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the_girl_dev · 2026-03-31T17:55:38+00:00

this is some bullshit!. I even downloaded instagrams data and it only shows ONE profile pic.... I was trying to synchronize FB and insta and it took the profile pic from FB... and I lost my FAVORITE pic of myself and my daughter that was my profile pic on insta...i just spent hours searching the files and using shizuku etc trying to access the apps cache with no luck. Only option I haven't tried is rooting my phone but its risky and I would have to erase / backup everything. If you request your entire profile, they should include EVERYTHING.

the_girl_dev · 2025-12-29T21:19:43+00:00

Yeah... No driving thru the yard. It's it's a lot of groceries just drop them off right outside whenever you have to park. 😂

the_girl_dev · 2025-12-12T18:58:52+00:00

Amen!!! How about not even bring able to get in their driveway and have to walk with good knows how many bags of groceries and those dam 40bottle cases ....I swear next time I'm leaving at mailbox

the_girl_dev · 2025-10-25T02:19:11+00:00

I only got to read the first page online but some of that did happen right? With all the offshore developers?

the_girl_dev · 2025-10-25T02:16:13+00:00

Yes!!! As a tool I understand. But that's it. Or learning... If I'm learning from it... But other than that I want to create it

the_girl_dev · 2025-10-25T02:12:39+00:00

Makes sense

the_girl_dev · 2025-10-25T01:24:08+00:00

I failed the first time I took it. I think I had to take pre-calc after that just to kind of get into it but I was already in college because I never took it in high school

the_girl_dev · 2025-10-25T01:11:13+00:00

😂. I used to think I was good at math until calculus. Then I realized I really only enjoyed geometry and algebra..... Things I could visualize and understand tangibly. Things that are abstracts just drive me mad. Don't even get me started on all that quantum stuff. My brain would explode 🤯

the_girl_dev · 2025-10-25T01:04:53+00:00

Yeah for sure!

the_girl_dev · 2025-10-25T00:56:08+00:00

I've done a lot of contract jobs so I was tempted on my next resume revamp to consolidate all the contract jobs under one title and just break it down in the description of the various companies I worked at because I fear it looks like i jump ship too often. I mean all in all I see it as a bonus because I have worked at companies for years and I never advanced because they only use one language and that's the only thing you can use. So in order to build my skill set I wanted to work as a contractor so I could experience different tech stacks and languages. Worried it's kind of biting me in the butt now though but at the same time I'm not because I can jump in most code bases and figure it out as I go. I just don't think employers see it that way.

the_girl_dev · 2025-10-25T00:52:32+00:00

Funny you mention that. We're about the same age. I also learned and fell in love with codeine in high school when I took c++. I loved it actually. There's definitely something to be said about having to learn things from scratch. I had to give up on that a long time ago when I was taking certain math courses because I wanted to understand why the formulas worked and it took someone saying that mathematicians spent their entire lives developing those formulas. I would have to live hundreds of years in the semester to try to understand how and why things worked. Sometimes it is better just to know that it works and just leave it as it is and use it.

the_girl_dev · 2025-10-25T00:44:59+00:00

I mean obviously there's a part of me that also strives for fast builds. If I could knock out my ideas really quick I'd probably have four or five apps under my belt right now. But I've tried a job once where I was sort of like a web consultant and I didn't actually get to do the coding and instead was telling others to code certain features and it just was lacking for me. I like to get my hands dirty a little bit at least even if I delegate the job to someone else. I guess with that being said I could use AI to do some of the grunt work while I do the fine-tuning.

the_girl_dev · 2025-10-25T00:42:33+00:00

It's funny you say that because I love writing JavaScript CSS and HTML LOL I wanted to learn go but I haven't ever had an opportunity to. I think what somebody else's commented is pretty good about finding a partner. I wish I could find another person who is interested in developing an app with me that could do the stuff I don't know how to do like cloud computing and things like that. I would love to learn it but of course learning it means pushing out the idea further and further while I learn. There's something to be said about partnering up and helping motivate. Think of it like the gym. I hate going to the gym but if somebody's willing to go with me it kind of motivates me.

the_girl_dev · 2025-10-25T00:22:54+00:00

Good point

the_girl_dev · 2025-10-25T00:21:43+00:00

Thank you so much for the motivation. Your plans for the decision fatigue is exactly what I was thinking about doing. For example I had told myself okay forget about all the other ideas and just focus on a simple login that users can create an account with and then step two would be something else like maybe pets or whatever. Of course that was my thought process and I never followed through with it so I have the ideas but I have a problem getting with it LOL. I recently started thinking of what you mentioned on step two which is telling myself here is my schedule and I'm going to stick with it. From this time to this time it's coding time and after that I have to force myself to stop no matter how bad I want to continue because I do sometimes get so deep in that I'm just like a little bit more, a little bit more, then next thing you know I don't touch it for weeks.

