Almost 4 years ago @dhh wrote this very small post that I am reading every year to refresh my mind
**EVERYONE** (especially if you are in your 20s) should read it, step back and think about their current situation
https://t.co/D6LHeGhVFR
@theo It's a mix of facts and intent. Facts: is there an exclusion rule around it in your robots.txt? Is there a path from one of your indexable pages to this URL? Intent: Is this page intended for public access? (the door of your house, although open, is not).
@smlpth The better you are at your craft, the better you are at taking advantage of AI&assessing its suggestions. How do you feel about the (seemingly?) contradiction between needing to practice to build expertise and the fact that using AI prevents you from actually practicing yourself?
@smlpth@GergelyOrosz What's the position of Shopify regarding coding with AI? Does the management encourage you to use it or do they have more of a "do as you wish" attitude?
linus torvalds about coding taste.
watching this back in the day unlocked neurons in my brain lol. it really shifted my view on pointers and reimplementing programs made me really confident with them. always a joy to watch.
general, lean solutions >> special cases anyday
@dodeja@terminal49 Suggestions: CTEs to reduce the number of records before performing joins, index-only scans, avoid ActiveRecord which is suboptimal for complex queries, and eventually add some foreign_keys here and there to avoid joining on intermediate tables.