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▲ 47 r/PetPeeves

Content creators who say things like "the next thing your'e gonna wanna do is you're gonna wanna go ahead and"

I hear this constantly in tutorials, recipes, and educational content.

"Next, chop the onions."

This is obviously preferred, but I understand that fluffing up your speech a little bit is a natural thing. There's an acceptable middle ground. Something like...

"Next, you're gonna wanna chop the onions."

Fine. Sounds pretty normal but can get annoying if it happens too often.

But today I was watching a programming tutorial, and just about every 2 minutes, the instructor said something like

"Then the next thing we're gonna wanna do is we're gonna wanna go ahead and _____"

It sounds so stupid to me.

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u/dalce63 — 9 days ago
▲ 1.5k r/learnprogramming

I'm sick of tutoring people whose brain cells have been fried by short-form content

I'm a tutor, and a potential student just asked me if I could "dump keywords on them" to see if "I'm up to date on trends", and I just can't deal with it today.

No, I'm not going to "dump keywords" on you so you can judge me based on TikToks and Youtube Shorts you've watched about web development. If your friend just wants to know what's trendy so he can mindlessly repeat things he thinks will make him sound smart, then just recommend he does the same thing you do and watch videos all day.

Most of my students are not like this, thank god, but like 1 in 20 are these guys (ALWAYS men btw) who just regurgitate things they've heard on YouTube and podcasts and shit. Yes I can teach you NextJS. Yes I can teach you Clerk. Yes I can teach you supabase, firebase, mongodb... Whatever the fuck you want, but you have to learn HTML, CSS, and JavaScript first.

But they NEVER want to learn those things. I have to explain to them like they're fucking toddlers that you have to learn things in a certain order, that you can't just start with learning NextJS when you've never even written a function before, let alone know what React is. If I'm lucky enough to convince them to sit through some lessons, they'll scoff when I try to teach them how to render HTML via DOM manipulation, and say it's "bad for SEO". Then I'll ask them what SEO means and they have no fucking clue because they're just repeating shit that they think makes them sound smart.

It's like having to explain to someone that in order to learn how to make soup, you have to boil water first, but then getting mocked because "the water has no flavor". But I honestly don't even think I could teach these douchebags how to boil an egg if I tried.

Men who listen to podcasts and influencers non-stop: Why the fuck are you like this? What is wrong with you? Why don't you want to learn an actual fucking skill?

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u/dalce63 — 26 days ago
▲ 377 r/imaginarymaps

The 100 states of equal population (now more accurate, and anyone can make one)

FOR MORE INFO AND ZIP CODE LOOKUPS: https://demoose.vercel.app/dougymander/view-map/1

Hello, I'm Doug,

5 years ago I posted a map here that was somewhat popular.

I make that map by hand, and there was some guesstimation, but it was based on census estimates.

Since then, I've learned how to code, and created (the beginnings of) a web app that allowed me to create a map that is arguably much more accurate. All states have at least 0.98% and no more than 1.01% of the US population, and there are exactly 100.

But it's not just about my map; I want other people to make their own too. So anyone should be able to go here: https://demoose.vercel.app/dougymander and start creating their own map. I'll probably come back to edit this post to add things I for got to mention. But yeah. there you go.

EDITS:

- PR/VI are not seen, but they are their own state.

u/dalce63 — 2 months ago
▲ 23 r/Birdsfacingforward

i give them and their partner peanuts every day. so i guess she decided she would come inside and see what other treats we have.

u/dalce63 — 2 months ago