I resisted the urge to post the text of the article here because the article is actually all about the simple clean and open approach that made the web good at its genesis. You couldn’t get anything further from the ad infested, tracking, AI garbage and hot take nonsense that the modern web is infested with right now.

Visit the site, read, bask in its glorious simplicity. Go and do likewise.

It’s never too late to start programming. To get a job though you need to show you can get things done. Even if you’re going for junior roles, you’ll benefit from being able to include links to some finished projects on your CV. For most basic entry level it is far far far better to have something that was finished, and works, but isn’t perfect rather than nothing at all.

Don’t put too much trust in so called “certificates” from these schools. A company will, again, be more interested to see what you can do than what pieces of paper you’ve earned. Having said that some courses are good (some are not). Only sink money into it if you have scrutinised the reviews and seen good words about them on here or Reddit or other popular program discussion places. Don’t go off their own testimonials.

If you were willing to be relaxed on salary (if the alternative is indeed homelessness) then you ought to be able to get your toe in the door somewhere. After that don’t feel too loyal, do what you need to, but study and build study and build in your own time and keep yourself out there open to job #2.

16m deaths is a profit margin

Mate, I’ve built a career on that

So, I’m a bit rusty, but I believe in Kate you would hit F4 to get a terminal window and you would execute

gcc your_file.c -o your_output_file

Then after that’s run you’d type just “your_output_file” and hit enter

I think on windows you’d need to make sure the output file name ends with .exe but I’m not sure about that, maybe someone else can chime in?

What language are you programming in?

As far as I’m aware, in many cases, Kate just gives you access to the terminal where you can type commands to compile / run your code.

Very accurate. Working for a small dev shop with sympathetic senior team members brought me through 2 and into the start of 3. But a job change (into something I only barely qualified for) meant I had to trek phase 3 alone. It’s a loong slog, and the myriad of technologies in the intro without ever feeling like you know anything is spot on (I would frequently be reading web pages for help only to pull my hair out at how often they mentioned things I should know but didn’t). Fortunately I had gone to work for an IT team embedded in a larger company, not a software company itself, and they had far lower standards. I don’t think that’s a good thing in general, but it did allow me to get semi hacky things done during the desert of despair and I felt like I was delivering just as often as I was floundering. The upswing of awesome is real though. I hit it about 5 or 6 years in. I found my niche, everything id been reading and studying suddenly started to reinforce one another rather than sow deeper confusion and confidence and productivity started to multiply. About 7 years in I was technical lead in a couple of business critical areas. After 8 years I started my own consultancy in those technologies and have never looked back. I take care now to give junior staff projects that stretch them, and they need to work at, but which aren’t soul crushing.

It is much easier to add features to reliable software, than it is to add reliability to featureful software.

Get in my veins!

Anakin:

Every day further from god’s light etc…

Putin already has his land corridor to Crimea, so why does he fight on? Simply, he doesn’t really have a lasting victory unless he achieves regime change in Kyiv. But the idea that the Russian army will simply walk over half the country, install a puppet leader and then go home and everything will be fine is beyond absurd. A defeated occupied Ukraine will be Chechnya x 100 for Russia. Endless droves of dead Russian soldiers succumbing to guerrilla attacks for decades to come.

Georgia is deep in with the EU, has talked about NATO before. Obvs Turkey is EU aligned. As would West Ukraine if any kind of peace . Putin’s lost already. His deep sea port on crimea is already surrounded by countries that align with the EU, its legal norms, plus the eventual option of NATO membership.

Thanks

Great work. Can you give some examples of how this works in practice?

Tagify leverages AI to automatically generate and manage tags for files

Amazing, lol

“somehow RIF returned…”

I’m I the only one who pronounces regex with a soft g? Hard g feels so clunky

I follow the 80/20 rule recursively. as soon as I’ve gotten 80% of the way there for 20% effort I immediately stop, and start a brand new project for the remaining 20%. Bam! 96% complete for only 24% effort.

taps forehead

A good article that includes symbol resolution in context

https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6463

I’m probably at about a 1/10 in ampscript. I just don’t use it enough. I tried something like what you are describing but it didn’t work very well. Trying to debug ampscript that runs in an email template at send time by copying into a cloud page and then trying to mimick the various properties only available at send time was just maddening. I can’t comprehend how Salesforce bought such a buggy and poorly thought through piece of junk. It’s a coin toss whether some of the main menus even load half the time. Ergh…

I loathe debugging ampscript and anything to do with marketing cloud with a passion…