For the DB gurus: Is it wise to model a playlist in a SQLite database as a linked list? I don’t want to have to mutate all entries when, for example, I just want to change the order of items.

But I also feel that recursively fetching the items to follow the list could impact performance for playlists with a lot of items.
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Evaluate IDE Trade‑Offs

Get a balanced view of Cursor’s lean VS interface versus the comfort of IntelliJ, and decide if boosted AI productivity outweighs missing editor features.

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Just proposed someone to not do mandatory pre-merge code reviews, and the reasonable counter-argument was that GitHub Pull Requests do not support that (only in an extremely limited way).

Pretty sad that the most mainstream collaboration tool is enforcing something that often kills efficient collaboration.

And the industry seems to have accepted this. The relevant GitHub Community Discussion has 12 upvotes: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/70480

#SoftwareEngineering #CodeReviews

Software development is more about thinking, collaborating and communicating than it is about coding.

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Fixed Mindset
A Fixed Mindset is the belief that abilities and
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Growth Mindset
A Growth Mindset is the belief that abilities and
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"Too much reliance on AI may be 'a bit of an impending disaster,' Jackson adds, because 'not only will we have masses of broken code, full of security vulnerabilities, but we'll have a new generation of programmers incapable of dealing with those vulnerabilities.'"

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Do you use Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, or similar, for something else than write software?

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