I bet someone already had entertained an idea to add cryptominer to Jest, nobody would notice slight increase to those tests running times on CI. Maybe it could even start funding those open source maintainers enough to finally make ES6 modules non-experimental.
I also chuckle every time I need to resize window by dragging an imaginary intersection of tangents to that rounded corner of some apps, that’s just hilarious.
I am entertaining an idea to acquire the same setup for recreational game development using older tools and libraries. Have you followed any guides or do you have any recommendations where to start? Also how reliable those older mobos? I have heard that capacitors are usually close to a malfunction stage, have you had any issues with hardware so far? Thanks.
Sorry, didn’t mean to mislead you. Just remembered that this book helped me to get the basics pretty well when I was at the high school, but that was around 25 years ago, so my memories might be wrong that it was a “basics” material.
Nobody said they still run on Ruby, but it’s far from “RoR failed”. Other example would be GitHub, still runs on Rails. Shopify, still runs on Rails. I agree, less people doing coding in Ruby, I myself written last line of Ruby a decade ago, but saying “RoR has failed” is just not true.
Feeling absolutely the same way these days (with 10+ years of experience with JS). My current breath of fresh air is Go and Swift (despite the fact XCode is the worst IDE I have ever worked with before). Curious what’s bringing back sanity for you?
I actually like it, moving to EU is currently my back-up plan when “great advances in AI” renders the rest of the world to make people loose jobs, give up privacy and overall make dystopian future a present. I’ll be happily coding my boilerplate code by hand, enjoying my boring life without AI.
Well, technically yes, but I also felt like “oh, I can use GVim/MacVim gui”, “oh I can just use built-in colour scheme Sorbet that looks nice”. And also having vanilla Vim saves me from “oh this one lua plugin seems nice, one plugin won’t hurt”. You are right, I sound like the opposite extreme case of having hundreds of plugins. But that’s how I am right now, enjoying old school Vim, have it easily available on any server/VM I manage and my config is a single 88-lines file.
I felt the same around a couple of years ago. One day my giant and fragile config got broken beyond repair — I was using package manager without version pinning, my fault essentially. After spending a few days trying to figure which versions of 30+ plugins should work together and also use the settings I had in init.lua (many plugins just deprecated their own settings), I realised I don’t ever want to spend time on this. Went full opposite — installed Vim, found my vimrc from pre-Neovim era, removed all the plugins and happily using it since then, just stuff vim has out of the box.
Chuckled on “legal texts”, imagined a person so desperate and not getting any endorphins from “usual stuff” anymore, so only proprietary and very expensive CAD software’s EULA reading makes them “high”.
That’s the point why they are opening offices in Warsaw, they don’t want you to relocate there, they want to hire local engineers willing to work for like quarter of the US salary, and there’s no shortage of people like that there.
Some managers at my current consultancy job think that ChatGPT is a low code solution worth selling to the customers as a service. I wonder if it’s a 4d chess approach to sell traditional programmers once clients realise that ChatGPT slop of code now needs way more than LLM-powered developers to maintain it.