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I've been coding since I was a little kid, but I didn't start building software professionally until college, back when Javascript loosely equaled Flash and artisanal WordPress blogs were all the rage.

But then one day, Steve Jobs, in one of his LSD-infused power trips, said:

"LET THERE BE NO MORE FLASH ON THE IPHONE!"

Little did we know that would be the end of the creative web; but in my case, I moved on to Ruby on Rails & started building web apps.

Later, JavaScript would rise from the ashes like a goofy-eyed, janky-looking phoenix in the form of Node.js & I've been living mostly in the Wild West of JavaScript ever since.

To learn more about me, check out my blog at https://ulizzle.substack.com

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I don’t want to, but looks like I’ll have to, interest rates being what they are. I really liked the place, made a nice little garden for the first time in my life

But if yall think selling is a good idea, that’s a good omen

That’s a good question. No, I wouldn’t. It’s not one of Ridley Scott’s best works. I’d say if you enjoyed kingdom of heaven then you may like it.

I’d rather watch “The Terror” again

Watched it yesterday and hated it. I was looking forward to it too based on the trailers but it turned out to be a big hit ahistorical hit piece.

For example, no matter what you think of the guy, Napoleon was a bonafide military genius. In the movie, they made him seem like just one more of the bunch. Napoleon was famous for never being bothered by the gore of battle and the buzzing of billets, in the same vein as general Grant. In the movie they made him seem like a scaredy cat

In “Waterloo” you could see why French soldiers joined his cause in droves. Extreme charisma

I’m a big fan of point n click adventures.

Graphics are great, so either a talented team or someone very talented, but you have to wade thru 40 mins of exposition before starting the first chapter (you don’t have to but then what about the lore?)

That's a good description of modern software development. For any junior devs reading, this is the accurate presentation of the reality of software development for the most devs. There are exceptions, but they are either lucky and know it, lucky but with a superiority complex who think they have a monopoly on the truth, NPCs, or the usual gaggle of people who disagree with everything I post here anyway.

Think about it: How can JavaScript have so many innovations, yet practically no one has moved on from the scrum/kanban abomination in going on a decade? Perhaps more. Why

Better yet, things you are NOT allowed to do

For example, people hate realists. About the only taboo left today, besides the supernatural, is being a Debbie Downer

Anyone who isn’t toxically optimistic is considered to be violent and dangerous today

Granted innocent until proven guilty, but I wouldn’t hedge my bets on anyone from Hollywood being a paragon of moral justice oppressed by the powers that be, unless you want a nasty cut from Occam’s razor later on that week

Especially given the rest of the behavior detailed in the article, which as always, no one ever reads

“It’s ok to fail”

Yeah, right. Failing is what gets you fired. Basically it’s a collection of safe, saccharine little pseudo maxims supposed to make everyone feel better

I prefer the poster with the cat hanging on to the branch going “hang in there”