There's a joke between me and a few autistic friends whenever they start info-dumping on their brand new favorite hobby:

Did you just do an autism to that poor hobby?

Granted all in good fun, and way too much self-awareness of how we curate legions of hobbies.

The energy with which I avoid trying new things, _especially_ if I think I'd enjoy it, for that exact reason.

I avoid chess like the plague, that one especially would be ruinous.

Bright side? Nose was clear for a few weeks after at least.

Not sure I'd recommend the method but the results were certainly there 💀

There was one time I took that blazing challenge at Buffalo wild wings back in college. I don't remember what it was but someone got me laughing enough to choke and propel said sauce out my nose.

Stood up, went to restroom, proceeded to have the worst pain I'd ever felt.

That hits hard. A significant portion of my family is conservative with some being very MAGA.

I'll let them know to check you all out! Thanks for the info.

A good pun is its own reword, Jerry.

Pretty much. That one's fairly straightforward but I tend to want it on occasion.

IRB wise I always like to have a few utilities like deep_merge, deep_group, deep_tally, bury, and a few others. Probably things like that.

Any internet strangers say the opposite and we'll have some words with them 🙂

You made the right call, hold your head high.

The face that launched a thousand Swifts?

"Great authors know the difference between when an idea warrants an epic, a story, or a poem and do not try and stretch it beyond its worth."

That idea is very applicable to software as well. Know when a simple solution is correct.

One of the wisest quotes I heard was randomly while browsing through the sci-fi/fiction section of Barnes and Noble, and it was a father and a son chatting about what made a good book. Paraphrasing, it was something like this:

Starting to feel this more. There's a hotel in Seattle that the front desk folks and coffee bar folks know me by name now 😅

Codemods are dramatically underused for framework upgrades. I remember Ember leaned in hard here too.