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I don't know who needs to hear this but tests can be wrong, even if they are passing.
"React is too heavy for this non-reactive static HTML page I'm making 😡"

This complaint will always make me laugh.
tweetdeck 😭 We need skeetdeck but I'm not googling that
found an old dropbox account i forgot about. here's a picture of me and an ad agency guy i used to work with teaching carlton from fresh prince how tweetdeck worked (RIP tweetdeck)
TFW you brought up a concern that was dismissed only to have the issue bite back hard

Well. Well. Well... If it isn't the issue I tried warning about...
This is largely why I did poorly in school. It was like a drip feed of knowledge. I needed to consume a lot more a lot faster. The internet was a miracle for this. It's why I excelled at development stuff because I could learn as fast as I could consume.
a cartoon character is sitting at a table with a spoon in his mouth
Alt: Kirby sitting at a table sucking a non stop stream of food in to his mouth
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Confession: I love saying "I don't know" but I find myself saying less and less.

This isn't a flex at all, it's depressing 😅 Each new technology or pattern feels partially familiar already.

It almost feels like the amount of new things I need to consume to keep growing continues to grow.
This post is my spirit animal
it's such a joy to build software exclusively for yourself

definitely a form of self-care
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great video by @t3.gg that explains this. thought about writing a post but maybe i don’t need to — it’s mostly all there
This is good, actually
YouTube video by Theo - t3․gg
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I love that Google search doesn't even pretend to care when suggesting searches as you type. I guess that makes sense with how garbage their search results have been.
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The level of test coverage a project will need* scales off essential and accidental complexity in a project. Exponentially.
I don't think that's right LinkedIn...
*this album

Hand crafted typos so you know I wrote it 😅
Another banger on this. That thick synth pad over a wall of noise 😍
Other People
YouTube video by Prick - Topic
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You can't judge a book by its cover because this is goes hard. It somehow seamlessly it blends a lot of different genres with noise and industrial. You can hear Reznor's touch on the album.
Communiqué
YouTube video by Prick - Topic
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I broke in to the industry as a tester but I was a developer long before even thinking about testing. Lots of small side projects to learn but a lot tools that I used. A lot of those I developed to make my jobs easier.
For context, at this point I had been writing code for 18 years as a hobby (I started young). 3 of those professionally as a software engineering consultant.
Way back when I was working as a SDET, before that titled caught on, in an area with others that mostly did pure automation (selenium).

We were almost entirely silo'd since we handled different areas of the business and all had our own automation suites in separate repos. Nothing is standardized.
It's amazing how often bugs stem from something doing too much or something happening that should be happening somewhere else. Core system design issues.
How something SHOULD work isn't the same as having a story to actually implement that behavior 😅
The loss of perfectly good technologies like mini stereo jacks and RSS feeds was the beginning of the end.
It's crazy how I haven't posted anything about looking for a new role but since I recently hit 6 months in my current role, I'm getting hit hard by recruiters.
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Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Time REMASTERED

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Both posts collected in a single link. Downloadable PDF with a DOI number you can cite.

Non-paywall link:

infinite-undo.medium.com/falsehoods-p...
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Time
This paper compiles two previously published posts.
infinite-undo.medium.com
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so there's sort of a paradoxical effect where (at least for a while) the more they SEEM like they can automate things away the more work they're actually making. You see this same thing with self-driving cars, in a sense /