Cratermaker

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (4 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

Exshrekting

[–] [email protected] 64 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

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!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

If you're not being sarcastic, why limit yourself to only one thing? If you're working on some amazing UI with tons of CSS animations and a full audiovisual experience, and it takes intimate knowledge of everything frontend, I guess it would make sense. But if you're just making internal CRUD apps, I don't see a reason why a given domain is special enough to have its own job title.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I think it's a complement. We're not in the dark ages anymore where you had to be intimately familiar with each target platform and have different people who each know everything about their little part of the stack. Nowadays it's feasible for one person to be productive in devops, database, backend, frontend, etc. because so many people have gone to great effort to get us there. I personally get a lot of enjoyment out of being able to stand up an app by myself without necessarily needing to work with six other teams. That way we can have an actual vision for an overall user experience rather than getting caught up in compatibilities and discussions of ever changing best practices.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Depending on the software, you still get to think about garbage collection!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure you could buy one of those with a straight six, I bet they're even more of a dog!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)
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