i used to say things like

choose1 = input()

now I do,

response = input()

rather than, confusing_phrase = input()

what are some old habits you have broken?

i used to use short function names. like if i wanted to split a string, i'd use a function name like `split`. now i use a much more meaningful name like `componentsSeparatedByString`. similarly, unintuitive functions like `replace` are now much more meaningful as `stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString`

oh interesting, can you give me another example of what you mean?

He takes a bad name and gives it more meaning.

Rather than sex() he calls the function hasSexWithUnderAgedWaifus()

i'm just venting about swift.



that's redundant though. i mean, who else would you have sex with?

Old habit: mixing languages. I used to do a lot of automation tasks at work using auto it. Then I was asked to update a bunch older vbscripts. Then I was asked to take some time to learn powershell basics. So, I had a powershell script that called an auto it script that would use regex make changes a to a vbscript on the fly, and then run it. There were many like that...I have since just rewritten them all in powershell completely.

Started actually using try/catch blocks to gracefully handle errors instead of just letting a program crash.

lol u guise..

welp i cant mix languages yet, because im only learning the ssh term and python! but... soon



i'll let you know when i get there, i just started with pygame yesterday

followed a tutorial and had the ball bouncing across the screen at different speeds...

do you remember space quest 6? pygame reminds me a lot of this:

Try/except blocks are super easy in Python. A lot of the time I just do



I know just exitting kind of defeats the purpose of an exception, but it's often the behavior that I need.

Not splitting things into small services.

ie: I'd have one "service" that did all of the work for a large portion of the website. Now, I break things up into as many services as I can so that they have separation of concerns and can be deployed independently. This helps at scale so that I don't need to shill out a lot of $$$ for load balancing entire app servers.