My 2001 Landcruiser with over 1,000,000 kms on the clock had a solid front axle and never did anything like a death wobble. For that matter, nor did our ‘96 Jeep Grand Cherokee. Maybe the longer wheelbase helped

Until the CIA “helps” Mexico with the left wing “problem”

The prompts to upgrade Office 365 every time my gaming PC updates really hurts after using a Linux machine all day

I’m tempted to publish an NPM package to do so as a joke, but I fear that it’d get used seriously

I feel like this is a perfect encapsulation of how an experienced self-aware developer thinks. Experience really beats the hard stances out of you. I find myself saying “it depends” and “a bit of column A, bit of column B” often, like a cheap kids toy

His take strangely acknowledges that defects are caused by programmers, yet doesn’t want to improve the tools we use to help us not make these mistakes. In summary, git gud.

Experience has taught me that I’m awfully good at finding and firing foot guns, and when I use a language that has fewer foot guns along with good linting, I write reliable code because I tend to focus on what I want the code to do, not how to get there.

Declarative functional programming suits me down to the ground. OOP has been friendly to me, mostly, but it also has been the hardest to understand when I come back to it. Experience has given me an almost irrational aversion to side effects, and my simple mind considers class members as side effects

Batch 12. Ordered September 24th and got the payment email on April 23rd

That sounds unpleasant. I plan to use mine on my lap a lot so I hope this isn’t an issue for me. Just got the email about my final payment too

Yeah, this is my colleagues waiting for me, poor bastards

I recommend LunarVim for VS Code users too

I’m thinking evaporative cooling (paired with refrigerative cooling)