Roman Metlin

MODX developer · In the business since 2023

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I used to work at night, work in the morning, work during the day and then do a bit more work in the evening.

I own a UAZ, a Russian off-roader. So I don't need a gym.

The phrase "it's all simple there" gives me roughly the same feeling as a strange noise from the engine.

"Questionable, but okay" describes a large part of how I deal with the world pretty accurately.

Sometimes the code itself really can be written in two hours. Before that you just need a few hours to understand the documentation, someone else's system, the API and why on earth everything is built this way.

At three in the morning I may well still be figuring out why some thing returns null.

I have a fairly low opinion of "well, it seems to work" solutions.

I don't like redoing work just because at first someone decided not to think.

If the architecture means the hard part has to be solved first, I'd rather spend the time on that than quickly put together a pretty static page that will have to be thrown away a week later.

The most dangerous stage of working with AI is when it's wrong convincingly enough. If you don't understand the code, a good answer and very confident nonsense look practically the same.

I like Linux. I suppose at some point every developer wants to make life thoroughly complicated, just so they can later tell everyone how much more convenient everything is now.

I think I'm much softer than I come across in chat.

If I say "questionable", that doesn't yet mean "no". A real "no" usually sounds much clearer.