29-year veteran here. Began programming professionally in 1990, writing BASIC applications for an 8-bit Apple II+ computer. Learned Pascal, C, Clipper, COBOL. Ironic side-story: back then, my university colleagues and I used to make fun of old COBOL programmers. Fortunately, I never had to actually work with the language, but the knowledge allowed me to qualify for a decent job position, back in '92.

For a while, I worked with an IBM mainframe, using REXX and EXEC2 scripting languages for the VM/SP operating system. Then I began programming for the web, wrote my first dynamic web applications with cgi-bin shell and Perl scripts. Used the little-known IBM Net.Data scripting language. I finally learned PHP and settled with it for many, many years.

I always wanted to be a programmer. As a kid I dreamed of being like Kevin Flynn, of TRON - create world famous videogames and live upstairs my own arcade place! Later on, at some point, I was disappointed, I questioned my skills, I thought I should do more, I let other people's expectations make feel bad. Then I finally realized I actually enjoy a quieter, simpler life. And I made peace with it.

I'm now like the old programmers I used to mock 30 years ago. There's so much shit inside my brain. And everything seems so damn complex these days. Frameworks, package managers, transpilers, layers and more layers of code. I try to keep up. And the more I learn, the more it seems I don't know.

Sometimes I feel tired. Yet, I still enjoy creating things and solving problems with programming. I still have fun learning. And after all these years, I learned to be proud of my work, even if it didn't turn out to be as glamorous as in the movies.

I didn’t want to wait for the adapter to come in…

Oh well

None of these people are real.
The “photos” are generated via neural network.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/...

Starter pack

To all the people that dont have the time, knowledge or anything but still want to self host stuff:
http://yunohost.org/

Check it out, install, contribute :)

IoT is when your ai powered toaster is mining bitcoin to pay off its gambling debts it has with the smart fridge.

Coworker in my team recently said to boss:

"Thanks, this conversation with you has taught me so much about single-threaded blocking I/O"

Some random PR comments from our company's repository:

"Are you insured? I hope you are insured"

"Learning git is not that difficult. You only need one command: git reset --hard"

*Link to amazon for dog poop bags*
"Please clean up your shit, before I step in it"

"Have you thought about a career in sales? At least there you might sell your bullshit"

damn, I thought I hit a gold mine

Twitter: Julia Evans @b0rk

Arrrr not you too Firefox 😶 and Mr Robot . ... Wtf is wrong with both parties marketing team. If this is not irony, wtf is.

https://sircmpwn.github.io/2017/12/...

That's the exact question that came to me 2 years back when I was also going to go to sleep early tonight

So.. Oneplus "forgot" to strip Qualcomm.EngineerMode from release build...

90s - We will use AI to cure cancer in the future..
2017 -

199$ for game maker studio
Naaa i will just use godot thx

1000$ for 3dx max
Naa will just use blender 3d

899$ for Fl studio
We have lmms

Sublime text 70$
Vscode is better.. i will just use that

Adobe illustrator 19$ a month
Nice try we have Gravit Designer