Devvy / Kepler @68kHeart@tech.lgbt

I feel like an important inflection point in tech is realizing "users are stupid" is actually "management, clients, developers, or designers did not carefully consider this feature and how it would be used in the real world, and people are just doing their best"

friends repeatedly saying you you're a good puppy to cause a buffer overflow so they can write over that terrible thing in your brain telling you otherwise

this can cause unintended behaviors when this memory address is accessed, such as blushing, wagging, keysmashing, or awrawrawring

I am very excited about Ideas I have that essentially amount to a cross between a digital garden and personal research platform. But more on that when I actually get that far. :)

(yes, I’ve been developing for a decade and a half, specialize in things like databases and functional programming, and yet I’m scared of making backends because reasons (mostly refactoring hell))

hey Laravel fuckin’ slaps, legit the first time I’ve been able to build an actual web app backend that does things without being paralyzed by it all

me: I should do coding live streams, I think it would be nice and interesting to work on stuff while being social!

also me: *spends hours reading documentation and searching for information on a library they ultimately decide is not for them*

The next CSS Text Decoration module should include the remaining features needed to replicate 90’s word art.