What are your hobby programming projects? I need some inspiration.
I would like to know what your hoppy coding project are. It doesn’t really have to serve a purpose, but what are you coding on in your free time that just is fun to you and you enjoy working on?...
What's your commit message style?
Was digging through a project at work today where some guy in 2014 made 100+ commits in a single day and the only one that had a comment said “upgrading to v4.0”.
Tailwind CSS, and the death of web craftsmanship ( pdx.su )
Just realized I can just use "..." to go back two directories! Is this a zsh feature?
I accidentally discovered that both “cd …” and “…” work, and moreover, I can add more dots to go back further! I’m using zsh on iTerm2 on macOS. I’m pretty sure this isn’t a cd feature. Is this specific to zsh or iTerm2? Are there other cool features I just never knew existed??...
In the defence of Object-Relational Mappers ( event-driven.io )
I’m an accidental DBA, but I still never quite got the hate for ORMs. I thought this article does a good job explaining the issue, and why they aren’t so bad.
Microsoft Brings Python Programming To Excel, Enabling Advanced Data Analysis ( www.benzinga.com )
My wife didn’t understand why I got so excited reading this article.
I’m NOT excited about coding by AI [venting]
I’m a dev. I’ve been for a while. My boss does a lot technology watch. He brings in a lot of cool ideas and information. He’s down to earth. Cool guy. I like him, but he’s now convinced that AI LLMs are about to swallow the world and the pressure to inject this stuff everywhere in our org is driving me nuts....
Say I want to make an app on my phone for personal use. How to begin?
Hello there,...
Why do we have two modes in cpu(user and kernel) since we still can still easily harm computer with userland programs?
I have never dug into low level things like cpu architectures etc. and decided to give it a try when I learned about cpu.land....
issues with bash commands as variables
Any ideas? I am attempting to write a script that uses sed....
Signs You're A Good Or Bad Programmer ( github.com )
Big O notation is about what matters when the numbers get big. ( programming.dev )
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/6660679...
Introduction to TypeScript for devs without JS experience?
Can anyone recommend a good introduction/book to TypeScript for people who already know some programming (e.g. Java, Python) but have no experience with JavaScript?...
A concept to redefine internet ( app.skiff.com )
Read the doc, what are your thoughts?
[~~help~~ workaround found] insert a single line break in html (Qt6 RichText)
Hello! I’m writing my application in QML, and inside a TextArea formatted with RichText I want to display this:...
A Type System for Scripting ECS ( ceesstuff.github.io )
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/1086370...
Some people pronounce SQL as "sequel", and some as "squeal"
…But I’ve only ever heard SSL pronounced as its three letters. Why not like “Cecil”? Or “Sizzle”?...
How to add hard-coded website to square space?
I have a couple sites on Google and since they sold to square space I thought I’d try to keep my stuff there. But I can’t figure it out. Square space is a site builder with a GUI and I can’t find anywhere to just deploy my site to them as a react app. I have found a few areas where I can add some code, but they are for...
Do i really need 100 node modules to only get one to work?
This seem quite counter intuitive and to be bloating the project: i’m trying to install tsdoc linter, but npm adds like other 50 packages alongside with it, is this the expected behaviour? Why is it so?...
Bruno HTTP client, offline alternative to Postman/Insomnia ( usebruno.com )
insomnia just enshittified itself and requires cloud login like postman, and force upgrades you from the old version even if you disable updates. this blocked me at work today....
Why I (generally) don't use indented syntax templates anymore ( pdx.su )
Does anyone else struggle with compound words?
Was looking through some code today, and found something that highlights my biggest struggles in programming, it’s compound words and casing. Had identifiers such as…...
Why do I always need to rationalize use of proper architecture?
Why is it so in mobile development that 90% of projects does not have proper architecture, and when there is one, devs complain about it. I don’t see it being a case for other technologies of development, only mobile. In mobile the project always has spaghetti code, barely any abstraction it is developed just to be finished as...
Crystal 1.9.0 is released! ( crystal-lang.org )
I learned about Crystal from somebody’s Lemmy comment a couple weeks ago. Amazing and under rated language....