Being comfortable with basic back-of-the-envelope math can be a huge benefit. (Full disclosure: i am a math major who is now a programmer)

Over my career I have several examples of projects that have saved weeks worth of dev time because someone could predict the result with some basic calculations. I also have several examples where I have shown people some basic math showing that their idea is never gonna work, they don’t listen and do it anyway, and I see them 1 month later and the project failed in the way i predicted.

A popular (and wise) saying is that “Weeks of work can save you hours of meetings”. I think the same is true for basic math. “Weeks of coding can save you minutes of calculation”.

You can definitely be a successful programmer career without great math skills. Math is a tool that can help you be more effective.

Must include CHANGELOG…

The changelog:

• misc fixes
• pls work
• fixe a typo

That we stop fawning over tech CEOs

Thank you for saying this. Sometimes I feel like I sm the only one thinking like this 🙇♥️

You should probably change page content entirely, server sizey, based on the user agent og request IP.

Using CSS to change layout based on the request has long since been “fixed” by smart crawlers. Even hacks that use JS to show/hide content is mostly handled by crawlers.