If your app has a “splash screen,” it’s a tacit admission that the app doesn’t load as fast as it should. If you build a splash screen into your app on purpose, you’re in the wrong field.
Programming languages are tools; they are a means to an end. There are very many programming languages. Don’t fixate on just one. It’s not particularly useful to become a great expert in any single language. It’s better to be adaptable and pick up a language for an application for which it will be useful. Unless you’re an actual hobbyist of language design, there’s really no reason to “master” a programming language for its own sake. What you should master are theoretical computer science concepts, and an instinct for where these concepts fit in real-world applications. Once you do that, it becomes easy enough to express those concepts using the language that best fits your task.
I would say I’m almost a libertarian, but not quite. Libertarianism seems to be predicated on the idea that individual people know what’s best for themselves. As I get older, I see that this is actually a very, very unsafe assumption. A good example is vaccinations: vaccinations have to be instituted and mandated at the federal level, lest the general public be swayed against them by less credible scientists like Marjorie Taylor Greene. Another example is education, especially education of science (viz. evolution). It’s probably better for school curricula to be composed at the federal level, instead of being voted upon by local communities of parents and teachers who grew up on the same nonsense that they teach.
When I reject the existence of a god, I’m not just rejecting the god, I’m rejecting the entire logical framework within which this god is constructed. So, as long as you continue to make arguments that are confined to that framework, you’re not adding anything new to the discussion. The fact that so many people in the world are religious says nothing about whether such a being actually exists; instead, it says something about human psychology. It says something about these ancient psychological devices that we evolved during our prehistory as frightened primates struggling to survive and understand the world around us. It’s so trivially easy to reverse-engineer religion, and see exactly which buttons it pushes on the psyche, which emotions it appeals to, and what various uses it has for its practitioners, whether it’s for good or for evil.
The definition of “conservative” seems to be changing. Conservative used to mean wanting to go back to the old days, where “old” days could be fifty years in the past. But today you can be called a conservative for wanting to go back ten years, when ideas that were considered liberal at the time would be considered far-right today. It’s a bit of a problem when our moral universe changes within a human lifetime, and an even bigger problem when our moral universe changes with each new social media app.