“So under 'hobbies' you have listed ‘programming'?”

“Yes!”

“But I also see it listed here under 'things you despise with all your being'”

“Yes that’s correct”

@mattiem one of my favourite quotes from The First Law series by Joe Abercrombie rings true in this instance. “You can never truly hate a man, without loving him first”. If you didn’t love it so much you couldn’t despise it with all your being.
@MauriceElliott 😮 💡

@mattiem as a follow up to this, the hated man had his head smashed to pieces against a castle wall by the one who used to love him.

Not sure what relevance this has to programming, just thought it was a funny detail in context. If you ever get to similar rage, maybe put the keyboard down first lol

@mattiem Listed under life goals: « Farming in Switzerland »
@mattiem that made me laugh out loud. Or 'lol' as the young folk say
@mattiem "Programming is my passion, an the emotion I feel most passionately about it is rage."
@mattiem coffee shop folks wondering why I'm laughing too loudly
@mattiem no one hates computers like people who love computers
@mattiem I only know bash but still feel this.

@realsimon @mattiem Use regex, they said. It'll make you so much more productive, they said.

😭

@ricardoharvin @mattiem yeah I recently looked up some sorting logic in a forum and an answer included regex and I noped outta there xD

@ricardoharvin @realsimon @mattiem

I've used regexp since Donna Summer had her first hit - and I still use cheats like this:

https://regex101.com/

regex101: build, test, and debug regex

Regular expression tester with syntax highlighting, explanation, cheat sheet for PHP/PCRE, Python, GO, JavaScript, Java, C#/.NET, Rust.

regex101

@mattiem

Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)

@mattiem @troberts you could add 'writing' to that list
@mattiem I've never felt so seen in my life.
@mattiem technology in general
@mattiem to solve all that, we now have ai to do the programming - worsening BOTH parts.
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