const x = await fetch(...); await x.json();

"intercept" code that runs before every request?

const withAuth = (res, options) => fetch(res, { ... do stuff here });

I understand that "just check it out" is not the best advice because the setup cost to using nixOS is really high, and the learning curve is really steep, so it's not like you can give it a whirl for a few hours to experience the workflow. But believe me, once you are used to it, it just so so much more convenient. I'm currently managing my dev laptop, home PC, a WSL, and a hetzner server all in the same repository (allowing for a lot of code reuse). Everything is super orderly and split into modules, everything is declarative, I can roll back to a previous build of my system if I mess up installing nvidia drivers or iwd or bluetooth etc.

It's also not like installing software is harder than with apt (oftentimes it is easer, `programs.firefox.enable = true`) so after you've paid the setup cost there is just no downside. It's a bit like react vs jQuery, or Kubernetes vs hand-written deployment scripts.

It's also great for the AI era, copilot is really good with that stuff.

Slow hooks are also not a problem in projects I manage as I don't use them.

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Honestly I try not doing much computer stuff in my free time because I'm doing so much in my day to day but I'll stop by some time! I've been in the Chaotica discord for years but never said hello.

The learning curve is still extremely steep but after the initial 10 hours of googling it just all falls into place.

Getting better at your job is not just a "personal want" but very much something that the employer appreciates aswell.

Of course reinventing the wheel isn't good in corporate because the reinvented wheel is buggier than the ready made npm package but employers should go out of their way to find hard problems to solve that they can pass to their employees. It's called a growth opportunity.

For some reason new devs keep telling me how easy it is to implement features.

Really wonder why that is. The managers keep telling me that refactoring is a nice-to-have thing and not necessary and maybe we have time next sprint.

You just have to do it without telling anyone, it improves velocity for everyone. It's architecture work on the small scale.

It might sound weird but I try to make the LLM comfortable. Because I find you get worse results when you point out mistake after mistake and it goes into apologetic mode. Also because being nice puts me in a better mood and it makes my own programming better.

vibe coding as it were :p

That being said copilot and chatgpt have been a 40% productivity boost at least. I just write types that are as tightly fitting as possible, and segregate code based on what side effects are going to happen, stub a few function heads and let the LLM fill in the gaps. I'm so much faster at coding than I was 2-3 years ago. It's like I'm designing the codebase more than writing it.