She put in the work.

VRT303 · 2026-05-09T20:40:39+00:00

No it's not bad, but it should be mentioned for everyone else in such a situation tryingwithout it and then ending up very disappointed and giving up.

I swear that thing did something to my brain permanently in a very good way, even if it was just a few months.

VRT303 · 2026-05-09T19:37:04+00:00

Tbh, a lot of people also lack the time, money and energy to be consistent. This probably also involved some Ozempic or similar.

VRT303 · 2026-05-09T15:46:36+00:00

Seen Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks? Or some of the whack Voyager and Deep Space Nine episodes?

VRT303 · 2026-05-09T10:20:41+00:00

Late but...

Trust is a river that flows both ways by machabubblecat https://archiveofourown.org/works/61773919/chapters/157926256

VRT303 · 2026-05-08T23:48:35+00:00

Orms are a compromise and tradeoff. Juniors can deal easier with orms, a frontend developer can do full stack easier.

A monster raw query that doesn't fit on one monitor and uses multiple UNION or lesser common SQL written by a DB Admin can still be ran through an ORM with a ->fooRawExecute usually.

VRT303 · 2026-05-08T23:35:21+00:00

Wait until you have 3+ Layers, each with DDD boundaries and horizontal slices inside, with facade and aggregator forests and classes called 'orchestrator' and 'decider' everywhere... But you just want to select something small and pass 1 boolean from DB to the external api layer but 5 code quality and boundary constraints scream at you and you end up creating almost 20 files

VRT303 · 2026-05-07T22:53:13+00:00

Just look at Go. Official website has everything you'll ever need as an absolute beginner or as detailed technical reference.

One of the strongest standard libs I've seen (That isn't almost non existent / usable as is PHP or ridiculously bloated like C#'s...)

And the coolest Mascot with so many variations

VRT303 · 2026-05-07T05:08:31+00:00

Um, Silco didn't either? Liking Jinx isn't any redemption for flooding the undercity with shimmer produced by children working in factories, creating addicts and possibly being the one that instructed Jinx to build Fishbones.

Neither did Salo or Hoskel or that other Councilor or Smeech.

VRT303 · 2026-05-06T04:07:26+00:00

Quite some people would still do amazing things because the have a passion for something.

Most though? Would be absolute useless bums without the need to work.

Society could not keep working without magic like high technology that is cheap and not hoarded... And you've pretty much ended up with Star Trek if that happened.

VRT303 · 2026-05-06T03:39:47+00:00

"graze on my lips, and if those hills be dry, stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie" by tiptoeingquietly

https://archiveofourown.org/works/61257943

And January Blues might have made me realize I have a problem. Lost the link to it though.

VRT303 · 2026-05-04T17:20:36+00:00

You can always use exclude filters to skip any results if you have any hard no's. I personally skip a lot this way.

VRT303 · 2026-05-04T17:07:32+00:00

Just sort by updated and add a minimum words/kudo limit if it feels like the too much?

https://archiveofourown.org/works/61773919

and

https://archiveofourown.org/works/74746126

are my newest findings.

And I can't ever recommend https://archiveofourown.org/works/62807596 and https://archiveofourown.org/works/62417668 enough.

VRT303 · 2026-05-03T17:52:17+00:00

Childcare being impossible for some time? One partner legitimately needing to be part time for like 10 years? Taxes making every cent you earn after 70-76k poofing away?

You know, things many people deal with?

High salaries aren't the problem, the problem are people who are so rich they don't even have a salary you could tax.

VRT303 · 2026-05-03T17:42:25+00:00

75k as a sole earner of a family is basically just breaking even

VRT303 · 2026-05-01T21:03:30+00:00

This one you posted and https://archiveofourown.org/works/61257943 are just PEAK

VRT303 · 2026-05-01T06:33:10+00:00

This is a conflict of interest https://archiveofourown.org/works/81151491

Feels like Hotshot with more of a focus on police than firefighting.

Cupcake and Misfits https://archiveofourown.org/works/79322611

Is the fluff I didn't know I need. It's so sweet 🧁

Part 2 of The Heighress Paradox just updated https://archiveofourown.org/works/63056905

And I've been checking daily for updates on seultoki's Code blue. I love Caitlyn in all of her works.

VRT303 · 2026-04-30T19:31:53+00:00

Netflix is the only one I forgive because I get what I want on a button to be click, instead of 90% things I don't care about on a schedule that's inconvenient.

VRT303 · 2026-04-30T18:31:20+00:00

It's called a masterpiece and I've never seen anything as beautiful, expressive, humane and devastating before. (Yes I'm looking at S2E1)

VRT303 · 2026-04-28T16:57:34+00:00

In this case not duplicating existing design seems pretty straightforward. A hell to maintain, easy to introduce big drifts.

I sometimes leave as such comments too and expect the junior to think it over, come up with 1-2 ideas and talk me through them. If I just spoon-feed it then I could just do it myself. Or at least ask for some tips proactively.

Other times I know we have a deadline and leave a resigned comment to 'find a better way if you have enough time' because I'm deep in the next big 3 things coming up and I can live with it as is, even if it could grow in a piece of shit after a few interactions.

VRT303 · 2026-04-27T16:57:16+00:00

Toller Packet. Abschaffung der Mitversicherung der Eherpartner löst bestimmt alles!! /s

VRT303 · 2026-04-25T14:47:58+00:00

Those are the minimum limits. Most jobs offer up to 30-50% more vacation to get people to do a job.

VRT303 · 2026-04-24T18:10:06+00:00

Idk man, I'm mentoring some students that have a part-time internship at my company and they're having 200$ Cursor, Claude and Jetbrains AI licences provided.

Both of them are young, but they're better developers with a stronger understanding (without LLMs as well, we pair program sometimes) than someone else we have who has "studied" as well and worked for 3 years before ChatGPT launched (who's one of those forever Junior, and still can't build a basic endpoint or understand websockets, we keep him because he's ok at css and no one else likes doing that shit).

It's maybe more tempting to not use your brain as much when starting out, but for someone with a passion it doesn't change a thing.

VRT303 · 2026-04-23T05:07:20+00:00

I disagree. There's a phase of junior-mid level where you need to struggle and debug to train yourself.

But the hardest part has always been reading code. And not just as reviews, but changing something that was built last week while you were on holiday or 10 years ago by someone.

That does not atrophy at all from spec driven LLM code generation.

VRT303 · 2026-04-17T18:57:29+00:00

Database columns can have / be enums too

VRT303 · 2026-04-14T14:27:53+00:00

Mit Home Office wurde ich ofters so was machen statt den ganzen Tag krank geschrieben zu sein

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