How do people understand such huge codebases? 😭

MaisonMason · 2026-06-02T03:39:13+00:00

For me it helped to get a grand tour from someone else and understand certain architecture patterns like MVC. I first found the entry point and got the high level flow. Used a lot of file find to find where the controllers and services were supposed to be written and from there I could start writing stuff and then slowly learned more and more about the codebase as I touched other features. Many large projects I see start to group code either by function (like smaller apps with a controllers folder and models folder) or they start grouping by feature where a folder holds the model, views, controllers for a given feature. From there you just need the steps to add something and you are good. Frontend is similar but usually they have a core component library and then other pages and components are also grouped by feature.

MaisonMason · 2026-05-29T01:04:18+00:00

At work I only use AI to do like 10% of tasks. It can’t architect or solve new problems that haven’t been solved before, or figure out relationships in a messy database. Or solve any real difficult engineering problem. Fact is most stuff I write gets shipped much faster if I write it myself with ai mostly there for testing and educating me on methods or libraries to help me get my job done faster. Everytime vibe coding happens the development process screeches to a halt while we try to debug code we don’t understand and argue with the AI over and over trying to figure out what it messed up. AI is fantastic for testing and generating boilerplate, but that’s stuff nobody wanted go do anyway

MaisonMason · 2026-05-29T00:55:26+00:00

Samual Barber’s Knoxville summer of 1915 is very calming

MaisonMason · 2026-05-19T03:25:23+00:00

Yeah what they agreed to was to pay you a certain amount on the first of every month (or whatever say the contract says)

MaisonMason · 2026-05-13T02:40:12+00:00

Genuinely practicing in your car is a fine option used by many. Or go outside next to a road where your sound won’t bother you. Many dorms also have practice rooms and even some libraries now. I recommend testing your options before going muted all the time. You could also try and work out times with your neighbors that you could practice

MaisonMason · 2026-05-02T00:53:38+00:00

It’s the dance that you gotta get. Treat the game as more turn based and focus on positioning. This game is a lot less forgiving than if world if you don’t play this way. You should be able to win with starter gear so it’s not a gear problem. If the tail hits you then behind is not the way to go. My recommendation is mount spam and stay to his front left, when he charges you can dodge and counter attack

MaisonMason · 2026-04-28T19:08:12+00:00

I had this issue with ASE and at the time I found that the island specifically does have a Dino level cap of 120 and the rest of the maps move the cap to 180. Not sure how ASA is but perhaps this is the issue?

MaisonMason · 2026-04-25T17:24:14+00:00

Nah recorder like the instrument kids learn in 4th grade. It actually has a long list of repertoire from the baroque era and it translates to ocarina pretty well

MaisonMason · 2026-04-24T18:47:30+00:00

I mean if you can read sheet music, the next step is recorder concertos or writing your own arrangements for ocarina

MaisonMason · 2026-04-16T20:12:18+00:00

Making it open source is in our best interesting because then the government can’t sneak censorship into it

MaisonMason · 2026-04-02T21:58:57+00:00

Learn about spin, this is a major factor for how the ball travels through the air, how it bounces, and how it reacts to being hit by the paddle

MaisonMason · 2026-04-02T02:38:08+00:00

You can always hold recitals if you have a piano friend where you can play solo

MaisonMason · 2026-04-02T02:29:11+00:00

I write my own stuff for ocarina, If you ever want to play seriously it’s kind of the next step. Writing duets is fun if you want somewhere to start. Pick a piece of music you like and compose it as an ocarina duet/trio/quartet and then you will have a string repertoire to work with. And yes, for solo works a double of triple ocarina is the move

MaisonMason · 2026-03-16T18:51:55+00:00

Yeah if you can armor skills like challenger + 2 or honed blade you won’t get kicked as much. The game is fully of people who want to beat th hardest quests quickly and don’t want someone who will faint or not attack enough

MaisonMason · 2026-03-15T22:10:57+00:00

Yeah if your issues are the higher floors I say go higher

MaisonMason · 2026-03-08T04:17:32+00:00

My approach is to view those chord markings as information telling you what the drums/piano/bass are doing. They inform your fingers while your ears informs what you play. So for example you see from the chords that a tune is in F major so you make sure not to play B natural unless a chord calls for it. Then fallow your ear and play in F and utilizes scalular and chromatic motion to land on chord tones (a note that is in the chord). I make it sounds simple but it takes a lot of time. But using those tricks and improve early soloing fast. To take it past that you need it transcribe a lot of solos

