"Our job is to find a few intelligent things to do, not keep up with every damn thing in the world."
~ Charlie Munger

This applies to everything on life, including software development. You don't have to keep up with every new programming language/framework, but work on ideas/projects that are challenging and rewarding, and that help you grow.

This is what I've been up to the past few weeks 😅

+ @aws-amplify/cli@3.9.0
added 1757 packages from 1484 contributors in 1542.624s

😣

Phew! Pressed Ctrl+C just in time!

Came across this when refactoring colleague's code:

The Raspberry Pi 4 4GB model was out of stock within hours 😭

"[Excel] empowers over 1.2 billion people ... every day" 🤨

visudo uses nano by default :/

Finally took the time to reorganise my home screen. And changed the wallpaper too!

A few days ago, while coding late at night, I had written the following (in Python) to read the first character of a string:

first_char = line[:1]

When reviewing the code right now, I thought this should instead be:

first_char = line[0]

Right?

Nope! This will fail when the string is empty.

Seems like my sleepy brain wrote better code than my awake brain xD

Or maybe I'm more tired night now ZZZ

Clients and their ever changing requirements!
When will they learn to fully explain what they want and commit to those features 😪

I love Vue!

CDNJS is down 😭

Want to "jam" your DNS, burn all cores of your CPU and feel warm during the winters? Use Amass!

I just bought "Code Complete", "Design Patterns", and "The Pragmatic Programmer". Any advice on reading them?

DNS66 is amazing! Must try if you want to block ads on your phone completely.

Why do APIs return an error with HTTP 200 (success) as the response type?!

It's like saying:
"Hey, congrats! You've successfully failed."

Had a comp-off at work, so I finally got time to redesign my website, this time using Bulma.

Say what?!

The x-axis' scale for India made me feel sad, but then I compared the cost of living in India vs that in the other countries mentioned here, and then I was back to being happy (not sad).

Happiness is: scrolling through the release notes of a software you use and unexpected finding your changes mentioned there 😊

"Comments sometimes lie, but the code always speaks the truth."
~ Unknown (read it somewhere, I'm not wise enough to come up with such a quote xD).

Relevant XKCD (https://xkcd.com/221):

I recently came across KDE Plasma and it looked good enough for me to try it out. So I'm installing it currently... let's see how that goes!

Already selected a few themes to try too: Adapta, Arc, Nilium, and Noc and Lux.

Any suggesting/tips for a new KDE user who's coming from Gnome?

If plumbers were hired like devs:

Let's work out step 2 for Quantum BogoSort together...

!rant
If you own an Android phone and use a Linux based distro on your laptop/PC then you should totally check out KDE Connect!

A user-friendly GUI for creating desktop entries for installed applications on Linux.

There are several categories of software development that I know of: front-end, back-end, full-stack, game, mobile, embedded etc., but what is the term for developing libraries and/or CLI utilities in languages like C++, Python, Go etc. that are not related with any of the above? System development doesn't seem wrong but I was wondering what's the correct term for it in the industry because I need to mention it in my resume and on LinkedIn.

Also, if there's a lesser-known category that you work on then do tell us all about it 🙂

!rant
wk99 topic is so good that I'm seeing quality content on devRant everywhere. So many ++s to give!

Python's relative import mechanism is soooooo broken 😫. You won't realise it until you're working on a package with multiple modules in different folders.

Importing from installed packages (built-in or third-party) is a piece of cake. The real challenge is when you need to import from within a package.

Almost every other language handles imports really well. But in Python you'll either need to append to sys.path and run from a top-level directory, or run as a module using `python -m module_to_run` (also from a top-level directory), or use some other weird way. Relative imports just don't work out of the box.