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yeah, everything is an opinion piece these days. I'm not sure why. I much enjoy as-objective-as-possible and information-dense content.
Obviously it's their blogs and they can write whatever they want and I don't disagree that adding a bit of humor here and there can help get you through really long guides and keeps you open minded, but yeah, I really don't appreciate the paragraph long life stories that I need to filter out.
Seriously, at what point did the good, kind, selfless souls who write tutorials and guides online turn into fucking food bloggers?
I've been an engineer about 15 years, so I still have to google most of the code I write as I write it, and this week I've been learning a new framework.
Ten years ago it'd be "here's how to..." then the thing you want to do.
Now it's "For the longest time, I didn't want to use Gradle..." followed by a summary of the last week in their life.
I really don't care about your Journey with Rust, I want to know how to define an optional parameter. I don't give a rat's fucking dick how much faster this is than that, my hands are tied by whoever started this mess - just tell me how to make it work.
I guess there's something to be said for remembering things between sessions.
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