Ah yes. Life before Agile was wonderful.

Agreed. This type of fun is good for the team. Trying to stamp it out, when it impacts very little, is just a buzzkill to the team.

It’s referring to variable names. For example, you have a variable named fileDialog. I would prefer to have that named dialogFile.

Closed as a duplicate

Yeah and it won’t tell you that it hasn’t seen this pattern before. It will just make things up out of the blue which seem like they might be correct.

Stay away from ChatGPT for bleeding edge things.

What OS do you run? Are you planning on sharing this app with others? Should it be a web app?

Happy to help!

In my 30 years of experience, it is usually the devs.

Yeah then you’ve got security problems. If a maintainer pulls a package, you wouldn’t want some rando able to push a new one in its place.

I’m well aware how async works in the single threaded js environment. All code blocks the main thread! Calling await on an async operation yields back.

You’re right, async is commonly mixed up with multi-threaded. And in fact in many languages the two things work hand in hand. I’m very aware of how it works in JavaScript.

We are agreeing. Don’t need more info.

Yes I’m simplifying a LOT, but in the context of background web calls, that was what callbacks became so important for. XMLHttpRequest in IE 5 sparked the Ajax movement and adventures in nested callbacks.

Prior to that, the browser had window.setTimeout and its callback for delays and animation and such - but that’s it.

The main purpose of all this async callback stuff was originally, and arguably still is (in the browser), for allowing the ui event loop to run while network requests are made.

NodeJS didn’t come into the picture for almost 10 years or so.

It can lock up a UI doing cpu bound work. Making a web request, no. Preventing the ui thread from waiting on native IO is what async was created for.

Symlink a git tag?

Yeah, I worked with an albino like that who used a handheld magnifying glass. It actually inspired me to write a magnifier application for windows (which didn’t have one at the time, this was in 2006). That then led me to write little windows apps every day for a month, which got a lot of attention.

Ok Eugene, we get it.

It’s domestic as well. Red vs Blue is just a distraction and you can’t point this out because nearly everyone is divided along those lines to the point of ignoring getting fucked up the ass.

I agree, the teaching is wrong. I always teach it visually. That seems to do the trick

Interesting. I never really realized how it was more my path changing than the entire industry.

Isn’t all hosting containerized at this point? Is hosted, language specific servers still a thing?

I’ve been out of the market for a while now and just run everything as containers on aws and gcp

I’ve done 35 years, but the first 25 years on the dark side M$.

How do u learn this voodoo