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I love this suggestion by @b0rk at Strange Loop:

Share what tools you’re using to reduce cognitive load.

Yes!

These days I use Dash constantly while programming. It saves a ton of time and reduces context switching!

https://kapeli.com/dash

(I think it’s Mac only 😬)

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I try to always assume good intent unless I know otherwise for sure, but… well let’s just say I’d love to hear what the designers of JavaScript’s Map (the object) were thinking in terms of developer ergonomics. Maybe I’m missing something… honestly I *hope* I’m missing something!

It seems that the deeper I go into being a polyglot programmer, the harder it gets to write code that’s idiomatic for a given language community, as sensibilities from various programming systems start bleeding into each other.

For example: I’m currently working on a JavaScript project, and I find myself using Object.freeze all over the place, because I’ve been working in languages where immutability is the default for so long that mutability by default low-key freaks me out.

Peppering Object.freeze about is helping me with that, but it also feels probably non-idiomatic for full-time JS users. I guess they just embrace mutability and assume everything can always change out from under them…? Seems nutty, but I guess it’s also probably normal for most programmers.

Or, I dunno, maybe it’s because my JS is rusty and I’m the sole programmer on this project. So I have no one giving me any feedback on the code, reminding me of community idioms.

Still working on that JavaScript project, and I find that I’m ~randomly switching between lowerCamelCase and lower_snake_case for names. I actually dislike both but I dislike the former more. I guess I’m conflicted on whether I should adhere to JS conventions or use a convention I personally dislike less. Ugh.

I hope that once I decide which way to go for sure, I find a Prettier plugin or something similar that can reformat all the names using that style. I’m up to 1999 LoC and I’m not doing that manually!