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Cake day: January 16th, 2025

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  • Good question! For me the language isn’t too important, kinda like with normal languages, it’s all about the concepts being conveyed. With programming those concepts are, at a basic level; variables, conditions, lists, loops, objects, and functions. All (decent) languages with have the ability to convey these concepts one way or another, so it’s just typically just comes down to syntax when learning a new language.

    Obviously there are some exceptions where old or niche languages don’t support something. But typically once you know ‘programming’ the language doesn’t matter too much. For me, I use a few different languages depending on what I’m working on. Front-end web stuff; Javascript. Server side logic; nodejs and groovy. Database; SQL.

    The driving force behind learning new languages (again for me) has been either for work because that’s what is in use and I need to modify existing code, or because I’ve seen the language in use somewhere else and want to try it out.

    Hope some of that answered your question :)











  • I used to wait waaay to long between changing my blades. That stopped when I ended up stabbing myself in the finger because I was pressing so hard because of the dull blade and the knife slipped.

    Now I change my blade anytime I find myself pressing harder, or need to make more than two passes. Sometimes I just throw in a new one when I’m starting a project for someone else as stuff tends to come out nicer with a sharp blade.

    +1 to the other user that mention stroping as that can help extend the usable lifetime (by a little).

    But yeah, if you can get a big pack of them cheap online and just change them as you feel you need to.








  • Then there’s my boss who’s like just merge it and we’ll figure it out. I’m constantly asking him if we should maybe do some user testing, or for the love of God set up a staging environment.

    I have to test the everloving fuck out of everything I do but cause I know it isn’t going to get reviewed or tested by anyone but me. I guess that’s why he keeps doing it, because very little actually breaks anything but it’s definitely giving me more grey hair lol