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aeveltstra

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Hi, this is Andre. I'll be writing about software architecture and development, cyber security, UX/UI topics, politics, and queer experiences. I'm a classically trained musician and music composer, band director, and music instructor. I'm handfasted, have kids, and play and create (video) games. Sometimes I don't recognize social cues.

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Lana, to random
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1990 Internet: You gotta be a hacker to find anything on the web

2000 Internet: Literally all the information in the world accessible to everyone so easy a toddler could do it

2020 Internet: You gotta be a hacker to find anything on the web

aeveltstra,
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@Lana Do we get Google’s aicrap and ads when we use meta searchers like Ecosia or SearXNG?
https://www.ecosia.org/
https://searx.be/

aeveltstra, (edited ) to javascript
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Hey there, #javascript folks and #functionalprogramming people! Would you argue javascript is, or isn’t a functional programming language? And: why?

aeveltstra, to random
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You started with 4.

Then it went down to 2.

And now it’s just you.

But sure, gaslight us about how your bravery lands you respect and fortune, while everyone who once worked with you has left.

brooke, to random
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The lathe was once cutting edge technology

aeveltstra,
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@brooke :)

aeveltstra, to Powershell
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https://gist.github.com/aeveltstra/94806a1230b8165f43e9b4e4dec9bacc#file-powershell-gui-aws-lambda-start-functions-ps1

A #Powershell #GUI using #DotNet #WindowsForms to start #AWSLambda Functions and display their output.

aeveltstra, to random
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I have chewing gum stuck to the hem of my pants.

I don’t chew gum.

Weird.

aeveltstra, to softwaretesting
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Today I ran a process to test whether it would deal nicely with receiving no input documents.

I expected an error.

I got it… 73 times!

aeveltstra, to privacy
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https://www.reddit.com/r/ailess/s/YobaiBwBRb

What OS doesn’t force -invading unto its users?

has started rolling out a.i. onto its Windows operating system, claiming it will help retrieve documents.

This poses a serious threat to safeguarding .

aeveltstra, to mswindows
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I created a sample form for #MSWindows using #dotnet #windowsforms via #powershell:
https://gist.github.com/aeveltstra/2da6ef5a7dd93c4d44e24f9cde9fc676

The most difficult thing about this script was to get the form and the tab control to size to their contents. That doesn't happen automatically. At Powershell level, the control size appears to have a Height and Width property that can be set. That is not the case on my Powershell and Windows 10 Pro. I had to create a System.Drawing.Size object and assign that to the size property.

aeveltstra,
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@davidwengier Thank you for that suggestion, I will check it out. The documentation didn't give me the impression it would help for setting the initial size, but I may have overlooked something.

mangoiv, to haskell
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My favourite #haskell row polymorphism package is aeson

aeveltstra,
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@mangoiv Why aeson?

janamarie, to random
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Have you ever considered..

aeveltstra,
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@janamarie Yes! My dad had one, both for recording and playing music and… computer software and data.

aeveltstra, to random
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Video of the #restoration of a 1960’s safety razor sharpener: https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/s/Gu0wwsNpXo

berkes, to random
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Lol.
I'm building a tool that summarizes what what a company does based on their website.

Most common type of answer:

"The company specializes in web development and optimization, as suggested by the presence of JavaScript related to rendering the webpage efficiently and measuring performance metrics like render time and cacheability. They also seem to be utilizing tools like ResizeObserver and PerformanceObserver to enhance user experience and optimize page loading."

aeveltstra,
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@berkes This is so badly needed! So many companies have websites that fail to explain in simple terms what the company does!

aeveltstra, to random
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and other source control repo maintainers: please add a blurb to your readme that explains what it is your product is supposed to do. Please start with explaining what problem it solves.

aeveltstra, to random
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Happy other’s day to all who continue the mom role but aren’t the mom anymore, or never have been. You rock.

aldeka, to random

Any recommended tools for debugging shapes? Trying to make paths that are like wedges out of a circle and the arcs aren’t behaving consistently, or at least not as I would expect at all :/

aeveltstra,
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@aldeka I’d load it up in InkScape to make it look good, then tinker with the resulting code to make it predictable, small, and fast.

aeveltstra, to mswindows
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Dear @microsoft #MSExcel developers: has none of you printed a spreadsheet with #MSWindows set to its built-in #accessibility visual theme, high-contrast black? Because the latest version of #Microsoft365 apps for enterprise prints out black pages with light text. And when I switch the visual theme to the built-in high-contrast white, it prints white pages with black text. Same spreadsheet. That shouldn't happen. #usability

inautilo, to music
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Printing music with CSS Grid · A fantastic showcase of what CSS Grid is capable of https://ilo.im/15yrr6

aeveltstra,
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@inautilo Awesome! I've been trying to do that for years. I'm happy to see we can use for this purpose!

aeveltstra, to random
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Silly mistakes being silly:

Attempting to sort day name results from an query by day name.

As if the SQL engine would know day names and apply a natural sort, instead of a text based one.

I'm spoiled by Apple computers.

aeveltstra, to random
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Butter-fly? (Generated for me by an a.i.)

infobeautiful, to random
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WARNING! This image may trigger PINSecurity.

From an analysis of 3.4m PIN code leaked from several data breaches https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/most-common-pin-codes/

A diagonal line of ‘heat’ from bottom left to top right reveals people choosing double digits (2323, 6868 etc). A strong horizontal line at the 19 point shows people using their birth year as a PIN code (1971, 1998 etc). And a large amount of heat in the bottom left shows how people commonly use their birthdate in a MM/DD or DD/MM format. The most common code in the set is 1234.
The Top 20 most common 4 digit PIN numbers, as revealed by an analysis of data breaches, constitute 27% of all PIN numbers. They are 1234, 1111, 0000, 1212, 7777, 1004, 2000, 4444, 2222, 6969, 9999, 3333, 5555, 6666, 1122, 1313,8888,4321,2001,1010

aeveltstra,
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Recommended reading, as linked from the article as its source: http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/september32012/index.html

aeveltstra, to UI
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I took some time today to learn how to make a trendline graph for statistics pertaining to 2 similar processes for one of my clients. This is created using , a visualizer by the company. The does not switch to dark mode easily: it takes a lot of tinkering to get it to look good. As far as goes, Qlik can improve their application a lot.

aeveltstra,
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I just realized that this visualization won’t be insightful for most colorblind people. I’ll have to add symbolic markers.

aeveltstra, to random
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Please, makers of email subscribe and unsubscribe systems, stop allowing just anyone to supply any email address. That’s just asking for abuse. Stop putting your trust in random anonymous strangers.

What you should do when having someone subscribe: send a confirmation email to their address, with an expiring link.

What you should to when having someone unsubscribe: put an unsubscribe link into their email with a unique identifier that finds their subscription and instantly unsubscribes.

aeveltstra,
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@strypey One would hope, but I still encounter ones that don't use that.

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