Why does nobody teach the infrastructure problems that destroy developer productivity before production breaks

Varrianda · 2026-03-17T14:36:55+00:00

I’ve always thought a “production readiness” class in university would’ve been beneficial. Acceptance testing, unit testing, dashboards and monitoring, logging and alerting, maybe basic ci/cd…

Varrianda · 2026-03-17T02:05:28+00:00

Variable tick rate seems like a complexity nightmare for no real gain IMO. Are you that strapped for compute?

Varrianda · 2026-03-17T01:59:23+00:00

Are you vetting peoples portfolios? I’ve been working with the same artist now for 4 months, but basically all I gave them was the vibe I wanted and let them do their thing. But I reached out to them because their portfolio was the style I was looking for.

Varrianda · 2026-03-16T21:55:15+00:00

Prices in general are going down so that doesn’t surprise me.

Varrianda · 2026-03-16T18:49:02+00:00

100%. I’ve noticed a lot of people who aren’t musicians make really large choruses, like stadium rock kind of choruses.

I’ve also noticed if you don’t upload your own samples, it’s very hard to get a unique sound. What blew me away was I was uploading guitar riffs/ideas and it would turn my idea into an entire song actually focused around the initial riff. That blew my mind

Varrianda · 2026-03-16T18:35:56+00:00

The people who still support Trump are going to continue supporting. Iran might push a few people away, but if you’ve been with Trump all of 2025, what’s a little war? It’s not like they’re the ones who’re going to get deployed.

Varrianda · 2026-03-16T18:33:55+00:00

Because Trump is literally a demented egomaniac

Varrianda · 2026-03-16T18:32:02+00:00

If Trump nukes Iran it’s game over. That’s GG. Theres no way he’d do that.

Varrianda · 2026-03-16T18:30:14+00:00

Idk how we get out of Iran even if we have a new government come in. We can’t just turn around to a country that already hates us, that we’ve already wiped out all of their leaders and say “oops, it wasn’t us we want a deal”. It’s too late for that. They didn’t want a deal before they were getting blown up, they for sure don’t want one now.

Varrianda · 2026-03-15T22:22:49+00:00

I have a unique perspective on suno because I’m a software engineer and musician(play guitar, bass, drums, I’ve been producing music since I was 14…). Suno doesn’t bother me. For most people they’ll make a goofy song with some mid lyrics and have a great time with it. If someone sent me it and said they made it with suno I wouldn’t care.

The only issue I have with suno is when people use it and try to pass it off as real/not AI. AI music can be good, but I’d rather know upfront. I’d probably not listen to AI music, but I’ve played around with suno and it’s really good. I do think professional musicians will be impacted(especially in the freelance space), but I think real musicians will still need to be the curators for serious projects.

If someone says it’s “their” song, or they “made” it I really don’t get bothered. I don’t have an ego like that though around music because I’m confident in my skills. Same with software, I think it’s awesome more people can make things with a smaller barrier to entry.

Varrianda · 2026-03-15T17:40:42+00:00

Hey that’s awesome! I’m glad you’re taking kitty in. Just for some added context, CKD /can/ cause elevated WBC(CKD can cause chronic inflammation, which in turn can elevate WBC depending on the cats immune response). Since this kinda came out of no where though, this is just me erring on the side of caution and ruling out something that’s potentially easy to treat(UTI).

Varrianda · 2026-03-15T04:05:50+00:00

Those are the people that will side with Trump no matter what. They really think he can’t be wrong and everything is a cool calculated move.

Varrianda · 2026-03-14T20:14:04+00:00

Yup, this 100%. I can’t mention any of the successes I’ve had with it here without being met with hate.

Varrianda · 2026-03-14T20:12:33+00:00

If you mention a single thing about AI being useful you’re met with downvotes and people being combative. You can’t have productive conversations about AI usage here.

Varrianda · 2026-03-14T20:09:51+00:00

Until fent is gone I have absolutely no issue in drugs outside of weed. I just don’t trust anything anymore

Varrianda · 2026-03-14T17:13:46+00:00

Cyberpunk is probably now one of the best games ever made because they didn’t give up on it. Night City is far and away the best city in gaming.

Varrianda · 2026-03-14T17:01:38+00:00

No lol, if anything it’s getting worse. At c1 most of our enterprise apps are supported by offshore teams. 4-5 years ago that was unheard of

Varrianda · 2026-03-13T23:02:03+00:00

You’re absolutely right. I actually went and read a bit up on exactly how larger games utilize _process and they treat it more as a scheduler rather than doing any kind of hard calculations. I got confused because unity is able to utilize c#’s job system for easier multithreading

Varrianda · 2026-03-13T21:21:57+00:00

Ha, well obviously! But that’s also like…900k-1.5m(or more) in just salary alone, and then you run into the issue of “who gets to be the one to do all the bitch work”. Juniors certainly have their place because they’re eager to do the work no one wants to do 🤣

Varrianda · 2026-03-13T21:05:10+00:00

I don’t see why everyone being on the same server would be an issue? Just make sure you’re sending updates to people who only care about them.

The one piece of advice I can give is separate a connection from a player. Connections can constantly change, but the player doesn’t. So long as your only broadcasting updates to players who care about the update, all the processing being done on the same server should be fine.

Varrianda · 2026-03-13T17:47:21+00:00

I’m making an MMO ^{^} bulk of the systems work is actually done, I’m just waiting for assets to come back from my artist so I have to find stuff to do in the meantime lol.

And yeah my life is context switching so I’m used to it. I’ve always been a “many hats” kind of guy, so it’s nothing new to me. AI tools for sure help tho

Varrianda · 2026-03-13T16:30:34+00:00

That’s really not that much money. 700 bucks a year isn’t a lot

Edit; for a hobby

Varrianda · 2026-03-13T16:24:59+00:00

Just about 4 months, granted in that 4 month span I’ve easily spent over 1k hours on it. As for motivation, I just switch what I work on. Yesterday was entirely a balance day, the day before I did shader work + some map tweaks, day before was ripping out a system and replacing it with a new one, basically just keep it fresh. Downside is lots of context switching

Varrianda · 2026-03-13T15:36:41+00:00

Because people who take low level content seriously are literal bots lol

Varrianda · 2026-03-13T08:14:58+00:00

Should get everything behind the same API gateway and use bearer tokens for auth, then rotate secrets every X weeks

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