Unit tests are overrated to the point of being harmful. They have their place, but that place is certainly not “the base of the testing pyramid”. They are useful for a very specific type of “units” - and using them anywhere else just messes things up.

About ten years ago I said that aircraft carriers are becoming increasingly irrelevant as missile and drone technology proliferates and develop.

Email does not matter as much as people think it does. People like to suggest that others should switch to Proton or Tuta. There are some benefits to doing that. For example, Proton and Tuta are zero knowledge encrypted. Tuta is completely powered by renewables, and it supports contacts integration on Android.

However, some people say that those services give you real email privacy. They don’t. Proton uses the same protocol that everyone else is using. Tuta sort of does their own thing, but it is interoperable with all email services. Unless you are emailing people within the same service, it is not end to end encrypted. You could use PGP. I think most people would not open your email or respond to you, though.

In my mind, email is old school and a fairly low priority for privacy enthusiasts. You are welcome to switch to those services. And like I said, there are some benefits. If you think, however, that using those services is going to give you real email privacy, you are unfortunately mistaken.

I remember on Reddit several years ago I said that automatic bitlocker is the curse of installing W11 on a laptop.

I got down voted so hard. One comment even said you should be thankful because encrypting by default should be the norm.

But yet if I add any thunderbolt device to my windows before I boot it, it requires me to input my 25 character bitlocker key… that’s hosted online within my Microsoft account.

Bitlocker enabling by default without user input is horrible. Hosting the keys online is also horrible. It could be so easy to socal engineer into your Microsoft account.

Everyone who indents code with 4 spaces also eats children.

Cloud computing is the biggest breach of privacy out there that we’ve adopted whole hearted.

Choosing cattle over pets is often a mistake. Yes, even cloud-based cattle.

OOP dogma isn’t just bad, it’s actively harmful. OOP leads to unnecessary boilerplate. Any boilerplate that is not absolutely necessary is noise and bad. Full stop.

Private (Getters/setters): Strictly not a necessity in any sense of the word.

Short functions everywhere.

Short files everywhere.

I prefer to see the steps of execution that are actually happening in the real world on hardware. Not an ivory tower of code that happens to execute.

Node.js TS is great

systemd does a lot of things very right and a mayor reason that linux is in a way better place than 15 years ago. 27 unmaintained tools are not better than one that is professionally developed.

React is a plague. useState and all the other use hooks.

If you are getting paid for engineering software, your labour should be licenced in an appropriate jurisdiction, and you should be liable to losing said licence if you do shit job.

If there are spelling mistakes in your codebase, that’s a huge smell

PHP is not only for the web/short lived scripts

if you’re making a user-facing program, you should always design with the possibility that it will be run on some truly dogshit hardware and you should make sure that they still have a good experience. good computer hardware is a luxury on the world scale, even before the rampocalypse

related, but the answer to the question “who still uses {x} these days?” is almost always way, wayyyy more people than you think