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submitted 1 day ago by gwl to c/writingprompts@literature.cafe
[-] gwl 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

one of today's lucky 10,000

very short children's book, with intentionally atypical rhythm, by Dr Seuss

written in call-response style in dialogue between two characters (unnamed and Sam-I-Am)

https://www.readstoriesforkids.com/Green-Eggs-and-Ham-text.html - text without images, but best enjoyed with the images

the full book on The Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/greeneggsham0000unse/

[-] gwl 8 points 1 day ago

noticed someone like "comments are lazy! never use them! write better code!"

A:

  • I'm paid for doing the job, I'm not paid to be not lazy.
  • comments are fucking useful
[-] gwl 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The real answer is it's not A or B. Comments matter, but don't scattershot them either, better written code can make it so it's less comments, not commentless.

Humans are not infallible beings, even code written with the perfect intent can have bugs in it, or be overly rigid and inflexible, caused by moments of fuzzy logic coming from the meat side.

Without comments though, when that fuzzy code breaks, then nobody else will know what the original intent was and will then have to waste time either deciphering the intent and then fixing the one or two badly written lines out of the thousands, or rewriting the whole thing from scratch.

Also, there's the other factor you're ignoring. There's no infallible programming languages either (especially JavaScript, king of inconsistency.)

Intuitively you'd assume that !nullyValue is always going to behave the same, but that's just straight-up not true for all instances, and you need comments to go // known bug with Firefox v12, have to use this none-standard pattern as workaround

[-] gwl 4 points 2 days ago

Easy mistake to make ๐Ÿ˜…

[-] gwl 2 points 2 days ago

Great response!

[-] gwl 1 points 2 days ago

Ah but it paints fascism in a negative light, therefore woke

[-] gwl 6 points 2 days ago
[-] gwl 1 points 2 days ago

Ah see but, Bf1 is "woke"

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submitted 2 days ago by gwl to c/writingprompts@literature.cafe

Inspired by a Tumblr post about "bees must see humans as like godlike beings, so it must be strange that the tradition of 'tell the bees when their keeper dies, or a curse shall befall you' happens"

[-] gwl 1 points 3 days ago

That's a good prompt response! It reads just like an actual person who is worried about a stupid thing for no good reason at all.

[-] gwl 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Ah it's very simple, you would buy this if you'd made your whole personality about being a GAMER, where you believe that the only real games are FPS PvP War Simulation, and everyone that plays anything else is a poseur.

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submitted 1 week ago by gwl to c/writingprompts@literature.cafe
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submitted 1 week ago by gwl to c/alternativefrontends@lemmy.ml

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/33159602

I'm still liking frontend JavaScript, but I am getting real tired of the ReactJS ecosystem, however I don't have the slightest idea how to get a job that's using a newer one such as Vue or Svelte

It does feel like once you've done the same framework for a while you get seen as FRAMEWORK dev instead of LANGUAGE dev

Any protips? This is kinda half a rant too

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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by gwl to c/webdev@programming.dev

I'm still liking frontend JavaScript, but I am getting real tired of the ReactJS ecosystem, however I don't have the slightest idea how to get a job that's using a newer one such as Vue or Svelte

It does feel like once you've done the same framework for a while you get seen as FRAMEWORK dev instead of LANGUAGE dev

Any protips? This is kinda half a rant too

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