Especially with C work, I explain that adding debugging statements may obfuscate the bug they’re trying to find because of the changed memory map, especially if the bug is arising from an over/underwrite

“Standing on the shoulders of giants” is how I see it about my long line of mentors and after 4 decades in the software industry, I have become a mentor showing newbies how to diagnose legacy codebases

Mentors are essential, and more so today as there is too much information around design patterns, tools, processes, and working with management. A mentor sees trends and has a better handle on the rudder, for themselves and hopefully for these going before them

Seek them out and if they leave you knowing you know less, they have done their job

Take a look at Obsidian over at obsidian.md

Books: if I can buy a digital version and if it’s not priced over its paper counterpart, I buy. If it’s out of print and there isn’t a digital version from the publisher, I look for the digital version from anywhere. I did that once for a book series and when the publisher finally put out a digital version, I bought them.

It’s about access. The paywall has to be reasonable and the publishers should digitize “out-of-print” regardless of the cost to them. They can recoup the costs over time rather than counting “profits” in a quarterly window.

Blind readers should get the forever exemption. They should have braille/audio of any book, sold or not.

Left when Apollo wasn’t allowed to continue