Stack overflow is Down (stackoverflow.com)
All copy pasters - start to panic!
SearXNG, the meta search engine. (searx.space)
How many of you have tried using SearXNG? It's a meta search engine that pull data from a number of sources before ranking and displaying them. I really like the cached feature that tries to load the internet archive copy of the page.
XKCD 1172 (feddit.de)
Image Stacks and iPhone Racks - Building an Internet Scale Meme Search Engine (findthatmeme.com)
Does anyone have a link to the kbin.social GitHub page?
I've been looking for the GitHub page for kbin.social but I'm still new with the fediverse, is this the correct place? https://github.com/ernestwisniewski/kbin...
Back in 2014, you could register to websites with random unicode characters in your username and give out heart attacks (lemmy.ml)
Google is getting a lot worse because of subreddits being private (lemmy.ml)
Source...
The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) (www.joelonsoftware.com)
Even better than waiting for a compile (sopuli.xyz)
Introduction to List Comprehensions (youtube.com)
Brendan Metcalfe's intro series to list comprehensions is one of the best I've come across. In addition to showing how to use them, he compares it to other similar methods and shows why LCs can be more effective. Wanted to share his stuff here.
AI and Coding.
How reliable is AI lke ChatGPT in giving you code that you request?
Ruby is the fourth-highest paying technology according to the StackOverflow Developer Survey (survey.stackoverflow.co)
In May 2023 over 90,000 developers responded to our annual survey about how they learn and level up, which tools they're using, and which ones they want.
I'll just go back to the previous version… (lemmy.world)
Programming and Humility
This is something I’ve been wondering about for a long time. Programming is an activity that makes you face your own fallibility all the time. You write some code, compile it or run it, and then 80% of the time, it doesn’t work exactly the way you imagined. There’s an error message, or it just behaves incorrectly. Then you...
Sometimes good to know, you're not alone! (lemmy.ml)
Remember seeing this and thinking we all have that one client....
In praise of property-based testing (increment.com)
Interpreter writing competition?
A while ago on Reddit I remember reading about Prolog, and the fact that it "made writing interpreters so easy it was banned in competitions." Is there such a thing as an interpreter or compiler writing competition?
Rewriting the Ruby parser (railsatscale.com)
At Shopify, we have spent the last year writing a new Ruby parser, which we’ve called YARP (Yet Another Ruby Parser). As of the date of this post, YARP can parse a semantically equivalent syntax tree to Ruby 3.3 on every Ruby file in Shopify’s main codebase, GitHub’s main codebase, CRuby, and the 100 most popular gems...
Any open source alarm clock radio?
I'm looking for a radio alarm clock project that I could do with a Raspberry Pi or a NodeMCU (ESP32/ESP8266), a small LCD screen and a small speaker....
Reducing Solidus Memory Usage with jemalloc | Super Good Software (supergood.software)
At Super Good, we work on Solidus stores of all types: from stores with custom third-party API integrations to subscriptions to custom PDF generation systems…
Rickroll when trying to access /.env on server (github.com)
Doing a little "housekeeping" (media.discordapp.net)
RubyConf 2023 in San Diego on November 13-15 (rubycentral.org)
Ruby Central, Inc. is proud to host its 23rd annual RubyConf conference in beautiful San Diego, California! RubyConf will span 3 days, with the first day dedicated to workshops and a hack day, followed by two days of talks, networking, and more. Early Bird tickets are now available on RubyConf.
Let's make a list of our favorite CLI utilities.
Any extra tips or tricks are welcome!...
Advice on dealing with ADHD and remote work?
In the past, I've done hybrid work, I'd finish all the easy stuff at home and keep the hard stuff for the office, and I'd go in for a couple of days to finish it all....