Tag: programming

  • Why YouTube Is Better Than Udemy: Or How To Not Get Stuck In Tutorial Hell

    Anyone who works in tech knows that there’s always more stuff to learn. It’s a rapidly evolving area, and whether it’s new programming languages, new frameworks, new deployment methods, etc. new things are cropping up all the time. I work at a fairly small company, so we often need to adjust the technology we use…

  • 2023 In Code From Wakatime

    A few years ago, after seeing someone mention it on Mastodon, I started using Wakatime to track my time coding. It’s a service that offers a plugin for basically any editor you could imagine, and it tracks metrics about what you do. What OS and editor you use, what projects you work on, what types…

  • VS Code Settings

    As I’ve already mentioned several times before, I’m not exactly infatuated with Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code editor. It’s not bad — in fact from a feature perspective it offers more than most other editors — but the fact that it’s Electron-based and will spawn multiple V8 instances that gobble up memory as if it’s their…