beejjorgensen

beejjorgensen, 12 days ago

SERP = Search Engine Results Pages

In case you’re like me and didn’t know.

beejjorgensen, 12 days ago

Meta has had this feature for years.

On mobile:

1. Long press the Facebook icon.
2. Tap “uninstall”.

After that Facebook won’t control the political content on your feed.

beejjorgensen, 12 days ago

Since I moved my stuff off Google Drive, Libreoffice has been super useful. Great work.

beejjorgensen, 29 days ago

The networked software is free, but the hosting is paid seems to be a great model for promoting interop and avoiding single points of failure.

beejjorgensen, 1 month ago

Related: Internet Archive hosts zillions of abandoned games. Publishers are currently trying to sue it out of existence. They accept donations.

beejjorgensen, 1 month ago

The subscription is only $11,000 to activate the additional features.

beejjorgensen, 1 month ago

My 25-year-old car is certainly not transmitting anything.

beejjorgensen, 1 month ago

I’m sure it was possible, but I’m also sure my car doesn’t do that.

beejjorgensen, 1 month ago

I just went in there to make a new account, and they want real name and salary before you can do much. (I work for a public university, so my salary is public record, but even so I just quit out. Too invasive.)

beejjorgensen, 1 month ago

My simple home page is 10 KB now. And you might not think that’s such a big deal, but it has more content than Google’s search page and that rings in at a couple MB IIRC. 😁

beejjorgensen, 1 month ago

In the developer tools in the Network tab. FF sums it up at the bottom of the list when you reload (e.g. for this page “24 requests, 4.74 MB transferred”). Chrome must have something similar. Be sure to check “Disable cache” in the devtools.

beejjorgensen, 2 months ago

I asked candidates to bring me some code they were proud of and teach me how it worked. Weeded out people really quickly and brought quality candidates to the top. On two separate occasions we hired devs with zero experience in the language or framework and they rocked it. Trythat with your coding interview, eh? 🙂

beejjorgensen, 2 months ago

But how do you handle candidates who say something like “look, there’s heaps of code that I’m proud of and would love to walk you through, but it’s all work I’ve done for past companies and don’t have access (or the legal right) to show you?”

It never once happened. They always knew in advance, so they could code something up if they felt like it.

beejjorgensen, 2 months ago

One of my classmates years ago loved bash. They wrote a filesystem for their OS class in Bash. It was a really, really impressive and bad idea.

beejjorgensen, 2 months ago

It never happened–since they knew in advance, they had time to whip up something cool if there wasn’t anything else. It didn’t have to be massive. I just wanted to see some clean non-trivial code and a clear understanding of how it worked. Fizzbuzz wouldn’t have impressed. :)

beejjorgensen, 1 month ago

I always left it open-ended and that seemed to work. Part of the interview was seeing what they’d come up with. I’m pretty sure people always brought things they’d already written.

beejjorgensen, 2 months ago

The double-edged sword of isolation.

On the one hand, poor communication between apps and waste of storage.

On the other, relative safety from malicious applications, or from otherwise-safe applications built on top of a thousand libraries none of which have been audited by the dev.

I don’t know how it’s going to go down, but I suspect something will come along to address these issues and snatch the market away from Flatpak.

beejjorgensen, 3 months ago

Hadn’t tried it before, but went through the tutorial. Seems like a good editor; only modal editors for me, you know? :) I’ll probably stick with Vim for now, but it seems like something to watch.

beejjorgensen, 3 months ago

If only you could pass a law respecting the establishment of religion you could banish these heathens…

beejjorgensen, 4 months ago

This is the fun way. I have a ton of configuration files in git and I symlink to them from various places with an install script. And zshrc has enough brains to determine the OS it’s running under and the hostname. Between those two, I can have it do all the Right Things no matter what system it’s on. So far, it deploys to my personal Mac, my work Mac, my personal Linux box, my SDF account, and my Android phone with tmux.

Basically I clone the repo into .local/share/beejsys and then run the install script and everything just works. And I don’t typically have to rerun the install script after a pull.

beejjorgensen, 4 months ago

No, they’re inside my home directory, alas.

beejjorgensen, 4 months ago

mpv also works well from the command line.

beejjorgensen, 4 months ago

Another approach to thinking about it is that draw() does two things. 1) it draws the line that’s 1 shorter than itself, then 2) it draws itself.

The for loop happens after it draws the line that’s 1 shorter than itself.

beejjorgensen, 4 months ago

The old C++ FAQ book was over 500 pages, and that was decades ago. Those were the “frequent” questions.

I drove deep into C, a much simpler language, and there’s all kinds of wild stuff in there that most C devs don’t know. Of course, it’s not applicable to 99.9999% of C programming, so who practically cares, but to learn 100% of C++? I don’t have that kind of time.

That said, it’s totally possible to learn enough C++ that covers 99.9999% of its use cases.

beejjorgensen, 4 months ago

The author said they wanted maximum accessibility, so they didn’t opt for a particular platform’s voting system.