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CodingItWrong

@CodingItWrong@tdd.social

Software developer with a passion for testing, test-driven development (TDD), and evolutionary design—and sharing it with others. Full-stack with a focus on frontend web and mobile.

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People on LinkedIn: "I can't believe I got laid off; I was working 60-80 hours per week."

Me: "Please start believing that a company that works you 60-80 hours per week is not going to prioritize your wellbeing."

CodingItWrong, to random
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Does anyone happen to know what years local storage and service workers were added to browsers?

CodingItWrong, to random
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LLMs can't "know" things.

We know this, and yet we still act like they usually do.

So which of us is really "hallucinating"?

tvler, to random
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My toxic trait is I add a Spacer component to every codebase I work in

CodingItWrong,
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@tvler sign me up for the Spacing Guild

CodingItWrong, to random
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Reddit emailed me to let me know that they made some small updates their our Privacy Policy to make it clearer and more specific. Good to know it's just something minor and not something about the use of my data for totally new purposes that I might want to know about.

CodingItWrong,
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@isagalaev yeah, this was definitely a case of me sarcastically referencing the news story instead of stating it 😅

here: https://mobilesyrup.com/2024/02/22/google-will-pay-60-million-year-to-use-reddits-data-train-ai-models/

CodingItWrong, to random
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The problem I have with the term "hallucinations" for LLMs is that it the metaphor suggests that sometimes it is not happening, but hallucinations are LLMs operating exactly the way they always do. If what they generate sometimes makes sense and corresponds to real facts, that's completely coincidental.

CodingItWrong, to accessibility
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NOPE NOPE NOPE

CodingItWrong,
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@aardrian Full-Stack Web Development with GraphQL and React, 2nd edition. (It's good other than this.)

CodingItWrong, to random
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Do you think you could live with yourself if you were the developer who hard-coded the "Today only! 24-hour Flash Sale!" header message directly into Udemy's immutable static HTML?

CodingItWrong,
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CodingItWrong, to random
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So often when I think of LinkedIn my brain replies "LonkedIn." It's not really a joke, but it does belittle LinkedIn, and maybe that's enough.

CodingItWrong, to random
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Is there a fedi instance that has a character limit of 1? Including emoji. That seems like that would be fun / cc @cam

baldur, to random
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‘Questionable Advice: “My boss says we don’t need any engineering managers. Is he right?” – charity.wtf’

Most tech cos are founded by guys who don’t understand what management is for and when they’re forced to implement a management structure they reach for authoritarianism https://charity.wtf/2024/01/05/questionable-advice-my-boss-says-we-dont-need-any-engineering-managers-is-he-right/

CodingItWrong,
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@baldur @whalecoiner this is super helpful

CodingItWrong, to random
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I'm moving my prescriptions from CVS to Walgreens because CVS sends me texts and voicemails when I've denied them permission to do so. I have one last prescription there because my doctor won't move it over. Sure enough, I got a text that it was renewed.

They'll say I agreed to it since they said that last time. But I'm on the defense against it now, so there's no way I clicked to accept an agreement. It's definitely a legal loophole to abuse customers.

inquiline, (edited ) to random
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Can anyone recommend a good, accessible (to students) reading on tech hype cycles? Not, ideally, a specific case, but a more general treatment of the phenomenon

@sts

CodingItWrong,
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@inquiline @sts this is a great talk on hype cycles that gives a great metaphor of pioneers, settlers, and town planners that has really helped me think about tech adoption: https://youtu.be/9zc4DSTRGeM

Here is the blog post the speaker gets it from, but I find the talk more helpful than the post: https://blog.gardeviance.org/2012/06/pioneers-settlers-and-town-planners.html

CodingItWrong, to random
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Random, does anyone have a recommendation for a good introductory book about history?

CodingItWrong, to random
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If you want a sense of my parenting skills, I played my kids all the sea shanties on the Assassin's Creed Black Flag soundtrack before checking the lyrics for content.

adamchainz, to random
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✍️ New post sharing how to undo a rebase using git reflog

https://adamj.eu/tech/2023/11/24/git-undo-rebase/

CodingItWrong,
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@adamchainz I've been joking for years that I don't want to learn reflog, but this post title sounds just approachable enough that I will give it a try!

fabian, to random
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If you have a (computer) mouse with more than 3 buttons (left, right, middle), what actions/shortcuts do you have assigned to the 4th, 5th, 6th etc.? Looking for inspiration.

CodingItWrong,
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@fabian and if you have a NON-computer mouse with more than 3 buttons, a zoologist at the nearest university will probably want to hear from you!

mwop, to random
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So, I saw this article on fat controllers in Laravel in my feed today:

https://mastodon.social/

And was reminded that the Zend Framework community was having this same discussion in - checks notes - 2010:

http://www.mooduino.co.uk/2010/09/fat-models-and-thin-controllers-with.html?m=1

(I'm pretty sure Java experienced this, too, in the early '00s.)

It's like we, as programmers, are incapable of learning from our own field. Haven't seen a problem before? Brand new problem! Despite it being present for literally the history of the field.

CodingItWrong,
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@mwop @ellotheth I think the Laravel community was having this discussion in 2015 too. Even in a given community we don't make progress

vga256, to random
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TIL: my PCJr has a funky silver finish inside because IBM spraybombed the inside with metal paint, so it would pass FCC EMR/interference requirements!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL6Fu8uDr3Y

CodingItWrong,
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@vga256 i love the early hacks to pass FCC EMR/interference requirements. i think i heard that for the Apple II they had some company build some component to connect it to a screen, so that that company (and not Apple) would not be liable for not complying

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whew i was beginning to worry i order from ips company was not arrive

click now

CodingItWrong,
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@vga256 seems like I always get phone calls from their founder, I. P. Freely

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I have no idea who is responsible for this, but hang this shit up next to the Mona Lisa

CodingItWrong,
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@JonBaker once a boss sent me a Google spreadsheet and said "let's do your annual review, use whatever format you want." So I made pixel art of Link from Zelda 1

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Are things calmer on fedi lately, or have I just muted all the right people?

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