For Those New To Code Culture, I Encourage You To Revisit The Original Post’s Comment Section Numerous

In case anyone is curious I still haven’t organized that first react project. Ironically, of everything I’ve ever made it is currently the most popular, and it only took 4 hours to make. Heavy sigh. 

Can never settle on just the right DPI setting for my mouse

An epistle on an “oh duh” moment I just had while pondering switch functionality in Python.

Every couple of months when I get back into some hobbyist Python development I find myself DuckDuckGo-ing “switch in Python” and am subsequently always reminded that that’s not explicitly a thing. You, of course, get that functionality from dictionaries.

I’ve always thought that was dumb, but today I was considering it and realized that it’s all because of the interpreted nature of the language. Switch statements have the wicked performance improvements over if ladders in compiled languages because the switch tells the compiler to put a bunch of branches in the intermediate assembly so a lot of unnecessary condition checks are skipped.

Without in-depth knowledge of how the interpreter works, it now becomes clear why you have to use the dictionary. It’s not the Python lords being pretentious and imposing their pythonic ways; you have to be more explicit to the interpreter about where to look for the logic to run because the interpreter doesn’t craft intermediate assembly, it just plows straight through. So a switch in Python would ultimately perform no better than an if ladder.

That doesn’t mean a switch wouldn’t make me happy, mind you.

Scene: I’m sitting in my dorm room the first semester of college.

I finally get my code working and am doing the final cleanup before submitting. I delete some lines that I had commented out because, you know, I was scared to get rid of them at the time in case they became useful later.

I run my code after deleting the aforementioned COMMENTS just to make sure everything still works. As expected, it works! Then it doesn’t. Then it works again! And again! Then it doesn’t. I put the comment back in just in case that’s what was keeping everything together (see: superstition) and it works for 6 straight tests, which thoroughly confuses me.

I ultimately found out that the problem was not, in fact, with the comments that do nothing but actually with an integer I was declaring and incrementing without ever initializing, creating “random” behavior.

It really be like that sometimes

I do hope I’m not the only one who takes 8 hours to decide on a font stack. And it still never feels exactly right.

So I RECOGNIZE that the .NET framework is immensely popular for a good reason. I RECOGNIZE that Visual Studio is a wonderful, amazingly built tool that can probably cut my development time in half. I also RECOGNIZE that simply MAKING A PROJECT has taken me entirely too long.

All of that being said, I RECOGNIZE that the problem definitely is with me rather than with one of the most prominent frameworks, development tools, and collection of programming languages in the industry.

That doesn’t mean I’m not still angry.

Well of course. Mina is an ELITE data wrangler.

Want to go on record and say that the owner of this blog did, in fact, read dracula daily. Time and time again I tried to think of fun ways to relate it to programming. Yet time and time again I couldn’t bring myself to do it.

Not because there weren’t ways I could shoehorn in a weird analogy, but because I admired the characters too much to force one. Idk it just felt disrespectful to bring code into this.

Will happily disrespect Dracula, though. Got some real cobol energy from that dinosaur. Particularly the way he drains the life out of a lot of happy, wonderful people.

Me, offering my teammate the bug fix story that will certainly drive them to insanity

Want to go on record and say that the owner of this blog did, in fact, read dracula daily. Time and time again I tried to think of fun ways to relate it to programming. Yet time and time again I couldn’t bring myself to do it.

Not because there weren’t ways I could shoehorn in a weird analogy, but because I admired the characters too much to force one. Idk it just felt disrespectful to bring code into this.

Will happily disrespect Dracula, though. Got some real cobol energy from that dinosaur. Particularly the way he drains the life out of a lot of happy, wonderful people.

I was today years old, unfortunately

My mind is still quite firmly blown