I already know what I need to learn. You could figure that out with a web search. Just see which skills employers are asking for in job postings. Why would I go to college for that?

Julia Evans. Yeah, she’s the one who makes those little zines!

LOL. Much respect of you’re wizardly enough to just learn it from man git. Fortunately, there are plenty of more accessible learning tools for us mere mortals.

My biggest beef with git is that nobody thinks that it’s important enough to teach. Whenever you go through a boot camp or even a college web design program, they only spend a day or two on it max and then move on. That leaves people to learn it once they’re actually involved in a project, which is…not ideal.

I sometimes wonder about that word “finger”. If fingers fing, then what is finging?

It zooms in when I click on it. Are you on mobile?

Area 51 is real. Don’t know if there’s any aliens there, but I’m betting not.

Let’s try that defense for public nudity. People can just choose to not look at it if they don’t like it!

There’s something seriously wrong with our communication infrastructure if some rich nutjob can just buy up an important piece of it and run it into the ground like this. This could’ve never happened if Twitter were a worker-owned collective. Chalk another one up for capitalism.

Both. It’s a quote from a movie, but it’s also a Satanic value.

How can they do that if they don’t have enough money

I liked it at first, but then I ran into some really weird shit. Re-installing didn’t erase the previous install, programs I installed disappeared after reboot, etc. This might be caused by the jankiness of UEFI, I don’t know. I’m never buying another HP laptop after they pulled this shit with UEFI. It’s given me so many headaches.

“This was made by AI” is the new “This is fake; I can tell by the pixels”.

Whenever I meet another web dev, they either have a job as a web dev, they’re looking for a job as a web dev, or they’re trying to create a startup. There are no hobbyists.

I remember when it was considered a mark of professionalism for a web developer to have an email on their own domain. At some point that changed. I think after GMail came out it was so good that everybody switched to that.

I haven’t. What happens?

I don’t get it. This isn’t about a “freedom to offend”, and even if it were, suing somebody over it is the opposite of respecting their freedom.

I often wonder about this. Does capitalism impose so much emotional freight that it makes coding intimidating? Does having it attached to ideas about working hard and getting a job drain the fun out of it?

I’m beginning to think that I would actually get more coding done if I abandoned it as a career path.

Ballmer seems like a cokehead. He probably did plenty of both, though.

“Be patient. It’s compiling.”

“Well, when can I use my computer?”

“…Tomorrow.”