It feels like anything is mowed down on the internet. I’ve been a dev for a long time too, and I never feel sure when I chose a stack for a new toy project (in my day job I rarely get to chose, so that’s a non issue there)
I thought I loved ts-node, since it’s a good patch over some annoying issues in node.
But I retried deno a few months ago (after having first tried it when it first came out) and I realised that I only ever liked ts-node, and that I actually loved deno.
Deno just ran ts as if it was ts-node without needing a dependency, or startup time, or any prior setup, and it did it so fast I thought something was wrong. It was great.
From what I gather, I don’t know that there’s a new norm in this regard yet, besides recognizing that gifs are increasingly old & clunky (despite being fun & amusing), and so I don’t know if mp4s or webms or something else might be better if wanting to keep a site lightweight while still having some animated elements.
first major release under daddy Microsoft, so things may be different
I wouldn’t hold my breath:
Bethesda’s management have always unvalued spending effort on engine development
Microsoft’s awful mandated top-down rules are what seriously messed up Halo Infinite:
To go into this point in more detail:
343 industries hired a large amount of “temporary” contractors to work on Halo Infinite (this is standard in AAA games)
For legal reasons, any contractor who had worked on a project for 18 months is given workers protections
Microsoft mandated that each contractor be “let go” right before reaching this 18 month time-frame.
During the regular process of development, different developers would build different things, then over time either help out with any questions on how to use it, or tweak it to support a new use case.
During Microsoft’s mandated development, the developer who built a tool or best knew how it worked was let go. Since it’s easier to write new code rather than read existing code unassisted the developer who needs something done before a deadline has to build a new tool. After 5 years we now have 40 something tools that are all built based on different assumptions that keep overwriting each other’s results in wildly expected way. No one knows how anything works anymore.
It depends what you need your configuration file to be:
Need a well defined easy to understand concrete configuration file?
Use .toml. It was made to be both human and computer friendly while taking special attention to avoid the pitfalls commonly found in other configuration files by explicitly stating expected types around commonly confused areas.
Need a simple to implement configuration file?
Use .json. It’s famous for being so simple it’s creator “discoverer” could define it on a business card.
Need an abstract configuration file for more complicated setups?
Use .ncl. Nickle allows you to define functions so that you can generate/compute the correct configuration by changing a few variables/flags.
I was in it for the parkour; I didn’t really like the combat and kept being forced to fight people.
Part of the charm of the game was to make its combat unwieldy to push people into parkour-ing past/out of each encounter. The whole game was made so that you could finish it without ever picking up a gun.
It sounds like you didn’t get far enough to learn this.
Mixed zoning with each new development voted on by the people who live in the area. The company that puts forward the best proposal for residents gets the contract. (e.g. Luxury high rise = no, High rise with bakery, cafe, fruit & veg, grocers on bottom floor, and rentable office space on second floor = yes)
Stack Overflow has seen a substantial decline in traffic over the last year that appears to be accelerating. observablehq.com/…/the-fall-of-stack-overflow
“1542 different people have been doing math by hand for the last 49 hours, completing the first mathematical painting (shader) ever made with human brain power alone, rather than by a machine! If you know how to add and multiply, you can join us!”
Initially, LinkedIn was just another site where you could find jobs. It was simple to use, simple to connect with others; it even had some friendly groups with meaningful discussions....
Github has always had being a job site be it’s secondary feature.
Except that it has a slightly higher bar of entry to recruiters and recruitment bots spreading toxic positivity, and anyone asking for a job is able to prove (at least some of) their value by showing off their code and how they participate publically in other repos (if at all).
I wonder if they’re lying about this. Maybe the fans are super loud or something and they didn’t want the reporter to know.
That’s far too conspiratorial for me. Loud fans in an engineering sample aren’t a reason to break a fan.
A fast fan blade on a laptop would snap easily if it was handled, which is exactly what would be happening on both a laptop where assembling and disassembling it is a feature and a laptop being actively tested.
If it was a blade that broke, that wouldn’t stop the fan from working, so it was probably the servo, power, or bearings which is exactly what you’d expect to find broken in an engineering sample. Why? Because engineering samples almost always have issues in them. That’s the whole point of the samples, to find out what the issues are so they can be fixed before mass manufacture.
