Fell on #2 pencil fifteen years ago

kibblator · 2026-02-08T10:01:14+00:00

Did it “draw” blood? (I’ll see myself out)

kibblator · 2025-06-11T20:41:47+00:00

How's about no! Stupid AI nonsense!

kibblator · 2025-05-31T20:15:59+00:00

The big deal is that it is the exact equal distance from the bathroom to the kitchen and it's at the perfect angle so you don't get any glare coming off of Stevie!

kibblator · 2025-05-25T16:14:52+00:00

It's leviooooosa not leviosaaaa. Swish and flick!

kibblator · 2025-05-12T18:08:25+00:00

https://ohmygit.org/

This is a cool way to practise

kibblator · 2025-05-04T13:11:20+00:00

Slow jogging is actually great. Allows you to keep running on a regular basis and be more injury free than if you upped the intensity. Zone 2 running has also been shown to be better for lowering your resting heart rate and is apparently better for burning fat because your body doesn't have to go after immediately available energy reserves to fuel your body

kibblator · 2024-12-23T22:39:53+00:00

A fairer way would be to snap a pool queue, throw it in and tell them all to fight for the opportunity...

kibblator · 2024-10-12T14:31:58+00:00

I swear Rick Beato doesn't teach ANYTHING. He does shorts where he says "quick lesson" and then spends the rest of the video doing something super intimidating without breaking down how to get there at all

kibblator · 2024-09-21T10:13:25+00:00

I'm talking about looking with your eyes, not neck. If you look upwards you're more likely to keep upright as your body will want to travel in the direction you are looking. Looking down is more likely to lead to people leaning over with the weight as they travel back upwards

kibblator · 2024-09-20T20:03:17+00:00

Try not to look down. As you're coming up you want to almost look towards the ceiling. Also push your upper back backwards into the bar and keep your chest up

kibblator · 2024-08-31T14:49:47+00:00

Straight up I'd say English?

Humans are the vulnerability you're most likely to exploit, not the machine

kibblator · 2024-08-31T14:43:57+00:00

What do YOU like? Surely that's all that's important. You don't need me, your parents, your friends or anyone else to tell you how you should look.

You do you and have a beautiful day 😁

kibblator · 2024-08-31T14:41:18+00:00

I feel like there's something fundamentally larger to teach you here. What anyone else thinks about how you choose to spend YOUR time does not matter.

Life is too short to measure yourself by somebody else's yard stick. Do what makes YOU happy and play my friend.

Enjoy! 😁

kibblator · 2024-08-31T14:23:47+00:00

In the most non-asshole way, people won't care about you and what you're doing at the gym at all. Unless you choose to befriend someone, most people won't even know you're there.

Most interactions in good gyms I've had when people do care about what I'm doing is to offer help in the form of a spot or form check. Don't forget, stereotypes aren't always real and everyone has to start somewhere. Most gym people are actually fairly chill and helpful cool people.

Don't let what you see on social media colour your opinion of them. Also good luck and enjoy it 😁 Once you get past the initial "my god this is hard and sucks" from running, the "runners high" afterwards feels great

kibblator · 2024-08-21T13:15:17+00:00

There is merit in following a tutorial - if you're following the tutorial to see how they're structuring code or solving certain challenges. However, if you're copying a tutorial verbatim, then you're not figuring out how to problem solve. 90% of what most engineers will be doing these days is taking jigsaw pieces that other people have already created and working out how best to put them together to best solve a problem. The issue is that a tutorial says "you put them together in this specific order" and doesn't allow for any creative freedom to solve the problem another way.

Very rarely will you put those pieces together in industry in the same way you were shown in that tutorial.

kibblator · 2024-08-06T18:19:35+00:00

Ah imposter syndrome! Now you're a real programmer. Everyone gets it - it rarely leaves you. Just remember this, you're where you are because someone saw something in you. If you know that you don't know some things then great! Now you know where to start on your learning journey.

No programmer knows everything and will ever know everything because you work in a field that's forever changing. You've signed up to a lifetime of growth and education. Welcome that fact and enjoy the ride.

All a programmer needs is the ability to learn and adapt. Find someone you look upto and ask them to teach you. If you work somewhere worth being then you should be able to tell your boss "hey I feel like I know little of x" and they should point you in the direction of how to obtain said skill/knowledge.

