It's uncanny how relatable this is. Great write. I feel like I've just recently reached L2, while still having a few things in L1 (still tinkering with stuff I barely know enough about, just because I know there's much more for me to know about how things work and how to make them work together much better). Reaching L3 is probably the biggest process of them all, so I'm glad I've still got most of my life ahead of me

But to answer your question - work.
I had been learning programming for upwards of 5 years before finally going to study it. But once I got there, I realized I had already surpassed the people around me. I had become the smartest person in the room, so I found another room (so to say). I went and got myself an entry-level job in a shitty company, where I met somebody that was impressed with me and took me under his wing to work for him. That again didn't turn out great, but on the road I got more contacts, and when I finally decided to jump ship, I was lucky enough to find a company that had people much much more experienced and knowledgeable than me. I worked there for 11 months building an e-commerce platform from the ground up, doing anything I could from backend to frontend, from databases to deployments, from testing to continuous integration, etc. And I learned more within that timespan than I had in the 6 years leading up to it.
Moral of the story - get out of your comfort zone.

The only thing stopping you from becoming "good enough" is yourself. And the definition of "good enough". So either you already are good enough, or you're stuck in "tutorial hell".

Go ahead make something and ask for feedback from people that already are "good enough". Also, try to find a mentor. You know how the saying goes - “If you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.”

@kamen True, but still :D It's about the flex of having somebody try to use your computer and being like "Where the fuck is *some* key? I can't use this shit" xD

That's actually how I started. Used nothing but what was offered by Java out of the box (JDK 6 if I remember correctly) and made a 2D flappy bird-like game where you had to evade levitating boxes and see how far you could go.

@devphobe Shouldn't be that hard, especially if you need to build or run something native to Apple

@camel Why should I change the keycaps when this is what they might look like another 5 years down the road

@Oktokolo Four years and some change, actually. Getting damn close to five years. And some of the caps have started to fade, but not to a really noticeable degree.

@kamen But they made up in the board itself. Keycaps are replaceable, and I would actually prefer them to be blank (planning on getting a model that has blank caps soon enough, just need to think who to pass this down to)

@myss And I'd probably break my hand if I tried hitting it out of frustration, thing's made of brushed aluminum. Could easily use it as a weapon if I wanted to. People'd call me the Keyboard Warrior

@myss Actuallly I have gamed on it too. I just tend to be more of a verbal than physical rager lmao

For those that are curious, it's a DasKeyboard 4C Ultimate.

@C0D4 Sounds good, thanks :D Never crossed my mind to switch that between desktop and mobile devices since I knew that at least date inputs already have a calendar popup on most devices :D

@Quirinus date and time inputs do that by default on mobile, date also on desktop.

Or change your JWT secret, so that the client's key just wouldn't work, regardless of the user ID inside it.

@sSam TL;DR: git gud scrub. Coding isn't always about what makes sense to you.

@sSam and there's a difference between creating a date from a string (which has a standard) and variables (which work the way they're implemented). Or are you telling me that if you have a date, and get the string representation of it, it will still have the month as a number from 0 to 11?

@sSam in that example I meant in a non-programming way, since the other example didn't seem to be understandable to you

@sSam @devios1 Then let's put it this way. The date is always a number, same goes for a year. But a month isn't always a number. Yes, it can be represented in one, but do you tell your friends that "Hey, meet me on the 7th of the 3rd month" or do you say "meet me on the 7th of March"? That's at least how I reason with it. Same goes for days (0-6). You don't ask someone to meet you on the 3rd day of the week you ask them to meet you on Wednesday. How doesn't this make sense?

But that makes sense from a development standpoint, doesn't it? Want to get the name of the month from an array - the month can be used as the index in that array. Want to get the numerical representation of the month - +1 it. It seems like a better approach than to have to - 1 it for the first case just to get the benefit of not having to +1 it when needing the numerical representation of it.

Damn, congrats :D

@amansetiarjp damn, I still haven't figured out how I could connect to mysql in html 🤔 🤔 🤔

@amansetiarjp babel is secretly selling your personal information to the Mayor of Flavor Town

This is exactly why I tend to distant myself from using Linux as my daily driver [pun intended]

@ftyross I'd just save the page and replace $OLD_NAME$ with $NEW_NAME$, regardless of if it works or not

Thank god https://momentjs.com/ and https://moment.github.io/luxon/ exist

@dcode False advertising is against the law, yet I don't see Apple getiing fined... What are they false advertising?
And how aren't Apple products different from, for example, Microsoft's or Samsung's products? Neither of them have a clean and cohesive ecosystem across all their platforms as Apple does with theirs. So what's your point exactly? You just sound like a bitter doctor with your hatred towards apples

@chaoticdenim You might not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like 💪 😎

@Omnisus It might sound childish, but saying a Mac is just a more expensive and less performant PC is arrogant and simply wrong. You sound like a windows fanboy that's never used a Mac

@dcode @dcode not a Mac if that's what you're pointing towards. Would like to see you effortlessly do basically everything Linux can on Windows without looking and behaving like every single Linux distro, along with their driver issues, clunky UI, garbage UX, just to name a few. Also windows laptops have stupidly awful battery life on laptops, their build quality is below acceptable after having used a MacBook Pro for the past three years, and just being stupid simple and elegant to use, not to mention the Apple ecosystem and everything else that comes with using a Mac for work.

@Omnisus no, I game on windows since that has the best support for games that I play, as well as drivers.