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I shouldn't have written all of those tank programs.

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SmudgeTheInsultCat, to random
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elmuerte,
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@SmudgeTheInsultCat How about a reality show where restaurant owners who don't pay their employees a living wage have to work a job where they have to beg to be paid by the customers.

baldur, to random
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Writing about my failures so far results in fewer unsubscribes from the newsletter than writing about web dev. Not sure what to make of that 😝

elmuerte,
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@baldur failures are the most interesting things to read about. There is generally more insight in which things didn't work.
Successes contain a lot of unexplainable luck.

Tijn, to random
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There's a screenshot going around showing an upcoming AI assistant in Windows Notepad.

In the screenshot, there's some text about the Roman invasion of Britain in the year 43 AD. The AI rewrites the sentences and dreams up the involvement of Julius Caesar.

Here's the thing though. Julius Caesar died in 44 BC, or some 100 years before.

elmuerte,
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@Tijn Why does Notepad even need this feature?
What's next? Formatting and other features from WordPad?

Tijn, to random
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I'm trying to schedule something using Framadate, which normally works quite well, but... what the hell is this error message?

elmuerte,
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@Tijn YYYY-DD-MM?

elmuerte, to random
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npm ci needs at least 850MiB of RAM? That's ridiculous.

The node_modules directory is 200MiB less than that.

elmuerte,
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If I remove "pagefind" as dependency, which has a 200MiB binary. Max memory usage drops by 200MiB.
So this package unpacking is done completely in-memory and only written to disk when unpacking is done?

elmuerte,
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It appears this has been a known issue for quite some years.
For years they have plans to make npm run on "resource limited" environments. But it does not look like any work has been done on this.

elmuerte,
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@Tijn That's one way to describe it.
This puts an interesting limit on your project size when it comes to dependencies.

elmuerte,
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@Tijn A commonly suggested fix is: add (more) swap.

Tijn, to random
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A good way to gauge if a synthesizer is worth the money is to look at the dollars per knob value

elmuerte,
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@Tijn Should that value be high or low?
And is it just knobs or do buttons also count?

scummvm, to random
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Our resolution for 2024: around 640x480.

(You knew this was coming, right?!)

elmuerte,
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@scummvm Now many colors?

jasongorman, to random
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I watch dev teams every week wrestling with major downstream consequences of not taking enough care over their work, and then I hear managers warning them "Beware of taking too much care!", and I wonder if they and I are perhaps living in different universes.

elmuerte,
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@jasongorman I don't think this visual aid is helpful for these managers.
The chart itself is quite difficult to read. But more importantly, are these the things (read: KPI's) these managers are interested in?

elmuerte, to random
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New book to read has arrived:
@baldur 's "Out of the Software Crisis"

matthewskelton, to random
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Hot tip: any "developer productivity" tool that measures Lines of Code per developer is almost certainly absolute garbage 🗑️

A fire burning in a shipping container

elmuerte,
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@gcdotdev @matthewskelton I've been lucky enough to have had the opportunity, multiple times, to mass reformat code bases. My measured productivity was that high I didn't have to work anymore the rest of the year and still be a top performer.

elmuerte,
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@matthewskelton @gcdotdev Tabs, so that everybody can pick the indenting depth they are comfortable with.

Tijn, to random
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According to economists there is less poverty now than half a century ago, but at the same time there were no food banks in NL back in the 1970s and now there are many, so idk.

elmuerte,
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@Tijn Food banks are a safety net. They prevent people falling into the economist's definition of poverty.

codinghorror, to random

I’ll .. uh .. keep that in mind? 😰

elmuerte,
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@codinghorror You never know when, or how, it will show up.

baldur, to random
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Web developers: remarkably untalented and careless?: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2023/web-dev-untalented/

elmuerte,
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@baldur "Most web apps – even when wrapped in Electron – have the usability and aesthetics of a 1990s enterprise Windows app trying to fit in at pride."
In so many cases I'd rather have that 90s enterprise Windows application.

codinghorror, to random

I'll freely admit that I only "upgraded" to the iPhone 15 because.. titanium. Metal of the gods! 🔨

elmuerte,
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@codinghorror omg.. I've been stealth wealthy for 20 years and I didn't even know it.

baldur, (edited ) to random
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The self-driving boondoggle costs Google, what, a billion dollars a year?

Instead of shutting down something that has been Coming Real Soon Now for over a decade, their executives decided it would be better to compromise the core operations that actually make them money by indiscriminantly laying off thousands of employees?

Makes sense. It’s not as if the quality of search engine results can decline precipitously in only a few short months, right?

Edit: turns out it’s $1B a quarter, not year

elmuerte,
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@baldur I could have used it to make my search engine the default one for 5 years.

baldur, to random
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Had to open twitter for the first time in a while to handle a DM (wish I could set up an auto-reply telling people to just email me instead) and one of the first things I see, other than the endless AI hype, is a thread where a bunch of web devs with decades of experience are all agreeing with each other that all HTTP verbs other than GET and POST are useless.

And I'm just🤦‍♂️

How did we get to this point? These are the people who are supposed to be senior developers in the industry.

elmuerte,
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@baldur PUT and DELETE invalidate an URI's GET. POST should not affect caching, it should not result in caching, it should not invalidate caching.
Caching should not happen without a GET with a Modified-Since (and absolute lack of cache invalidation headers).
Boy this stuff is difficult. No it really is difficult as hell.
Today I had a talk with a frontender who created a construction to deal with something with was effectively an invalid response to our backend If-Modified-Since handling

baldur, to random
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“1Password discloses security incident linked to Okta breach”

‘Put everything into the cloud’ they said.

‘It’ll be both cost-effective and more secure’ they said.

🤦🏻‍♂️ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/1password-discloses-security-incident-linked-to-okta-breach/

elmuerte,
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@baldur well yeah, I don't have to be afraid to lose my credentials if everybody has them.

Tijn, to random
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Made a website for a client which has, among other things, a FAQ page, which internally I called "faq".

Later they wanted to add a German version, so it became faq-en and faq-de.

Now they want me to add Italian and this is the story of how I ended up with a variable called faq-it

elmuerte,
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@Tijn What's next? A version in Afrikaans? Or Maori?

Tijn, to random
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Here are some games I'm excited about playing on my new Windows laptop that I wasn't able to run on my old MacBook

I'll add them as I think of them

elmuerte,
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@Tijn Say goodbye to your spare time.

grumpygamer, to random
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Spending the day fixing bugs. The bug list got a little out of control.

elmuerte,
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@grumpygamer And here I am spending the whole day introducing bugs to fix the equilibrium

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