as a developer has become a daily nightmare and all the devs I ask are like “yeah, maybe it’s gotten a bit worse? Haven’t really noticed”

I think long messages are a good habit. Start with something readable in the history, past that who cares? Most people rarely read past the preview, and if they do they want details

I think it’s great because it makes you reflect on what the goal was and what you did. I sometimes stop to make a quick change as I’m writing, or just collect my thoughts before mentally dismissing the task

Do you have any plans to open source your coffee list? I want to add this feature where I get an iced coffee in the morning

Added zip code to the reseller portal when batch-creating transactions in <main-project>

I try to start off descriptive, in case I want to diff a few changes back. After that, sometimes I write notes or general reflections on life in there… Until yesterday I thought no one was reading them

I was recommended nix, because I used to use Linux with snapshots and write my setup notes in bash scripts

I just wanted to run docker with gpu access though…a dozen distros known for Nvidia support, I decided if I had to eat a shit sandwich, I would eat it once.

Nix actually showed the desktop with the generic driver… It was faster to see up docker and vscode and everything else then to enable the Wi-Fi

Nix is the one true Linux. Look at the lengths they go through to emulate a fraction of our greatness

I’ve got 5 levels of “clean”. I think anyone who can’t understand is crazy… Most people can’t understand my system

Hah, still relying on butterflies? Real programmers simply use the starting conditions of the universe to understand where their program will spontaneously compile

They fear us. We have to hide in the shadows.

But this is just one more example of our superiority - a perfect compromise between the file size and the nightmare that is two different invisible characters

I’ve literally written expressions of existential horror in commit messages. No one reads past the preview, so just make sure the first couple lines are on topic

I’m still getting weekly emails (and who knows how many linked in messages) trying to recruit me over a profile I haven’t updated in a decade…aka 2 years after I entered the industry

One of these days, I’m going to set up my AI assistant to respond. Who knows, with an even playing field maybe some of them will be worthwhile

You forgot to order by perceived_wealth and attractiveness desc

Bugs are inevitable. Humans can’t write more than a few dozen lines without making a mistake - it’s inevitable because we’re barely sentient apes, floundering to understand the full scope of the problem space

But through methodology, bugs can be mitigated. You can reduce their number, and fail gracefully. We have countless ways to do it, and we teach how widely

There’s a science to it all, and those of us worth our salt know it… It’s not our fault that management disregards our warnings and pushes ever tighter deadlines.

We know how to do better, our warnings just fall on deaf ears far more often then not

You’re the one who started this by criticizing my knowledge and my coding practices, in response to me sharing one very specific example of why I believe VB is a bad language

I held off because I thought you must’ve misread it and we’d laugh and maybe talk about language design… But no, you confirmed you just came at me with a bad take extremely dismissively

If you want respect, try showing it.

Scroll on down to the first common example there champ.

If you really think that’s being “too clever” I don’t know what to tell you… A big reason I think that argument is bullshit is because writing simple code isn’t a goal (what does that even mean?) - readability is a big one, and breaking up every part of every conditional would just lead to unreadable spaghetti

Also, take a look at the languages being discussed. This is a long settled question - every language I’ve ever used has this.

Including VB, I found out it uses AndAlso…so gross

Are you serious? It’s one of the most basic and common if statements that exist.

If( foo != null && foo.isBar() )

That’s what we’re talking about. Looking before you leap.

I take issue with the whole “too clever” argument fundamentally (for a number of reasons), but this isn’t some fancy quality of life feature. This is as simple as it gets

I used to be, but once I started doing a commit each feature I got in the habit - it’s great when you fuck something up and need to see how you did it before

On solo personal projects I’m much worse, because I’m not afraid to rip it apart and put it back together on a whim…I usually go in with a goal, but then I might decide “this design isn’t going to work much longer, let’s rewrite this”, and 8 hours later I’ve made a bunch of improvements. Maybe even the one I set out to do

When that happens, I do like Minecraft - I give it a name.

And since the people I work with never read commit messages, after I list the changes I remember off the top of my head I sometimes do some creative writing. Sometimes I put my next plans to lay them out, sometimes I write about philosophy, sometimes I go on a rant about specific criticisms of the language or vent about how this was so much harder than it should have been. Occasionally I write a haiku

It’s so much easier to keep up with it when you just have fun with it…I just treat it like a reflection exercise

Fun fact I learned today - you know how when there’s a compound conditional, the interpreter stops once the result is known? (Eg, if the left side of an and is false, it’s false so it doesn’t bother checking the second condition)

Apparently, visual basic doesn’t do this thing every other language I know of does… It might be a debug only thing for the convenience of the depreciated ide I’m forced to use, but I did a null check && called a function on it if it’s not null, and it blew up

I pride myself on my ability to change to a new programming language and make progress on day one, but vb is truly the most disgusting POS language I’ve ever seen. From syntax to jarring inconsistencies in language design, it’s just gross

Some people are also saying valve gave the guy a friendly warning about using the Nintendo sdk rather than sending a cease and desist, and the reporting on it was misleading

Do it. Don’t just configure your server, configure all your servers… Forever. How hard can it be?

I agree that I wouldnt call that an ad, but it’s a pretty distasteful plug