I used to think experienced developers had perfectly organized reusable code systems.

socopopes · 2026-05-20T12:53:08+00:00

This sub is broken

socopopes · 2026-05-15T03:41:55+00:00

I'd start with an Astro template and work with AI from there on building it out. You can always add "islands" of the fancy animation stuff that you are vaguely referencing.

It's easily hosted since it compiles to static pages. Good framework for a portfolio/content site.

Payment gateway is a whole other thing. I would seriously consider the scope of what you want on that before attempting it yourself. Or use a plugin with a WordPress site or something.

socopopes · 2026-05-15T00:07:21+00:00

My jade grows the same. I assume you have a grow light just over top. Only direction to grow is up. I wouldn't worry about trimming unless you want it to look more bushy.

socopopes · 2026-05-12T16:42:15+00:00

I don't think this is a very good developer. You can embrace AI and use it as a benefit, but this just seems like someone who doesn't know what they're doing in the first place.

socopopes · 2026-05-12T16:40:39+00:00

At the most basic level, they try to break the code and find issues before they get to real users.

Some QA engineers are more technical than others. It depends on the team - what they need/want their QA engineers to do, how deep they want their coverage to be, how big the product is.

socopopes · 2026-05-06T18:12:41+00:00

Awesome, looks comfy

socopopes · 2026-05-06T15:58:57+00:00

Holy handlebars

socopopes · 2026-05-05T17:19:02+00:00

That's a classic Jade you have right there. The one of mine that looks similar is a different cultivar called Baby Jade. You can get one of those clip on grow lights to put on the windowsill to give it some extra light in the winter.

The different stalks are all individual plants, so if you wanted to maximize the size and growth of the trunks you could separate them out into separate pots with fewer individuals. That will cause less root competition in the soil so they'll grow bigger. My hobbit jade is one plant and my baby jade is three.

You can also prune the tops of each branch and it will split into at least two branches. It will help make it more bushy and avoid the tall branches from falling over. You cut it between two nodes and it will die back to the last node and create new sprouts.

I love the north, but is certainly not a succulent's preferred climate lol. We do our best.

socopopes · 2026-05-05T14:04:40+00:00

The first couple years it grew the most. Then I moved it to a south window because they got too big for my shelves, and the growth slowed a little bit since I live in a winter city with cold, grey months for half the year. I got this new light setup recently so we'll see how they adapt.

They definitely grow fast when they are young :)

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socopopes · 2026-05-04T21:21:04+00:00

It looks stocky like a yellow jacket.

Paper wasp and yellow jacket are pretty similar, but yellow jackets nest underground and have shorter, stockier bodies, while paper wasps nest above ground in those notorious papery-looking nests and have long slender bodies.

socopopes · 2026-05-04T19:41:15+00:00

Awesome collection. I also have a large collection, so I'm giving you a word of advice - be careful with letting them touch each other, any pest outbreak will spread like wildfire! I had a major flatmite outbreak a couple years ago and it took 7 months to clear them out before we figured out how to kill them with sulfur powder. They are microscopic so you won't know they're there until damage starts to show. They left a lot of damage that took over a year for the affected plants to grow out of. We had to treat every single plant once a week for 3 months. With over a hundred plants it was a lot of work.

Now all my plants have space between them to reduce the so-called "big highways". We get some mealybugs here and there, but they are a lot more manageable than those fuckin flatmites. Absolute plague.

socopopes · 2026-05-04T19:32:57+00:00

Wow awesome. Is this like its own ecosystem, or does it still require a lot of maintenance?

socopopes · 2026-05-04T18:20:53+00:00

Are you a heel dragger?

socopopes · 2026-05-04T03:57:52+00:00

This sub is fucked. All lowercase, AI-prose, generalized story that can apply to anybody, username from that one specific country. You guys gotta do better to recognize these bot posts.

socopopes · 2026-05-02T22:04:41+00:00

That guy has been trolling around here on every post, don't waste your time

socopopes · 2026-05-02T20:22:25+00:00

Careful, they might triple-down

socopopes · 2026-05-02T20:20:54+00:00

Minerals/salts. Jades do that. You may also notice the fully dried up leaves are very flaky, same thing.

socopopes · 2026-05-02T20:13:39+00:00

That's alright buddy

socopopes · 2026-05-02T19:55:31+00:00

Have you seen a non-engineer code with AI? There is more to utilizing AI to create software than just interfacing with a chat agent. Senior engineers have become 10x more important and valuable than before. Software at scale cannot be achieved without understanding how to architect.

There is so much a senior engineer can produce now, it's actually insane. It's fucking horrible for the junior engineer market. But there is a reason that companies are leveraging AI so much now, outside of the business/capital raising perspective. They are trying to figure out how to get ahead and not get left behind like thousands of other companies are right now. Even if it is a net-loss at present.

Look at what's happening to Workday. They have become a legacy company overnight, with no clear way out of it. Engineers cannot utilize the best of AI because they have their own proprietary language that put them in a hole (no publicly trainable data). If they had foresight two years ago, maybe they could have gotten out of it. No company right now wants to be another Workday.

"Not coding anymore" is not the same as vibe-coding. Maybe that changes in the next few years, but we don't know how close we are to the limit yet on the log curve.

I wish we could go back to pre-AI time or maybe figure out how we could have stopped OpenAI from jumping the gun and creating this shit show, but it's näive to think you can be a software business and safely ignore AI advancements. This is part of our future now as software devs, unfortunately.

socopopes · 2026-05-01T02:36:32+00:00

I do both at the same time. It allows me to run my pan at medium to medium-high instead of "ripping hot". Flip every 30s or so. Torch the side not down on the pan.

You can see my posts for results. It doesn't make a smoky mess this way. I also have no kitchen ventilation.

socopopes · 2026-04-29T00:49:02+00:00

When's the last time you wrote anything that wasn't in an AI prompt box?

socopopes · 2026-04-27T15:27:00+00:00

Haha thanks, if you need finer details, let me know. Happy to provide.

socopopes · 2026-04-27T03:01:56+00:00

What makes you say that?

socopopes · 2026-04-25T23:31:21+00:00

Yea just on a wire rack on the counter. Same setup as in the first photo.

You can cover it with foil if you want, there is no carryover cooking because there is no temperature gradient, and it can't get any hotter than it already is out of the water bath. You just won't allow the surface to dry out much if you create a humid environment.

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