THIS. ☝️💯

Becoming adaptable to ever changing paradigms in life. It's a life skill to stay patient during times of change, and evolve with the change.

Visual Basic 6 was very fun back when I began my software development career. I even did a little DirectX work with it. I'm not really ashamed of it because of the power it had in the end. One of these weekends I'll see if I can reinstall it and play with it again for old times sake.

I used to write comments all over the place that know one reads, even me. Nowadays I write comments so GitHub Copilot can generate code off of it auto-magically. 😁

That script brings back nightmares. Makes me realize how easy hackers could spin up COM objects to do anything via a malicious website.

How many here use a trackball mouse? I use the Logitech MX Ergo trackball, which is wireless, Bluetooth, and a battery that lasts an easy 6 months between charges. My wrist thanks me very much for this... And it's got a neat angle bracket too. No one likes it other than me so I'm safe from family members running off with it. 😁

Or printed business cards for that matter. It's all digital these days...

I'm reminded of this comic: it works and I don't know why \ it doesn't work and I don't know why

"It works, but I don't know why." - anonymous "It doesn't work, and I don't know why." - anonymous

Thanks for that. Having "reverse thrusters" helps tremendously. I did manage to find the edge of the universe, and land on it too.

Frogger is an old but simple game I played way back when there were places called arcade halls. Simple graphics and controls, teaches hit detection... And controlling your frustration levels.

Trying to figure out where things are on this vast space of emptiness we call the solar system. What are the two/three dots that show up as your cruising the void?

An answer on a Stack Overflow article brought me here many moons ago.

Windows PowerToys has a feature to toggle any app to become top-most. It would be cool for that feature to notify you which apps are already top-most, and flip that switch off if they try to force being top-most.

We log the world. Everything is turned on, from inputs into top level API methods and the outputs too. Is it too much logging? Yes... But it's saved us a ton of time and headaches in finding root causes. We also log passwords in plain text. 🤣

I've found Source Gear DiffMerge quite good. Think it costs money though... I can't remember.

You could work for the company I work for. There are dragons... Soft cuddly ones, but they are ferocious nonetheless. If your interested in dot-net 6 (C#), Angular, something called micro services, Azure, and one line requirement documents, drop me a message.

I use OneNote to capture web pages on things I research, such as blogs on how to use various packages or software development concepts needed to work on an assigned task at work. Although I have terrible organizing when it comes to looking for specific things in one Note, it has a robust search capability. I need to figure out a good tagging system on the various things collected though. I think that would help tremendously.

I've been playing an absurd amount of Chess games over the past couple years. Also Metroid Dread is pretty awesome, though I'm about to throw it out the window sure to the absurd finger acrobatics needed to get some hard to reach items.

honey the codewitch wrote:

the blast radius of a design change tends to be pretty large.

I laughed out loud when I read this snippet. I want to use it the next time my boss asks for something to be done in a questionable way.