Don't blindly believe everything you read online, tempting as that is. Do your homework first. This video series will help you do it well: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtN07XYqqWSKpPrtNDiCHTzU
There's no Perth in Washington, nor is there a Seattle in Western Australia.
You'd think that would help, but today I found out a lot of scrape-and-slop websites (AI or not) hide their scraped origins by expanding "WA" to "Western Australia" regardless of context. Anyone want vacation homes in Seattle, Western Australia, United States?
Not gonna lie, I burst out laughing reading the last bit.
Credit to KDE and the source of the photo: https://kde.org/anniversaries/30/
An approach to maintaining legacy code
Everything will be wrong about it. It is architected and implemented in confusing ways under conflicting demands you will likely not have insight into and, of course, too little time.
To reduce your frustration, you must accept these things. The prior developers did their best just as you will now do your best. Be at peace with that.
You will be tempted to throw up your hands and rewrite everything! That is folly. Despite all the apparent (to you) imperfections, the code or device now works as intended. Any changes must be done cautiously with an eye to only making necessary improvements or fixing bugs.
After all, if things stop working after one of your "improvements", it will now be *your* problem and it will reflect on you, not the people you inherited the project from.
There will be opportunity for new development, but you must choose your moments.
Add tests as you can! Automate builds! Document! Leave it better!
You are doing your best!
I wish every cis person in this world could understand that it is genuinely safe and okay to experiment a little with queering your gender, even if the end result is "Yep, I'm still comfortable as what I already am."
You've let yourself into the playground of identity liberation, and decided you're comfy watching the queer kids play while you walk laps around the edge.
There's nothing wrong with that!
'Caffeine and Coping.' I need that mug.
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#audhd #autism #autistic #adhd #actuallyautistic #neurodivergent
Listening to cybersecurity people freak out over Mythos is so tiring. Like, bro, your local water treatment plant runs Windows XP, your mobile provider's hardware is older than you are, and the protocol that routes internet traffic is secured by everyone just agreeing that hijacking it would be uncool.
AI psychosis thing
I keep seeing ppl say that AI psychosis only affects people predisposed to psychosis, (whatever they actually mean by that cuz it's vague af) but if this article is to be trusted, then a majority of the victims actually have no prior history of mental illness
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/mar/26/ai-chatbot-users-lives-wrecked-by-delusion
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