They’re just saying that because the CEO said it, but what the Hell does he know? It’s not as if he’s in charge of the company!

Oh wait.

Especially Transcendental Cha Cha Cha

With computer stuff, you can do even better: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming

TL;DR: your documentation and your shell script (sequence of console commands you run to accomplish the task) can be the same file.

(Dunno what kind of chemistry you do, but you may have already come across this concept in the form of Jupyter notebooks or something like that.)

While I’m at it, I’d also like to mention Ansible and Git, for when you really want to keep good records and have a reproducible setup. Don’t worry about them immediately as it’s probably too overwhelming to learn all at once, but keep 'em in the back of your mind for later.

Remember the part where it took basically ecoterrorism to get the point across?

How far back do you have to go to find whales with fingernails/claws?

Honestly, I don’t think it’s possible to get by just trusting any particular guide without developing at least some actual understanding of the concepts underlying what you’re doing. The field is just too wide and rapidly changing for any source of info to be authoritative (and stay authoritative indefinitely after the guide is written), so it’s super important to develop the skill of looking up multiple different and possibly conflicting approaches to the task, thinking critically about them, and then synthesizing your own approach that works for your specific situation.

No, we need to slam a Top 40 classic rock song in there because that’s the only thing the plebeians who see this movie will understand.

See also: the Beastie Boys bullshit in JJ-Trek.

Considering how few references there were in the post

Why use many words when few words do trick?

That’s one chimp’s kink, not a trend.

Also, I did not expect to write that sentence.

Did he, though? Trump appointees are almost uniformly selected for their commitment to sabotage.

Flash was also cancer that ruined web pages.

The reason Java Web Start wasn’t, was specifically because once you clicked on the link, it downloaded the app and started it as a real desktop application, with its own window and taskbar entry and whatnot. It didn’t rely on being embedded in HTML (I’m specifically not talking about Java applets, BTW – they sucked too) or manipulating the DOM for its UI; it could use Swing and have the same look and feel as a native application.

What was that phrase, again? Oh yeah: “VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO.”

So what? That doesn’t mean it would’ve worked.

The Democrats, as played by Prince John from Robin Hood: Men in Tights

Eh, “executive order,” “royal decree” – same difference, at this point!

Shoulda been something more like Java Web Start.

to make pages run faster and better.

Huh, well that’s a funny way of saying “break the model of web page as document and fuck up the entire web!”

You can tell there ought to be substructures because he used comments to label the different groups. That’s a code smell right there.

That’s cool, except that the LEGO kit it goes with is apparently designed for education (as in, marketed to schools) and therefore expensive and hard to find.

INB4 they need to update the headline with “Former.”