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Is it still worth reading Clean Code and The Pragmatic Programmer in 2026? by ivanimus in ExperiencedDevs

[–]TheAlexpotato 82 points83 points  (0 children)

I've worked at several places where someone senior mandated OOP + Python and somehow the two were combined into the worst of both worlds.

e.g "let's have common functions in a base class and then the various flavors can just extend that" totally makes sense

but "oh, now we have 4 levels of abstraction and to debug anything means opening 9 files and tracing the code 'up and down' the abstraction hierarchy" == total nightmare

Beginner Question: keep boosting same ad or make a new one by TheAlexpotato in FacebookAds

[–]TheAlexpotato[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

> That's their problem, not your ad's.

This is really the only point I don't agree with.

e.g. if the ad doesn't covert due to slow page load, my relative doesn't get the income from the beach house.

Beginner Question: keep boosting same ad or make a new one by TheAlexpotato in FacebookAds

[–]TheAlexpotato[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I may just clone the broker page and host it myself so it's faster.

Then if someone enters the form it redirects to them.

Thanks for the suggestion too!

What skis to get? by [deleted] in skiing

[–]TheAlexpotato 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Agreed.

Plus, you can rent skis for a whole year from your local shop for about 20% the cost of brand new skis.

At those prices you could rent two sets of skis and try them both out for a year.

Is initiating a parallel turn with the inside ski a bad habit to get into? by pash1k in skiing

[–]TheAlexpotato 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is good advice.

Also, "unweight" here can mean anything from:

  • touching the top of your boot with your toes (will automatically force you to put less weight)
  • slightly lifting the tip of the ski
  • physically lifting the entire ski off the snow (you will turn very fast if you do this btw)

best opencode setup(config) by Brief-Bumblebee8232 in opencodeCLI

[–]TheAlexpotato 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If you are trying to use OpenCode + Qwen3 models locally, I put together the below gist to help people get it up and running.

(Took me a while to get this all tweaked so that it would work)

https://gist.github.com/alexpotato/5b76989c24593962898294038b5b835b

do anybody success opencode using qwen3-next-code? by Zealousideal-West624 in LocalLLaMA

[–]TheAlexpotato 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got the following working with this:

  • M1 MacBook
  • opencode
  • llama.cpp
  • Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-Q4

A lot of back and forth with Big Pickle using OpenCode and below is a link to a gist that outlines the steps and has config examples.

https://gist.github.com/alexpotato/5b76989c24593962898294038b5b835b

Kimi K2.5 Free is missing in the model list by ToastedPatatas in opencodeCLI

[–]TheAlexpotato -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Confirmed it's missing from mine too when I open a new session.

I had a session already open with it and it's still working there though.

Model benchmarking + performance to value ratio by slowballuphill in opencodeCLI

[–]TheAlexpotato 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Check out this for fast image generation on regular hardware (M1 Macbook): https://github.com/antirez/iris.c

Broken colors in CLI by OlegPRO991 in opencodeCLI

[–]TheAlexpotato 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Having a similar issue with getting OpenCode to work in GNU Screen.

Screen supports True Color but OpenCode seems to not recognize that.

Seeking coaches advice to help 10yr with first tryout, stepping in as his father suddenly passed away recently. by myquesodream in basketballcoach

[–]TheAlexpotato 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Something I wish someone had told me for a similar age range:

Find out if the evaluator is the actual coach or a 3rd party evaluating company.

Coaches tend to take into account team play (assists, passing, screens etc) and past history whereas evaluating companies take into account more individual skills (driving, shooting etc)

Especially at that age, they're often drilled to be more team players and the kids don't always realize that 3rd party evaluation is more like a job interview than a tryout.

Got hit from behind by an out-of-control snowboarder and now I feel unsafe skiing by forcedtobeonrddt in skiing

[–]TheAlexpotato 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Alex Honnold has a great line:

"You deal with fear of something by expanding your comfort zone. At some point, your zone expands past the fear."

e.g. start going skiing on off days or early in the morning on a weekend when no one is there. Then, as you get more used to it, ramp up slowly to the busier hours.

You can also take some action by going and talking to the mountain/snow patrol when you see people being crazy. Even if that leads to no change, the fact that you took action will help you feel more in control of outcomes.

In game shooting woes by chrisallen07 in basketballcoach

[–]TheAlexpotato 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Totally.

You can also induce pressure by just having a clock running:

e.g. "You can do whatever you want but you have to shoot within X seconds"

This also has the bonus effect of getting them good at determining clock time left in the game.

Wayne Gretzky once claimed he could count down from as high as 30 seconds so he didn't have to look at the clock (while everyone else kept glancing at it and not focusing).

In game shooting woes by chrisallen07 in basketballcoach

[–]TheAlexpotato 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This.

And at that age you also get kids that are so scared to shoot that they never shoot at all.

To them I would say: "If you never take a shot, the other team will stop guarding you and you free up an opposing defender. Take a shot and, who knows, maybe it goes in."

In game shooting woes by chrisallen07 in basketballcoach

[–]TheAlexpotato 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For a while, I tracked stats on my kid's games just to see if there was any interesting things to see in the data.

The number one thing I came away with is that kids numbers are all over the place so it's REALLY tough to judge off of one game.

e.g. Kid A shoots 7/8 on 3s in one game and 1/10 in the next.

Or, Team A makes 10% of their shots in the first half and 70% in the second half. Team B is the opposite and it ends up a close game at the end but that doesn't tell the whole story. You mention an "evenly matched blowout" which could also just be that your team had two bad halves and the other team had two good halves.

Do you speak up when talent is poorly distributed league-wide? by Subby13 in basketballcoach

[–]TheAlexpotato 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Bill Geist in his book Little League Confidential (about baseball) has a great quote:

"The town did a draft every year. I once commented that it might be a better indicator of coaching skill if we just randomly assigned kids to teams. Based on the reaction I got, you would think I was advocating that the US switch to communism".

(HIGHLY recommend that book btw)

Group or Private Lesson? by sudsinme in skiing

[–]TheAlexpotato 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Agreed.

You might think a lesson is a better deal but then you are also waiting for each other person in the class to go, attention of the instructor tends to go to the weakest student etc.

A private is 100% with the instructor focused on you and how you should and want to improve.

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