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 Real questions developers ask themselves: 

Should I generate a script generator? Or should I write a generic script that takes in configuration generated by a generator? 
 If you're using ChatGPT to write your blog posts, make sure to sprinkle in some grammatical errors so readers are convinced it's really a real person writing the article  
 Pop-ups mean nothing to me. They show up, I dismiss them and then wonder what they said after they're gone 
 Hey, anyone want to share their RSS/Atom feed links? I'd love to build out my feeds with some more good content 
 Hot Take: never use var in C# 
 !important in js ⇒ Who Cares?
!important in css ⇒ Extremely Important 
 Make sure to backup your data in SaaS apps. You never know what could happen out there and your data is your business. Make sure you can pivot out of something if things go bad quickly.  
 Why isn't it more common to run out ci/cd pipelines locally? It would help so much when debugging pipelines to just be able to run them in a repeatable fashion beforehand. It would clean up the commit history too. 
 nvim/acc / neovangalist (same thing) 
 Still waiting for AI to replace me so I can start my career as a pumpkin farmer 
 can we do an upgrade and swap out the v8 in javascript with a v10? we need some more torque and horsepower 
 SHABAC: Shoulda Been A CLI 
 hear me out: windows terminal for linux 
 writing good software on top of bad primitives is 10x harder than building on good primitives 
 Hey noster. What's up?