I started out as a React developer and have been radicalized when I wanted to optimize my hobby website to run on crappy mobile data. The thing sends 3MB of Javascript on every full page refresh. I am now learning jQuery.

I don’t get it

I recently switched from Motorola to a Pixel 9 and I’m very happy! Absolutely hated the 5 minutes that the Pixel was running stock Android tho (they remapped the Off button to an AI button and I couldn’t figure out how to power down the phone), but once that crap was gone and GrapheneOS was installed I stayed 100% content. I’m not even a particularly security focused person, but Graphene’s dedication to keeping bloatware and unnecessary dumb shit off the OS has been very appreciated

I’ve recently been obsessed with a streamer called AboutOliver. He played Minecraft for the first time about a year and a half ago, played his entire first season with no wiki or external knowledge, got a little tour of the community server (which he 99% forgot at the time Season 2 rolled around) and is now on Episode 75-ish of season 2. Still no wiki, no guides. He has figured out some crazy things about the game (which I won’t spoil), but is also completely clueless about some super basic features.

It’s been incredibly inspiring to just watch him figure things out, because he is exceptionally inquisitive and methodical by default (I think he’s a phd candidate in Astrophysics irl?). Made me realize the point of a game shouldn’t be to produce the optimal output, but that struggling and finding things out is exactly the point. Incidentally, that mindset also noticeably boosted my performance at work because I’m now one of the few people who will happily continue to tackle a programming problem over and over again, even if there are no helpful guides on it.

Long story short, here’s a link to watch the supercut of Olivers Season 1 Playthrough: https://youtu.be/ljemxyWvg8E
The total season 1 supercut is about 6 hours iirc

OR, if you are insane, here’s the link to the full-episode playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL68V5Cxs_CvTpTY9o7KJ75nLPqlCRxze0
It’s 50 Episodes á 3-5h, great as background noise when doing something else.

Using AI to write Unit tests is one of the few use cases I somewhat understand, but even that turns out horrible with improper supervision. I reviewed one Pull Request once where the testing was so horribly cobbled together and nonsensical that I rewrote those tests by hand (after asking the person I was reviewing to fix it twice and them only making it worse by letting their AI rewrite them)

As I said, it’s been a universal experience in the 5 or so different gyms I’ve tried so far. I’m obviously not going into the bad smelling shower because the women’s showers actually are clean. So idk if that can be blamed on the gym

Inkscape is incredible! I needed to vectorize some images in pretty specific ways and struggled through the process with my usual drawing software (Clip Studio Paint). It sucked so much! Inkscape did the same thing much better in a fraction of the time

Okay semi unrelated question, but do mens gym showers usually smell like poop?

Because I recently got a fancy gym membership through my employer that allows me to go to basically any gym in the area, and so far the shower in the mixed gender sauna areas has always smelled like poop, while the showers in the woman’s sauna and changing room haven’t.
Might just be a weird coincidence, but it’s been like 5 different gyms of different chains and I’ve been really bothered by it

Vegan Schnitzel and Codon Blues are the one thing that basically every supermarket has (usually even in several brands, including their own store brand) and that consistently taste great. So when my work cafeteria doesn’t have any vegan options, a Schnitzel in a Bread roll is one of my go-to things to pack as a work lunch. I don’t think that anyone has ever commented on it.

As I woman, it is finally my turn to say stupid shit

Bookmarking this, so far I’ve cobbled my Dark/Light Mode switch together with Material-UI themes, but this seems like the cleaner way to do this that I’ve been searching for!

I only figured this out like, a month ago! I only became a frontend dev when I got shifted into a new team at work, so I came in with zero prior knowledge and have been using exclusively React and Typescript since Day 1. Didn’t even know how to add a css class to something or what tags beside <div> html has until I started a personal project, ran into performance issues (while hosting it in a shitty aws free tier micro t2 lol) and started investigating why my code loads 3MB of Javascript every time I refresh the page.

I’m working on getting better at it in my personal project, might even try kicking React out entirely and seeing whether just Laravel Blade + Livewire already does everything I need. No way that I’m rocking the boat at work tho.

The banana costume couple after them are goals

pfft, nice try Microsoft

How would they know how many murderers it is if they get away? What if its just one very very sneaky murderer??

Yooo I lived in that area as a kid! Siegen had an awesome burger place near the Train station where you could get 3 cheeseburgers for 4€!

idk dude
The vegan sandwich cheese I buy is 1,29€ / 150g, cheapest animal cheese is 1,59€ / 150g.
The vegan lunch meat I buy is 0,95€ / 100g, the cheapest animal lunch meat of the same kind (Mortadella) is 1,49€ / 100g.
The vegan butter I buy is 1,59€ / 200g, the cheapest animal butter I could find is 1,99€ / 250g (equivalent to 1,59€ / 200g).
Bread is usually vegan either way.

Making a sandwich isn’t crazy cooking

That does sound like a fun Friday night

I’m from Germany, there’s an App here called Vinted which is a platform for people to sell Second Hand Clothes to each other (afaik it’s also available in many other European countries). Just the sheer amount of users usually means that you can get any item that you could get at a store. I usually use it to buy Eco-friendly brands that are too expensive for me to buy new (I found several of my favourite ArmedAngels Jeans there for like 30€ tops!)

I’ve also been dipping my toes into sewing clothes myself from thrifted fabric. Made these cool pants just last weekend!

That seems like quite the generalization