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Professional developer and amateur gardener located near Atlanta, GA in the USA.

I’m using a new phone keyboard, please forgive typos.

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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • There is no best way to start. Start with what is fun and chase what is fun. A lot of very bad advice is given about supposed ways to start learning programming that can poison your experience (like people say garbage collected languages are bad because you won’t “appreciate” manual memory management), but that’s all bullshit. Learning any language will make you better at learning other languages.

    I started with Java, I think it’s fine for starting. I think Python is a great way to start because there’s a bunch of content for getting started with it. But ultimately, start with whatever you find fun enough to keep you interested and pushing through.



  • If someone wanted to take your rights away, maybe even didn’t believe you should be allowed to be alive, would you be unprofessional for not wanting to use software they make? Would you be unprofessional for making your own version of that if the project refused to remove them as the lead? No. You wouldn’t. A way to solve that problem as a professional is to fork the project. What’s not professional is calling people doing that unprofessional.







  • Detective Pikachu.

    Spoilers for the ending

    I think they shot themselves in the foot by having Pikachu lose his human voice and return to talking like a normal Pikachu. I’m not sure a “buddy cop” type movie would work as well without real dialogue. All that said though…

    It was a very unique take on Pokemon. Some of the designs looks odd in live action 3d, Mr. Mime comes to mind lmao, but it was so cool seeing how humans and monsters work together and are integrated into an urban setting. It’s something the games touch on a little, but something Nintendo/Game Freak don’t seem interested in animating in any interesting way. (That’s not a dog at the battle system not being animated, which is a totally separate topic.)

    Seeing Loudred (I think it was Loudred, not Exploud) as a DJ while there was a fucking cage match was sick as hell!