Yeah, that's great, until you need to conditionally compose a query. Suddenly your pre baked queries are not enough. So you either:

• create your own shitty ORM based on string concatenation
• create your own shitty ORM
• or use a well supported ORM, those almost always support query composition and native queries

You write like it's ORM vs native. ORMs let you write native queries and execute them while also doing all the tedious work for you such as:

• mapping results to model objects
• SQL injection safety
• query composition
• connection builders
• transaction management

So if you love native queries write native queries in an ORM which will do all the tedious shit for you.

I'm learning Scala, is that close enough?

Jira is a pain, slow, bloated, and ugly.

Trello okay is for student projects, too basic.

ClickUp was decent when I used it professionally, I still use it for personal project management.

Azure DevOps is baby's 1st JIRA, but somehow Microsoft made it worse in every way.

There isn't one, java is excellent for async and multithreading and it does it properly unlike node that fakes it by running on a single clever event loop or stealthily launches a bunch of node instances in the background depending on implementation.

Initially I was very impressed by ChatGPT but over the past few weeks I'm getting fed up with it. It completely ignores constraints I give it regarding library versions I use. It dreams up insane, and garbage, answers to fairly simple prompts. For more complicated stuff it's even worse.

My current workflow is, try top few google results, if failed try ChatGPT for a few minutes, if failed go to documentation and or crawl through SO for some time, if failed ask on SO.

I tested some of the questions I asked on stackoverflow vs ChatGPT and the answers on stack overflow were much better. So for real "I really am stuck here" sort of issues I use SO.

A classic

Yeah, you never see this in enterprise settings. Sure builders or streams can get a bit long but you just pop each .x() on a new line.

And when they're on new lines intellij has a cool feature where it creates a little UI only comment next to the line showing what type it returns.

Yeah that can get ugly but it's still better than writing native queries because you know it's gonna automatically translate to any db specific sql flavour.

When they get a bit too long and ugly I either write default methods using specifications or I create a more concisely named default method that wraps the verbose monster.

Had an ultra wide for a while, went back to 2 27" monitors after 2 years. 2 monitors is more convenient imo. I can flip one vertical whenever. Less fiddly to have multiple things open at once. One is centered while the other is on the side and angled, much nicer way of separating what's my focus. Easier to screen share. I always found the curve distracting for text.

I find ChatGPT more coherent than stackoverflow in many cases. Sure it hallucinates and sometimes acts like it has dementia but at the very least it won't write 5 paragraphs about how the framework behind my issue works without giving any examples.

Stackoverflow is good for finding alternative approaches, getting explanations for how stuff works in the framework, and error investigations. Useless for getting information on stuff you don't already know.

That's why JavaScript and Python projects are also memed and a nightmare. Not because they're bad, but because it's so popular a huge amount of amateur code exists.

Legacy code is just code inherited from developers that are no longer around. It's quality has nothing to do with its age.