jblakey

It's nice to see my old MUD is still online, and my account is still there, 30 years later!:)

https://gatewaymud.org/

I picked up a copy of the Klutz book back in the 1980s. I think it was their first publication, and it got me started. Their YoYo book was also a fun time.

On a related note, why is Netflix's interface so locked down? Why would it be bad for me to turn off autoplay for trailers? Why can't I say "never show me this show again, I'm never going to watch it"? And why, in this age of AI, and they still putting white text over a white background? That last one, especially, made me say "do people at Netflix eat their own dogfood"?

Second that, it's the right mix of paint and gimp for me most of the time.

Got a Dell latitude 7420, wiped Windows 11 off it, installed Ubuntu, and I was happily surprised that everything just worked.

I was waiting to see the output of the macro:)

I really wish the Apple presenters would stop waving their arms... since I noticed they were doing it, I can't stop seeing it:)

Second this - I think part of being a programmer is having a really hard head that stands up to being banged against that wall, over and over, until the thing you're trying to make work works:)

Man, I was just getting started in Fusion 360! Bummer!

I really liked the "answer yes" point. It keeps the person needing help going in the right direction instead of stopping them cold.

Love this article! I don't think the guy is playing a 'persona' at all in this piece. These are the kinds of things he thinks about on a daily basis. Heck, these are the kinds of things I think about on a daily basis too, and I'm sure most devs who have been writing code for a few years do.

In my daily work, I don't have time to understand everything. There, i've said it. I'm not lazy. I'm not stupid. I just don't have time when I'm trying to get a task/job/chore done. I appreciate good abstraction/encapsulation. A good tool does this. A bad tool fails to do this. Same with documentation, really.

Don't get me started!:)

I set up Confluence and used it a lot for "how to do this" and "how to do that" notes for myself. It was helpful to me, and I figure that it MIGHT be helpful to other people. It doesn't HURT to have the information searchable, and with a GUI on it for the less-UNIXy folk. Some people use it, most don't.

Three great programmer virtues, according to Larry Wall: 1. Laziness (figure a smart way to do it that is less work) 2. Impatience (figure how to do it faster) 3. Hubris (figure that what you're doing is important)

Ah, Trumpet Winsock - and then Windows 95 spoiled that party!:)

Kuhn or bust!:)

Laugh-a while you can, monkey-boy.

I'm in Ontario, too, and couldn't get my PD from Laurier Optical. So I left, went on Amazon, and bought a PD Distance Measurer for a couple of hundred bucks. Did my whole family, and now my wife feels better about ordering from Zeni. Saved enough on a single pair of glasses to pay for the meter.

Just wanted to say thanks for all the hard work over the years!

I realize I may be out of touch (pushing 50) with the current state of things, but I keep asking myself "What right do I have to expect a Company (that I pay no money to) to provide me with access to their service?"