The rest of the code base started in Java, then Clojure, now it’s Go. The scripts are there still in their very-not-modern Perl style though. They have a self-evaluating behavior consisting of data blocks that are interpolated. To be honest, I’m not sure exactly how it works. Very discouraging for the casual passerby looking for some cleanup to do.

I cannot understand how it was invented/why it exists, how smart people at Google convinced themselves to use it. I cannot understand how they let it escape into the wild or even why those not forced to use it, choose it.

I know I’ve begged before for this, and it’s pointless, but please if you’re in the position to, please consider snuffing it out and starting over.

Kills my iPhone XS Max daily though.

The navigation is completely broken as well. Some things don’t close, back button might or might not work, never seems to remember where I was before, frequently rescrolling stuff.

This is all after ad blocking.

Without it, endless spam of embedded ads distracting me, wasting my time. Janky loading, page hangs on clicks.

I’m not sure wtf their engineering team is doing but the site’s basically broken. Maybe it’s the normal state of things. Before I was using some third party app that was working great until Reddit killed api access.

My usage of it has dropped as well. It’s just unpleasant to use now.

Parents really need to stop putting iPads in toddlers hands and actually start, err, parenting.

I would love to see that function

Definitely do.

In Go we just have to emulate it, badly, by manually writing code to forward the error up the stack so you can finally top-level print “error bad thing happen” or maybe some unholy stringification of wrapped errors possibly collected along the way.

I know exactly what they mean by fear, excitement and risk. It was fun while it was dangerous yet it was extremely rare for a kid to fall off and be hurt.

I fondly remember those steel bars polished by countless human hands like it was yesterday.

I don’t know what’s there now. Probably a big sign that says “Your parents made you a pussy”

Areas with trees, not necessarily sharing the road definitely feel a few degrees cooler

I learned that this is how much of my approach to life works: Zeal followed by a gradual decline into indifference.