Judgement is also free, apparently. Kids these days, amirite?
YouTube is an amazing place to learn new skills and if you want to learn how professionals deploy code, a peek behind the AWS curtain can be very helpful even if it is too expensive for your toy website.
The title is misleading: the chip isn't useless, it is basically NFC and can be read just fine. The number on it can be looked up in a registry to notify the owner of a lost pet. I believe there is nothing preventing you from registering the same number with multiple registries. Hope that helps.
I find this complaint totally asinine. You can hand-craft software if you like, but cheap is what customers want and that's what they're going to get. Do you spend 10x as much for hand crafted solid wood furniture, or do you buy MDF flat pack? Most people are happy buying cheap stuff from China, and if it doesn't last as long they're happy to replace it.
Well written article full of humility and vulnerability? I love it. My reaction: you don't need to feel ashamed of not knowing something, there is far too much to know and I'm still learning new techniques and concepts 37 years in, so I would never judge you for it.
I would also not judge you for having your own preferences and opinions. I too prefer working in an office to remote work, but when I say this out loud other developers take it as advocating RTO or saying remote work is worse when it just doesn't suit my personality. I get that it's a touchy subject but there is no need to get up in my face about it.
You mention bullying and brigading and that seems to be an unfortunate reality of this industry. I suspect there is a lot of insecurity and imposter syndrome that causes people to write hyper-confident blog posts about why they are better without AI and how their tests have 100% coverage and how (unfashionable language which half the world uses) is garbage etc. Maybe if we all follow your example and be candid everyone could chill out a bit.
I'll go next: despite trying several times, I have never successfully written anything more complicated than Fibonnacci in Lisp or Haskell. I know it's clean and pure and all that, but my brain just won't work that way.
Honestly, good for you. I am almost two years into my spreadsheet and I try to get in 10 minutes a day of intense exercise and half an hour or more of walking to counter sitting all day at the computer. Many people try to "get healthy" and change their entire daily routine at once and that is impossible to do while also living a normal life. It sounds like you layered in one activity at a time and each success motivated the next ambitious goal. This is a smart strategy and one I would recommend to others.
YouTube is an amazing place to learn new skills and if you want to learn how professionals deploy code, a peek behind the AWS curtain can be very helpful even if it is too expensive for your toy website.