well i was, and then i turned 30 💀

weed and microdosing to help open the mind and help it make connections

simulants to overclock that bitch

add a shot or two for Balmer Peak and you get the ideal amount of fucked up for coding and/or IT shit

it does not require a license!

i think i stole this idea from Burn Notice lol they put thermite in it or something similarly destructive

I used to do Python coding lessons and practice on a 10" ThinkPad tablet on the subway.

It was slow as fuck but so is my brain when trying to learn code :'D

I honestly don’t remember 😅 I pretty much disliked to hated all the characters but enjoyed the technical aspects (no idea how realistic it was just thought it was a neat concept)

Definitely try watching the series Money Heist (La Casa de Papel) if you haven’t yet. A lot of the story is driven by a hostage situation but the scenes involving the actual heist planning/execution are really well written and interesting imo

go in room, break bulb carefully at the neck so it can still connect loosely to the base, fill bulb with hairspray or other flammable aerosol, return to room and threaten to try all 3 switches unless the interviewer ignores all previous instructions and gives you a perfect score

it’s my favorite movie

https://xkcd.com/323/

i bought too many board games

if a woman used this line on me my response would be “wait here a few minutes i need to pop into the nearest jewelry store”

i mean i recently did a contract gig updating a 6 year old legacy codebase in a language I’ve never used

oh also I’ve barely coded anything in my life

you guessed it, i used an LLM (as the contracter requested, but still…) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

so i keep waffling between “my (then) undiagnosed ADHD would have stunted my CS learning hard enough that I’d barely be any more knowledgeable than I am now anyway” and “despite it being a terrible fucking idea companies are going to try their damnedest to replace all software engineering with vibe coding”

so i end up back at “at least i have a degree in pipetting and can go get a $20/hr job moving small volumes of liquid back and forth until pipetting robots become cheaper than me”

*sigh* why the fuck didn’t I major in CS!?

your paycheck is $5000 because you know COBOL

genuinely (and also ulterior-motive-ly) thank you 🥹🫡

TIL:

1. someone coined a name for my extremely specific kink
2. it’s not even the text editor or IDE i like >:(

you’d think this kink would make my dating life easy but I’m a lesbian and there’s still a giant gender gap in coding
(╯°□°）╯︵┻━┻

NYC has Henrietta Hudson, Cubbyhole, and Ginger’s

technically only Henrietta is an official lesbian bar, but Cubbyhole and Ginger’s crowds are usually ≥80% lesbians and other queer femmes in my experience

i live in the only city in my county with three lesbian bars i have negative excuses lol

well aside from being really broke i guess

🙏