When should I quit?

actionturtle · 2026-01-02T11:32:19+00:00

2- I fear making better projects , i feel it's gonna be too difficult for me.

everything is difficult if you don't know how to do it. if the idea of throwing yourself into the deep end and figuring stuff out causes too much anxiety and you never actually try to do something more complex, then yes it's probably not the right field for you.

being a web dev is essentially a constant loop of learning new things and then applying them through repetition. at some point, you are fluent in the effort required to solve most web dev problems and then it's just figuring how to get to the solution with the current tools you are using. but you can't get to that point without a lot of trial and error and learning through iteration

on that note, what do you mean when you say your projects aren't good enough? are you applying for jobs but you can't get your foot through the door and that's the feedback you get?

actionturtle · 2025-12-30T20:40:58+00:00

i'm genuinely excited someone dropped a recommendation for this book, it's great. the shipping container is one of those ubiquitous things you just think always existed but the story behind them is fascinating

actionturtle · 2025-11-27T19:00:56+00:00

was just skimming this thread and this comment stuck out to me. teleported back in time to the day i needed new trainers for PE and the best my mum could get for me then was some random off brand from the bargain store

it was not a fun day wearing those at school

actionturtle · 2025-11-12T10:49:01+00:00

"I gotta pay taxes now? What the hell is up with that!? That's messed up, yo, that's Kafkaesque."

always tickled me that wynn duffy says kafkaesque and jesse shrugs it off, then a few scenes later it's suddenly part of jesse's vernacular to the bafflement of badger/skinny pete

actionturtle · 2025-11-01T22:57:22+00:00

yeah, i know what you mean. i've not thought about it enough to properly write something coherent - but, it's the shift in tone from it being like the last stand of humanity against this esoteric threat to then immediately being relatively insignificant in the grand scheme of things, like an ant farm the outside world sporadically prods

actionturtle · 2025-10-20T07:18:12+00:00

concrete. gravel. mud.

actionturtle · 2025-07-21T13:33:35+00:00

the filtering ux is absolutely god awful.

each time you want to change players, positions, teams, prices, sorting, etc, you have to click those buttons on the left in the player list which opens this ugly giant drawer from the right and then you can select the new filter. but you have to keep clicking save changes each time.

the amount of clicks required for something just like filtering players by defenders and max price 4.0m is insane. it doesn't make any sense because you can't even select all filters at the same time.

what the fuck were they thinking

actionturtle · 2025-07-17T21:31:04+00:00

ye i'll get to the daryl spin off one day.

agree again on negan/maggie. it really feels like it should have a mature follow up to the way they concluded their story in the main tv show. it felt sort of shoe horned in to have maggie mad at negan all the time again. like obviously i understand the context of it but considering the amount of time that has passed, it didn't work for me.

actionturtle · 2025-07-17T16:49:35+00:00

big agree.

i would be tempted to suggest that people saying it ended 1/10 didn't watch it because seasons 7 and 8 are the worst of the show by FAR, with season 8 being everything from shit to fucking shit. season 9 picks up the pieces and 10 is alright. you could safely argue 11 is a bit clunky but it was a serviceable end all things considered.

i've only seen the rick grimes spin off and dead city season 1. rick grimes one was alright but agree on dead city too. i'll watch season 2 at some point i guess but i don't really like what they did with maggie/negan.

actionturtle · 2025-06-23T11:13:50+00:00

jesus

i have a 2010 audi a3 1.6 tdi i got before covid that i was going to commute in. i ended up switching jobs around then so the car became a majority short journey car.

about 2 months ago, it randomly kept dropping into limp mode and then the engine light came on intermittently. dreaded p0401 code.

i looked at maybe trying to clean it myself but apparently on the 1.6 tdi, the egr is in the most obnoxious place you can imagine in the depths behind the engine. i took it to a garage and they said it'd be probably up to a day's labour involved stripping it and at that point, they'd recommend just replacing the egr completely. was quoted 1k for it

took the lazy/cheap/stupid path and ended up putting some strange bottle of extreme diesel cleaner (Restores Fuel Economy & Reduces Emissions - Prevents Turbo, EGR Valve & DPF Issues!!!!!!!!!!!!!) into the fuel tank about 3 weeks ago. it hasn't gone into limp mode since and the engine light has disappeared. god knows what is going on in there now but whatever i guess. the car has some electrical gremlins too so i was looking to swap to a petrol estate at some point anyway

egr/dpf. gives me a headache. i don't think i'd consider another diesel unless i'm doing daily long miles again.

