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samrockscon Modal dialogs without React (or JavaScript)

Love this. This stuff is like the holy grail of web design, how to avoid the js

samrockscon Practice answers with yourself. I made a thing that I didn't want to pay for

So, I'm recently on the market looking for work, and I know everyone wants to creep your GH. I also really needed to practice talking and answering things. So, I broke out Goose, Ollama, and Plan mode, and came up with a free, pointless app to record, and then listen to yourself.

If it helps, use it.

samrockscon Ask HN: Has anyone switched from a professional job to a more manual one?

:/ i think the first step is disregarding the thought process that a "Professional job" is not a manual job....that's kind of an insulting thing to say.

Army, Marine Corps, Wildland Firefighting, Owning 3x Coffee Shops, and now Software Dev for 10 years.....

just saying.

samrockscon Meta plans to lay off 10k employees

None of these are really factual points. Big Shops are place where you just get stuck being a YAML jockey and bantering in RFCs.

samrockscon Ask HN: Strategies for working with engineers that are too smart?

Sounds like they need a good grounded tech lead who is working with the PM to assist them in continuity, and organization.

I worked with a wizkid fellah with Aspbergers...and for the first 3 months, absolutely hated it. Then I realized there was a method to the managements madness for him, and after that I got on board. To this day I can't believe how fast that guy wrote some of the code he wrote, and how incredibly nice he was.

Being a genius isn't always better than being organized ;o)

samrockscon Oldest and Fatherless: The Terrible Secret of Tom Bombadil (2011)

Sorry about that!!! The Prancing Pony podcast.....literally an episode per chapter starting at the silmarillion

samrockscon Phrases in computing that might need retiring

This dude's blog has more elitist bullshit than a kardashian orgy

samrockscon Oldest and Fatherless: The Terrible Secret of Tom Bombadil (2011)

this is the best thing ever posted on HN..... going to restart the lord of the rings podcast now.

samrockscon DRY is an over-rated programming principle?

Do what's best for the situation, WET/DRY principles both have valid application use cases. They should be used to leverage the most advantageous effect for your usage.

samrockscon SpaceVim 2.0

I was the same way to be honest. I ended up taking the parts I liked from spacemacs/lunarvim and adding them. I also started doing all my configs in lua, because it's great

samrockscon How individual contributors get stuck (2017)

This is really nice...plenty to think on.

samrockscon Cool desktops don’t change

Me: screenshots => desktop, forget to cleanup for 3 years.

samrockscon Stop Interviewing with Leet Code

In my experience most companies using leetcode thinks their shit don't stink. So i'll leave this where it is.

samrockscon Ask HN: Burnt-out, directionless but want to turn it around

Companies that use leetcode in interviews are rarely worth the effort or risk/reward to interview for. Getting into a like FAANG dev team is doable by anyone memorising that stuff, but it's rarely worth it.

Try out talking to a recruiter, and find a job with a senior that can help guide your career. Your self-esteem is pretty low, and a good senior and mentor can guide you out of that rut, and into being a senior yourself in no time with the amount of work you say you're putting in.

samrockscon How to stop a robot vacuum from getting stuck on the laundry rack

This is the best article ever posted on hacker news....

samrockscon Logitech MX Mechanical Keyboard

if you're looking for this: leopold is your jam.

samrockscon Logitech MX Mechanical Keyboard

Logitech makes better mice than keyboards ;oP, upgrade the MX ergo to USB-C and better BT plz.

samrockscon Netflix lays off about 150 employees

Huh, they could have just passed on making/scratching another shitty sitcom and kept all 150 employees.

samrockscon A blog that is a single executable binary

This is what i'm here for.....bravo :P

samrockscon Zas Editor

I love that pricing plan.

samrockscon Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal

most devs just use the terminal in VSCode these days anyways.

Are there _really_ enough terminal users and companies willing to shell out $$$ to make more than 1 million gross per year?

This kind of reminds me of that prettification of the node repl fad a few years ago, but when they switched to pay only people were like "hard naw"

samrockscon Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal

These folks are taking katanas to the tech bubble.

samrockscon Solid.js feels like what I always wanted React to be

It's cool, I like this methodology a lot because it can piece together functionally really well.

samrockscon Deep introduction to class decorators in TypeScript

The cognitive overhead from decorators in TypeScript is the thing I have the biggest problem with. It's just one more differential between onboarding code fast, and having to slog through miles of code to figure out what a decorator is doing.

samrockscon Press stunned as Ukraine leader points finger at West

Weird article to be honest.

samrockscon TypeScript Features to Avoid

TypeScript has a lot of features that just generate cognitive overhead that could have been better spent just learning a different language.

I like TypeScript a LOT, but to be honest I only use about 10% of it. Anything more than that and it gets too confusing for the next developer in line to work on the code in my experience.

samrockscon Quake 3's frame rate dependent physics [video]

Bravo, r_picmip 5

samrockscon Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways

I just want to point out that a use case is that some people like to conserve resources and the electron app is the biggest resource hog in my ecosystem....

samrockscon Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself

In this thread.....we b.itch & moan about office jobs.