aeveltstra

aeveltstra, 6 months ago to haskell

I may bitch and gripe a bit about the insane learning curve of programming languages like #haskell... but I cut my teeth on #javascript and #php : I've seen worse. Of all the languages I've used, my favorite by far is #python, but only for processing. What's yours, and why?

aeveltstra, 8 months ago to random

The other day my family and I attended the meeting of the Board of Education in my town, where my spouse and kids go to and used to go to school. They voted to abolish policy 57.56, which protects transgender students from harms way. Abolishing the policy means part of the school staff will out a transgender child against their will to their parents. This has disastrous consequences.

aeveltstra, 7 months ago to random

https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/6331920

Andrez Sainz de Aja writes that comments are a code smell: they make us lazy. Instead of using comments to convey intent, the coding should. But that is hard, so it is easier to write dumb coding and just put the intent into comments.

aeveltstra, 1 month ago to math

The other day my kid asks me to present math problems about area. Early middle school: simple multiplications and divisions. He got taught a formula for areas of trapezoids: A = 1/2h * (b1 + b2).

I decided to show him how to #unittest his #math solution, by giving him a different approach: A = a + 2b, where a = area of the square, and b = area of each triangle on the sides of that square.

He threw a fit and refused to accept my approach, because it wasn’t the same as he had learned.

smh

aeveltstra, 1 year ago to random

OMG how do I get #vim to stop indenting my code? With every return key it indents more!

aeveltstra, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

ℛ𝒾ℊ𝒽𝓉. 𝒮ℴ. ℐ 𝓌𝒶𝓃𝓉ℯ𝒹 𝓉ℴ 𝓉𝓇𝓎 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒻ℴ𝓃𝓉-𝒸𝒽𝒶𝓃ℊ𝒾𝓃ℊ 𝓅𝒽ℴ𝓃ℯ 𝒶𝓅𝓅, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓈ℯℯ 𝓌𝒽ℯ𝓉𝒽ℯ𝓇 𝒻ℴ𝓃𝓉𝓈 𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓎 𝒸𝒽𝒶𝓃ℊℯ𝒹 𝓌𝒽ℯ𝓃 𝓇ℯ𝒶𝒹𝒾𝓃ℊ 𝒶 𝓅ℴ𝓈𝓉 𝓊𝓈𝒾𝓃ℊ ℴ𝓉𝒽ℯ𝓇 𝒸𝓁𝒾ℯ𝓃𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓃 𝓂𝓎 𝓅𝒽ℴ𝓃ℯ.

𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐚 𝐛𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐞𝐢𝐫𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈 𝐰𝗼𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝗼 𝐤𝐧𝗼𝐰 𝐡𝗼𝐰 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝗼𝐫𝐤𝐬. 𝐀𝐧𝐲 𝐬𝐮𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝗼𝐧𝐬 𝗼𝐧 𝐡𝗼𝐰 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐩𝐩 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝗺𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝗼𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐫? 𝐈𝐬 𝐢𝐭, 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞, 𝐚 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐜𝗼𝐝𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞? 𝐋𝐞𝐭 𝗺𝐞 𝐤𝐧𝗼𝐰!

aeveltstra, 7 months ago to linux

Yo, #lazyverse, what's everyone doing about the 32-bit #epoch time bug? I know what it is and its consequences, but how is it being fixed? Sources, please? #unix #linux

aeveltstra, 7 months ago to Korean

I love how the names of weekdays in some languages refer to deities, whereas in others they're simply numbers from 1 through 7.

#language #comparativeetymology

aeveltstra, 8 months ago to Java

If you're wondering why #java applications have a bad rep for #GUI #accessibility: the default GUI frameworks (SWT, JavaFX, Swing) are not accessible out of the box. None of the components support the keyboard shortcuts available on the various operating systems. It's like they were designed to be as different from everything else as possible. Thinking different hurts accessibility. Do better.

aeveltstra, 1 month ago to random

My train just ran over something pretty intense. Now we’re stopped a short distance away from a railway station. The power went out. I smell burnt brakes. Let’s hope whatever we ran over wasn’t alive before we hit it…

aeveltstra, 7 months ago to Java

Advances in the #java #programming language, version 16 and newer, slashed a million lines of code from my codebase. Maintaining my programs became easier overnight, due to this 1 secret trick: Records.

Unfortunately version 16 was not LTS, so I had to wait until this year's release of version 21, which is LTS.