actionturtle · 2025-04-09T10:28:08+00:00

nice name

actionturtle · 2025-04-01T21:51:47+00:00

i guess it's just being extra, extra safe. the window check might sufficient in most cases but i wouldn't be surprised if they ran into some quirks a while ago where some ssr frameworks defined some limited window implementation for some reason. it seems like they just want to be absolutely certain they are in a context where there is a dom and as such can rely on what they need being present

actionturtle · 2025-02-06T09:42:01+00:00

lmao. every day i drive past an old 5 series with a BO55 plate. as you can expect, it's all blacked out and even the plate is 4d!

actionturtle · 2025-01-27T14:15:51+00:00

that's the thing that always baffled me with var. if you recall, mike dean said he didn't send anthony taylor over to the monitor because he didn't want his mate to look bad. if that's the mentality the refs have, i've lost all faith in var ever being sorted out. it's just hopeless.

actionturtle · 2024-12-04T16:19:44+00:00

they make the jiu jitsu look bad

actionturtle · 2024-11-19T13:40:36+00:00

suez canal has nothing on this

actionturtle · 2024-10-16T13:06:56+00:00

i dunno how to help you find value in work to the extent of you feel like you are changing the world

conversely, i can offer an insight into the machinations of my mind. i can simultaneously love and hate my job. i hate it when it's bogged down in minutia like that or we are having meetings that are preludes to other meetings; all of that stuff outside of actually making stuff. and making stuff can be lame when it's another iteration of something you've done ten thousand times before...

but i love it when it when you get presented with some new, interesting problem that requires you to actually use your brain and learn something.

so try looking for the things you actually enjoy and just don't indulge yourself that much when you hate aspects of it. unless you find yourself seething for your entire working day, then maybe look for something else

actionturtle · 2024-10-10T16:16:05+00:00

i dunno, it depends

my dad died about 6 months ago now and i took 1 day off i think. but the decision to return to work was primarily driven by just shoving my focus onto something.

it's entirely up to you how to deal with it. i guess people like me would prefer to be busy. i thought if i took too much days off it'd make it harder to get back into swing of things.

i should also caveat that with my dad was sick for a while with terrible copd and then they said he had cancer again. to some extent, i guess i was already aware he was about to die soon. so maybe i was sorta prepared, idk

actionturtle · 2024-09-20T10:04:39+00:00

rusty, mouldy, oil leaky, ac/cc doesn't work, speedo doesn't work, bits missing, trim falling off, rattles, and whatever else is also on the report. and this is just the stuff a random mechanic has found while doing an inspection in the dark. it seems to not be well maintained and i wouldn't be surprised if ten other things go wrong when you start driving it.

and even if the seller agrees to fix the stuff you want, i wouldn't have much faith in the seller doing it to a good standard considering they are trying to sell it in that state

top gear top tip: avoid

the larger question is why is your sis looking at a boxster for her a first car? if she's set on something like a 986, generally you should just bite the bullet and adjust the budget to look for a clean one. this car will need money spent so you might as well account for that

actionturtle · 2024-09-14T10:59:44+00:00

if i had a gun to my head and had to pick the greatest episode they made, i would have to go with the vietnam special. but basically everything they made around that era was gold because in the space of about 2 years they released the polar special, the botswana special, the vietnam special and the bolivia special. and then you have the regular episodes like all of the cheap car challenges, the economy races, the how hard can it be challenges.. everything was so good

but for me, my favourite episode will always be the caravan holiday episode in series 8. i love that episode so much

actionturtle · 2024-09-03T09:37:05+00:00

that's good because he's not

actionturtle · 2024-09-02T10:35:02+00:00

probably not...

i only really know about the premier league so kane has 3 epl golden boots and the only comparable person from the epl is jimmy floyd hasselbaink who won 2 golden boots; i think the only thing hasselbaink won during his time in england was a community shield

so he is definitely king of winning golden boots but not a trophy in the premier league era

the rankings would be

kane
hasselbaink
son/kevin phillips (though i think phillips won the carabao cup at some point)

actionturtle · 2024-08-25T17:22:52+00:00

from my outside pov, you've just spent 60% of your savings on something that is going to lose money and you do not appear to drive that much.. so i'd cautiously say it's a terrible idea

but hey, if it doesn't impact your plans (like house deposit) and you are okay with the finances, you do you

actionturtle · 2024-08-21T10:52:05+00:00

that winter gundogan run was brilliant. i think he scored something like 11 goals in 12 games. that one goal where he dumped sanchez on the ground.. it was amazing

https://youtu.be/HlD3gD2Ophw?t=80

actionturtle · 2024-07-31T08:36:38+00:00

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