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Load times for me are super slow also. I managed to get half way through. Will my partial survey still help?

Out of interest, what light switches did you choose?

Perfect!

Yes! You can keep your Atoms and VS codes. Sublime is sooo fast. It never lets me down for opening huge files.

IntelliJ is written in swing. It’s about the most complex piece of desktop software you’re ever going to use.

It’s objectively orders of magnitude more complex than a messaging app. Heck, it used to have messaging built in at one point I remember!

Also, I’ve done a bit of Qt and while I don’t have an example (I’m sure someone else could supply one- finance back/front office?) it’s predominantly used with C++ which scales to millions of likes of code.

+1 for jitsi

Yeah I grew up with A500. I loved that machine. It came with a paper BASIC reference manual. It was years before I worked out what it’s purpose was. Once I did though, I was hooked,

I tried AMOS basic, though this was a little difficult because of patchy intel. No YouTube tutorials to learn from. Only books from the library or AmigaFormat magazines. Blitz basic was easier and I had some better tutorials. I progressed to writing my own games.

When I finally moved to PC I picked up rudimentary C++ to write a game, I managed but but it was difficult. Then pascal at school. Java at university. Now it’s my day job. JavaScript was learned on the job.

On the side I’ve learned groovy, scala, kotlin, go, rust.

I’ve now been a software dev for 16 years professionally and have started a consultancy this year.

All pretty much thanks to the Amiga. That machine was an Xmas present, I almost got a Nintendo instead. I sometimes wonder how different my life would have been!

I really like your style of explaining. Your diagrams are ace too. I like how they’re not too polished, they’re focused on conveying your message. You have a real talent for explaining stuff

It’s been both great and terrible to be cooked up in a small flat with my wife and child. I’m always happy to see comments like this. I wonder if there’s a community for the M(o|u|a)ms/Dads of HN

Any tips for communications with partners?

I’ve “read” 19 books this year (thanks Audible)

These were my faves:

“Wolf hall” by Hilary Mantell

“The Selfish Gene” by Richard Dawkins

“Never Split the difference” by Chris Voss

“How to talk so kids will listen” by Joanna Faber & Julie King

I listened to the Selfish Gene on Audible recently and was blown away by it.

All through school I never had much of an interest in biology or genetics. I think if I’d read this earlier it may have changed my mind.

Planning on reading the Blind Watchmaker at some point.

Spurred on by reading the former I thought I’d listen to A Brief History of Time. Wow that is a whole different kettle of fish. I had to stop because I realized it wasn’t the right format (Audiobook), for me at least.

Or as they say in Yorkshire: all fur coat and no knickers