I feel that agent coding is actually giving a second wind of life to solid principles, “proper” software architecture. Now you can nag the llm to follow them and A- it will actually apply them if well directed and does not mind the (small?) extra complexity upfront B- you pretty much immediately see the effects
Thanks for reading! I find myself thinking along these lines pretty often, old school, "proper" software engineering (referring to solid, architecture design before coding, TDD ... ) that in my experience would get you sideways looks in some companies with the argument of practicality, are now feeling suddenly very practical.
Just to offer food for thought, some people in the south of Italy still regard him as a Sardo/French invader and do not buy the “national hero” persona that garibaldi got attributed after the unification.
> Milan and Napoli would both be happier not having to deal with each other.
I'm Italian and this is absolutely false.
While any political and historical event will have people saying that it wouldn't even better if X or Y stayed Z, the overwhelming majority of Italians want a united Italy.
Federalist parties never took huge political weight (and the major one, Lega, won most votes when it dropped that narrative entirely) and separatist ones get irrelevant number of negligible votes.
You could say the same about Germany where there's also huge regional differences (even bigger ones due to religion).
It's very hard to imagine European and world history without a united Italy.
Italian unification success was one (albeit not the primary one, which was the rivalry with Austria) major source of pressure on Prussian elites [1].
We look at history at very abstract level, but in 1861/62 Prussian newspapers were all into "look at how Cavour did in Italy, unlike that incompetent Bismarck".
I don’t share the nostalgia for burbonic rule, but I have to point out that the fact that they lost does not mean that they were not invaded. Both things can be true.
In some cases it has to do with nostalgy, for whatever reason.
In most cases it has to do more with the fact that the South is primarily used as a way to steer/control the elections.
Garibaldi used local (criminal) lords, the "picciotti", to achieve what he needed. A bit like today they would use local criminals to subjugate the population. Those criminals stayed until Mussolini decided to deal with them. And again they got freed by the Allies to save the country from Fascism.
You could wipe out the mafia, make the land rich and use it, but there is not just enough interest to do so.
On the contrary, the only interest is to use that land to move to the next step, never to actually use whatever is there. This is what makes people nostalgic or sad.
The page footnote says that all sketches were hand drawn by the author over a 10 year period, and digitized during COVID by the power of extreme boredom.
is there a book that you'd recommend to a CSS noob so that a hypothetical backend developer could learn modern CSS that allegedly does not suck in a curated and guided, not pick-your-own-adventure via blogpost and tutorials way?
I feel you. I cannot offer much more than that, but if you care for a friendly advice from someone who is still in the same situation and very much still working on it, setting goals became another way to procrastinate for me.
It is cliche, but system over goals has helped me.. or I guess you could see it as microgoals one does not need to think about much.
Write code for at least X hours per day, read a book for X amount of time, exercise X days a week.
It gives me a checkbox to tick and no overhead in thinking about what goals are achievable, what are desirable.. etc.
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