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Is Laravel the happiest developer community on the planet?(github.com)
16 points by aarondf 3y ago|2 comments
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by aarondf 3y ago
I've been following this on Twitter all week and I am _very_ excited but I must admit, I don't think I'm fully grasping all the ways that this could change our world.
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by aarondf 3y ago
What is an optimization fence?
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by aarondf 3y ago
They can be (in theory), but aren't (in reality)
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by aarondf 3y ago
I did a video covering choosing a primary key type for MySQL [1], including UUIDs. Long story short: you should probably use a bigint unless you have a pretty good reason not to. Good reasons exist! If you do use a UUID, make sure you use a
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Finishing a Game(makegames.tumblr.com)
1 points by aarondf 3y ago|0 comments
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by aarondf 3y ago
Go get em. Thanks for the kind words
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by aarondf 3y ago
You'll finish it when the time is right :)
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by aarondf 3y ago
I do work for an American corporation, but we're not large! Less than 100 people I think. I do care about what happens to you, but I assume you're saying GitHub doesn't. I don't work for GitHub. I'm working incredib
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by aarondf 3y ago
Huh? Nobody told me it was a good idea! I did it once and liked it and so I kept doing it. In that paragraph I'm describing how I work. The very next sentence is: > These things work for me, but you'll need to find what works f
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by aarondf 3y ago
Gah, this is so encouraging. Thank you for taking the time to say so! I put _so_ much into that and I'm glad to hear it's been helpful for you. Organizing the content was actually a really big struggle for me, so this is particula
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by aarondf 3y ago
It's me. I am that blogger. You're 100% right and weirdly, that did not occur to me until today. Insightful comment!
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by aarondf 3y ago
That's the neat part, you get to define it for yourself.
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by aarondf 3y ago
Yeah everyone is super different, and it is kinda funny to see all the varied replies here. Some of the stories I hold onto when I'm having a tough time finishing are those of writers who talk about what a struggle it is to write. Jerr
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by aarondf 3y ago
If they are they didn't tell me. I explained this more fully in a few other threads!
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by aarondf 3y ago
> Tangentially, I'm curious if you could speak to what it's like creating content as a third party author? Are you given prompts regarding the tone or content of your work? Happy to share! The first piece I wrote for GitHub&#x2
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by aarondf 3y ago
A lot of my day job work is self directed because our managers expect a lot out of us but also leave us alone to do the work (amazing right?) but message received. Let's take one not related to software at all! I turned a shed into an
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by aarondf 3y ago
GitHub did publish it, but they didn't write it! I (the author) don't work at GitHub, and they don't tell me what to write. The brief they give me is basically "write something a developer would like" and off I go.
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by aarondf 3y ago
One thing: internal satisfaction. External success, too! The biggest one recently was releasing a course on MySQL at https://planetscale.com/mysql-for-developers . It was painful to push that over the finish line, but giving
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by aarondf 3y ago
Thank you for letting me know, that's encouraging for me to hear. Good luck!
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by aarondf 3y ago
Author here: you are reading it as I intended! Not "you have to finish everything" but rather "you want to finish something but it's hard, now what"
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by aarondf 3y ago
I've lashed myself to the mast (so to speak) and forced myself to finish projects that I would've otherwise walked away from, and I'm so so glad I did. > You can free yourself from this pain without lifting a finger. Somet
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by aarondf 3y ago
Glad you still liked it, despite the strong complaints! I hear your feedback, but I don't fully agree with all of it. I do understand the sunk cost fallacy quite well, but thinking about the time committed can be a useful framing to he
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by aarondf 3y ago
Love this framing! Good article. Followed you on Twitter!
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by aarondf 3y ago
The thought of listening to Despacito for a week straight is making me sweat
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by aarondf 3y ago
Ha. I don't work for GitHub tho! I'm just a guy writing about my feelings
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by aarondf 3y ago
Nuanced and valuable feedback, that I receive. Thank you! I think your edit was basically going to be my reply, haha. It is hard to address every side of every potential topic in an article. I actually needed help softening the tone to en
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by aarondf 3y ago
Rooting for you. You can do it.
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by aarondf 3y ago
Totally! I referenced that near the end: > Sometimes finishing is just the beginning: You release the library, the package, the SaaS product, and your work is really just beginning. Users have issues, customers have feedback, and depende
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Finish your projects(github.com)
513 points by aarondf 3y ago|230 comments

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