Don’t let mom get that surgery. She is the glue that keeps us all together and we need more years of that.

There’s hate for imagine dragons? Or is it just the same Nickelback “ok, but not exciting” hate?

A fire extinguisher ain’t gonna touch a battery fire. There really isn’t much you can do besides keep things away from it while it burns itself out.

The book Enders Game. I was will bullied in grade school. As was Ender. The overall theme is that it’s effectively impossible to maintain a defensive posture indefinitely. Be that always ready for dealing with bullies at school or home, to dealing with an alien threat becoming nearly impossible in three dimensions.

Ender comes up with the philosophy that you have to win, but not just win that fight/battle, you have to win so decisively that there won’t just be another fight later. While this turns out to be effective, it also results in genocide.

This resulted in a restrained version of the philosophy in me. When diplomacy fails, fight for your life, but know when you’ve won, know when you’ve prevented the next fight(s). And most importantly, know when to stop.

First of all, lack of ORM isn’t bad. It’s not a good or bad thing to use them out not use them. What’s bad is not sanitizing your query inputs and you don’t need an ORM to do that.

I think the worst thing I’ve seen is previous devs not realize there’s a cost to opening a DB connection. Especially back when DBs were on spinning rust. So the report page that ran one query to get the all the items to report on, then for each row ran another individual query to get that row’s details was probably one of the slowest reports I’ve ever seen. Every DB round trip was at minimum 0.1 seconds just to open the connection, run the query, send back the data, then close the connection. So 10 rows per second could be returned. Thousands of rows per page has people waiting several minutes, and tying up our app server. A quick refactor to run 2 queries instead of hundreds to thousands and I was a hero for 10 min till everyone forgot how bad it was before I fixed it.