It occurred to me that I'm making actual money now and I can pay for my shit, so I tried Youtube Premium, but their background play is poorly implemented and defaults to a floating window that I need to cancel in a finnicky, android-vendor-specific way. How do you consistently make something that much less usable than an unpaid open-source developer who also has to reverse-engineer your API and circumvent your anti-user-choice obfuscation measures? NewPipe would be a success if it could just play the videos in full screen with no controls, and yet it has a better background play story than the actual provider. Fuck centralised software

Been awhile on this space.
Happy new year everyone, how's the January treating you?

Genuine question to rust devs: is rust worth it? I'm helping devs on a rust project and every day we're swearing at it. The language, critical section control, broken libraries, etc.

To me it seems we would have far better off with golang. But since we are this far now, noone will admit it

My new favourite consensus algorithm:

Get several devs to implement the same standard. Compare the results for lots of different test data. The consensus "correct" result is the one that is most common from all Implementations. Where consensus can't be found, the devs are shown each others code and it's a race to find bugs to invalidate an implementation that disagrees with yours. Implementations that don't follow "correct" behaviour must be updated accordingly, even if it means copying bugs from other code.

The insane thing is this is legit how it works, like python's typing standard is based on mypy and other type checkers have to match its behaviour. Unicode isn't really a standard, it just started to describe how text works in different places instead of the fights to the death battle royale we used before that.

There was an app called QuizUp that was discontinued a couple years ago. Haven’t seen a trivia app come close since then.

That app will always be in my heart.

He met with temporary defeat more than 10,000 times before wresting this secret from nature

That time you would have used to test that code in postman, bravely muster the werewithal to write automated tests instead. It's a onetime investment that keeps malfunction in check until code is altered

I acknowledge the fact that it's not always possible. You may have gotten thrown in headfirst into unfamiliar territory ie tech stack, or inherit a monolith where no tests were pioneered. Or you may be strongly constrained for time. But in events that you can, it's worthwhile

Whether automated or manual, Testing your work the least professional thing to do before handover. Might as well swallow the bitter pill of avoiding the gui shortcut, and write those certifications once and get it over with

My preference is to write a boilerplate that gets generated each time I create a new module/resource management classes. Another strategy is to write them immediately after completing implementation of each endpoint/user story/feature, even if they're not run immediately. That way, they don't pile up in the end

Or you could try the tdd that everyone else cherishes. Whatever works for you, the end justifies the means

i want to hear some joke

Is it really hard to enter in IT sector?

8am meeting on Monday. It gets cancelled at 5am (while I'm asleep) and gets moved to tomorrow .. at 8am 😪 😡

I hate working with Europeans

Seeing a commit come past that includes an env variable for the backend named so that it will also get sent to the frontend (PUBLIC_*)...

Leader ghB for the win.

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Never trust code that describes itself as "rigorously tested".

My current computer is starting to overheat playing games that used to run fine. Like thermal shutdown I think on the GPU. So I need to have the thermal compound redone. Then I will be out a computer while this is being worked on. I would have a local shop do it, but would rather a vendor that sells thousands of computers do this.

I am thinking I might buy a newer computer and then send the current one in for repair. Then let my kids use this one when fixed. I just got this one where I wanted it disk and setup wise. I also would be stuck with Win 11 on the newer computer. Everything I do on my home computer is windows centric. The people I support, the stuff I run, everything. That is the biggest negative in getting a newer computer. I would rather buy one with windows 10. But they won't even sell that anymore.

The newer computer is much nicer though. 4070 over a 3060. Newer processor with 32 threads. Thinking of going 17" screen instead of 15". So I like the idea of the compile times being faster.

I am loathing the idea of setting all my programs back up again. This sounds like a nightmare. I don't even like thinking about it.

Fix the old reliable thing and/or get the new shiny toy. What bothers me is that it has only been since 2021. I don't remember having to redo heat sink compound on older computers. I keep reading this is a thing. Wtf is happening to the compound? Is it made to fail?

Curious about AI assisted TDD. Assisted writing of specs and then assisted implementation. Any experience so far? I kind of like the idea but I'm afraid it's like doing TDD with a toddler, helping less than 50% of the time.

TFW someone insults and demeans you repeatedly but keeps picking up habits and aesthetic and making decisions that copy yours...

???

I once saw an accountant (might be > 60 years old), open up his Windows laptop. And on the home screen he right clicked and hit "Refresh" like 30 times, manually.

I don't know why but I think about that every once in a while.

Communication is the process of sharing information, ideas, thoughts, or feelings between individuals or groups. It involves a sender, a message, and a receiver, and it can occur through various channels such as verbal, non-verbal, written, or visual forms.

Today, I want to communicate with you all. I am the sender, and the receiver are you guys.

The message is, fuck you.

It's nice when devs are
happy you find bugs in their code, like I don't want to bother them with issues so saying thanks is positive