Go read this article on Java Records: https://medium.com/naukri-engineering/avoid-lombok-use-records-to-write-cleaner-code-in-java-17-b174548a6f5f

aeveltstra, 4 months ago to random

Between programming in PHP, python, Javascript, Java, haskell, and rust, I really prefer the ease of programming offered by python, and the strength and helpfulness of the rust compiler and doctests. What programming language do you prefer?

aeveltstra, 8 months ago to random

Experiences with #microsoftdesigner #bullshai, 1/?: loading, loading, loading

aeveltstra, 6 months ago to random

As far as operating systems with GUIs go: I like the ones that let me set what programs appear in the shortcut menu, and search through only that list, rather than randomly anywhere including the entire internet while ignoring the app with that very name which clearly and visibly exists on my drive because I'm staring at it.

aeveltstra, 9 months ago to history

Happy August! For today's tidbit of #history point your Wikipedia at Roman emperor Gaius Augustus. Yes, that month was named by him. Prior, it was known as Sextilis: the 6th month of the year. The Roman calendar used to start with March. Augustus' predecessor (and uncle) Julius Ceasar had introduced calendar changes to add January and February. When Ceasar got assassinated, it ended the Roman Republic. Augustus inherited the power and started the Roman Empire.

aeveltstra, 1 year ago to random

I made this:
"Leave us alone, 'cause: we just want to p."
#originalmusic #originalsound #transrightarehumanrights

A spectrum visualization of the audio.

aeveltstra, 8 months ago to random

If you needed yet another reason to hate javascript-only applications: I've been waiting for an hour to log into my web host's control panel. Of course then it times out. It's time to find a different web host.

aeveltstra, 1 month ago to UX

You really shouldn’t call your product “enterprise level” when:

1. Your product forces us to store cache on the system hard drive rather than letting us choose where to store it.
2. Your product forces us to install a system module that is 10 years old, no longer supported by its vendor, and refuses to work with any newer, supported version.
3. Your product is single-threaded when its purpose is to provide gigabytes of data transfer, simultaneously.

Do better. #ux #makebettersoftware

aeveltstra, 1 month ago to typescript

Hey, #typescript devs: is there any way to compile typescript without needing NPM and Node?

Microsoft’s documentation says the easiest way to install tcl is by using NPM. That means they aren’t saying it’s the only way. But it also lacks mention of other ways.

I’m not adverse to building tcl myself if needed, or use different methods for different operating systems.

Please advise!

aeveltstra, 9 months ago to random

I'm working for an American company, with a Dutch company. I'm sending customer addresses. Some are American, some are European. The Dutch format addresses differently from standard American format. But not all Dutch addresses are formatted the same. And neither are American ones. This causes issue in data compliance.

aeveltstra, 25 days ago to random

Please, makers of email subscribe and unsubscribe systems, stop allowing just anyone to supply any email address. That’s just asking for abuse. Stop putting your trust in random anonymous strangers.

What you should do when having someone subscribe: send a confirmation email to their address, with an expiring link.

What you should to when having someone unsubscribe: put an unsubscribe link into their email with a unique identifier that finds their subscription and instantly unsubscribes.

aeveltstra, 8 months ago to random

Hey there, historic etymologists: if we accept Old Testament Exodus for truth, and accept that the Hebrew people lived in Egypt before exiting due north-east, their names will have rubbed off on the Egyptian people, and vice versa. Do we know, or can we speculate, whether Egyptians from the time of Exodus would have known names like Mary and Joseph? And if they did, how they would have pronounced them?

aeveltstra, 7 months ago to accessibility

I give you #PowerBI 's failure to render #HighContrast visual color themes in its settings window, on #MicrosoftWindows10. And thanks, @microsoft.

High-contrast visual themes are supported by the operating system and distributed with it, by default. Users can turn them on and off at need. Microsoft's own software should comply.

#accessibility #usability #gui #uiux

aeveltstra, 10 months ago to random

I love writing my name into web forms to see what breaks. #Usability #usabilitytesting #internationalization #qualityassurance #softwaredevelopment #frontenddevelopment

aeveltstra, 2 months ago to accessibility

I'm filling out a high-school survey that asks whether or not it is important to spend federal grant money (a.k.a. my taxes) on literacy programs for parents.

But it's worded in near legalese.

Think about that for a second, dear survey makers!

#accessibility