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There’s an oppositional quality to this relationship with discomfort. You are looking for the appropriate exchange rate, implicitly demanding that every setback or humiliation should teach you enough to be worth it. There can be a feeling of coldly dutiful tourism to this way of approaching discomfort, like you’re taking a stinky tour bus in a humid foreign nation, and hating every moment of it, but telling yourself it’s okay because you will be wiser after taking in the ruin.

This reminded me of the time I wiped the /efs partition on a Galaxy S i9000 while messing around with ClockworkMod.

We see these all over the place, I’ve even seen them being implemented incorrectly. Thankfully, knowing more about what these flags are called will help me implement them better in the future.

deviation from the norm will be punished unless exploitable

Is more public developer activity a leading or trailing indicator for other kinds of development?” he said, reframing the question. “It might be leading for some and trailing for others.

The GATE CSE exam often asks you to select an equivalent recursive function to a procedural one. This video taught me why these conversions are significant.

The foreword.

computers are magical so who knows what is going on

The one-time password input has always bugged me. I’ve seen too many websites get it wrong due to custom logic they have written around 4 or 6 separate inputs.

If you’ve ever tried to build Web Components or write semantic HTML, you will find something to relate to in this article.

I really like how the Material Symbols variable fonts work with transitions but the author has a point, icon fonts are just bad.

Companies are groups of people being compensated for having to spend some of their finite lifetimes not being with their partners, children, pets, or super weird hobbies. They deserve to be members of organizations which honor that time by ensuring that their work has value and meaning. There is no mathematical model to guide us to that goal.

touché

My team and I have been feeling synchronous communication eating into our time and the GitLab playbook serves as a comprehensive guide on how to do async.