Nic Barker
Open source developer & programming educator.
github.com/nicbarker for my projects.
youtube.com/@nicbarkeragain for programming videos.
ex engineering @canva & game dev @cerebralfix
- I've recently had to write a significant amount of code in the tools that I use for making videos - with no auto complete, no syntax highlighting, no error squiggles, nothing. And I've noticed that the next time I write actual code, I'm way more likely to 1 shot it correctly.
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- I 100% agree with this, especially for the larger AI auto complete. It's like having an over eager junior constantly talking in your ear while you're trying to program.
- A frustrating side effect of search becoming "smarter" in general is that we seem to have lost the capability to just match on a substring. Across the various search boxes I use daily (apple spotlight, google search, github search) they all now fail to find "bar" in "foobar"
- I'm sure that overall I'm faster and more effective with the modern tools, but observing this phenomenon is making me wonder if I should be essentially "working out" by writing code in plain old notepad a few times a week.