I Feel Like The Creators Of Scheme Were Really Big Fans Of Yoda’s Verbal Syntax.

The more I work with front-end dev the more respect I have for UX designers. It takes 2 hours for me just to make sure that when the window resizes I don’t lose all functionality.

Django actually has a built-in tag specifically for generating the latin gibberish used in samples. They already solved every real problem for developers, so they proceeded to solve problems you didn’t even know you wanted solved. 

Guess who jumped into his first React project without any planning and now continues to add features thereby creating a monstrosity of spaghetti code. THIS guy!

LEDs are a critical component for any workflow

You know how there are a lot of programming languages that people say are “really powerful if you know how to use them”? And how usually those languages aren’t at all worth the time? I think Haskell might actually be worth the time. After a hiatus I’ve come back to it and love it. I hardly know how to use it, but at least I can perceive how it might be really powerful.

Prolog is still the worst, though.

I like that a Razor pages app (and really ASP at large) makes organization effortless, but I do not like how complicated a simple project becomes because of that organization. 

Yes yes I know that it’s not made for small projects and it exists for large, enterprise endeavors, but still. Just let me pass data to my pages without 3 hours of configuration. 

Long live Indices

Question for a higher power: Is the ability to access specific list indices something I’ve always taken for granted? Or should it be an expectation? 

Scheme’s implementation of a “list” is a series of nested pairs (sorta nested - I’m calling it that even though that’s not completely correct), so you can either get the first element in the list or all of the others UNLESS you know the specific index you need in a constant fashion (i.e. “c” + [combination of “a”s and “d”s] + “r”). 

Haskell has those sweet sweet index accessors we all know and love from C and it’s children and even most of it’s counterparts. Even in C itself there was functionality to store an address to a pointer and then just do pointer arithmetic to access an index like arr[2] -> 0x#{ADDRESS OF arr} + 2. It’s simple and straightforward, so I don’t feel like I’m being difficult to expect that of my programming language. Am I, though? 

You’ve probably noticed by now that this post isn’t meant to be a coherent case for anything; it’s more of a ramble and a rant. Honestly, though, just give me accessors (and mutatability too please... I’m looking at you Go. Nobody thinks you’re slick with your whole “arrays are static and annoying use slices because we’re edgy”).

Does anyone read programming books? Like actually?

Keeping them on a shelf having skimmed the table of contents doesn’t count.

Can never settle on just the right DPI setting for my mouse

Well of course. Mina is an ELITE data wrangler.

Want to go on record and say that the owner of this blog did, in fact, read dracula daily. Time and time again I tried to think of fun ways to relate it to programming. Yet time and time again I couldn’t bring myself to do it.

Not because there weren’t ways I could shoehorn in a weird analogy, but because I admired the characters too much to force one. Idk it just felt disrespectful to bring code into this.

Will happily disrespect Dracula, though. Got some real cobol energy from that dinosaur. Particularly the way he drains the life out of a lot of happy, wonderful people.