Hey lovely Mastodon folk. I've just released an HP-35, HP-45, HP-80 simulator called HP-1973 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the HP-45 calculator. (Free) standalone versions for Mac and WIndows (no need for any Python installation or knowledge) & Python source for Linux. It's been a coding marathon, so it'd mean a lot to me if you could boost this post, so it gets in front of the right people. Download here: https://sarahkmarr.com/retrohp1973.html Enjoy. #retrocomputing#calculators#python#coding#rpn
Hello everyone 👋 ! We have been on Mastodon for a while but recently moved instances to hachyderm so wanted to provide an #introduction. We are an international organisation teaching foundational #coding and #DataScience skills to #researchers worldwide. We advocate for #OpenScience#OpenSource practices through workshops using our openly available lessons co-developed by our global community. More information: carpentries.org. Excited to be here; thank you for having us!
Client: "We hired someone cheap who left us suddenly but project is practically done (we think). Looking for you to finish the infrastructure, push live, and commit to maintaining it."
There's so much emphasis on people learning to program/code as a path to supposed riches (hey, we're not all in Silicon Valley), but very little talk about being able to use that craft to solve small, personal, local problems. I recently wrote a custom program to solve a thorny planning problem for my fianceé, and small bits of code help around the edges with my streaming and other tasks. Bespoke is beautiful, and underrated!
The #GitHub#Copilot announcement makes sense when you realize that this positions Microsoft even further to monetize the act of #coding itself.
When you handicap #developers and make them so dependent on LLMs to write code, that (eventually) they no longer know how to do so without it, then suddenly the days of working in a free editor are over.
59 years ago today, the first computer program written in #BASIC was run.
The easy-to-learn and -use #programming language revolutionized #computing. A decade later, #BillGates would co-found #Microsoft to develop and sell the BASIC interpreter for the #Altair 8800, the first commercially successful desktop microcomputer.
• PHP is dead
• Does PHP have a future?
• 10 reasons not to use PHP
• Here's a hundred languages to use instead of PHP
#php is a fantastic, highly capable #programming language that's constantly evolving. I suspect the authors of such articles may have used PHP once in 1995 for a "Hello world".
If you can't cope without using a million Java frameworks or whatever else is flavour of the month then you might want to reassess your own #coding skills. 😠
TYPOGRAPHY + CODING. A new superfamily of mono typefaces has been released for free. They are ostensibly for coding but have lots of features for graphic design, such as a feature called “texture healing” that adjusts letter shapes to have better rhythm but occupies the same space. And it has five styles.
I just could boost the post of @hbuchel but that would just result in "another boost in your timeline" that is easily overscrolled.
Instead I would like to share this post with you in a separate post.
I really feel the is post from the other side. I'm not a web designer, I'm a frontend developer that's desperately searching for years for proper web designers and always wondered why there aren't any anymore.
It's basically an extinct profession. Killed by men and I was witnessing that multiple times in the last 17 years I've worked in this area.
Funfact: I wanted to be a web designer back then but was pushed out of the design part multiple times by my employers, because "we have the girls for that". 🤢
As I still wanted to "build the whole thing" I went the other route and became a full stack developer (PHP, JS, HTML, CSS, SQL). A much more accepted role as a cis male.
The result? I can't design anything anymore. I can communicate with designers that lack technical understanding of the web but I try to push for years to get these people time to get the technical knowledge… But even in a lead position that's much more difficult than you might expect.
Anyways, read this article, it's awesome and every bit is true. And sad.
I absolutely love @anildash Idea of opt-in full-text search for the #fediverse How about, creating an #activitypub bot, that you can mention in your post, and only this post will get indexed and available in a full-text search engine. This could eliminate the negative impacts, such as vulnerability through visibility, while also making it easier to find answers for niche question. Anybody with the #coding skills necessary interested ? https://www.anildash.com/2023/01/16/a-fediverse-search/
Am 25. April ist der #girlsday, bei dem Mädchen* eingeladen sind, in "typische Männerberufe" hineinzuschnuppern.
Wir zeigen zusammen mit dem @linuxhotel in #Essen, wie man Elektronik und Software selber baut und was die Leute in einem Schulungshotel machen, das die Admins großer Online-Dienste ausbildet.