Radioactive Butthole

It burns when I poop

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Cake day: November 28th, 2024

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  • I was in a similar position to you. I had 500k karma iirc and I was legit addicted.

    Delete your account. That’s what I did. It was unthinkable and honestly kind of painful but looking back I’m so glad that I did. Rip the bandaid off and you’ll never really have a reason to go back.

    Find a Lemmy app that you like (or mbin or kbin, they all serve the same content (kinda)) and just use that.

    Lemmy has far less content so when you run out of things to look at, realize that that is the addiction and try to do anything else.

    When commenting, try and remember that you’re (probably) responding to a real human and don’t be an asshole. Admittedly I’m not always great about this but have made a lot of progress in the right direction.

    Try not to get involved in the inter-instance drama. It isn’t worth your time.

    Its a process. You’re going to find what works for you. You’ll probably fail a bunch too but life is about getting back up when you fail so just keep at it and you can make meaningful change if you want to.


  • I am NOT writing a database connector unless you add an additional three months to your projects expectations.

    I am NOT writing an LDAP connector.

    I am NOT writing code to execute shell processes safely.

    And I’m sure as hell not writing an XML parser just so I can say I did it without libraries.

    JS devs that import libraries for every stupid thing (lpad comes to mind) are bad programmers, but libraries are useful and have their place.

    And if my boss doesn’t want me using those libraries, they need to specify that in advance or there needs to be a company policy to that effect. Otherwise, I’m solving the problem my way since that’s what I’m getting paid to do.


  • If they wanted me to use a specific tool or lack thereof they should have said that. Instead they said “fix this problem” and instead of writing the entire codebase from the ground up I used the tools that were available to me so I could focus on fixing the problem instead of fixing the fix to fix the fix for the fix of the problem.