I was very lonely my first two years of college. I moved across the country to California for school and I don’t think 10 people knew my name by the end of my 2nd year. It was borderline debilitating and honestly reading your comment brings back a lot of those memories. The two things that helped me were getting off my phone/internet and going to therapy. Your things will most likely be different. A lot of people will tell you to join clubs etc. This is more or less the right answer with the caveat being that you most likely will not make “real” friends from these if you’re not open to connection. I was in jazz ensemble my first two years of college and made 0 friends. It wasn’t until after therapy/getting into a relationship with someone from a dating app that I started making friends. Probably from the increased confidence? Not sure. I’m now a senior and I’m just starting to actually develop “real” friendships.
Feel free to reach me at alexbwell12 at gmail dot com. Don’t have any crazy wisdom to pass down — just know how much it sucked for me.
100% agreed. I use Claude Code to write 90% of my code at this point, but have found that it is genuinely worse than a junior at writing meaningful test cases. Most of the time it will make up interfaces or mock things incorrectly etc to the point where I just give up and write them myself. The bulk of the “tests” it writes test things which are meaningless (does the interface exist etc). This is with typescript + vitest with opus 4.5.
You’d be surprised. Currently taking a minor in music and there are several students taking these classes with me who don’t know how major and minor chords are constructed/are learning for the first time now. I’ve personally noticed it a lot with the classically trained people in my jazz ensemble. Granted I don’t expect them to understand non diatonic harmony/modal stuff right away, but you’d think that they would at least know the basics. Most high school “musicians” are simply doing it for college applications or due to parental pressure. Played in a band in HS and had a few “all state” musicians play with us. They were completely useless. Explaining to them that we were playing a song in a different key/ having them transpose something was a nightmare. Even the jazz band kids could really only play in 2 keys without completely losing form. There’s a lot of posturing in music especially academically from my experience.
This is very true. Relative is currently converting 4 story office building into apartments. Weirdly enough much of the space has been vacant since around 2018-2019. Not sure how much it has to do with the area but I think small businesses in general have started to lean away from office space as technology has gotten better.
That's an interesting article but I just have a few questions about it. How would someone exactly prove that a certain theory in a field as subjective as psychology to be true? What kind of studies would prove the usefulness of something like MBTI? While I agree it does limit people to certain binaries that aren't necessarily always 100% accurate, I have found it to be fairly accurate myself and think it describes people to a decent degree of accuracy.
I still use it fairly often... only complaint is the extremely annoying update reminders that seem to come up way too often. Would prefer if they didn’t just pop up and only showed when I opened the app
Not an expert but i believe all they pay is the $100 apple developer fee every year to be able to publish apps... 30% seems to only be for apple payments like subscriptions and app purchases
My issue with the whole idea of background recording for advertising is that it would be incredibly costly to store this data, transcribe the audio and turn it into anything even remotely meaningful for advertisers. I also don’t know a lot on this subject so if anyone has better info that’d be great.
I would continue with what you’re doing but that’s just my opinion. Try not to worry too much about traction as long as the people who are playing enjoy it and play it consistently.
I don’t really have a lot of experience with game development or indie development in general, but I think that you might be approaching this wrong. I think that
you’re basing the future success of your game on stats and measures that are deceiving. You will really only know how successful or well liked your game is when you have released the game. I like music so the best example I can think of in regards to this is Nirvana’s album Nevermind. The album barely sold for the first week or so it was on the market. However, MTV decided to play a music video of Smells like teen spirit one night and the rest is history. Nevermind is now triple (i think) platinum. If you are able to continue the project, do so. However, if the development is a chore or you can’t afford to keep developing it, don’t. Your potential success will be a weird combination of luck and merit, and your potential failure will be something you can learn from. TLDR; complete it if you can and have the time, and don’t worry about potential failure or success.
I feel like there has to be a better way to portray class mobility than statistics like % out earning parents. It seems that (im not an economist) out earning parents is crude because it doesn’t take actually moving classes into consideration. Can one not out earn their parents and still be poor or have not moved classes?
I personally really like using Mongo for my side projects. Most of the time my side projects are just little utility things like link shorteners, paste bins etc. and I find it really easy to just make a basic schema and use something like mongoose to do all the queries for me. SQL is nice when i’m doing things that require a relational model, but in node.js I find it takes a lot more setup than mongo.
Feel free to reach me at alexbwell12 at gmail dot com. Don’t have any crazy wisdom to pass down — just know how much it sucked for me.