I can teach you how to constructively support your software engineer partner
Me: <looking at Greg’s laptop screen full of incomprehensible code>\ That’s all wrong
Greg: <laughs>\ Oh is it? What am I missing
Me: <narrows eyes>\ Okay…well…indent that part more. One more. Good. Okay and then add….some boolean stuff.
Greg: <laughs, types “boolean stuff”>\ I’m so glad you’re here, what else
Me: I mean, a little HTML can’t hurt
Greg: <types a few tags>\ Like this?
Me: INDENT IT, geez
I think it's funny that I was writing this joke out about me not knowing code - it's a bit I do at Greg pretty often, because it reliably makes him laugh and I love making him laugh - and I got the indents wrong. Why? Because you have to type it like this:
\<boops nose\>
For it to show up on micro.blog properly as: <boops nose>
And I often forget that it needs to be \ rather than / or that it's \<boop\> rather than \<boop>\.
Because I'm not a coder and it just seems arbitrary. :)
Me: <sitting next to Greg, shows him my phone> Holy shit! Esme just explained the back slash bracket thing and now I get why it works and I'll never forget it!
Greg: <reads post, laughs> Oh did I never mention that?
@madewokherd Oh my gosh!!
So it's removing the code function before each bracket, allowing it to just be a bracket! I'll never forget that now, thanks! :D