I received a three question geometry quiz inside of a google form as a screening for a backend nodejs a couple weeks ago. Apparently it was critical for the role that I know the relationship between the circumference and the radius of a circle.

Yikes. I mean, on the one hand that’s literally elementary—as in elementary school, if only just barely—knowledge. On the other, I’ve not needed to find the circumference of a circle given the radius ever in adult life, and I’m quite sure I’ve forgotten more than a handful of “elementary” things due to lack of practice, over the years, especially in math (for which needing to reach for knowledge or techniques beyond about 6th grade is very rare, at least in my life).

… I am pretty sure I’d be fine on that particular example, but there are surely others about as “easy” that I’d flub because I’ve not used that knowledge in 20+ years.

It's not clear to me why it makes sense to use both RDB Files and AOF on the same Redis instance. Seems like AOF would always be the more accurate source of truth here. What am I missing?

Great article though!

It's been a toss up for me. Some juniors are super self motivated and can take advice and run with it. In these scenarios I really enjoy mentoring because it feels like a back and forth process. Others need their hands held a lot and tend to just assume they can't figure things out on their own which becomes exhausting to deal with.

https://jrsinclair.com/ has amazing JS & functional programming essays.

Unrelated to the plugin: I love the dark mode on your site.

I completely disagree. No one is ever going to write out a url by hand on notebook paper. Even in the rare case that a url would fit on a single line, it's just needlessly cumbersome work to do. I think the project author did a great job allowing for further site customization (styles, images, etc.) without overcomplicating the hand-written portion.

I don't mean writing out a URL...

You could name pages like "Home", "About", "My trip to Paris". And then write on the piece of paper "[link to My trip to Paris]"

Or you could write "[link from Posts]" to add it to a common listing.

You'd basically just create a written form of Markdown.

Oh I misread. That type of linking definitely feels doable. Images & styles are a whole other can of worms though

I have to remind myself of this all the time. The older I get the worse I am about asking questions on topics I don't know. "Ugh I should know that by now", is a pretty common thought that goes through my head. Definitely trying to unlearn this habit by being willing to jump in Discord groups and asking dumb questions. Never a bad experience so far!

Great read!

Searching for your own name will turn up some interesting results! I got some early 90s webpages that just contain obituaries or marriage records. I never knew cities maintained these records online!

I agree. I love using the language for smaller things, but since I don't use it at my day job it's really hard to get well acquainted with the common tooling/libraries. When I try starting a new project I always end up spending hours just getting my environment in a good state.

When the baby boomers are gone the percentage will drop tremendously. I only know of one or two people below the age of 40 that practice religion regularly. Definitely curious to see what the headline will read 30 years from now.