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baw-bag··on How to Train Yourself to Go to Sleep Earlier
That is unfortunate. Mine is 2am and it has been that way for 3 decades. It is a pain in the ass because I only sleep well at the weekend but then my mornings are gone and family give no end of grief about being lazy.

6am is a whole new ball game. Not sure how I could deal with that.

baw-bag··on Using AI Generated Code Will Make You a Bad Programmer
I agree with that entirely. Using the current tools available to make your life easier while picking up a decent pay check is a no brainer. I probably expect my next job is using said tools primarily followed by complete redundancy.

By that point, having never used any of the tools makes you almost no different from anyone off the street.

In a way I welcome it. Writing the same menial code as everyone else slightly differently becomes a pretty stale existence.

baw-bag··on Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]
Putting zero payload into space?
baw-bag··on Show HN: Shehzadi in Peril – My first ever game
I got 161! A fast bullet ant destroyed me! Good job!
baw-bag··on My Experience of Keeping up with Angular for 7 Years [video]
I am pretty happy with Angular. Can't believe it has been 8 years but as we continue to update the codebase, yes there is fatigue, but when you integrate a VSCode extension with git, many of the lines we update are many years old and often come down to improvements.

I think what is often neglected is that it is about the architecture. 8 years ago, React didn't even have Typescript Declarations and even if it did, how many times did you refactor your state management and each component as a result?

Before Angular, many companies (outside of the major players) were just eval() and doing absolutely outrageous inheritance chains with crazy levels of JQuery dependencies and mismanagement.

As someone who made a choice in a 3 man team 8 years ago and having scaled the product to 58 developers. We are all fairly happy with our small bugbears.

Should we progress to another framework, we hope for the genuinely valuable opinionated way of doing things that has allowed us to grow as we have.

baw-bag··on What happens to our breath when we type, tap, scroll
I feel like you need to sign up to pretend it has meaning kind of like religion. "Have an open mind baxtr". My best friend has been going to Yoga and then Meditating for 9 years and the bile, misery and garbage that comes out him like a waterfall after a few ales is incredible.
baw-bag··on Chrome DevTools now uses Gemini to help with JavaScript Errors in the console
Tell him on a team call that you can also google the first result and that he is more than free to pull the project and implement the solution to this difficult bug and take responsibility for it. For me that stopped the "Boss" bullshit. Had AI been involved, I can only imagine how painful that would be.
baw-bag··on 100k Stars
That makes sense to me I think! In things going back as far as command and conquer, mousewheel up zooms in, and mousewheel down zooms out.
baw-bag··on TypeScript: Branded Types
flow is dead (for jobs). I'm gonna annihilate Dart (apart from jobs)
baw-bag··on Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have worked on?
Oh my god, it isn't the same product but I was the user of a similar thing at an old job I had for 2 years only it was a slider from 1-10. I always chose 1 no matter how productive, happy or driven I felt. I remember that HR called me in because of this and in a round-about way said I can't just keep doing that as it was bringing the whole purpose of the system down. If I didn't want to interact with the system then I should just select a higher value and a few months later, my manager said that I didn't need to use that system any more.

The funny thing is that in my current job, they use something called "Dailybot" or something integrated to google chat where you check-in and once a week, give an emoji between 1-5 about my productivity or something... Unhappy face for me.

What value is this supposed to provide? If you take part, it will be 8-9-10 regardless to "look good" and if you don't take part like me, it drags the entire team to an average of 4-5-6 which is the same as not having the system at all and yields the real outcome of average.

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