this site has two programmers

 

dorky femme droid

eggbug enthusiast

important eggbug lore

 


 

if you use the phrase "be normal" as if it's something to aspire to, kindly take a long walk off a short plank. or block me. whichever is easier for you.

 


 

child of the 80s

 


 

i escaped a cult.
all of the content warnings.
all of them.
tag: exerian's tragic backstory

 


 

                                 
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VampireExpert
@VampireExpert

My favorite thing about using a programming language I haven't used in a while is googling its syntax for comments and function definitions. Always makes me feel like a real pro grammer.



exerian
@exerian

this is in fact how most pros i know operate.


NireBryce
@NireBryce

a colleague once told me that what makes a good researcher is realizing that reference material exists, so the profession is how to find your way back to / forward to things, and then using the prebuilt stuff. Keeping all of it in your head is actively detrimental to the process, because it requires memorization or a lot of reading very similar things


Pixl
@Pixl

100% of my life in game dev has been copying and pasting pieces of code with the most manual labor being figuring out how to make those snippets of code from two completely different people play nice together. It hasn’t failed me yet


NireBryce
@NireBryce

studying is easy, cheating is deeply convoluted and makes you learn a lot of social, operational security, and counterintelligence skills


exerian
@exerian

this also applies to gaming. all of the best programmers i have known have beaten at least one puzzle-ish game by peaking into the code one way or another.



VampireExpert
@VampireExpert

My favorite thing about using a programming language I haven't used in a while is googling its syntax for comments and function definitions. Always makes me feel like a real pro grammer.



exerian
@exerian

this is in fact how most pros i know operate.


NireBryce
@NireBryce

a colleague once told me that what makes a good researcher is realizing that reference material exists, so the profession is how to find your way back to / forward to things, and then using the prebuilt stuff. Keeping all of it in your head is actively detrimental to the process, because it requires memorization or a lot of reading very similar things


exerian
@exerian

precisely. computers remember things for free. why not lean into it?