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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Yes and no. They serve roughly the same purpose.

    I actually hated Powershell until I was forced to work on some automation scripts with it and realized that it’s actually pretty cool.

    Bash is good for quickly doing something in the terminal but for longer script files I prefer PS now. It feels much more modern and has a less janky syntax.

    Funnily enough the reason I had to use it was to make my scripts cross platform between osx, linux and windows.










  • I dislike Mastodon for the same reason I dislike Twitter. It seems to me like it’s more centered around individual people and what they share rather than building multiple communities around multiple things that interests me.

    Sure, I can craft my own community, but then I have a feed where I only encounter posts from the same people, and chances are, opinions that I already agree with. It’s not as easy to switch from a tv show to programming, for example. Yes, hashtags exist but they don’t even come close to communities on Lemmy.

    The worst part are the types of posts that only reiterate how stupid “the other side” is without seriously trying to understand their arguments. This is not only true about politics but many other topics as well.


  • I was working on an enterprise web application, there was a legacy system that everyone hated and we replaced it with a more modern one.

    We got a ticket from our PO to introduce a 30 sec delay to one of our buttons. It sounded insane, but he explained that L1 support got too many calls and emails where users thought said button was broken.

    It wasn’t, they were just used to having to wait up to 5 minutes for it to finish doing its thing, so they didn’t notice when it did it instantly.

    We gradually removed that delay, 10 seconds each month, and our users were very happy.