#programming stuff

My writing practice day, take two! Today, I studied a ton for my semester exams — all about neuroscience and learning disabilities. I’m studying in English too, which feels pretty cool.

Oh, I’ve totally fallen in love with OneNote! It just makes everything so comfortable — taking notes, studying without needing to print out a mountain of essays… it’s a game-changer.

Also… I set my Goodreads challenge for 2025 — 50 books! Yeah! I’m so proud of myself for that.

Lately, I’ve been reading The Diary of a Young Girl in English and Requiem for a Dream in Persian. Such different worlds in one head, haha.

End of the fall semester means I’ve got a ton on my plate with my internship and the final report. Kinda overwhelmed, but hanging in there.

Anyway… don’t know what else to say! Guess that’s enough for today. Bye! Hehe.

So there is a discord server for the codeblr community founded by the amazing @vexacarnivorous but since they are on a break I am the current server owner (was part of the mod team along with my dudes @codemerything and @xtekker)

So I'm going to take this opportunity to promote the server! We've been alive for about 2.5 years and it's a really frickin friendly community with so many amazing people who are ready to help with any questions without any judgement. And we also have a blast talking about a bunch of nonsense and shitting on genAI and other really cool stuff :3

I really love this community so much, and I am always open to the codeblr family growing and thriving and having a place to express their interests without being shamed by the big dudebros in tech who think vibe coding is an innovation of mankind (bleugh)

If you're a compsci guy with no place to yap about the knowledge that you have, OR if you're just starting out in your compsci journey and have no clue on what to do, and just need a community so you don't feel so isolated in your learning journey (bc trust me, I did — and that feeling is not great) join us here!!

[dm if link has expired]

things that i've said / principles that i have that got me labeled a "conservative programmer" among my old friendgroup:

Never fully trust the internet. E.g., if you have documents stored in google docs ONLY, you're doing it wrong. Google could do anything. What if Google decides one day to require monthly payment for their product (in this case google drive)? What if they decide to randomly remove every document containing the word "tomato"? People can decide crazy things and they can be greedy. A physical backup on the other hand, well, it's not as subject to other people. [back in 2020 when i said this it was considered a radical idea. now surprise surprise google is deleting documents containing sexual stuff]

Internally-made systems are usually better than corporate-made bought ones (if done right). That is because an external company never knows your needs as well as someone from the inside does.

I hate AI and want nothing to do with it. i had to become a bit more lentient with that one when i got to uni because HALF THE COURSES ARE AI and also i'm starting to recognize that AI does have its uses just not in the industrial level it's being used at but uh. yeah. still not a big fun in general, tho compared to some other people on tumblr i'm pretty tolerant towards it. i still wont work to develop AI ever. i hope.

(this is probably the most controversial one) Closed source code has it's time and place; not every piece of code should be shared. i'm not sure where i'm standing these days with this one, i'm definitely not as adamant about it as i used to be... but still, not EVERYTHING should be open-source. especially hospital internal systems, govermnemt-run system etc. for such places open-sourcing could mean vulnerability, as attackers are more likely to view the source code than people with good intent (especially in a small country such as Israel).

C is a fundamental programming language which cannot be replaced (no, not even by Rust. no, not by C++ either), and a good C programmer can write C programs with no more bugs than a program written in any other programming language.