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underlap

@underlap@fosstodon.org

Husband, father, grandfather, follower of Jesus, but very much a work in progress.

Retired software developer, visiting lecturer, IETF editor. Likes repairability. BTW I use arch.

Hobbies: reading, blogging, running, sailing.

Delighted to live in Winchester, UK. Involved in a local church.

Banner: Derwent Water
Profile picture: Dorset coast

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aeisenberg, to random
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This is clever.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientists-invent-an-efficient-new-way-to-count-20240516/

cory, to random
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This is pretty brutal https://how-i-experience-web-today.com

arcalinea, to random
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Haven't posted here in a long time, but my Bluesky account is now bridged to the fediverse through @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy !

Follow @jay.bsky.team@bsky.brid.gy to see my posts across the bridge

gabrielesvelto, to random
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Memory errors in consumer devices such as PCs and phones are not something you hear much about, yet they are probably one of the most common ways these machines fail.

I'll use this thread to explain how this happens, how it affects you and what you can do about it. But I'll also talk about how the industry failed to address it and how we must force them to, for the sake of sustainability. 🧵 1/17

timbray, to random
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TFW you write some semi-complicated code and then the unit test is pretty long and when it works the first time you run it you go and put print statements in the test to convince yourself it ran.

henrikjernevad, to programming
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Today's post discusses moving from imperative while and for loops to declarative collection functions like map and filter.

https://henko.net/blog/there-is-no-loop/

#programming #softwaredesign #softwaredevelopment

wader, to random
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Yesterday I read the recently published JSONPath RFC (RFC9535) and listening to an interview with one of the creators of SQL https://www.datacamp.com/podcast/50-years-of-sql-with-don-chamberlin and worst of all i poked around in sqlite code to figure out how the scheme table works...guess I just have to accept that I'm a query language nerd.

cory, to SmallWeb
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I'm super grateful to have been featured in Manuel Moreale's People and Blogs. Give it a read if you feel so inclined https://manuelmoreale.com/pb-cory-dransfeldt #IndieWeb #SmallWeb

harrymccracken, to random
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I forgot to celebrate the 60th anniversary of BASIC yesterday. But in 2014, I tried to pull out all the stops in my 50th anniversary story. https://time.com/69316/basic/

timbray, to random
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Pluralistic: Boeing’s deliberately defective fleet of flying sky-wreckage (01 May 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/01/boeing-boeing/

firusvg, to programming
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"The hard part of is building and maintaining a useful mental model of a complex system. The easy part is writing code."

-- Jennifer Moore, "Losing the imitation game" #q

mike, to random
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A landmark post for the web by @Molly0xfff. Required reading.

https://www.citationneeded.news/we-can-have-a-different-web/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Following The Fediverse @following

gregsdennis, to random
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JSON Path RFC 9535 was released back in Feb. Since then it's been crickets. We're building a around the specification: https://github.com/ietf-wg-jsonpath/draft-ietf-jsonpath-base/issues/521

If you want help with , come ask your questions. Open to users, tooling providers, and everyone else!

henrikjernevad, to random
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All blog posts are now tagged in an attempt to make the blog more browsable. Each post also features a “Related reading” section at the bottom which links to other posts with the same tag(s).

https://henko.net/blog/i-added-tags/

Daojoan, to random
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You can control exactly one thing: that you show up.

Every day.

That’s about it. Showing up isn’t a silver bullet. It’s not an easy win. It’s not a lifehack. It’s not a shortcut. But it’s the only way to build anything.

https://medium.com/westenberg/just-show-up-892674bfeee8

blainsmith, to KindActions
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Save the Web by Being Nice

https://sheep.horse/2024/4/save_the_web_by_being_nice.html

mnot, to random
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Law enforcement is asking - yet again - for access to encrypted communications. This post tries to succinctly summarise why that's a bad idea.

https://www.mnot.net/blog/2024/04/29/power

noybeu, to random
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🚨 noyb has filed a complaint against the ChatGPT creator OpenAI

OpenAI openly admits that it is unable to correct false information about people on ChatGPT. The company cannot even say where the data comes from.

Read all about it here 👇

https://noyb.eu/en/chatgpt-provides-false-information-about-people-and-openai-cant-correct-it

underlap, to random
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Is "release early, release often" as good a policy for personal blog posts as it is for software?

Certainly writing helps clarify your thinking, but what about the publication step? Is publishing a post and responding to feedback an essential step in finding out what you have to say on a subject?

Discuss.

iwein,
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@underlap Yes please! I like reading raw ideas and to discuss them. It makes me look stupid, or dead wrong often, so probably not great for personal branding if one is, like me, not super smart/precise/disciplined. That's less of a problem for you, I guess. Either way, overall, the learning from imperfections is precious, so please share.

timbray, to random
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Passkeys were hot last year, don’t seem to be catching on, here’s one view of why that is. Dark and sobering but convincing: https://fy.blackhats.net.au/blog/2024-04-26-passkeys-a-shattered-dream/

ben, to random
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I wrote about the life experiences (mine and my family's) that led to my worldview, why I believe in an open, progressive world, and why I'm motivated to build an open social web. https://werd.io/2024/where-im-coming-from

clobrano, to random
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How does anybody get good in writing software design docs? The more I try, the less I feel confident 🙄

henrikjernevad,
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@clobrano I find it helpful to think about what you want to achieve by writing the documentation. Who is it for? What do you want them to understand? Then think about what you need to say to do that.

Try to put yourself in the shoes of the reader. If they did not know anything except that which you have written, would it make sense? Have you introduced all terms before using them? Do you consistently use the same words for the same concepts? Is each paragraph conceptually coherent?

changelog, to random
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Hillel Wayne asks, “If Inheritance is so bad, why does everyone use it?”

🔗 https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/if-inheritance-is-so-bad-why-does-everyone-use-it/

henrikjernevad, to programming
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Why should you unit test? What should you unit test? And how much?

Today's blog post answers these questions and provides some helpful guidelines.

The post is actually a lightly edited extract of a book on unit testing that I started about 10 years ago but never finished. Still, it has aged reasonably well.

https://henko.net/blog/why-write-unit-tests/

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