Did you get it as a tattoo as well?

Have you ever lost desktop icons in this busy painting? :)

What’s your book genre and about?

Patchwork just like my software projects.

I have no downtime like that. Quite the contrary. I have too much work, too many responsibility, and want to fix and improve things that annoy me which adds more.

I do visit programming.dev, which is a distraction, but tangential in my field of work, sometimes directly useful.

Offer the support, offer the help, offer the talk or discussion, and leave it at that. If need be, occasionally/rarely remind.

Everything else would depend on closeness, personality, relationship, and urgency. Mostly, random online friends, there’s an inherent distance, and not the mutual respect and experience together to excuse personal boundaries. Overstepping those would require previous agreements.

uuuh, shiny

Canceling going to a birthday party.

Canceling going grocery shopping.

I bought a 12€ Smartwatch recently. (Crazy what you can get for very little money.)

Right now, I’m upgrading my Nushell plugin in Rust code while not being very familiar with Rust and its mechanisms. I’m using the build errors, cargo crate (libraries) documentation, auto completions/suggestions, existing own and cate/lib source code to find the correct methods and way to do data format transformations. I managed to make it compile again, so now I’ll test-run it. I “accidentally” extended what it can map as well, which is a positive side-effect.

It depends very much on the role I’m in, and what you’re asking in particular. As far as hands-on development work,

• No, I don’t copy tons of code
• I read and/or search and/or analyze and/or remember existing code, to understand what is happening, identify bugs, or embed and write solutions that make sense within the project, reuse existing mechanisms and approaches
• I develop and write solutions, sometimes in one iteration, sometimes through multiple iterations, when I have new findings during development or solution behavior or new questions raised
• When it’s web, it’s more writing, if it’s a Windows Forms app developed with Visual Studio, UI placement and layout is a UI process, but connecting it to and implementing it’s logic and behavior is still a coding task
• I love making use of efficient editor and IDE features like multi-cursor editing when they’re useful
• Overall, I think being in the UI is the smaller part of development

Professional development in general entails much more. I work with my customer and consider their workflows, needs, I discuss and question their requirements, I design solutions both in user workflow, UI, UX as well as in code architecture and implementation. For a long-running project, improving existing code is a large part of what I do when implementing new changes. Documenting what I find out or see and is not documented yet is another big part.

If you feel you never get it beyond absolute basics I encourage you to work on tools, utils, or projects that you use or care about. I wrote various utils for my own benefit and use, and do regular drive-by contributions to projects I find useful or interesting (mostly related to documentation or tech approachable to me).

Don’t just follow tutorials. Set a goal of something that works. Be it a clock, a calculator, a command line tool that let’s you read music file metadata, or starts or stops programs for you. Or whatever you feel might be reasonable to explore and achieve, whether with or without practical use.

As far as I know, while Japanese has no upper and lower case letters, the three/four alphabets Kanji, Hiragana, Katagana, and Romanji get mixed in a way one could see as similar. Denoting different kinds of words or grammatical aspects of a sentence.

And then, “@everyone next update coming soon” or whatnot

Thanks for the notification 🫠

(The first thing I do on every Discord server I join is mute it. I want to be very selective about notifications.)

When a developer replied to my Steam review with

Feel free to help out in the community with suggestions to improve the game! I’ve updated the game to include a in game discord link!

🤨 Yeah, not interested in joining your Discord to give feedback on your game when that could be done in Steam Discussions too. Or, you know, start with taking my review as genuine feedback.

What kind of other websites?

Because there are fewer comments? Or because they’re more worthwhile?

What’s your favorite cheese?

That looks so much better than having only “General fixes and improvements”

In general, I agree, though. Quite regularly I would prefer better update notes, release notes, etc.

I’m not angry. It just doesn’t make logical sense to me. I expected law to use precise, correct wording.

I guess I shouldn’t have posted it here under hate. It’s just something that came to mind that very recently irritated and surprised me. I find it very inappropriate for law, even if there’s historical social reasons for it.

The hence in that sentence make no sense to me. I don’t see god doing this time. Often they’re even explainable.

You put the nail on the head

Today I learned of the legal term “act of god”. (English speaking countries.)

I find it absurd to attribute god and do so in legalese.

/edit: well, maybe not hate, but irritated and dislike