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Should be pretty doable, even if you don’t have much JS knowledge yet. You might want to look into TamperMonkey for this, it’s a sort of framework for making custom browser plugins!

I tried to go to University for CS but never quite got the hang of the math part. Instead I got a Certification in Computer Science from an apprenticeship (idk if that’s the right Translation, in German we call it “Fachinformatiker für Anwendungsentwicklung”) within 1.5 years and with extreme ease, because it was way less math-heavy and more focused on actual programming.

I stayed with the company that I did the apprenticeship with and got promoted from Junior to Regular within a year. I work exactly in the field and position I wanted to work in when I was going for the CS degree. In fact, I have the exact same responsibilities and the same pay as my colleagues with CS degrees. It might not be like that in every company, but it did work out for me.

Just for fun, I actually went back to Uni this semester to try and actually finish one or two math modules, but dropped out within 2 weeks because I was hopelessly incapable of even understanding the basic concepts lol

Not admitting to any sort of experience here, but if any aspiring artists come across this:

Get yourself a manager. Even if you’re not that popular yet, just have a friend handle the communication, commission slot scheduling and payment processing for you. Because no matter how much passion you go into the job with, eventually you will fall into playing online therapist for a guy with a name like “VirusDog24” whose wife is pretty unhappy with the amount of money he keeps spending on commissions and who keeps asking for way too many alt versions. But you kinda have to keep him happy because he does pay so well and comes back all the time due to some weird parasocial attachment.

No matter how good the pay is, stuff like that can really pull the fun out of a hobby, hypothetically.

Yoo that’s pretty cool! Bottom-Up component management is definitely something I’ve wished for (and may or may not have implemented) several times when working with React haha

Yeey!!

I find AI summaries so damn tedious to read, they just keep repeating themselves over and over again :(

Well why would you even need machines if a Mentat can describe images of cats to you instead

Related book recommendation!!

Kil’n People by David Brin - it’s a futuristic Murder Mystery Novel about a society where people copy their consciousnesses to temporary clay clones to do mundane tasks for them. Got some really interesting discussions about what constitutes personhood!

Yup, exactly! So a calculation-only module that doesn’t have a frontend would never have any TS Code in my case.

The classification of language -> task makes sense! I’m thinking of the weird college courses that wanted Java frontends lol

But how would you generalize that for a resume? Say you’ve used C# both for making backends and making frontends in separate projects. Would any sort of classification make sense in that case?

I’d love for someone more experienced to chime in, but on first glance the classification of JavaScript/Typescript as backend strikes me as weird.

That may just be because the team I work with uses a React/Typescript/Java/Postgres stack and we specifically classify the Typescript as part of the Frontend. Maybe it’s different in different companies?

I’m sure that a Typescript backend could work perfectly fine, it’s just semantics 🤷

My homeoffice setup is right next to a window, so it’s too bright for dark mode during the summer. So I work in light mode from about April-September and in dark mode for the rest of the year

JS is absolute chaos programming and I love that way too much. You can just feel all the caffeine ingested by the guy who had to pull long nights to ship JS within 10 days. That’s exactly the vibe I’m going for with my code.

You’re right! That’s actually a really cool point about Generator functions too, them having while(true) loops is very unproblematic :D

I’m correcting myself to:

function* sorry() { while(true){ yield "I'm sorry"; } }

I’ll do you one better

function* sorry() { yield "I'm sorry"; }

Call sorry.next().value as many times as you need to baby, hell you can even use it in a for-of loop because Generator functions are Iterable. I fucking love JavaScript

They already have a very advanced system to transfer actually valuable data (when/how much power needs to go to the grid, end user data, redispatch of solar panels etc etc). We’ve actually taken that complex and valid system and clipped its wings to do something way less useful :')

The German government has decided that starting on October 1st of this year, they don’t want energy providers who want to call up another energy provider to just google the other company and use that number. They want an entire new system of message exchange for the sake of transmitting data like a company’s address and phone number directly to all it’s market buddies.

I’m part of the team who had to build that shit within the last 4 months or so. It’s a neat project and everyone gained knowledge in AWS cloud stuff, but realistically, every one of our customers will use the system exactly once (as required by the government) and then never again.

Exclusively IntelliJ Ultimate, cause that’s what my work pays for. I try not to program outside of work.

ESLint has entered the room

Give me both and wash it down with some Prolog goddammit