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Drunk answer:

My normal job has never been programming

Keep telling yourself that, you’re a coder now.

Ive always wanted to be able to do coding.

That’s the spirit!

take excel macro calcul

Excel macros are pretty much universal because they are also available on LibreOffice and other tools. IMHO the whole point of programming is to get knowledge that is not too specific to one operating system or tool. Get all the macros, and document them in a simple text (Markdown) file that you can use in the near future.

As for Mendix, I have never heard about it, but if that’s your new life, read everything about https://docs.mendix.com/ and try to control all the steps in the process: Excel macros => textual representation => Mendix API.

I don’t know if I am making myself clear, but the whole point of programming is to control every step from the beginning to the end. Like:

1. I understand the Excel macros and I can describe them in plain English
2. I can translate this English representation to another language (Mendix API in your case)

how can I help out on this project

Most people keep the information to themselves and never share it. You can help by writing some kind of documentation/wiki/API that is available to everyone else, and by being a reference on how to switch from point A (Excel macro) to point B (Mendix API) while keeping a trace of how everything works from A to B.

If you need more information, keep asking, that’s how you learn.

Did you create that slop yourself too?

• How, and do you have some source code?
• It looks like photos from your car, are those photos of your car?

There are no pros since they wrecked a database. You should instantly find anything else.

Amazing, thanks.

Edit: I never knew that InfoQ was a good resource. That’s a nice additional link.

There are a whole bunch of architecture books published by Oreilly that I have bought and plan to read. They were available for a few bucks in a previous Humble Bundle, and cover the topics:

• Head First Software Architecture
• Fundamentals of Software Architecture
• Flow architectures
• Domain-driven Design
• Micro-services
• Agile stuff
• Scalable Systems
• API Management
• etc.

All are available on Anna’s Archive. I like the Head First book to have an overview of architecture.

99% companies have been using Windows for the past 30 years. I would gladly accept any job using Windows, even more if they paid well. I hate Windows way more than everyone else, but being unemployed is worse nowadays.

Laziness.

Didnt Bruno lied and added a subscription too?

I use Posting, great TUI.

Not really. Every programmer in France knows how to speak English, and foo is foo, not anything else.

I’m French and most people know that oo is not “o.” Fou would have been the proper way to write it.

Please explain. It’s the first dad joke of programming I’ve ever seen.

It is bad practice. You’ll obviously have 0 warnings if you hide the warnings. You don’t go from warnings to YOLO mode. You should compile with “warnings as errors” and fix those if you want to really remove those warnings.

Dupe and old, are you a bot?

I’m not a freelance but I have thought about it, and a friend of mine has been doing this for years. He’s a software project manager but developers are still popular of course.

You will have some kind of administrative stuff to take care of. In France you can use the “portage salarial” which is a company that takes care of getting money from your clients, pays taxes, gives you a salary, and gives you some kind of healthcare and retirement program.

You will make much more money but you have to make sure your taxes are taken care of.

As for the clients themselves, you can have long missions (up to 3, 4, or 5 years) but most of the time it seems that my friend finds new jobs thanks to previous clients or coworkers. If you’re new, you can bootstrap your clients’ list with full-remote offers from LinkedIn or other job boards.

Open-source projects to make music:

• https://github.com/bintracker/bintracker
• https://tildearrow.org/furnace/

OK, it’s not code but still fun though.

ChucK is a “programming” language: https://chuck.stanford.edu/

It’s a dead-end job because of PHP. But if you insist on using that language, drop all AI usage and learn with some good code, and add some CI/DevOps automation to clean and check everything.

Your code is shit, you are stressed and anxious, you have no devops and most likely no best practices, and you exclude people who don’t comply with your shitty behavior? Sounds like an awful company. Are you proud of something?