DEV Community: Gene

We should get rid of Typescript

Gene — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 20:08:42 +0000

I mean, IDEs or Code Editors should be intelligent enough to actually help us type-safe our code, and as well as auto-complete right?

Am I wrong? :D

What is your preferred keyboard for programming?

Gene — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 15:14:51 +0000

I've been using a cheap mechanical (gaming) keyboard for more than 2 years now. It is just really recent that I use it more for programming and it feels uncomfortable.

I will buy a new one. What do you recommend?

Beer vs coffee?

Gene — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 16:30:37 +0000

Say it's 12:00 AM and you still need to complete that last feature before the sun rises in a few hours. You decided to grab something to drink so you went to your kitchen and you were presented by two options:

Ice-cold BEER.
Brewed COFFEE.

What will you grab?

I just recently tried beer and it works well for me. Just drink enough. LOL

Realizations from being a frustrated developer

Gene — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 18:17:29 +0000

Found a cool program online? A nice new framework that you can hack around? A very cool snippet of code (if that’s a thing). Ever wondered why you didn’t do or can’t do the same thing? etc. etc.

Ah, the frustrations keep piling up. ☹ HELP!

$frustrated = true;
while ($frustrated) {
    echo "HELP!"
}

……

Seriously. It pisses me off.

These are some just some of the frustrations that I always feel whenever I wander around the development community (you know what I mean). To help me get over these frustrations I looked everywhere for answers. I asked my previous professors and my colleagues, to trying to do the same thing because I always believe that experience is the best teacher. And because of all that, I found my answers and realizations:

Our ability to learn is unique.
I won’t do something I don’t want and need at all. Other developers just have a reason to do it.
I don’t have the luxury of time to even think about making a program. Unless it is related to what I do or if it is needed at work.
Other developers seem to be doing it already. I don’t need to make my own version. I can just use what they did. This is a mentality that was engraved to me (us)—Don’t repeat yourself.
I program to earn a living. Most of the time that I am at my computer doing programming? It's work-related.

My answers and realizations may not necessarily apply to you or anybody else. If you have experienced these kinds of frustrations, please let me know about it and tell me how you coped up. I want to know how you guys did it. Thanks!