- I'm getting a full neuro-psych screening next month because my therapist suspects I may have OCD. It's a 4-6 hour series of tests/interviews (and probably other stuff, I'll find out). I'm guessing that's what they're referring to?
- > Most of these students are claiming mental health conditions and learning disabilities, like anxiety, depression, and ADHD.
Well, considering * gestures broadly at everything *, I'm sure more than 38% of students are struggling with near-debilitating anxiety and depression. The future doesn't look very bright right now. I can't imagine what being in college must feel like. I've been doing this job for like 20 years and I feel incredibly uncertain about my future most days.
- JuicyScript
- > I remember seeing a video on here where someone actually booted up a computer from the 2000's and showed how snappy everything was...
Was this what you were referring to?: https://jmmv.dev/2023/06/fast-machines-slow-machines.html
- Yeah, it makes zero sense to use a SSR framework for an Electron app. Just use React, Vue, or Svelte directly. It's one of the few use cases where a SPA makes sense, since the bundle is being served locally.
- > A horrible, horrible hack solution. But it worked!
I ended up building an Access app at an enterprise-y company I used to work at because it would have taken years for IT to build it. The app did something super specific and kept needing super specific additional features, and there wasn't anything on the market that met our needs. The Access UI talked to another Access database on a shared network drive. I just found out that it's still being used heavily by several people every day, 17 years later. You pretty much nailed it, Access is hacky, but it works!
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- My sister has worked as the operations manager for a large concert venue for several years and she has some great stories about contract riders. She regularly needs clarification on whether she needs to provide what preposterous thing they ask for. I think Lady Gaga asked for a goat, which ended up being in there to verify she read the whole thing, so no goat procurement was necessary. However, Sharon Osbourne (i.e., Ozzy's wife) didn't want to see walls. My sister needed to have production hang up curtains everywhere in the dressing room. Some of these people have become completely detached from reality.
As a result of this, over the course of her career, my sister has accumulated the weirdest contact list I could imagine. If I needed a bouncy house, chainsaw juggler, Russian interpreter, and a blimp, she could probably set that up in 30 minutes without ever needing to search online.
- Yeah, it came off as complete nonsense. If someone were talking to me like this in person, I'd probably start suspecting they were doing it to distract me while their friend was outside stealing my hubcaps.
- I'll admit that I got distracted by lead agent's super rad name. I'd like to think someone at the Secret Service said "we need to bring in McCool" as soon as they discovered the potential threat.
- I'll never understand why tech companies choose some of the locations for their data centers. Considering a big thing with data centers is "keeping stuff cool", you would think they would build them in the northern states, closer to Canada versus the hot sticky swamp.
- It's usually Alaska. I fly back and forth to PDX pretty frequently, so I get plenty of cardio at the airport. And you're right about the traffic, but I would argue that 290 is the absolute worst :)
- > I cannot relax before I’ve physically visited the gate.
Haha, oh lawd I can relate. After getting through security with hours to spare before boarding, I make sure to check that my gate actually exists before I can relax.
- I'm also an O'Hare flyer and the biggest time vampire you face there isn't long security lines, it's the four-mile walk to your gate lol
- I take at least 6 - 8 flights a year and I have never needed to show up to the airport 2 hours early, but for some reason, I still do. Maybe it's superstition? I almost always end up at my gate within 15 minutes of walking into the airport (thanks TSA PreCheck!) That being said, even if I could confidently start showing up 45 minutes before my plane is about to take off, I'm essentially just sitting around at home, waiting to get a ride to the airport. So I'm either sitting in a chair on my laptop at home or doing the same at the airport. At least the airport has a Starbucks.
- I immediately got "Pimp My Ride" vibes. Yo dawg, I heard you like HTML so I put HTML inside the canvas inside the HTML.
- It's entirely possible that the PR was reviewed by AI and this didn't raise any robot eyebrows.
- > Talking to people without an end in mind other than satisfying your own curiosity is the slow way that is the fast way. People love to talk about what they’re interested in, and by extension love to talk to people who are genuinely curious about the things they’re interested in.
I feel like this is generally good advice just to grow as a person. I love hearing what people are into, even if it's not really my cup of tea. I get to learn something new that I probably never would have found on my own. Plus, I usually end up making a new friend.
- No joke, the main reason I got TSA PreCheck was so I didn't have to take my shoes off. All the other benefits were just nice extra perks. It was a preposterous policy and I'm glad it's gone.
- I looove cleaning up/refactoring old code, improving build systems, writing tests, etc. I've been contracting part-time at a place for a couple of years now, and that's basically all I do. I suspect there's going to be a greater need for people like me in the near future. I don't think that the code LLMs or agents produce is any better or worse than the code it was trained on. Not to sound too judgmental or condescending, but there's a lot of crap out there. That's a good thing as far as I'm concerned, because I have made a nice bit of extra cash cleaning that crap up. I imagine the description of what I do is going to go from "I'm being paid to fix issues caused by years of accumulated technical debt" to the title of this post. Ironically, AI helps me with my job to some extent, but I usually end up rewriting most of the code it generates because it follows the same bad patterns I'm trying to address.
When I need to add a toolbar to my app, and I want it to be accessible. I look at the APG, the APG has a toolbar example with markup, CSS, and JS, but apparently I'm not supposed to use it. I've been at this for years and it's incredibly frustrating. I usually use the APG code in production anyways. It's probably not catastrophically wrong, but it always makes me feel like I'm screwing something up. The alternative is to use a bunch of divs, spans, and buttons because not all of the patterns have semantic HTML equivalents.
[1] https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/patterns/grid/examples/layou...