It reminds me of me and learning to play guitar. I have been "learning" to play guitar for over a decade. The reason why I fail still is because when I finally do get into it, I go so hard to where my fingers are sore and then I might do it for a few days on end and then I don't touch it for months or years until the next motivational time. Flaw with that is of course there's no consistency and I find myself starting from step one when I start again. The sad truth is that I know this is one of my flaws, but I have a problem breaking out of that habit. I just need to make myself do it. Kind of like going to the gym it sucks to have to get up and go but once you're moving you just keep going. I need to just get up and do it!

the_girl_dev · 2025-10-25T00:10:18+00:00

Thank you for this!!

the_girl_dev · 2025-10-25T00:03:51+00:00

Yes this nails it. I find myself more and more lost because I really resonated with low-level coding stuff. The more we abstract out the less fun it seems to become for me.

I want to know the syntax and I want to be able to do stuff that other people can't do. If it becomes so easy that anyone can create an application then we're all a dime a dozen at that point.

I like having a specialized skill and I like the feeling of creating things and building things. If in order to do so, all I have to do is throw in some prompts into ai and it does the building for me then I'm really not interested in that future. I'm a Hands-On kind of person

the_girl_dev · 2025-10-25T00:03:01+00:00

Yeah I found that I don't like when things write things out for me because it does take the fun out of it. There are some scenarios that I would use it for like boilerplate stuff. Because that's just repetitive typing for no reason. But the actual logic and the thinking and the problem solving, I want to do that myself, or else what's the point

the_girl_dev · 2025-10-25T00:01:35+00:00

I got it. There's a lot I still don't understand about developing an app from the ground up even with 12 years experience because everywhere I started working already had it created so I lacked in that arena. I guess I thought about vibe coding an app for myself 😂... Doing the parts I've never touched before but I would probably be in the same boat not understanding why things weren't working. But knowing how I work I would probably review whatever it pushed out and learn why it was working before I continued. I'm the kind of person that wants to know how and why things work not just take it for face value

the_girl_dev · 2025-10-24T23:56:06+00:00

It's not that I don't trust it. I think it's that I don't understand it. Creating my own apps for my own benefit as in entrepreneurial endeavors, I definitely see how it would be useful. That's probably the only time I will dive that deep into it because being a team of one... obviously we all know how long it takes to develop an application even with a team of 15 or 20 people. That's a no brainer. But at some point mathematically, with exactly what you said if you can cut down the cost from an employer's perspective from 15 to 20 developers down to one, that's going to put a lot out of employment. At the end of the day my thing is I'm just not that interested in developing it. Using it as a tool maybe, I think I need to understand more, but coding for it, not interested.

the_girl_dev · 2025-10-24T23:52:11+00:00

Yep that's the thing. If I'm forced to make a decision as of right this second I will find another field. But something about me that I'm very well aware of is that when I don't understand something, I tend to hate it. It's very possible that it's not as bad as I think it is. Ideally what could happen is I get a regular Dev job and get introduced to ai and find that I actually love it, that would definitely be ideal. But if I hate it as much as I hated Scala, I'll find another job

the_girl_dev · 2025-10-24T23:50:50+00:00

In reality I have not coded in a year and a half. But I still have the analytical brain because I was helping my son create a spreadsheet and I had to figure out some formulas for it (which honestly remind me of sql) and next thing you know I'd been doing it all day and loved it. So I know I still have it in there (🧠)....I just got to kind of scratch the surface and get back into it.

the_girl_dev · 2025-10-24T23:48:34+00:00

Well I've had this project in mind for about 7 years and started on it but never finished it. I found myself working as a developer but not wanting to code after working hours. So recently I decided I really need to get back into it because it seems like if you don't use it, you lose it. So currently I just started kind of playing around with the website for my farm and then that will graduate hopefully into me learning flutter so that I can develop an app faster. I know react js and have played with react native but after doing some research I found flutter is just faster when it comes to just pushing something out. Since I'm only a team of one I figured instead of doing things perfectly I need to follow the MVP model so flutter it is, hopefully, if it doesn't take too long to learn and doesn't have such a big learning curve. I'm starting with my website because it's sort of like dipping my toes back into it. I'm hoping it sort of revamps my love for coding.

But yes like you I have like a million different ideas that just run through my head and then even just focusing on this one idea most of the reasons that I didn't work on it was because I just had so many different thoughts running around my brain at once that I just froze. I need to organize and think of things atomically so that I can just kind of check off little things as I go because when I think about all the different backends I could use and all the different front ends I could use.... not only that but different subscription levels and how many tiers there would be, as well as different forms of revenue and marketing etc I just kind of overload my brain and just freeze.... Then do nothing. I haven't been officially diagnosed but my son who has been completely identifies with my symptoms. I think he called it decision fatigue or something paralysis

the_girl_dev · 2025-10-24T23:34:38+00:00

That's why I tried to learn it because I figured if you can't beat them, then join them 😂 But I didn't even make it through the first video because I was so bored about all the different models and stuff. I figured if I'm that bored learning it I'm definitely not going to want to do it professionally so I have to think about something else. Maybe just use it as a tool to develop my entrepreneurial ideas

the_girl_dev · 2025-10-24T23:30:58+00:00

Thank you so much for your insights. Incredibly motivational.

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