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Definitely been hit with this. On the flip side, I usually learn something new and useful out of it. I'm an "early" programmer, so there's a ton I don't know.
by shostack 11y ago
Definitely been hit with this. On the flip side, I usually learn something new and useful out of it.
I'm an "early" programmer, so there's a ton I don't know. When I start breaking an idea I get to things like "oh, how do I have this running in the background while the user is still doing something?" That got me into Rails background workers, the Sidekiq and Foreman gems, etc. All were super useful for me to know about, and concepts that I knew existed in a vague sense, but hadn't actually gotten to yet.
That said, these totally take me down a rabbit hole, and are ultimately counterproductive towards the core idea if they are distracting enough.