I don’t like registering, paying taxes for, maintaining, or driving cars. Quite honestly they’re trash. They’ve become un-repairable and un-bearably necessary for modern life. I’m unfortunate enough to live in the middle of nowhere and with a fiance who needs a car to work, so I don’t get a choice, I’m going to have to figure out getting another one but we’ve already been without for at least 3 months and I’m starting to lose the sense of pain it causes to have to rethink your life without a car.

I don’t like python. I’ve been working on a web crawler for nearly a month. I made the decision to use Python as a compromise between using one of the best supported browser driving libraries, playwright, and not using Javascript. I have basic gripes that others have had: significant whitespace, weird operators like and and or instead of && and ||. I also abhore the state of dependencies in python and I regularly recite to people that we don’t need docker, it was announced at PyCon in 2013 because go was so much more portable and even then before go.

Been reading a really long, dry book about the fundamentals of software architecture. In the book, the authors suggest there are 2 laws of Software Architecture: a. Every decision is a trade-off. b. If you haven’t found the trade-off, skill issue; keep looking. It’s about why, not how. I’m starting to think that they only re-discovered what economists consider opportunity cost and why repair costs factor into GDP but aren’t true economic advance.