A good observation how burn out is directly related to worker alienation
Looking for tips, tricks, and experiences of comrades who've developed Android apps using Vim, Neovim, or other text editors rather than Android Studio. ... read full post
I'm really amazed at what people are able to do with the extending the Doom engine.
Randomly stumbled into this article and found it very interesting. At a glance, his other articles here also seem promising.

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First day is already pretty tricky. I put my solutions on github if anyone is curious what I did.
For anyone who doesn't know, advent of code is a series of coding challenges that happens every year. It's made to be like an advent calendar, with one programming challenge released per day until Christmas. Something interesting about this is that since the challenges only need the output of the program, you can do it in any language you want. I thought it might be interesting to compare and discuss solutions (ideally spoilered in case anyone hasn't completed the challenge yet). ... read full post

Skill issue
Any ideas what modern resources are useful for back end devs to learn modern front end development? I'm decently familiar with the basics of html, css, js, but don't really have experience with frameworks beyond basic bootstrap v3/v5, a smidge of react, some angular 1, etc. Kind of a smattering of tools but without real confidence to wield them in anger, you know? Hopefully this post can be helpful for other design challenged programmers. ... read full post