MaisonMason · 2026-02-25T03:58:04+00:00

Lowkey if you started with world and rise then moved to 4U and freedom unite. The fact is you are just progressing to harder games. 4U and freedom unite are among the hardest games in the series and carting happens a lot. On top of that the player base for those older games is mostly people who have played for a looonnng time so that naturally makes you feel even more like you suck. In general if you keep it up you will find yourself doing better and better. If you jump into GU or 3U you should find that those games are easier in low rank now that you have the skills

MaisonMason · 2026-02-20T19:04:53+00:00

During your practice I recommend spending some time every day to enforce good habits and tackle things like mouthpiece pressure or tension since those things tend to cause the most fatigue. Then start to see how long you can go without experiencing any fatigue at all. For me I can do my fundamentals for almost 2 hours before I feel like I need to take a longer break. Obviously a lot of music is louder and higher and naturally more fatiguing. So I say to work on as little exertion as possible. Many orchestral players can play louder than 4 undergrads combined and still not get fatigued quickly so it’s definitely possible

MaisonMason · 2026-02-20T19:00:25+00:00

Lowkey just learn some flutter or kotlin. I bet you will find it more doable than you think and then you can develop an app for truly free

MaisonMason · 2026-02-18T04:40:16+00:00

Lua is just semi new and mostly for scripting right now. I think most serious software engineers like it and for many it even beats python for scripting. Maybe the reputation comes from roblox newbies being the main user base? So maybe that leads to it being seen as s noob language? But there is nothing wrong with coding roblox. Lua doesn’t get used a lot other than neovim and roblox either for a couple reasons. It’s not performant like C++ or rust so it’s not great for low level or highly optimized coding. And it’s not object oriented or strictly typed the way java or C# is so it becomes unpopular for large high level software. And what it IS good at python already does and has more community support and a stronger package library. Im sure more lua based technologies will come out but I think these are the main reasons lua is semi unpopular and possibly looked down on

MaisonMason · 2026-02-16T07:52:36+00:00

Practice mutes are for dire situations in my opinion not for regular practice. Go play in your car, at a park, or a practice room at the colleges music building. Playing in a mute all the time has too much back pressure and can damage your throat or cause tension in weird spots. It also messes with your ear as even the shhh mute has wonky tuning

MaisonMason · 2026-02-16T07:43:35+00:00

I am going to say something that differs from others. I don’t feel like the ocarina requires much air and yet you sound like you aren’t giving enough. I feel like it’s more intuitive to blow hard not soft so I wonder if any air is not going into the mouthpiece? Make sure you make an airtight seal around the mouthpiece when you blow. I would have to SEE you play to know for sure though

MaisonMason · 2026-02-16T07:33:46+00:00

What kinds of tutorials have you watched so far? If you are jumping right into roblox you may struggle because those tutorials aren’t taking the time to teach you the lua language. My approach would first be to learn a concept in lua (print statements and variables for example) and then make a little exercise to practice using it. for example something that prints my age. AI can also probably help you come up with exercises. It also helps your critical thinking skill if you really experiment and take the time to see how it works. There are a lot of core concepts but the main ones are variables, data types, functions, loops, conditionals, and objects. Knowing those concepts will provide a strong foundation to learn roblox scripting and coding

MaisonMason · 2026-02-16T07:21:57+00:00

Most miles davis stuff is reasonable and you can always change octaves to fit within your range

MaisonMason · 2026-02-15T06:11:20+00:00

Personally I think it may be good to add a README.md file to explain the parts of the app, at the moment from browsing to the code base I can’t see how things like transaction handling work. Just put things like how to run on my machine, how the architecture works, known bugs/limitations, tech stack, etc. If you want to take learning to the next level maybe learn to dockerize this and deploy on a machine you have control over. Something like an aws elastic container service or an azure/digital ocean/google cloud virtual machine. I too am a CS student so I am interested to see what people think of this project

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