Seeing that image has always made me enter a “brain short-circuit” mode where half of my personality wants to cry and the other half wants to laugh. Does anyone experience anything similar?

Developing software and managing a community are totally different skills and mastering both is not to be taken for granted.

Plus, since you are very passionate about the open source projects you maintain or contribute to, it is difficult to “detach” yourself from people’s issues and not feel every criticism as a personal attack (and yes, when your software does not have the features/behavior they expect, some people can express their disappointment in quite a sharp way).

I prefer not to make anyone pay anything but “you get what it is, be warned that you may experience some bugs or lack of support for certain devices” (because I can’t buy every piece of hardware and test). Few people have accepted this model but, those who did, have always been supportive and respectful, making me rediscover a little hope that kindness isn’t dead at all.

Esc Meta Alt Ctrl Shift: “hotkeys” will never be the same again…

I personally have a gut feeling of rejection for every language having the unless keyword. This is why I hardly know any PERL and Ruby for example.

I have mixed feelings towards Kotlin’s takeUnless scope function (I nearly always use takeIf with a negated predicate) because my mind forgets the unless version exists.

This.

Jerboa is awesome and has got better and better over time. And it being open source is a great value given to the whole Lemmy community. Whenever I have doubts, I look at Jerboa’s code as a sacred book for guidance, meditation and inspiration 😂 once you get accustomed to some of their idiosyncrasies it has all the answers!

Never say never… adding a JVM flavour to convert it to a desktop app is technically possible and, even if some native parts would need to be reimplemented (gallery selection of images, etc) it would be a fun exercise to do so.

Really hope it matures and grows into a reliable and full-fledged client! Your help (reporting bugs, submitting feedback, suggesting ideas, etc.) has been very valuable so far 🙏

Programming aside, where I live in Southern Europe we have a tradition according to which leap years bring bad luck. After 2020, I don’t know what to expect… nuclear apocalypse maybe?

Oh no I’ve been discovered! This is not a safe place any more…

When the person came back from the leave I made some passive aggressive remark, hope this is enough 🤣

The worst case is when someone requires changes, you address them, but then they disappear/go on a leave.

If the repository rules require all conversations to be resolved before merging and only the original reviewer can mark them as solved, the PR is stuck forever even if the rest of the team approves it.

Nobody is having children even in western Europe, because of the same reason (lack of time and money). But this is another thing and does not relate to economic sustainability. Having reduced working time with high salaries/benefits makes EU western industries much less competitive than Asian counterparts and those firms are doomed to close.

Foreword: I believe that the Chinese model is superior to western “work/life” balance and that the extra “free” time given to employees is no longer sustainable as of today’s economy, unless it is used for a second job.

Given this, I don’t quite get the difference between “sacrificing for the country”, as Indian entrepreneurs are advocating for, and the Chinese model. Why do we Lemmings tend to blame India for being exploitative but praise China for being fair?

Thank you! The original source of truth! 💎 As IT people, this is part of our culture and should be transmitted. 🤣

Agree. That one didn’t age well…

Sad but true, history repeats itself. A WW III would be perfect and, look, we’re actually on the verge of it. Wonder what will be equivalent of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s murder this time.

Old but gold!!!

I tried ita little bit, I found it a little difficult to configure and although it’s backwards compatible with Atom’s plugins the duality between Pulsar native/Atom plugins is somehow perceived. Didn’t manage to even find a good markdown pack and it felt too “awkward” and cumbersome, I switched back to VS code for scripting/markup after a couple of days (of non intense usage because I work with IntelliJ most of the time for coding).