I like CMD + D to select the next identical selection, OPT + DOWN/UP to move the selections down or up a line, SHIFT + OPT + DOWN/UP to duplicate the selection, and CMD + / to turn the line into a comment. How bout you?
Ah I misread your comment. I thought you were suggesting that vscode users turn on emacs shortcuts to gain shortcuts that were already in vscode.
I’m not familiar with any emacs macros, they seem like a more quick-and-dirty version of what vscode has going on with it’s extensions.
Your indent example would be easier in vscode, since in vscode land you only need to make a selection then press Tab, and the LSP will automatically indent it to the correct level. And if you have a formatter installed, simply saving the file will format the file (indentation included).
But I’m guessing you included the indent example to show how to pass in an argument.
VSCode can do similar things, but it’s not exactly the same. I use the following
Yeah, the obvious way would be to draw the text on a canvas, but you wouldn’t get sharp text then.
I could nest a span with a negative translate or negative margin to overlap. It could be worth it to print each letter in a css grid (which would work since all the text is monospace) making it super easy to overlap text.
There may be a more hacky/elegant solution which would be to use weird unicode to overlap characters, but I’m not sure how feasible it would be.
We have successfully completed our migration to RAM-only VPN infrastructure - Mullvad VPN (mullvad.net)
Monitor Alignment Alignment Chart (feddit.de)
I’m at true neutral.
I made a little oklch color widget (codepen.io)
What programming languages aren't too criticized here?
It feels like anything is mowed down on the internet. I’ve been a dev for a long time too, and I never feel sure when I chose a stack for a new toy project (in my day job I rarely get to chose, so that’s a non issue there)
Are short mp4s preferable to gifs for brief animated site elements, or...?
From what I gather, I don’t know that there’s a new norm in this regard yet, besides recognizing that gifs are increasingly old & clunky (despite being fun & amusing), and so I don’t know if mp4s or webms or something else might be better if wanting to keep a site lightweight while still having some animated elements.
What are your favorite single player games to go back to?
What are your favorite single player games to go back to often?...
Are you holding off on any game in particular right now?
I suppose Baldur’s Gate 3 could be an example for a lot of people. Any recent or just “recent” release you are waiting for to get at the moment?
Typescript 5.2 Released (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Wagner mercenary chief's plane was fine on radar until last 30 seconds (www.jpost.com)
Ferris Wheel (CSS only) (codepen.io)
What's a scam that's so normalized that we don't even realize it's a scam anymore?
What is the best file format for configuration file?
.yaml, .toml, etc?
Is there a game that you've been very patient for, which turned out to be dissappointing when you finally started playing it?
Personally there are a few games which left me very dissappointed, after hyping myself up for years in certain cases....
Will the Gold, Sunshine coasts and Noosa be 'loved to death' as 600,000 people move in? (www.abc.net.au)
Mostly focused on SE Queensland, but it’s interesting that the talk of building higher density housing is starting to appear in earnest.
Stop doing Color Management! (feddit.de)
Google Maps has become an eyesore. 5 examples of how the app has lost its way (www.fastcompany.com)
The Fall of Stack Overflow (programming.dev)
Stack Overflow has seen a substantial decline in traffic over the last year that appears to be accelerating. observablehq.com/…/the-fall-of-stack-overflow
Opinions on using CSS' last few years of features (www.smashingmagazine.com)
Human Shader (humanshader.com)
“1542 different people have been doing math by hand for the last 49 hours, completing the first mathematical painting (shader) ever made with human brain power alone, rather than by a machine! If you know how to add and multiply, you can join us!”
is it just me or GitHub is turning into some sort of LinkedIn
Initially, LinkedIn was just another site where you could find jobs. It was simple to use, simple to connect with others; it even had some friendly groups with meaningful discussions....
Framework Laptop 16: our exclusive hands-on | The Verge (www.theverge.com)
Best Linux laptop for 2023
I’m in the market for a new Linux laptop. My current machine is a 2018 i7 with 64GB of RAM, a 4K screen, 1TB of storage, 2x USB-C and 1x USB-A....
What are some awesome VSCode shortcuts most people don’t know about?
I like CMD + D to select the next identical selection, OPT + DOWN/UP to move the selections down or up a line, SHIFT + OPT + DOWN/UP to duplicate the selection, and CMD + / to turn the line into a comment. How bout you?
I think this experiment I made in 2021 counts (codepen.io)