Knock off the childish fucking gatekeeping and go back to reddit. It’s what the wider industry uses.

python is usually the next step up in admin land

python is a pretty standard install on linux systems since so many things like you’re talking about use it

You missed one:

• To let others at least have some insight into what you’re doing so you can take a freakin’ vacation every once in a while

Don’t take issue with the platform. Take issue with companies that are so fanatical with “we’re a microsoft/java/javascript/esperanto shop!” that they’d cram it into medical devices and nuclear reactor controls before doing some sort of sober domain analysis.

Everything has its own set of problems.

tldr is great. I can’t stand --help output that drones on like Proust.

Technical videos have helped me perfect my pronunciation of “umm” and “uhh.”

throw yourself to the wolves

embrace the wolves

Go ahead and graduate to etckeeper if you’re targeting /etc

From a historical standpoint, there is also the bad blood of ActiveX, Flash, Silverlight and early Java applets that still leaves a bad taste in people’s mouths. It has a slightly steeper uphill battle to fight.

Generally the most supported language on the tool/platform you want to target is the best one. Like SQL on databases, JS/ES in browsers, python in data science related stuff, etc. If multiple are heavily supported then just pick the one that’s the most comfortable.

It won’t fly. Not when a popular red meat election year topic is breaking google up and one such year is just around the corner.

I can think of surgeon examples but I’ve never heard of Recruiters Without Borders. Unless it’s just CapGemini

Fintech is easy to deal with in this regard.

“do you have code samples you can share?”

“would you be happy if an employee interviewed elsewhere and used your codebase for work samples?”

I have a dedicated work shirt only worn while at work

This is a good one that often goes unspoken. It enforces role play.

It’s a lot easier than I initially thought: just write down a high-level, abstract sentence fragment of what needs to be done. Get it off your chest and put it in ink (or pixels?). Then ask yourself: how can I split this into two parts? Rinse and repeat.

The initial limiter for me was anxiety and fear about it. Once I got into the habit, the limiter was avoiding hyperfocus and micromanaging myself in the project plan. I try not to break things down beyond 1-2 hour tasks.

I had to learn to be my own PM and do the whole task grooming bit. Checking things off gamified the process.

Not exactly static text, but https://discord.gg/golang on Discord is pretty busy.

How to make lots of friends and enrich the lives of everyone around you:

1. Play Kenya
2. Lock screen
3. Go to lunch

It’s likely not the full story, but there were some crazy export restrictions in the 90s. Apple made a commercial poking at it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjkoYlpf3EA

BBSs had fidonet in 1993, if email, usenet and irc don’t count