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Yes! I suffer through this daily. It's atrocious.

Funny, I'm just reading War and Peace myself (the Anthony Briggs translation) and having the same reaction, gushing occasionally to people I know how approachable it is, and how da…

Ha, I'm a gardener then, on my 15th year of maintenance. So halfway there according to you. Slowly, very slowly, fixing the thousands of bugs the rockstar left behind 15 years ago.…

Closest would be the ACCU Overload journal, freely available here [0]. There'a also Visual studio Magazine but it's obviously Microsoft-centric [1]. Also CODE magazine [2] but it's…

Exactly. Thank you for saying this.

That's actually pretty close to my own career as well.

I work on an ancient codebase, C# and C++ code spanning over 3 major repos and 5 other minor ones. I'm senior engineer and tech lead of my team, but I also do a lot of actual codin…

I've been using Perplexity for small, fast queries almost exclusively for the last year or so. Their Sonar model is Llama running on top of a Cerebras chip, and searches the intern…

Except for new files, you'd have to also run git clean -f

Wallace Stevens' excellent book of poems, Harmonium, is also now free on Wikisource [0]. [0] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Harmonium_(Stevens)

There's also bflat [0]. Not an official Microsoft product, more of a passion project of a specific employee. "C# as you know it but with Go-inspired tooling that produces small, se…