Thank you! That’s exactly what I need, but I probably have a unique case where I as the developer am the cause for the feature creep myself. For work, luckily our product is an ERP software, so in most cases I’m naturally uninterested for more features :D

But I do choose this approach for these problems to not have reusable code on purpose xD I’m not try-harding to rewrite everything for every feature separately, so most of it would be separated and modular, as long as it’s required by the initial purpose of the software. However I avoid writing generic and reusable code that only gets rewarded with functional scalability in mind.

And unit testing is honestly not on my list for these kinds of projects. At best I’d write integration tests to challenge the route handlers. But simply using the software is sufficient to cover the predictably unpredictable usage in these cases.

Thanks for the recommendations. A missing understanding of what needs to be reusable could be a problem. E.g. in my example when I add a DAO-like interface just to implement it for the two entities I have, I invite my future self to add unnecessary features to make more use of that interface and other generic components.

I use mostly Rust. I meant “extending” in terms of features.

It definitely is and I wouldn’t take this approach mid-way for a project with multiple users and contributors. But it works for my little projects that desperately need me to be the user more than the developer. An example would be a REST API with a few endpoints where the database operations are handled directly in the route handlers uniquely for that specific task.

Yes, the better solution is probably not on the programming layer :D I was still interested in a specific term to this approach to look up to what extent somebody can drive this.

For many people, drag-and-drop website builders or CMS, that incorporate the ability of creating websites with almost no coding capabilities, would be enough to create the website they need. It’s more bloated and restricted, but I’d definitely consider it accessible to the layman. It’s not a literally no-brainer solution like AI, but I consider that a feature.

Why is Github forcing this unscientific religious propaganda on us? If Github doesn’t change this immediately, I will never ever delete my account! >:(

I prefer Mastodon over Twitter for microblogging. However, I didn’t use Twitter for microblogging, but to receive news (directly or at least officially) from game devs, directors and other creators.

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There is no sense of pride. Every text/code editor has key combinations that many users will learn eventually. Vim has easier key bindings.

I always choose hardcover. I try to keep the number of my owned physical books low. So when I do buy it, I want my eyes to be satisfied and they prefer the looks of hardcover. Since I usually buy secondhand books, overall it’s very cheap (although I don’t have high standards on the book’s condition).

They must be proud of Elixir.

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That’s what I asked Annette.

I use mainly fish and occasionally nushell.

I didn’t get far learning any language using free online resources (technically English, but that was/is rather a passive learning experience).

I mostly used Duolingo to take the first steps and to challenge my interest for the language. At a certain point I prefer language-specific services, e.g. for Esperanto there is lernu (I stopped that, because I hated a few concepts of the language).

I learn Japanese on and off. I’m currently at my third or fourth attempt I believe xD I tried a lot from (again) Duolingo, JapanesePod101 to Memrise. On the long-term I prefer to use online resources secondary, e.g. existing Anki vocabulary decks to guide my textbook. And for a language like Japanese I like to use different kinds of dictionaries, articles and historical context, because sometimes there simply isn’t a definite answer T_T

I much prefer short unskippable ads over conditionally skippable ads without a length max.

I know people mean it well and I respect that. But it’s a little indirect insult, when their first reaction is to assume that you feel bad about it and to patronize you.

Of course there are people with that mindset among short dating men who often aggressively blame women’s standards. So I try to be not too upset about it.

#1 finds ways to not give you a solution despite having one. #2 finds ways to give you a solution despite not having any.