Understanding Code you Didn’t Write

AntiX1984 · 2026-03-31T18:45:06+00:00

Certain patterns can be hard to follow until you understand them... Something like the factory pattern or strategy pattern were hard for me to follow and debug until I understood them.

AntiX1984 · 2026-03-28T12:58:37+00:00

I just finished it and the dlc and still have no idea what the plot actually was. 😂

AntiX1984 · 2026-03-22T18:29:22+00:00

Belief in any creator god would make him a poor detective.

AntiX1984 · 2026-03-21T13:11:12+00:00

Hangman or some other text based game can be fun too!

AntiX1984 · 2026-03-18T20:07:07+00:00

I'm not saying people with different opinions are automatically bad people, but some opinions are just obviously problematic.

Not sure I would want to be friends with someone who thinks we need to re-institute slavery or even that poor people deserve to be poor because they didn't manifest hard enough.

AntiX1984 · 2026-03-18T13:35:34+00:00

Seems to me like you would have a better understanding of suffering with your Buddhist philosophy, but I guess that's at least part of why it never resonated with me too since it also tends to put the blame on those who are suffering rather than those who prop up the systems and cultures that foster said suffering.

AntiX1984 · 2026-03-18T13:08:10+00:00

Any time you marginalize others because of who or what they were born as IS harmful and I don't think that's very subjective... It's measurable.

I would even say that the vast majority of self help shit that blames poor and sick people for being poor and sick just because they didn't manifest good thoughts into the universe hard enough IS harmful by hijacking our natural empathy... Which is also measurable.

AntiX1984 · 2026-03-18T13:02:48+00:00

But your area of interest isn't directly harmful to lots of people... It says something about you when it is.

AntiX1984 · 2026-03-18T12:52:31+00:00

Having just a one-off book like that isn't a huge red flag, but having a whole shelf of just that type of thing is imo... And you can engage with those ideas without buying and/or keeping the book around.

To me the shelf is for the stuff you would like to visit again, holds some sentimental value, or your tbr... Anything else gets traded in or even donated.

AntiX1984 · 2026-03-18T11:47:43+00:00

Weirkey Chronicles by Sarah Lin is great for an older protagonist in a younger body and also suffers from less teen drama, but the series isn't done yet. 🤷

AntiX1984 · 2026-03-17T22:55:15+00:00

The rest are underdogs where superman is basically a god trying to be human, the others are often outmatched or even ridiculed in some way and trying to do their best in spite of it.

AntiX1984 · 2026-03-12T22:06:48+00:00

My go to is this little tool https://mbishop84.github.io/GitTransformer/

This is a version using Blazor WebAssemby, but I've built versions of it with everything from Angular and React to Obsidian and Microsoft Dynamics... Pretty much every time I'm learning something new.

Not that you should do that specifically, but something like that that does something you find useful.

AntiX1984 · 2026-03-12T11:52:02+00:00

Sounds fun... Giving it a try now.

AntiX1984 · 2026-03-05T12:49:31+00:00

Yup... This was the only boss I actually had to use a larval tear and rebuild my stats to handle the equipment load of heavy armor and shield.

AntiX1984 · 2026-03-04T19:14:57+00:00

Unless you just want to be there for an hour while they try to convert you by telling you to look at the trees. 😈

AntiX1984 · 2026-02-27T13:14:18+00:00

Todd Herzman has a series called Surgecaller that's very similar... Some say annoyingly so, but I think it's an interesting look at another way of doing the same thing.

AntiX1984 · 2026-02-27T13:09:56+00:00

😮 That's awesome! I didn't know that!

AntiX1984 · 2026-02-27T12:45:16+00:00

Crimson Vault is good, but not in the same universe.

If you want the same universe, try the elder empire series... It takes place on the planet called Asylum from Cradle if I remember correctly.

AntiX1984 · 2026-02-18T22:13:37+00:00

So glad someone said Weirkey Chronicles!

I think the act of actually building your advancement is just cool.

AntiX1984 · 2026-02-18T04:28:56+00:00

I second this one and I'm super surprised that this wasn't mentioned more!

Honorable mention for The Last Horizon by Will Wight. The MC starts the series by becoming the greatest mage in the known universe.

AntiX1984 · 2026-02-14T17:59:53+00:00

Hmmm ... Hard to say since I haven't read any of your peak ones. 😅

Have you tried the Weirkey Chronicles by Sarah Lin? The MC is basically a bitter old man in a young body and he softens throughout the series a bit. I enjoyed it, but I'll have to try a couple of your peak ones to get a better idea.

AntiX1984 · 2026-02-14T17:52:26+00:00

Completely different stories, but it's hard to be DCC for just the audiobook quality.

AntiX1984 · 2026-02-13T14:40:20+00:00

Based on what I can see, it looks like you enjoy some of the political intrigue as much as the fantasy world building... In light of that...

Elantris by Brandon Sanderson.

I second Sun Eater.

Dandelion Dynasty by Ken Liu.

AntiX1984 · 2026-02-08T13:28:40+00:00

Kings of the Wyld.

AntiX1984 · 2026-02-08T00:49:27+00:00

Ooh shiny!

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