Comment by Swizec
3 years ago
Reading your Tell made me realize something – I just don’t really google things anymore or look for answers online. Either read the official docs or ask the resident expert in my company for help.
SO feels increasingly less fitting as my problems become more niche and discord et al are flooded with newbies who can’t help me. Or it would take so long to even explain my problem that there’s no way a chat has the attention span required.
Depends on the Discord. Some have some pretty advanced members in there, usually the creators of whatever library or framework I need to use.
That might be it. I haven’t needed help with a specific library or framework in a long time. The problems I struggle with are more conceptual in nature. Like how to design a solution so the implementation itself is easy or obvious.
The tools are like a 3rd level concern. Just pick whatever gets closest.
Makes sense. For me, the tools are what trip me up more since they might not be fully documented (and why would they, they have a Discord to answer people's questions /s) so it's incredibly annoying to find a tool that you know should work but don't know exactly how to make it work the way you want.
For more conceptual stuff, I don't usually need to ask questions, I just work it out myself generally. However, there are some great general Discords for that too. Recently I was looking into CRDTs and I joined a Discord that had a lot of researchers for precisely that topic and I could ask them questions on theory and implementation.