Hey buddy, if I fix one bug and cause three more, it's called job security. Where's my medal?
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Getting to keep your job is your medal then.
I have to say, I'm pretty sure those guys were in the past too.
I once had an intern attempt to install sudo using NPM and when that didn't work he asked ChatGPT "Why can't I install sudo from NPM?" while I'm trying to explain it to him.
He was smart, but somehow knew very little about commercial computers despite being on the verge of getting his master's in computer science.
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Hey now. Searching stack overflow circia 2011 to 2018 was an Art. You had to know enough to find the correct question that wasn't deleted because a mod thought it was a duplicate of another question
Also to find the actual correct answer three comments down because the one that was voted highest worked, but was actually a really shit way to do the thing being asked
I often found the correct answers in the comments of an answer
Before that you had to hang out on flipside or other gamedev sites and show your worthiness before begging for information.
I was so proud when they shared the DS hack (basically a homebrew SDK made by trial and error by some people) so that I could make small games on it.
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One of my favourite game dev stories from the 1980s is the story of Elite. It was a game people thought couldn't be made. Most devs thought hardware wasn't powerful enough and publishers thought it wouldn't be fun enough.
It was one of the first properly 3D open world video games ever made. I think when it released it sold nearly as many copies as there were home computers that could run it.
In order to make the game small enough to fit on a cassette tape they had to ditch basic and program the entire game, world in assembly.
There's a fantastic video about it here: https://youtu.be/lC4YLMLar5I
Elite Dangerous is the most recent installment of the series started by that game
the game small enough to fit on a cassette tape
Holy hell, that is OLD old. We're talking about the beginnings of digital time here. Had the first web constellations formed yet? How fast did you crank your CPU?
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I feel attacked by "how to center div 2025"
Super easy!
<center>
<div>
</div>
</center>
.parent {
display: grid;
place-items: center;
}
couldn't be easier in 2025.
probably a lot less performant than doing it the old fashioned way. sometimes that matters. you should have the non-grid non-flex method half committed to memory. abusing flex or grid to save 2 lines of code is not a great practice, and having only one child element is usually a pretty clear sign that flex/grid is the wrong tool for the job
at the end of the day though do whatever you want, in fact why not just write a javascript function to recenter it every frame at 60fps cause 99.9% of the software 99.9% of people interact with is pure shit made by developers who don't care for users who don't care.
we live in a slop world, made by and for slop people who love slop. can you tell i've been awake for 30 hours? anyways...
I hope you get some good rest :)
Bottom right has always happened, just create bugs yourself and then fix them to keep your job
"jubilationtcornpone is a great dev. He closes more tickets than anyone."
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It's 2025 and I have no idea what the current way to center something is. Then again, my job is that of a backend engineer so it's rare I'm outputting anything that isn't a log statement. They can pry tables and center tags from my cold, aging hands.
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The fact that the div center search needs a year on it got me lol
Loving my nearly frontend free development life. I use Stackoverflow or Google maybe 2-3 times a month these days, not sure if I qualify for the upper row :(