Cyno

Thanks for the book recommendation, I'll definitely check it out! The course sounds really helpful as well, I imagine there are many remote classes like that nowdays or as part of learning sites like pluralsight so that might be worth checking out. If there's one conclusion I got out of this thread so far is that it is pretty much something you have to learn and practice in advance and then hope to use appropriately, there's no sure-way or easy way of finding a pattern once you're already faced with a problem.

Seems like on one hand, programmers (online at least) are really against being questioned during interviews about whether they "live the code" and spend their free time on contributing to other projects or developing their own, but if this is really the only way to learn stuff like that then maybe they have a point. I was hoping there's a better way but I guess it's the same as always - work enough and hope the stuff you learn ends up being useful one day...

Maybe I'm using the word pattern wrong but I meant like builder, factory or visitor pattern, but on a more wide scale also stuff like dependency injection / IoC - basically "techniques" that are not bound to a specific language but rather provide a design by which some things can be accomplished better. Afaik those are not related to specific languages

This whole fediverse feels very shaky tbh, we have this issue now but as someone who is usually on kbin there's been issues like these from the start - posts not getting propagated to other instances, mod actions not being sent or updated, missing entire domains because of the bugs in the filter, etc. Add to that legitimate choices like defederation and domain blocking, it just feels fractured and nonfunctional because I still need a separate account on every instance to actually participate on it.

I know it's a FOSS project with no guarantees and everything these people do is in their free time but I really wish stability and basic functionality was the first thing they focused on, otherwise everything else is in vain since it's on top of an unstable foundation.