Fucking always-on connectivity and security problems caused by it are the main reason why things can’t just work. You need to be updated or else.

I visited a friend not that long ago and he kept using Windows XP and The Bat and Opera around version 9. He knew every keyboard shortcut because he didn’t have to relearn every few years. Never got hacked, I just wonder when his bank stops working because of TLS incompatibilities.

I agree but at the same time cannot be bothered to go lower level than Python for my personal projects. It’s so damn convenient.

Been there, done that, I hope you have a recent backup!

I started by getting shitty jobs like $10/hour that were not enough to sustain myself but good for building work experience and some nice comments in my profile. I can’t remember paying anything to Upwork but they were less agressive back then.

In about two months I got regular paying jobs.

I’ve had good luck with Upwork, moved two of my clients off Upwork. Worked with them for a few years after. One went out of business, one was paying a lot and demanding a lot, eventually I wasn’t able to keep up for personal reasons.

I also had a professional website and ran Google Ads (at a time it was still relevant), got many small gigs and one long-time client this way. I should mention I also wrote and sold a small software addon there, mostly as a way to acquire new clients - tried to make the support top-tier and lure clients into giving me other work.

After that, I haven’t been actively looking for more work and eventually shut the website down as the software became irrelevant and I had work by word of mouth.

Maybe it’s just me being bad at programming, but I used to do the right-hand style of programming and usually ended with wrong abstractions that were holding back development as requirements changed.

Thanks! Not math heavy is good.

No stringing and the layers seem to stick? Magic, I thought these 2 are a XOR

If the chef wants 15 toppings, then you start abstracting it. There’s no point in overengineering.

Do you recommend that book? Title?

Whaaat? I program Python with plain vim. C or Java, on the other hand, with a large enough codebase, is unbearable without an IDE.

That is a good strategy I use for middle-sized projects. But in LibreOffice I wouldn’t know where to set the breakpoint, the code base is so large and complex. Same in Firefox.