A variable length lookbehind is the same as the opposite of a variable length lookahead.

I have a bunch of those in GitHub actions now! “This will be deprecated in 2023…” for the AWS SDK.

checks calendar

As a generative language model, I am incapable of lying, but sometimes, I am very, very wrong. /s

ChatGPT is, at least for the moment, just a really fancy snippet repository with an search function that works really well.

Is re-using code someone else wrote cheating? Nah.

But, no matter where you get the code from (cough Stackoverflow), if you use it without understanding what it’s doing, you’re not doing yourself any favors.

But ugh, ipv6 is haaarrrrd

Not at all.

Writing code is a one-person, one-keyboard, one-computer at a time task.

I don’t mind if someone watches, and I don’t mind watching someone else, but actively engaging with another person while also trying to concentrate and solve the problem in front of me is worse that counterproductive.

Everyone always skips the last step, but that’s where you learn.

The neat thing about the log4j thing was even a cursory explanation of the vulnerability made anyone with a passing familiarity with security say, “Why the fuck would that even be a feature?!”