An almost 30 Software Dev that enjoys gaming, woodworking, electronics and plenty of other hobbies. Too many hobbies.

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  • Lateral - guests try to solve weird puzzles that require lateral thinking

    Regular Features - regulars take turns telling a funny story each. They can be all kinds of different things. Songs, plays where everyone needs to get involved, or even true stories backed up with covert voice recordings.

    That’s Absurd Please Elaborate - regulars either explain something weird and interesting or listeners will prompt then with a question that they will go and research and explain in the podcast.

    Horne Section Podcast - Little Alex Horne (of Taskmaster fame) interviews a guest alongside his band that will keep playing improv music of all kinds of different genres throughout. Regularly playing songs that end up being relevant to the guest, for example could be a funny retelling of their life or some fun word play on their name etc. the banter between Alex and band makes this one. They probably didn’t even need guests to be honest.

    A Problem Squared - 2 regulars each try to solve a question posed by listeners. Is often very intellectual but the two hosts are very witty and can find an interesting and funny way to explain someone’s complicated concepts that anyone could understand and learn from.

    James Acasters Perfect Sounds - each episode James shares an album specifically from the year 2016 to try and convince a guest that 2016 was the best year in music in an attempt to justify his obsession of trying to physically collect every album released in 2016. The reasons for it being 2016 specifically are very personal to him and uses each album to explain why. (This is like a companion piece/extension to a book he wrote prior on the same subject, except this time with other people involved and their opinions as well as the audible medium allowing him to share snippets of the sins they are talking about).

    Some other ones I regularly listen to:

    Cox n Crendor

    Geekenders

    Bill Burr’s Monday Morning Podcast

    C.R.E.A.M. (Cars Rule Everything Around Me - The TDC Podcast)

    SmartLess

    Windbreaker

    Better Offline (A good one for Tech Sceptics that hate the big tech monopolies)




  • This is why you have style guides, policies and safeguards, with others checking PRs as they go through to catch this sort of stuff.

    Plus I’m not saying everything should be commented. By default things should be explainable through the code and making sure variable and method names are descriptive, along with strong typing if your language has it.

    Comments are there for when the code itself is not enough. But you’re right shit always creeps in eventually regardless of the best intentions. Which is why teams need tech debt breaks where no new features are added and they go through the code fixing the niggly things that haven’t been worth fixing whilst doing other features, and ensuring critical sections (the kind that usually have comments on them) are still working as intended and described accurately.

    This is from a senior dev in the industry.









  • I used to think it was too. I’d been leveraging hyperfocus my whole life. But I would still fall short of what I could’ve achieved if I had started what I was doing earlier. And it started getting real tiring that whenever this would happen if forget to drink, eat, go to the toilet etc. everything would become a “once I’m done with this bit, then I’ll…” But it just does not end because the task is too big but it needs to be done by tomorrow so I can’t have a break.

    Which is why I got an actual medical diagnosis recently. (I had a diagnosis from college, but because of when it happened it was more of a “you had adhd as a kid, but you’re an adult now so you learned to cope” kind of diagnosis). And now I’m on a titration period to find out what works for me. So far elvanse 30mg seems to only work for a few hours for me and it’s been making me hyperfocus (with more of the bad stuff, because there isn’t an impending deadline) right at the very end of the work day, where it’s no longer working fully. I’m hoping my higher dosage next week sorts that.

    Sorry for this wall. Don’t think your comment warranted even half of this, but I’ve wrote it down now.