I enjoyed it up to the end where it was revealed it’s connected to another game series that I do not care for. That immediately killed my entire emotional investment in the game.

Apogee’s Secret Agent. It got a lovely remaster a few years ago too.

A fun platformer that spoofs the spy genre.

I found it very strange how unfinished parts of it seemed.

I can see why it would be good. I wasn’t willing to endure more of its self indulgence to find out.

My job isn’t this bad but has the occasional pointless company meeting and the like. I’m fine with it - it’s their money they’re wasting. I do not look to my employer for meaning - I like the team I work with but I’ve no love for the work. I’m good at it and try to find joy in it where I can, but it is not my primary source of personal validation.

It’s a pretty comfortable life. I’ve worked for myself before and it was much harder in every way with nowhere near the pay.

You met me at a very strange time in my life.

Hard to say, but I doubt it. Our governments don’t ask before doing stuff - they’ve seen how stupid we are when asked basic questions.

I started doing CS50 way back when and pretty much bailed when it got to C. I could understand it but it felt like I had to build the entire universe to do the simplest of things.

I like that with Python I can knock something together quickly enough to justify the time it takes. Having to do something manual and repetitious at work? Knock out a Python script to make it less error prone in future. If it took a lot of time I’d just have to suck it up and suffer through.

Fair enough, it read to me as a “gotcha” (as in “if python is do great then why can’t it…”). I’ve spent too much time on places like Reddit where every interaction is three seconds from becoming a knife fight!

…and people use MS Excel as a database, it’s not the fault of the tech that people force things to do things they’re not designed for.

That doesn’t sound like much of a “gotcha”. The requirements for small stuff and big stuff are drastically different.

I would argue it’s because it is Good Enough. The most popular solutions to things are rarely the optimum ones but the ones that are generally applicable.

For example, I could fight with bash’s unpleasant syntax or I could do it more easily (but less efficiently) with Python. Would it be as performant? Absolutely not - but the performance gains wouldn’t be worth the time and maintainability.

On the flipside I’ve encountered docs that expect the reader to already understand the functionality in order to be able to use the docs. They seem to exist solely as a reminder to those who already know.

There’s a reason I don’t bother running my own mailservers anymore!

I hear that. I was refactoring a codebase and they used a special library for tooltips. There are two tool tips on the entire site and the library uses its own perverse syntax.

I’ve never got into modern JS frameworks because they seem to be utterly insane. If you need all that to build a site, you need to work on your fundamentals.

I generally have to look at the technical department’s name badges as I don’t deal with them often enough to recognise them by just their faces.

But cookies are a subset of biscuits…

I’m sure they’ll be flying off the shelves.

I’ve used it for one small project and quite liked it. I struggle with the concepts behind relational databases and Mongo’s approach was understandable for me.

The notion that Reddit is an app to people hurts my aging brain.

Adding another step in the toolchain basically means it’s not going to be used, unfortunately.

I currently use PixelDroid and it has editing tools but I’m open to using another client if it’s a smoother experience.