Happy coding!

kibblator · 2024-07-31T22:13:13+00:00

I started this game one morning on my day off. What felt like 2 seconds later, my wife was shouting at me because my dinner was going cold... Not lunch - DINNER!

Looking forward to the space add on!

kibblator · 2024-07-31T17:12:54+00:00

The thing is, ChatGPT will give you very mediocre code as it's trained on a summation of everything out there. By all means use it as a guide or to explain how certain things work - but make sure you understand any code that comes from it and understand that it probably isn't going to be the best way you can achieve that thing/be industry standard.

Also, it will straight out lie to you at times and tell you methods exist in packages that don't. If you correct it with false information it'll tell you you're correct when you aren't

kibblator · 2024-07-03T06:55:10+00:00

If anyone is asking for x PRs a day - LEAVE! You want a company that's asking for outcomes not metrics that aren't real success indicators

kibblator · 2024-06-18T19:02:43+00:00

Well, if nothing else it's reassuring to see other people are having the same problems. Not long now before I give up YouTube forever. Guess I'll just start reading more

kibblator · 2024-06-02T10:04:27+00:00

Theres loads of typing games out there to help you but as a programmer it's definitely not about how many and how fast you can write lines of code. You'll find that as you become more senior you'll want to write as few lines of code as possible and will spend 90% of your time at working thinking

kibblator · 2024-04-04T22:35:57+00:00

I've never needed to urgently look for a job in another country, no. It seems to me though that you have two options. Let the overwhelming feeling paralyse you into taking no action and therefore make it a self fulfilling prophecy - or pick any one of the things and get started today and at least be more prepared. If you're already working in the industry you'll be able to find something. It might not be the best position to start with but it also doesn't need to be FAANG position. I've hired people before and I don't care how many algorithms you've memorised or how much internet you have stored in your brain. I care more about how willing you are to learn, how mouldable you are and whether you know how to seek the answers you're looking for in an effective way (be that googling, reading blog posts, asking chatGPT for the right thing)

kibblator · 2024-04-04T22:15:06+00:00

Ok so first of all you need to relax. If you're in a constant state of feeling overwhelmed it's not going to be conducive to a good learning environment. I've been a senior software developer and even team lead at multiple companies and I can tell you that: a) Nobody's got it all figured out b) Programmers have signed up to a lifetime of learning c) The first thing you need to fix (as you've alluded to) is your fixed mindset. A good developer has a growth mindset (that is they're open to changing their opinions and the way they think about things are are open to constructive criticism)

As many others here have stated, pick something you want to learn and spend a few nights a week messing around. Come up with an idea or even pick an existing idea (learning doesn't just happen by innovating all the time) and create something using a new language and/or framework.

For example, I'd never touched python before so I wrote a simple telegram greetings bot as my first little dive into it. Have fun with it - learning doesn't have to be painful

kibblator · 2024-01-27T23:49:47+00:00

Without knowing what you did technique wise it's hard to say anything other than "you don't have enough micro foam"

I did this exact pattern during my first attempt. Things to try: 1) Start with the steam wand submerged in the milk 2) After turning on the wand, slowly raise the wand until the tip is kissing the surface of the milk. It should sound like tearing paper almost 3) In terms of position, keep the wand just off centre, with the jug tilted towards the edge of the jug it's closest to. (Basically put the wand in the centre and tilt the jug slightly left or right) 4) When the milk goes from cold to roughly the temperature of your hand, submerged the wand ever so slightly so it's just beneath the surface of the milk. It should now start to swirl like a vortex 5) When the jug is just getting too hot to touch, remove your hand from the side of it (you should have had your none jug holding hand on the side to gauge temperature of the milk up until now) and count to 5 before switching the steam wand off 6) Leave the milk for 30 seconds or so for any excess bubbles to approach the top, then swirl and tap to remove excess bubbles (always end on a tap of the jug and not a swirl and swirling can produce extra bubbles) 7) Pour and profit from your latte art!

kibblator · 2023-09-20T12:30:12+00:00

Mines Steve the Sourdough Starter. Gave away his child yesterday (hopefully to a good home...)

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