Ich lebe in Bern wo ein L wie ein U ausgesprochen wird. Aus "Angestellte" wird "Agsteuti". Hoffe ich. Ist hart zu lernen.

I'd say: do the opposite! Don't plan anything, stay no more than two nights at the same place, jump on a train and see where you end up. Then, if you don't like, just take the next train somewhere else.

I did this twice in my early twenties and it was amazing. I mean, it was absolutely horrible. I slept on bark benches, in Cafés, in train stations, before train stations (until they turned on the sprinklers)... I was picked up by the police because we got lost in a field and more than once I was convinced I'd die. But it was absolutely worth it and both trips became core memories / PTSD trigger.

But seriously, don't follow this advice if you have a kid and are not an immortal twenty-something.

Ich habe noch nie über das Wort nachgedacht. Bis eben.

Came here to point that out. You also have LTS versions for business critical software. Sometimes, a newer version is in beta or nightly mode for a long time while the stable version only receives bug fixes.

And here I am with my brand new niche zero that I was so proud of until like three minutes ago.

That's clever. Way more than my Regex abomination

I have hacked together the ugliest of solutions and got my two stars but at what price?

I want that on a t-shirt! And I'm definitely going to steal it for my slack tagline.

When the Covid vaccines came out, my wife and I immediately got them. A couple of weeks later, our kids had a patch of various sicknesses, nothing major just some mild infections. I told our kindergarten teacher that I was annoyed about that and she tells, she read, that we are shedding the vaccine and that's why our kids are sick now. I went full "are you fucking kidding me" mode and felt really bad for a long time after that.

Don't you think that vegans know, that rice is a plant? That marketing is not aimed at us.

There are also a couple of reasons why someone might want to use a substitute for rice.

Growing rice is very water intensive. Rice contains traces of arsenic. And of course it's full of carbohydrates.

The packaging is marketing and uses the same plant-based stick that is conflated with healthy food.

If you go down the Java route you will probably end up working with enterprise/legacy software. If you are fine with that, do it. But what's wrong with focussing on JavaScript as your main language?