this comment made me feel the draw of dillusional thought, it felt good to read those fake headlines and I didn’t want it to stop

bland shows catering to bland tastes, maybe?

ok then just use salt water. You’re welcome nerds!

theravada

a dev can build a thing, an engineer can build a distributed modular thing with more complexity around non programming parts like infrastructure. Take the thing and design a machine of parts and each can be maintained, observed, and optimized as needed. For example we can use topics for backpressure and consumer lag for auto scaling pods, but then you have to consider the distributed processing for duplication, out of order, throughput… there is no exact line in the sand between dev and engineer but that’s how I think of it.

I like to eat things that the bacteria in my gut like, you should look into it. Apparently those guys have a lot of surprising influence on our health.

lots of tutorials in different languages, a base project that you start to rewrite over and over forever whenever you aren’t motivated to do something else. write scripts to start new projects with a readme, git, a logger, and a unit test or two. You should be able to run a command to have a new working project ready to test any new library or idea. don’t be afraid to write code and not use it. writing is the point itself.

SQL scouts credo: I will never use indexes, I will always use column names.

I removed a small nest from my door frame a few months ago and one larva fell out. It landed on the hot concrete in the summer sun. I empathized and picked it up. I kept it in a jar with a paper towel under a lamp. I checked on it everyday and I thought that someday I’d set it free in my yard. I even daydreamed that it would immediately sting me when I let it go and that just made me laugh a bit. It eventually died and I put it on my bird feeder. I didn’t watch and ai felt sad but it’s gone now.

Mineis still downloading at about 600kb per second so it will be a while. I got pathfinder kingmaker super cheap so playing that for a bit.

so glad to see this, I just got a steam deck this week and tales of majeyal is my all time favorite game ever. I’ve played for years and beat it once, my greatest achievement