codelikeawolf

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by codelikeawolf 1y ago
When I first started high school, my parents worked a lot, so they left me to fend for myself and I was terrible about packing lunches, so lunchtime was always stressful. I ended up getting a job washing dishes in the school kitchen, which
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by codelikeawolf 1y ago
I've spent an inordinate amount of time in the VS Code codebase. Given the complexity and size (I ran cloc on the src directory and it's > 1M lines of code) coupled with the amount of churn, I'm guessing most of the forks
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by codelikeawolf 1y ago
Most people driving on I-294 in Illinois would agree. Just "keeping up with traffic" normally requires you to go about 80mph. If my car topped out at 50 or 60mph, I'd be frustrated as hell.
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by codelikeawolf 1y ago
It didn't work :(
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by codelikeawolf 2y ago
> I instead urge UI designers to consider the powerful concepts of consistency and familiarity just a bit more often than they presently seem to do. I've been developing UIs in some form or another for almost 20 years and this reall
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by codelikeawolf 2y ago
I bet I could shred some serious kickflips with this thing.
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by codelikeawolf 2y ago
Agreed, this has Streisand effect written all over it. I don't know how effective book marketing campaigns normally are, but this type of exposure will blow that out of the water.
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by codelikeawolf 2y ago
> It was also getting harder and harder to debug as JavaScript has no timeout functionality I would have had to wrap that request in another promise. I'm pretty sure you could use an AbortController to address this? But it's on
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by codelikeawolf 2y ago
You are preaching to the choir. I have been using TypeScript for around 7 years, and it's great in a lot of ways, but unnecessary complexity is everywhere in the TS world. I regularly see elaborate type acrobatics that kneecap TSServer
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by codelikeawolf 2y ago
I came here to say this and you beat me to it. I'd rather pay a few extra bucks a night, get a free breakfast, and not have to worry about doing a bunch of crap like loading a dishwasher before leaving (lest I get a poor rating). In so
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by codelikeawolf 2y ago
I can't say I'm surprised. I think it's hilarious and fitting that news outlets are referring to Pornhub blocking access as "pulling out". I can't wait to see what term they use to describe unblocking access (i
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by codelikeawolf 2y ago
I immediately thought of that Futurama episode where Fry was looking for an apartment: https://youtu.be/t69yuxD-iBU?si=Bm84ggtpIWwY0M3f > If you like dank, fuhgettaboutit!
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by codelikeawolf 2y ago
> The secret to good cover letters? Context. I know a lot has changed since I had to look for a job (a little over 4 years ago), but I disagree. The cover letter is the only opportunity to show some of your personality, not that you read
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by codelikeawolf 2y ago
This was a good read, but the author is mistaken: chucknorris isn't rendered as red, red is rendered as chucknorris.
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by codelikeawolf 2y ago
Honestly I'm just relieved that ChatGPT didn't suggest a div with role="button". I have spent the last 5 years trying to get a good grasp of semantic and accessible HTML. It seems like every week I find out I was wrong a
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by codelikeawolf 2y ago
My brain has been so fried from working in frontend for several years that I actually googled SkibidiJS before I realized it was a joke.
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by codelikeawolf 2y ago
All of my code looks like this. I don't want to have to remember what some acronym or partial word/abbreviation means six months after writing it. I don't think "shorter variable names saves typing" is a compelling
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by codelikeawolf 2y ago
Ah yes, conversational deadlock. The best way to release the lock is to say you need to go to the bathroom. Sometimes it just wasn't meant to be.
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by codelikeawolf 2y ago
I read "How to Win Friends and Influence People" several years ago and the "it's about them" thing really stuck with me. People really do like to talk about themselves, and that makes parties much easier if you have
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by codelikeawolf 2y ago
This really made my day. I decided to convert a pretty large project over to v5 a couple of months ago because the new APIs were so much nicer. I rolled the dice a bit because I wasn't sure if I was going to hit weird edge cases, but e
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by codelikeawolf 2y ago
For what it's worth, I've upgraded three pretty beefy projects to v5 over the past 6 months or so (making sure to stay on top of latest releases), and I haven't seen any weirdness. That being said, I'm not using any of t
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by codelikeawolf 2y ago
Oh wow, I realized it's turning 30 next year and my back just started hurting.
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by codelikeawolf 2y ago
> The quality of test cases are comparable to what a human would produce. This has actually been a problem for me. I spent a lot of time getting good at writing tests and learning the best approaches to testing things. Most devs I'v
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by codelikeawolf 2y ago
I have spent a great deal of time wading through the VS Code codebase and it takes OOP to the extreme . There are mile long inheritance chains, everything is a class, and it is a giant bowl of spaghetti. To some extent, I understand why
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by codelikeawolf 2y ago
> And then CarPlay is just an abomination! Even the most basic things like "I'd like to answer a call while still being able to see the map I use for navigation" seems to be completely ignored and it honestly doesn't
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by codelikeawolf 2y ago
I'm with you on this one. I really don't care what my title is or what I'm referred to as long as the check clears. When people ask what I do, I say I'm a "software engineer" because I spent several years getti
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by codelikeawolf 2y ago
After reading this, I was reminded of one of those "survive in the wilderness" shows I saw a couple of weeks ago that had a great quote at the beginning (a Tanzanian proverb): > Little by little, a little becomes a lot I think
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by codelikeawolf 2y ago
Oh yeah, I remember seeing that recommendation as well! I think the reason I avoided it was because it seemed like it would be too messy. I'm guessing it's probably more effective than dish soap, though.
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by codelikeawolf 2y ago
It's always interesting to me to see what you can get away with washing/getting wet without ruining it. I bought a bunch of vinyl 45's off of eBay several years ago and they were pretty gross. I stumbled across a forum where
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by codelikeawolf 2y ago
You nailed it. Every time I see a new Electron replacement pop up that uses less resources, less disk space, etc., it's using the OS webview. I would argue that it's almost impossible to ship a reliable version of the app without

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