Agreed. It’s really shit for new code, but if I’m writing glue code stuff or repetitive code it saves a lot of time spent on typing.

I’d have recommended it as well.

Popular stuff is usually available in most languages.

Thanks for the response. Seems like I can’t assume other CS degrees are comparable.

We definitely have a strong focus on security in my degree, but I still believe that awareness of what you’re running on your machine and potential dangers of those programs fall into the category of common sense. Mishandling secrets, having bad authentication or not knowing how to setup SSL is definitely experience stuff though.

Neither young or naive. Just assuming others share my experience.

Makes sense, I feel bad for the guys that were happy for a chance and got screwed over. (By the hackers, not you, haha)

That’s a bad take. Unless you get your knowledge purely from shady tutorials or have a fast track bootcamp education, it’s unlikely you never touch on security basics.

I’m a software design undergrad and had to take IT Sec classes. Other profs also touched on how to safely handle dependencies and such.

While IT Security is its own specialisation, blindly trusting source code others provide you with is something a good programmer shouldn’t do.

If you need a metaphor: Just because a woodworker specialises in tables, doesn’t mean they can’t build a chair.

Edit: Seems like my take is the bad one 😂

It’s sad that this works. You’d think especially software professionals would be the most vigilant about running unknown code.

My immediate thought. And no worries about ink drying up and whatever else might break suddenly. Just pay a shop if you want printing as a service.

There’s a joke in there about grannys with boob jobs, but I’m not yet depraved enough to try and find it.

That made me laugh more than it should have.

I use this method and the only place where there isn’t some slight categorisation going on is the projects folder, because these are relatively short lived and then archived in their respective category again. For example university stuff has its own Area and Archive folder because otherwise it would be too much.

You can always argue that productivity methods like this don’t work, because some certainly don’t work for some people or some special workflows. But these methods can always be changed or just discarded. I’ve read a few books on productivity stuff and found some middle ground that works well for me, just like everyone should do if that interests them.

Back in school we were taught that products have lifetimes in which they are popular and once those run out you have to get a new one on the market if you want to keep growing.

I try to remain optimistic but if your product never breaks and is never “out of date” then the market will be saturated at some point.

There was this company in Germany that sold the “Römertopf” which was basically a ceramic baking utensil that never broke if treated right. They went out of business because pretty much everyone that wanted one already had one.

I hope someone smarter than me can carve a business out of producing robust and sustainable electronics and the like, because if no one is successful with it the big companies will never follow suit.