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Wanting to live in the end times is kind of cowardly since it absolves of you of the burden of building a better future. Some great compelling force will come down from on high and sort it all out.
Since you don't really know what times you face it's more responsible and brave to live as if these are the "Beginning Times" instead. And with great effort you may do a tiny bit of good that lasts a few decades beyond your grave.
LiveView Native Is Here
https://dockyard.com/blog/2024/09/09/liveview-native-is-here
Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://dockyard.com/blog/2024/09/09/liveview-native-is-here
AI generation when writing software is a false economy. You are replacing writing code with code review. Code review is harder and requires you to already have an understanding of the domain which often means that you would’ve even able to write it yourself to begin with. If you code gen something because you don’t know how to write it yourself, you by definition cannot review it without going though an effort equivalent to writing it yourself in the first place.
Unless of course you don’t care about code review and so doom yourself into treating software like magical incantations that break randomly for no perceivable reason; but no good mage would do that, surely.
IDK who needs to hear this, but engineering is the conscious act of synthesizing what we know and can learn about systems to build things that serve users and society.
The opposite of engineering is reckons; not looking or learning about the system, usually in service of avoiding the hard work of managing the quality of the result. In other words, bullshitting.
Engineering == service.
Bullshit == self-service.
Only one of these is worth paying for.
A Secret Career Code
“Tl;DR: If you want to do something and think you can do it: just do it. If you’re any good at all, you’re probably better than most people who’ve done it, and far better than those who won’t even try.”
Many developers/businesses seem to think that Interaction to Next Paint (INP) is only a problem *starting* March 12th... not that it's a metric surfacing a user experience problem YOU ALREADY HAVE and may have HAD FOR YEARS.
March 12th just happens to be when Google starts penalising you for it 🤦♂️
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