This is the real reason why people like remote work.

This wasn't a reason for me until reading this is even a thing. I hadn't realised someone would be listening this closely... but no thoughtcrime, so I guess to each their own. What I don't know doesn't hurt me, just don't tell me such thoughts...

My sincere apologies if this causes you additional anxiety.

I only do it for my own amusement. I don't inflict my "guessing" upon my colleagues, no one knows. For me, it's a lesson in working out "how may I maximise my anonymity".

I generally respect the "polite silence" rule upon entering the ceramic room - someone else must break the rule before I will.

Don't read on if it literally will cause more anxiety.

I was in a different 'cubicle' and noticed that the shadows meant I could see that the person next to me was using their phone, so now that's an additional consideration for minimising my identifiable footprint on the throne.

The only time I ever truly felt comfortable in an office environment, and now that’s been ruined.

“Mark? Is that you?”

“…Tim?”

“Yeah, any update on the report?”

“…”

“OK, no problem buddy”

Especially in America, where public toilet privacy is not a thing.

That’s certainly one way to live life, although certainly not the only way. Many people use tech as a path to financial independence. There’s a running joke/groan that the FIRE sub is filled with software engineers making 6 figures.

I both like to code but am lazy enough to hate the monotony of doing the same thing over and over. While I do use AI regularly, I also use an extensive collection of code generators that are deterministic that help me skip past the boring part. Doing something novel (to me) is fun, creating a form UI for the 1000th time is not very fun.

If already open sourced, would love a link!

Not yet sorry. I want to tidy up and test it out before making it public.

This!

My wife went completed the Google UX Cert on a faster schedule (couple months I think) and she really enjoyed it. She did a lot of searching and looked at university/college online programs in UI/UX and even signed up for one, but found the quality horrible and cancelled. The Google program she thought was much higher quality, although ultimately you get out of it what you put in.

I met my wife on a dating app, and we would have 100% never met without it. She is from Central America and happened to be visiting the US for a month. We went on a date, and then two and then three. Her one month stay turned into a five month stay.

We did long distance back and forth for ~2 years and then got engaged and married and now she lives with me in the US.

I’ve been using Octal for multiple years and really like it. I am primarily a reader, rarely a poster, and it seems to do the job well enough.

See my other comment above, but I was able to share basically everything that was not UI code. Types, request hooks, utils, configs/constants. Probably about 60% of the app, and you wouldn’t want to share UI code anyway because web and Native are so different.

Finally I have a relevant blog post!

Reflecting on Code Sharing React and React Native

https://matthewwolfe.github.io/blog/code-sharing-react-and-r...

Yeah this is my experience as well. You can share a ton of code if you think about it up front. But the UI is not worth it. So different.

And using objects to do the same thing in JS

Seems fairly common in PHP too, depending on the code base you're looking at.