I remember an old mentor programmer I had who basically described his job as building an addition to an addition to an addition on a tree house built in a twig.

Was gonna suggest this theme. I love it in my light daily driver.

I remember finding Google’s robots.txt when they first came out. It was a cute little text ASCII art of a robot with a heart that said, “We love robots!”

Oh! This was a good one! I remember reading this on Bash.org. ahh, thanks for the reminder.

Hard poached eggs topped with cheddar cheese.

I also use ketchup as an additive in cabbage rolls, sloppy joes, or chili, barbecue sauce.

Meat loaf, Japanese omelet rice.

For me, it’s a lack of meaningful contact with my family on the other side of the country.

Facebook and other social media sources are turning into just giant vanity “me me me!” and shit posting. Nothing more meaningful came out of it… So I abandoned it.

It’s hard to keep track of so many different media outlets as well, and got tiring. Especially with a lot of doom scrolling posts… Such a downer.

Got any tips for how to keep track when you flip between tasks so often? Program or app or paper and pen tracking?

Ahhh, my favourite debugging combo…

echo "<pre>"; print_r( "We are here, we are here!" ); echo "</pre>"; die();

Also fun at parties, hanging out asynchronously, is the ever popular PHP Mail to see if something ran in the background properly, or to get output.

I’d love to see your .editorconfig.

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What’s that in your project root? …pom.xml? Misread that at first as porn.xml.

Not you again!

Might not be dumb, but I learned programming to create things and learn how things worked. Started with entering in hundreds of lines of BASIC printed in magazines, including debugging font typos.

Then learned MUF, or Multi-User Forth, a stack-based text language for creating text based dungeons, and managed to stop some malicious users spying and people’s privacy in the server.

Every so often, I pick up a new language to test it to see if it does cool stuff or help me further learn more about how things function.

Ugh. Definite mood. I had to update a database of over 200k entries, live, during prime time…

Ah well. :Do Weekend!

I may not have a big tip, but here’s what I’ve done when learning other languages…

I listen to people speaking and try to repeat it to myself. If I can hear it in my head, it will sound normal. So when I need to, I can remember how it sounded in my head, and decide if it will sound good in the Curr context.

Ouch… My company speaks French as well. :( I get to hear the buzzwords in English.

My condolences, friend.

I’m glad my company speaks a different language than English, and can’t use all the word soup completely. That said, my company is also wondering why my timesheets never add up to the entire day because always in meetings, scrum, or “can we jump on video chat for a sec because it’s easier to explain vocally than in writing”… And that “sec” turns into a 30 minute tutorial I have to give.

Turtle day? Then give praise to Tortoise SVN!

Thank you for your service in keeping my early programming safe on someone else’s computer!