Mark Lawrence

About myself in fewer than 160 characters?? How the heck can I describe myself in less than 160 characters?? It's going to be really hard, but here goes: I'm a

[Mark Lawrence @markl_nz]

@LucasSWGirl I'm never going to "check out" because that's intellectually lazy. I do hate several of the films in the though (the prequels, because they were SUCH a mess in every way) but I think it's funny that all the prequel fans these days get so butthurt by the sequels and the TV shows

[Mark Lawrence @markl_nz]

@davidfowl Visual basic

[Mark Lawrence @markl_nz]

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[Mark Lawrence @markl_nz]

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[Mark Lawrence @markl_nz]

@davidfowl Agreed, but some these days can't even be bothers learning the basics of CSS when they try to build websites. I blame Artificial Intelligence lol

[Mark Lawrence @markl_nz]

@davidfowl In my job, programming is 3 straight days of meetings, 2 weeks of chasing Azure resource migration tasks because MS have deprecated services, 8 days of fixing DevOps pipelines and 5 days of training in some overly complex JS tool/framework to write 10 lines of code

[Mark Lawrence @markl_nz]

@davidfowl Waaayyyy too many "centering a div" jokes (2 is too many) in the replies to this. Even a junior dev these days knows how to center content

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[Mark Lawrence @markl_nz]

@mjovanovictech Having said this, however, I do often write them "tall" ass I hate it when it *does* wrap over to another line, and I know that many other devs don't have such wide screens

[Mark Lawrence @markl_nz]

@mjovanovictech I struggle with this, to be honest - if it's a short LINQ query (and even if it's moderately long, say 3 clauses or so) I prefer to write it "wide" as I have a wide screen monitor and it's definitely easier for legibility that way when you have a wide screen.

[Mark Lawrence @markl_nz]

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[Mark Lawrence @markl_nz]

@code The font.

[Mark Lawrence @markl_nz]

@DanCanCode It's absolutely a form of confirmation bias - an echo chamber. They just essentially fed you more of what you've already been consuming, right? It's why several years ago I, as a dotnet dev, made a conscious effort to seek out content relating to other tech stacks.

[Mark Lawrence @markl_nz]

@ManuelaXibanya I got it. But I'm a plane nerd.

[Mark Lawrence @markl_nz]

@nickchapsas @khellang Yeah, fair enough - I expect we've both worked in very different companies, different countries, etc.

[Mark Lawrence @markl_nz]

@nickchapsas @khellang This is a good point, but it does reflect something of an utopia. Most teams/orgs in real world do not create the right conditions for this sort of thing unfortunately. At least, that's my experience.

[Mark Lawrence @markl_nz]

@nickchapsas "Your developers can be trusted to respect logical boundaries" 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