Teaching also involves stating an idea - which the author forgot to actually do. If it is your article that I am criticizing, I’m sorry for being crass, but make no mistake, the writing is half-assed. An article whose primary piece of advice is to “focus on the datatypes”, shouldn’t avoid the word “datatype” until the 2nd to last header.

Truthfully, the article would be better served by removing the first and 2nd to last section and instead be titled “Why I dislike working with monads in languages that support monads.”

Holy cow! What an absolute slog of a read. I’m not an AI model, but I’ll do my best to summarize that link:

[When writing code that works with non-trivial and null-able data types,] use a data structure that makes illegal states unrepresentable. Model your data using the most precise data structure you reasonably can[, …] as quickly as you can. [W]rite functions on the data representation you wish you had, not the data representation you are given. The design process then becomes an exercise in bridging the gap.

There. Hopefully someone out there learned something cool without having to read a 25-minute striptease before the author rushes through their main idea in the span of two bullet points found in the final 25% of the article.

Not really, once Reddit closed off their API to all but the absolute highest of bidders, it broke a lot of functionality of a lot of smaller apps like this. You might still be able to find something to spruce up the CSS client side somewhere, but a lot of devs abandoned the ecosystem once Reddit, the company, made it clear in no uncertain terms that community support and 3rd party partnerships were unwelcome.

HTML parsers scare me. I already knew it was a big job, but this blog post sealed the deal that HTML, err… the web’s interpretation of HTML(?), is one heck of a mess.
https://jakearchibald.com/2023/against-self-closing-tags-in-html/

Do you… do you do rocket surgery?

From someone who transitioned from operations to development over the course of their admittedly short career, this is a poor mindset. Much like how you shouldn’t disrespect a janitor or a nurse, you shouldn’t say “gross” about IT work.
IT may not be the reason for the company’s existence, but it is what allows it. The company may not exist without you, but you don’t exist without IT.

Sceptre seems to be a popular brand mentioned in this thread. Thanks for the input!

https://media1.tenor.com/m/ZhNhNB_k3soAAAAd/that70s-show-kitty.gif

I don’t think that you fully understand what the word “prefer” means. I said that I don’t want to give up access to my third-party apps if possible, not that I would never consider a factory reset.
It might help to grab a dictionary before you start policing the internet from your porn account.

Thanks!

“I wish my cancer riddled grandmother wasn’t suffering.”

“Well, you could always just kill her! Then she would feel anything!”

???

Even more so, I didn’t even disagree or say that they were wrong. Just that I’d prefer not to do that because, along with my grandmother not suffering, I also want her to be alive. Contrary to popular belief, humans are capable of wanting multiple things at the same time. Have you ever been thirsty while you had to pee?

It means maybe apply again in the distant future after you are more established as an experienced dev with a “better grasp of the fundamentals.” But you didn’t get the current job and they were trying to be polite about it.

Oh, I am definitely getting more paranoid as I get older, but that’s a different issue altogether. :D

Scrapyard PCs for the win!

(Written on a used dell with a replaced hard drive and a fedora install.)

IANAL either, but I’m pretty sure you are correct. I put it in another comment somewhere, but I’m more upset about not being given a choice to refuse the change rather than the actual change itself. I don’t mind signing the waiver at amusement parks, or to buy a car with no warranty. I just want to know what I’m agreeing to, and I don’t like folks pulling the rug out from under me or changing the deal.

The situation feels like if I were to drop out of college, I would be given electroshocks until I’d forgotten anything learned in class.

How on earth is saying “I would prefer not to do something” being unreasonable with people?

Whew, that inter-continental shipping is going to be rough, but I’ve had to pay it before. Thanks for the advice!

This is the point that I’ve been stuck on. There doesn’t seem to be clear, easily available, documentation on which models those are. However, I have been able to find many ramble-ly “old man yells at cloud” forum & social media posts (You know, like this one!) when a model doesn’t allow it.

Lol, point well stated…

Thanks for the heads up - will do!
EDIT: Out of an abundance of curiosity, what model do you have?