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I’m impressed the held on for this long

Kinda makes you wonder how it’s possible to be pro-capitalist and pro-Christian.

Just say that you’re God’s special little boy. Then you’re free to commit as many sins you like.

That’s a stupid question it doesn’t deserve an answer. You should be ashamed you even thought about it.

Keep your commits small. Merge often. That will reduce the likelihood of terrible merge conflicts.

If you’re not sharing your work with your team mates for a long time, then you’re setting yourself up for trouble.

That’s a good one.

A rule of thumb is that if it has map and flatMap (or equivalent), then chances are that it’s a monad.

Or for those using Java: Stream is a monad

It’s like a burrito

March 2023 was when GPT 4 was released. Maybe it’s coincidental, but I think the AI hype has some factor in it. Companies got an excuse (a bad one) to lay off their staff.

Automated confirmation bias

I believe most people think they’re more immune against advertisement than they actually are. Our purchasing decisions are influenced by ads more than we would like to admit.

That being said, I think there’s some truth to the statement. Autistic people are not affected by peer pressure in the same way.

30ish. The main difference is that my hangovers have gotten worse. In my 20s I could party all night at the club and still be functional the next day. Now I can’t spend an evening at the pub without destroying my weekend.

Dedicate yourself with a more long term project (1+ months). I think the best way to learn is through the pain that comes with larger code bases.

Start small. Add more and more features. If there’s something you don’t know how to make, find a tutorial or a guide and make it work with your project.

Eventually you’ll discover pain points in your project. The feature you want to make doesn’t fit well with your current code. This is good time to learn from your previous mistakes and adapt your old code for the better (refactoring).

Over time you’ll learn more and more techniques to write code that can grow. You’ll see for yourself why some coding styles are considered bad and why some are better. This is difficult to see just by working with short term weekend scripts.

Don’t worry about failing. No one writes ”perfect” code. You’ll learn from your mistakes.