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i keep thinking about the end of cohost and what it means and genuinely i am a bit sad i think. this was the perfect platform for me to try and come out of my shell and try and be friendlier in general -- something i fail at on other platforms.

making friends is really hard for me, as is talking about my interests. i feel lucky that people on cohost cared about my cat, my drawings, and my hobbies to some extent. i don't think i will ever get to experience that elsewhere, but for what it is worth? i'm glad i gave cohost a chance. i try not to be sappy about the end of things, because there's always somewhere else, but it never will feel the same will it? so i hope i remember how it felt to have been here at all.

Working on a project that is half a year old and involves a lot of datetime manipulations feels like it would have driven me insane without the help of the tools that tell me right away why my code won't work.

It took me a lot of time to get here. I learned JavaScript from the course on MDN which is excellent and specifically written for beginners, but it doesn't explain TS, so I had to learn what is effectively an entirely new language on my own and from the docs that assume I knew what I was doing. Tinkering with Flutter was of immense help here, as Dart is surprisingly easy and imo is better suited as a model for understanding the concepts of OOP and static typing than any other language I know.

Oh, and working with dates in JS still sucks, especially compared to how it is done in, say, Dart.

Edit: no mx third-party spellchecker, you are greatly underestimating how fun JS Date is.

And yes, I am using Quillbot because I have, like, zero actual literacy and even less attention

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