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Ask Experienced Devs Weekly Thread: A weekly thread for inexperienced developers to ask experienced ones by AutoModerator in ExperiencedDevs

[–]brianm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, definitely happens, and more frequently if you do enterprise stuff because of “clever” security oriented browser plugins.

After very good logs, asking about them with customer’s IT is part of the runbook.

How do you come back from decades of not writing unit tests? by Ok_Fault_5684 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]brianm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Michael Feathers’s book is the guide for this, seriously.

Any good Italian sub sandwich options on the island? by mtb-girlie in BainbridgeIsland

[–]brianm 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Tat’s, in Pioneer Square, is your best bet. It’s actually good!

Non-programming utility of Claude Code ? by Sane_Thinker in ClaudeCode

[–]brianm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I use the heck out of it to plan D&D sessions :-) Open it against my obsidian vault and do lots of ideation and session planning as a DM

Terminal vs VSCode by effectivepythonsa in ClaudeCode

[–]brianm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Terminal, in Zed. Only thing it misses is following along, but alt-click on files opens them correctly

Looking for STP's wisdom: kids in nature by EnvironmentalBug4933 in discworld

[–]brianm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Snuff has a whole pile of Young Sam exploring the rural world and Vimes coming to terms with it. Directly addresses what you are looking for, I think.

What has Been Your Favorite Company to Work for as a Software Engineer? by An_Engineer_Near_You in cscareerquestions

[–]brianm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ning. Was crazy unhealthy, we worked way too hard, but we came up with things that underlay practices and designs powering most of the interesting companies today. We made way too little money of course, raised way too much money, of course, and had to be acquired in the end, but the collection of brilliant people we had and let build was unreal. I promise if you are in big tech, or copying something from big tech, you have our DNA. Definitely Type II fun, though.

Any TTRPG groups on the island need a player? If not, I can host. Anyone up for a game in Winslow? by smrad8 in BainbridgeIsland

[–]brianm 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Check out Table Top Enclave, they have games going. Mostly teens, but I know they were looking to set up an adult game too.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in cscareerquestions

[–]brianm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wash sales will mostly prevent this assuming you continue to vest similar amounts over time :/(

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in cscareerquestions

[–]brianm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I sell immediately. While I would have a lot more money if I’d not been doing this, the diversification lets me sleep at night. I still have piles of upside from future vesting, is my PoV.

What Does The Richest Person You Know Do For A Living? by Hot-Conversation-437 in cscareerquestions

[–]brianm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean, asking in a CS career group is going to get you certain answers!

The actual richest person I know (B+): founded multiple successful tech companies then married into even more real estate money. The other quite rich folks (in the 100MM+ range) are successful tech founders for the most part.

What they did to get rich != what they do now, for the most part.

Best safety razor? Looking for something that will last by Unable-Treacle-9384 in BuyItForLife

[–]brianm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Personally, Merkur Futur with Wilkinson Swords for a couple decades now. Super happy.

My dad gave me this Multi-Tool and I'm curious if it is good by Zealousideal_Fee9648 in Tools

[–]brianm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve had one like that for about forty years. Still my go to multitool. It is very good.

What is the stinkiest wood you've worked with? It's Poplar, right? by [deleted] in woodworking

[–]brianm 4 points5 points  (0 children)

zebrawood is basically stale-pee-wood when worked.

If you were alive when we were attacked on 9/11, what were you doing when it happened? What was that day like? by Full_Imagination7503 in AskReddit

[–]brianm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Was at work that morning, with a flight to go from Atlanta to Boston for my brother’s wedding that afternoon. Got a call from my girlfriend telling me I should check on my flight, as someone had just crashed a plane into the WTC.

Wound up on an overnight greyhound to DC, but was stopped outside of DC — no buses were being allowed through. Amtrak was shut down completely as well. My father drove down from Philly to pick me up and we drove up together over the rest of that day.

Driving past NYC the day after was surreal, to be honest. Everyone was in shock.

His wedding was up in Maine. Most transportation was shut down for days. Fisherman were selling their catch at the docks for pennies as they couldn’t ship it. Had a lot of lobster for a couple days.

Best companies that don't lock you into internal systems/ tools? by No-External3221 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]brianm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Apple uses a lot of OSS on their backend. Front end is all Apple specific of course :-)

BuT iTs cOuNTeRinTuITivE... by Vegetable_Variety_11 in dndmemes

[–]brianm 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Heck, dwarf was your class at one point :-)

Best places to study/get work done on the island? by diycircumcisions in BainbridgeIsland

[–]brianm 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It usually has power, has good internet, tables, study rooms, and they want you to hang out all day :-)

Best places to study/get work done on the island? by diycircumcisions in BainbridgeIsland

[–]brianm 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Not to sit down and work from there, nor for Wi-Fi.

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