My logic flawed. I like this response

But would we be annoyed by things that didnt disturb our arguably magnified sense of ownership and control? We are developers. I think we get so used to the feeling of cause and effect that we instinctively hate anything that peturbs this. I get it, I really do...I just sometimes stand back and wonder.

Thought experiment.

Imagine a world where linux didn’t exist. It was Windows or iOS. For whatever reason it just ended up that way.

Would we still care about shit like this? I’m not saying I like it. I’m just wondering if sometimes we get mad about shit like this in the same way a retiree gets mad about worms in his lettuce patch.

{ “user”: “rickh”, “status”: 404 }

I would do it somewhere isolated so I had the chance no one remembered I was alive and then I wasn’t.

I’ve been employed a year. If I created that api frankly I would hang myself with no apology note.

Um. What?

@Lucky-Loek This should strike fear into all beings.

Firefox open source devs

He just found margin auto for the first time.

@Gigex I would choose a skilled engineer at home in Windows and GUI-Everything over and above a sloppy terminal freak any day of any week. This craft is about so much more than your toolset. That said, I think it pays to know the basics of anything Unix. Even learning a bit makes you appreciate what Windows is/is-not doing in its tooling

OP made me cry today.

Actually maybe not the last part.

But seriously this is total bullshit. I am beyond beautiful, a total catch and currently sans female. Tell them to go suck a dick.

@vane fully cackled

@Ranchu I am one of those who won’t. Javascript has treated me pretty well; I just appreciate the intentionality of C# coming from javascript land, thats all...

Having never really programmed anything not web dev related, it really intrigues me to know what the other fields do to shape understanding.

@FrodoSwaggins Golang, Ruby, PHP. I have had exposure to a number of others, but no significant time spent with them. I thought Go was great, but after it’s relative simplicity stopped being a novelty, I started to pine for more power out of the box. I really tried with Ruby, but I just cant stand it. Worked with it full time for 3 months. I realise its tidy, and beautifully designed...but it never ceases to feel like a fat crayon in my 3 year old fingers, and Rails made me livid. Coffeescript yuck. Haml yuck. Sass yuck.

C++ intrigued me until I found out it takes 39924 years to learn it. Python is old and chubby and funny looking, but I thought he was pretty cool, just didnt get that long with him.

C# I love you. .NET (core 3) you can stay too.

You, Sir, are clearly a wizard. Pay thanks to your magics that helped you wrangle a shitty situation into submission.

@Byomeer and let’s not leave out the JavaScript WeakMap, the lowest desirability rating by name a type has ever received...

Then just let “I want to be an engineer” be an alias for “I want to build software that the next developer working on learns something from”.

It’s not about just being someone who is good. Its about actually, in real terms, carrying forward the beacon of the best of our profession.

Because I am utterly stunned by what humans have managed to achieve with computing, floored by all the thinking and sharing that comes out of it.

I love building things and making them useful, but just as much, if not more so, I enjoy passing on that lamp of enlightenment. The struggle to learn is so real, that those who make it easier through their source code, their words, their teaching/sharing/books/tutorials ARE useful.

I just need a half reliable path. I’ve only been a developer for a year professionally, but I don’t want too many bad habits to settle in whilst my enthusiasm is still high.

I have got copies of a couple of The Great Tomes (Uncle Bob), and I am chewing on some well written open-source for more concrete example code.

But other than that, it feels wide open, and full of peril.

This is exactly what I am seeing. More responsibility, similar rewards.

Unless you count exposure and learning as a reward, in which case I am better staying here.

@24th-Dragon T/shaped refers to deep skill in one area, with broad but shallow understanding in many others.

What are you reasons for wanting to move to the latter?

Does ANYONE still enjoy it

@Pickman ok well that is particularly gross.

@Mr-Myrk We are using a Vue component framework called Quasar. It has many bootstrap like features. They work great until they don’t, and then you are scanning 30 layers of divs trying to work out what is interfering with what...

Is reading it, at least even a little consciously, enough to improve us as developers?

10/10 worth it.

Edit: bought license for Rider. So much happy again.