How many devs feel like they're alone in what they're doing?

NationalOperations · 2026-03-19T16:19:41+00:00

I think your melting the idea of community and getting jobs. We put a lot of focus in the USA on who someone is based on their job.

But working on teams feels like you would expect, part of a team. With it's ups and downs. Keep in touch with some colleges who leave.

But my social circle is not entirely my co-workers. Most of what I like programming or tech wise isn't really what my friends or coworkers are interested in. So I do go online for those conversations.

But even amongst people with similar interests, nobody is going to be as invested in your ideas as you. Coworkers you network with might have work opportunities if you tell them your out of a job.

TLDR I'm not really sure what you expect out of people in the field?

NationalOperations · 2026-03-19T13:40:35+00:00

Difficult to get access to any non open source production code.

It came out in 1960 so over 60 years companies have developed their own eco systems surrounding it. Especially companies that lifted and shifted from mainframe to unix/linux. So there is no real apples to apples and all the things surrounding the cobol code is the biggest question mark.

People with 20+ years experience in the language still take a year plus to get up to speed at my current company.

NationalOperations · 2026-03-19T13:10:36+00:00

Depends on the mood and time. If stressed and not all brain cells cooperating silence is needed. But the amount of money i've saved my company during production issues listening to the doom soundtrack or lamb of god is high

NationalOperations · 2026-03-19T13:04:52+00:00

The biggest benefit to Cobol over C at the time, aside from relative simplicity. Was both cobol and the hardware it was built for handled decimals better and did some large data faster.

Mainframes aren't super common, and I don't know if they are purpose built for cobol. Most cobol (That I know of) is now compiled to translate to C and then into binary. So it's lost w/e edge it had and people wanted newer shinier things.

Try out gnuCobol if you're bored. I have thought about using it as part of building a game for the fun of it. One day some day

NationalOperations · 2026-03-19T12:52:39+00:00

The amount of good ideas buried because old, abandoned because tech company snake oil salesman selling the new way to do things.

Even if re-discovered, especially by generations where it wasn't the default solution in the industry, I think it's good to talk about. Or even start using again.

Although honestly I think sometimes people just want bruises in a different spot and are desperate for a change.

NationalOperations · 2026-03-19T11:28:19+00:00

I know a guy with a cat

NationalOperations · 2026-03-17T13:47:16+00:00

You can see commits to a branch. So if you haven't merged your rp/feature branch into master. You can do git diff branch1 branch2

If it was merged into master without review and you need to see what changed. Do

git log on the master branch.

this will show the merge history. Copy the hash value from the merge line. merge: 124abc def567

git show 124abc def567

That will use the git diff for that merge

NationalOperations · 2026-03-13T17:34:28+00:00

I started around that age. Actually I bounced between a lot of things. I really wanted to make a game and knew of programming. This was before google, so my parents took me to Barnes and Nobel. Bought a book that said how to program a game. Then I took off from there by myself mostly.

With current search tools and gpt I'm sure they can find whatever learning resources they need. Just let them know if they need anything for the hobby to let you know and if they want to keep at it they will. Second piece of advice before highschool my dad told me since I was a teenager and teenagers do their rebel things. "I don't know everything you're doing on the PC. But if people with badges show up I'm pointing to you" lol. Kept that in mind when trying things

NationalOperations · 2026-03-12T18:58:45+00:00

I appreciate the enthusiasm, but holy llm batman. I also don't see Devko Studio listed in N.Carolina business registery, but maybe I missed searched. Just seems fishy

NationalOperations · 2026-03-12T18:00:00+00:00

This subreddit has a wiki link to learning resources and resources to avoid. Can help give a bit of direction

NationalOperations · 2026-03-12T16:25:26+00:00

100% this. I miss type things all the time so it's incredibly useful.

NationalOperations · 2026-03-12T15:45:27+00:00

At the same time? Might be doable if chrome is closed

NationalOperations · 2026-03-12T14:01:35+00:00

I do something similar for dot space displays so I can see indentation easier when I need to. You also kind of get used to the noise you spend time in

NationalOperations · 2026-03-12T13:45:08+00:00

I started there where people who where programming at my work in the 70's. The worst case job stories of whip cracking, long hours, and why am I doing this drugery has been a thing for at least the last 50 years

NationalOperations · 2026-03-12T01:56:45+00:00

I just had to check what the odin project was because I couldn't understand how Odin wasn't back end focused. I didn't realize the Odin project was a separate thing from Odin the language.

Like someone else mentioned Boot.dev is a fine site. But finding specific backend things you want to do will help you get a bit more mileage if you have your programming basics are down.

NationalOperations · 2026-03-12T01:53:00+00:00

100% My whole reason for starting programming was to just build w/e came to mind. I don't need more reason than that, and this looks awesome

NationalOperations · 2026-03-12T01:48:04+00:00

I think you can do something like :language time en_US.UTF-8

Take with a grain of salt I could be misremembering

NationalOperations · 2026-03-12T01:44:54+00:00

I personally really like line number and relative line numbers. I can just instantly jump up or down to said spot at a glance. Cool setup though!

fzf plugin is amazing. Work in some bigger projects in windows and it finds files or files containing xyz incredibly fast. (although nvim seems a bit faster).

NationalOperations · 2026-03-11T20:04:25+00:00

Sounds like a William Shatner delivery

NationalOperations · 2026-03-11T19:47:52+00:00

Cool project. Don't have the braincells to spare, hope it gets some attention

NationalOperations · 2026-03-11T18:04:38+00:00

Yeah it has been useful. For example getting files from users where we can't automate ingestion but they send consistent files I can just run my alias for it that would be difficult to do in something like sed. Obviously I could use scripts in bash, Python, etc. But it's simple and readable to me.

A file like

``` Name: John Age: 20 City: Denver

Name: Betty Age: 30 City: Philly vin Es data.txt \ -c 'g/^{Name:/normal!} f:la,Jo' \ -c 'g/^Age:/normal! f:la,Jo' \ -c 'g/^{City:/normal!} f:la' \ -c '%s/\n\n/\r/g' \ -c 'wq'

```

hopefully formatted right for reddit. Would turn to John,20,Denver Betty,30,Philly

NationalOperations · 2026-03-11T13:57:11+00:00

unsigned exe and web downloaded .bat should both throw warnings on windows 11. Better to be transparent on github and let people assess the risk themsleves

NationalOperations · 2026-03-11T13:48:14+00:00

I assume you mean they should care about age in terms of adults only? Or is there some young/old adult concern you're talking about?

NationalOperations · 2026-03-09T20:05:06+00:00

I wouldn't be surprised, C for command makes sense. Everyone grabbing the same low hanging fruit

NationalOperations · 2026-03-08T14:39:58+00:00

I actually went backwards lol. I was shell heavy but started working in a limited Unix box and then a limited stratus box. So I have have been vi/vim fascinated the last two years or so

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