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tastapod, 9 days ago to random

I’m just saying.

Homer disappearing into a hedge

sophie, 14 days ago to random

The millennial emo to new wave pipeline is a thing, right

molly0xfff, 17 days ago to random

the team behind Critical Role just launched its own subscription membership service called "Beacon"

pretty cool to see a creative team trying out a new model to give them so much control over their own content/platform

#CriticalRole

thirstybear, 26 days ago to random

Anyone using the Apple MacBook Air M3 with Jetbrains tools? Good enough, or underpowered for that sort of thing?

tastapod, 1 month ago to random

Today's typo:

"Estimates should be given as a rage."

tastapod, 1 month ago to random

Best take on this I’ve seen.

Of course it is, it’s @GeePawHill.
https://mastodon.social/@GeePawHill/112194818200404412

matthewskelton, 1 month ago to random

Neptune looking sad today in Leeds

#LeodisSpaceAgency 🚀🧑🏼‍🚀

tastapod, 2 months ago to random

Quick follow-up to this.

1. Git notes are not pushed and pulled by default; they have to be synced using git push <remote> 'refs/notes/*' 1

2. They do not form part of the git Merkle tree (i.e. they don’t get hashed into the git commit history) so you couldn’t use them for anything regulatory or where you need to prove provenance and/or non-repudiation or tampering.

So could be useful for e.g. build tags (“scout badges”) and suchlike.

https://mastodon.social/@tastapod/112133952276735912

tastapod, 2 months ago to random

Oh wow, why did I not know about:

% git notes

Now this is how you add metadata to your commits, rather than putting [nonsense:42] keywords in the title line.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/40496777

robpike, 2 months ago to random

There's been a thread about dependencies lately and the challenge of convincing developers to look at the full dependency chain.

I once maintained a C++ binary that included a PostScript interpreter, a JPEG decoder, a JavaScript interpreter, and a number of other utterly irrelevant pieces causing a huge factor increase in the size of the binary.

The culprit: A single logging statement that invoked a general-purpose printer that could print web stuff. Switching to sprintf fixed it.

kittylyst, 2 months ago to python

Congrats to the #Python folks for merging the first patches to disable / remove the GIL.

An excellent reminder that making deep-level changes of mature programming environments takes time, patience and a lot of very diligent work by smart and conscientious people.

In this case, I think it's taken just under 20 years. A fact I'll keep in my back pocket for the next time anyone wants to complain about how long major changes take in #Java and the #JVM

tastapod, 3 months ago to random

Domain-Driven Design: building a product out of guilt because you’ve had the domain for 10 years and the annual renewal reminder just came around again.

matthewskelton, 3 months ago to random

I am proud to be a Scaled Agile DevOps Accredited Facilitator 🤣

Thank you, Bryan Finster!

https://sadmf.com/

#sadmf

Matthew Skelton (white guy, dark/greying hair) wearing a t-shirt saying SAD Accredited Facilitator... with an ironic grin

tastapod, 3 months ago to random

Excited to be speaking at GOTO Amsterdam in June. Last time I was there, my face was on a full-length banner next to van Gogh, which was exactly what my imposter syndrome needed.

#gotoams

tastapod, 3 months ago to random

Just went to the cineplex to see a @kevlin

nicklockwood, 3 months ago to random

Attempts to justify SOLID, or the works of Bob Martin, etc. are reminiscent of revisionist reinterpretations of the Bible or the US Constitution.

We have an aversion to claims of originality, preferring to cite ancient wisdom. But it's become clear that these rules that have been handed down are widely misinterpreted, and literal readings of them often lead to bad code.

Rather than writing essay-length explanations and analyses of their original intent, maybe just come up with better rules?

tastapod, 3 months ago to random

I just texted someone "My eldest son is 6!" and now I'm worried they think he is 720 years old.

pamelafox, 3 months ago to random

Warning: if you ask me to review a Python code change in a repo that doesn't enforce consistent style (via ruff or black), then I will comment on every single style inconsistency. I can't un-see these things!! Sorry not sorry.

exchgr, 3 months ago to random

the thing that sucks the hardest about AI is how it diverts massive amounts of developer talent and capital to something completely bunk

tastapod, 4 months ago to random

So I just discovered that Google Workspace has, um, workspaces, which seem like a neat way to group related items together.

There seems to be no documentation for this, and of course searching for "Google workspaces" just returns tons of links to Google Workspace itself. Yay.

tastapod, 4 months ago to random

Taking a moment to enjoy how much @robpike's user icon looks like Horace Goes Skiing

tastapod, 4 months ago to golang

#golang is for writing boring stuff that works.

#rust is for writing clever stuff that works.

nyquildotorg, 5 months ago to random

I was recently like "you know what this organization could really benefit from? A password manager."

The response was "Hey, good idea! You figure out which one we should use and get back to us!"

Do you have recommendations for a password manager system that allows granting individual users access to specific things in one UI?

Bonus points if it's integrated with Office365 or whatever they call the Outlook server infrastructure, because everything there is using Microsoft stuff. Searching seems to indicate Office365 doesn't offer this natively?

(Boosts appreciated)