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Joined 9 years ago

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Software developer for hire

Wrote cleancoders.com

Portfolio: https://sdegutis.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-degutis/

GitHub: https://github.com/sdegutis

Email: sbdegutis (gmail)

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Comment · 9 years ago
This, plus the multiple-cursors package, can save entire minutes off tedious file-renaming operations. (That may not sound like a lot but trust me every second counts when you're just renaming files.)
Comment · 9 years ago
I can't help but wonder if the Fence comments had anything to do with my blog post last night. Kind of like watching social osmosis in action :D
Comment · 9 years ago
On the flip side, as someone who's tried to change stacks or IDEs or other software a few times, there's something to be said for already having momentum using existing solutions. Sometimes alternatives can be a little better, but not better enough to justify the time/energy/etc costs of switching. And more often than not, alternative solutions have their own flaws too. I tried three times in the past week to switch my portfolio website (https://sdegutis.com) to using Jekyll or Metalsmith or Hexo, and each time it just didn't prove any better than my own hand-rolled Node.js site generator, and in most cases, it was definitely worse in some ways, at least for the specific requirements I had. So switching tools can be good, if it's legitimately better in some way, and not worse in any other ways. But that doesn't isn't the case as often as we'd like to hope.
Comment · 9 years ago
That's my same experience with programming. That's kind of what I was getting at in this article actually: that you get better by doing your best and making mistakes. Nothing beats hard-earned experience.
Comment · 9 years ago
Yeah not saying Swift is simple. But its goal was originally (and may still be) to be Objective-C without the C.
Comment · 9 years ago
Thus Swift.
Comment · 9 years ago
Good point. You're right that passion helped me to gain the experience I have now. But at this point I can't lean on that same passion, I had to find another motivation. I wonder how many people hit this same point and just let themselves fully burn-out instead.
Comment · 9 years ago
Meh, joke sites like this aren't nearly as prominent as sites for apps, I'd really like a .app TLD instead. That said, the distinction between app and service is blurring a lot, so Spotify and VS Code probably both qualify for .app but one also has a web interface. Everything is confusing, let's just stick to .com

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