programming

Benefits of a join table vs. array to express relations? (outside of SQL)

I am building an application that is using JSON / XML files to persist data. This is why I indicated “outside of SQL” in the title....

Google Cloud accidentally deletes cutomer’s online account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’ (www.theguardian.com)

Hey guys, I just wanted to share that I made a FOSS browser extension that enhances the ChatGPT UI (lemm.ee)

It’s not the most fancy thing out there, but if you’re still using ChatGPT 3.5 and are looking for something a little different, why not give GPThemes a try? It’s a free and open-source browser extension for Chrome and Firefox (Desktop and Android) that’ll give your ChatGPT website a fresh new look....

Why DEL is at the end of ASCII (I have a theory! -- well, maybe?)

So we have all these control characters in ASCII and besides newline, horizontal tab and carriage return (on Windows) the only use for them is on terminal emulators (which I am making one!) Also as an extension, us NeoVim/Vim users have extensive use for them....

Part II Das Blinkenlights -JM Rebol on Fedora 40 DWM terminology nyan.cat (youtu.be)

Part I is 1hr of this loading…...

libyear: A simple measure of software dependency freshness (libyear.com)

How To Make Good Small Games (farawaytimes.blogspot.com)

TunnelVision - How Attackers Can Decloak Routing-Based VPNs For a Total VPN Leak (CVE-2024-3661) (www.leviathansecurity.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/20720928

Preview builds for the Zed editor now available on Linux (zed.dev)

Keep the logs for retrospective analysis (vitonsky.net)

North Yorkshire Council to phase out apostrophe use on street signs (www.bbc.com)

Question about GPL-3 and deleting files from a Github project

This might be an odd question to ask, but I want to be sure to understand it correctly. When I clone a project in Github that is licensed under GPL-3.0 license, am I allowed to delete bunch of files that I no longer need?...

A tokenizer for EBNF written in R7RS Scheme | A full dive into EBNF, how it works, and its relationship to Chomsky Hierarchy (gist.github.com)

About a few days ago I posted this, asking for help to implement the parser. It seems like I boomer’d and I forgot to set the Gist to public. This is public (hopefully!). Someone did gave me a link, but I kinda could not ‘parse’ it (get it? get it?). I still would appreciate it if you would give me guidance in parsing with...

Full Line Code Completion in JetBrains IDEs: All You Need to Know (blog.jetbrains.com)

A dossier on the PostScript language (buildable, multi-target document!) (github.com)

With some help from the LLM that shall be unnamed, I created a full dossier on PostScript. You can build it to the original Markdown, or convert it to HTML, Latex, PDF, etc....

Making a 3D Modeler, in C, in a Week (danielchasehooper.com)

Autorun | Autostart | Run at startup (lemmings.world)

Many commertial apps have options to run apps at logins… Is there any cross-platform way to do so in python or other languages?

Maximum-severity GitLab flaw allowing account hijacking under active exploitation (arstechnica.com)

Why I Left NixOS for Ubuntu (fd93.me)

Hey all, thought this might be of interest to some here....

6 Best Embedded Databases for 2024 (dev.to)

[PLDI'23] Scallop: A Language for Neurosymbolic Programming (www.youtube.com)

Abstract: We present Scallop, a language which combines the benefits of deep learning and logical reasoning. Scallop enables users to write a wide range of neurosymbolic applications and train them in a data- and compute-efficient manner. It achieves these goals through three key features: 1) a flexible symbolic representation...