Struggling Dev

I'm not sure it's in the self interest of America's tech bro billionaires to suggest that we bring back public executions to punish the most destructive people in our society.

I finally bought into the hype around Rust and started reading doc.rust-lang.org/book/ So far so good.

9 months since the company I last worked at shut down. Time sure flies when you're trying to land a tech job.

What the fuck is wrong with people??! 😡 “Online child sexual exploitation, a global crime targeting children, increases yearly, not only in the number of confirmed reports showing child sexual abuse images, but also in the severity of the images and videos.” infonews.ca/news/7443044...

in the emergency room for a snake bite and they rush in a camel to watch The Notebook

As I have said to students nowadays, the most important thing one learns in school is how to learn, and using LLMs completely defeats that objective. The process matters. You don't use a fork lift the gym. The immediate result—weights up in the air—is not always the key reason to do something.

I have been trying to get into the habit of going through open-source codebases on GitHub. My goal is to better understand how robust software should be written. I would love to know what some of you do to make sense of these huge projects?

These outages seem to be getting a bit too common. I wonder if there's some sort of correlation between AI adoption in development and the outages.

I am making a small application, for its deployment purposes. I am thinking of making a bash script and setting it up as a cron job that runs each day. The script would track a GitHub branch and pull code if it detects changes in the branch. Need to check best practices. let's see how it goes.