I love shitting on Python, but I feel like all those problems are present in libraries for other languages as well. There’s a tonne of that crap for JS/TS.

Similarly, I find a fair number of Rust crates (that I want to use) have virtually no doc or inline examples, and use weird metaprogramming that I can’t wrap my head around.

I am brainstorming right now.

M E T A

What is spilled cannot die

dirty onanists spilling their seed

I wouldn’t go back, if I were you.

I always enjoy hearing about other people’s bugs. It makes my imposter syndrome recede for a few moments.

The higher up I go, the more I ask why. And the more often “eh, I guess next release will be fine” is the answer.

This is a great summary.

I can’t decide if I’d rather be a nerd or a geek. Maybe I’m a neek? Or a gerd?

This one makes the most sense, and has the fewest failure modes.

Front end is hard. Slapping together some form elements, xhr requests, and DOM updates is easy. Building a usable, consistent UI, that makes proper user of the backend isn’t. On top of that, every jackass thinks they get it because they’re a user, so you get unsolicited suggestions from everywhere.

Source: front end devs sobbing in the cubicle next to me.

I find anything other than light roast espresso gives me stomach pain.

I’ve stopped a few times to make sure I’m not developing an addiction, and yeah, it can be tough.

a lot of programmer “culture” revolves around coffee

It comes up in memes/jokes, but aside from that, what else does it have to do with our subculture?

I’m not sure that it’s even ours. Coffee comes up a lot in general office culture.

They look kinda done tho

Woah woah WOAH WOAH.

So you’re saying software for the Artemis landers aren’t being built with the latest TypeScript compiler and running on a canary version of v8?!

I feel like modern compilers would turn their nose up at that shit. “Dead code? Ewww! No way I’m letting that into my syntax tree!”

Some sort of JSON-but-binary format getting built into browser APIs would be great.

it’s like half the number of keystrokes

Thank you for the context