As someone who works with typescript daily, you’re not wrong. It’s an extremely overcomplicated glorified linter that tries and mostly succeeds in catching basic type errors. But it also provides false confidence when you concoct something that shows no errors but doesn’t behave how you expect.

At least until it gets direct dom manipulation and multithreading…

Same here! I remember when Digg only supported single-level replies. Good times…

I understood what he was talking about instantly… but only because I did the same thing with the brake when I was a kid.

I had a viscous reaction, if ya know what I mean.

I got pulled over and the cop found a 1/2 gram of pot in my car (a very small amount), which ended up with me having to do community service and take regular drug tests. I was working as a line cook at the time, but being forced to stop smoking weed gave me the push to finally apply for an entry level manufacturing position at a local company who does drug tests. Years later I still work there, but as a software engineer, and attending online college. I wouldn’t quite say I’m grateful about the ass backwards drug laws and invasive drug screening, but I really can’t argue that my current situation is a lot better than it was back then. Without that event, I might still be working random entry level jobs.

The Navidson Record from House of Leaves, although it’s questionable whether it is supposed to actually exist within the narrative.

I’ve been rewatching Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Space Ghost, and they hold up (if they were ever funny for you to begin with)!

There’s nothing quite like the unique pain of navigating an unfamiliar codebase that treats abstraction as free and lines of code in one place as expensive. It’s like reading a book with only one sentence per page, how are you supposed to understand the full context of anything??

They all look like it’s just a matter of time till they shred the side of your torso or take a finger.

I hit the “wake on lan” icon on my phone, since my computer is in a different room from my monitor and the usb doesn’t work for waking it up directly. But if I could, left ctrl all day!

For a long time I tried, but one day I just decided to focus on the hobbies I care the most about. I dumped a lot of time into software for my career, then kept up with bass guitar practice and dirt biking. All the other hobbies are things I might pick up if I have a surplus of time, but I’ve accepted that I’ll never go that deep into them.

Exshrekting

Software devs in general seem to have a hard time with balance. No comments or too many comments. Not enough abstraction or too much, overly rigid or loose coding standards, overoptimizing or underoptimizing. To be fair it is difficult to get there.

Maybe the word “audit” is incorrect? If they didn’t provide you any guidelines, I’d definitely recommend asking. But it’s possible they’re just looking for your perspective on best practices and possible improvement ideas, more like a general code review.

You can read without using your inner voice if you practice. It supposedly lets you read a lot faster, though I have my doubts about how well you retain the information. One way to do it is to think “lalalala” while reading something!

Interesting, yeah. I inherited a Blazor project though and have nothing positive to say about it really. Some of it is probably implementation, but it’s a shining example of how much better it is to choose the right tool for the job, rather than reinventing the wheel. For a while I was joking about setting the whole project “ablazor” until we finally decided to go back to a React/C# ASP.NET stack. If you’re thinking of using Blazor still, though, I think two fun things to look into are “linting issues with Blazor” and “Blazor slow”. I’ve heard people praise it, but they tend to be those who consider themselves backend devs that occasionally get stuck making frontends.

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I’ve had many other jobs and few experiences in them have been as humbling as programming. My favorite is trying everything to fix an issue then realizing the problem is that you’re pointing at the wrong database or running the wrong branch.

The problem with modern UI design in a nutshell…