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Why don't we all just chuck a post in a gist and use the comments to chat?

The last code I wrote is both the best and the worst. All code is just sitting in prod to become tech debt. I'm always learning how to do it better.

I use a similar thing that also handles when you forget -rf, with confirmation & stuff; https://github.com/MikeDacre/careful_rm

My kid’s no longer on roblox. We originally locked the account down to try and keep her safe. With commuication off and the account limited to only th Roblox verified games we thou…

Get rid of toblox entirely, kids bypass the chat block by changing their names or the names of their pets/items in Roblox verified games.

Haven’t had any major issues since switching. Still easily able to get on with my day job and toy around as I always would. Glad that the world is catching up a little but it’ll ta…

Not my current employer. For jumping into new codebases I stick to the Jetbrains toolbox because it’s usually a consistent enough environment to investigate a new codebase. I also …

Same works for urls.

In the UK all of my final stage interviews had me bring in an ID and National Insurance Number for a photocopy for their records. Has been for over a decade. Seems a simple enough …

I develop things for iOS devices. So I gotta pay the Apple Tax. Enjoying my M1 though, and I like the *nixy bits of OSX so it’s an okay compromise.

Someone offline stack overflow for me before I paste half our source into it. Agree with the author btw, just like the idea of taking it to a really far fetched conclusion.

Hey man, I saw no PRs at the minute but I wanted to play on the train with save/restore so I knocked out a quick Cordova wrapper. It’s here; https://github.com/jamescodesthings/dev…

What’s your alternative tracking mechanism? And what does it report? Truth is you might be so good because you’re not at scale, they may be looking to scale you up which is great..…