Say what you want about Microsoft, but I'm working on a WPF app right now and they write some damn good documentation

Does anyone know of any good opensource time tracking software with a focus on privacy?
I don't trust the proprietary stuff but it's useful software

I sing in an acapella group
But not just any acapella group...
An all-male acapella group
Not much nerdier than that, I'd say.

Howdy yall,
I'm interested in developing a productivity app for windows, but I have no idea where to get started. Do you have any suggestions for frameworks/tutorials to get started with? I'd prefer to use C# instead of C++, but if necessary I'll do either.
Thanks for the suggestions
P.S. It'll also be the first project I actually use version control for. Fun stuff

Make a wish

What’re good starter projects for a Raspberry Pi? I would like to get started on hardware and I’m inclined to install recalbox or retropi (cause I love video games), but I’d also like a diy project. Maybe I’ll make a VPN...

10 updoots to 1000...

😆😆😆

First internship ended today, a nice experience and I definitely learned a lot. It’s bittersweet for all the interns to part ways, but watching a movie and having dinner was a nice way to wrap things up. Now it’s back to school...

I love the mix of people’s setups. There are those with actual monitors set up in a nice curved way, and then there are people with like 10 random laptops set up on their desks like they hoard electronics

How should I make this fractal more tree like?

!dev

When you wake up from a dream OF AN ENTIRE DAY so you start off the day tired...

!rant

Building on https://devrant.com/rants/1654019/...

It's coming along nicely, I've been working on different themes and I'm still making the tree more natural.
Next is to make the number of branches each time more random, and then I'll maybe add leaves. I might even add a day/night cycle, but we'll see once the code is further along and the automatic background updater is made.

IE university: it’ll only take you 10 years to get your diploma!

I'm going to use this anytime I see people arguing about Linux distros on this site...

Source: https://xkcd.com/178/

A very satisfying number

!rant

In relation to https://devrant.com/rants/1643249/...

The tree has started!
The lovely pycairo package was super easy to pick up, and I made a rather shitty looking fractal tree with it!
Next step is to figure out a color scheme I like, and to make the tree look more natural/better.

It's happening guys

!rant

Oh that wonderful feeling of finishing a month long project. Updating all the comments, refactoring things, testing everything out, closing the 50 chrome tabs you have open...

Life is good

Brilliant idea time:

Inspired by @TrojanMorse and his fractal trees

A fractal tree wallpaper that grows throughout the day.

So at 12 a script starts a new fractal and only uses depth 1 (a twig). Then every other hour it branches once more so at 2 am the fractal would have depth 2 and at noon it would have depth 7. That way you get a tree growing throughout the day for your screensaver. Now to make this a thing

Well that surprised me at first...

I've been a windows user for a long time now, but I've been thinking of trying out Linux sometime soon. Which distro should I start with? And can I still play steam/origin games? I might also use a VM to see how I like it before I move over.

I'm sure I could google this, but a lot of you seem to use Linux, and this isn't stack overflow so I'm not expecting too many people to shit on me for asking 🙂

GUIs. They suck. I never want to make one again.

By now I'm about a month into my first job, and I've gotta say: working full-time kinda sucks. Even if I'm enjoying what I'm developing, 8 hours is still way too long to try to focus on one project. I could get more done in a productive 4 to 5 hour stretch than I've been getting done in the whole 8 I'm here. I guess that's part of the allure of freelancing though.

Context: Madre recently got a new laptop to replace her old HP, but since she doesn't know much about computers, I picked it out for her. I went a little overboard on the specs because I new it was a "family laptop" and I would end up using it more than she would.

Mum: *yelps after typing on computer*
Me: "What's wrong"
Mum: "This computer is too fast!"
Me: 😐
Me: ... "What?"
Mum: "It loads things too fast"
Me: "What do you mean?"
Mum: "When I click on the apps they open almost immediately"
Me: "That's a good thing"
Mum: "No it's not, it startled me!"
Me: ...
Me: ...
Me: ...
*goes back to reading book*

I've been writing more python than English the last month so now I have to go through my essay and replace all the single quotes with double quotes...

Me whenever I open one of my old projects...

* Finishes requested features and starts polishing
* Gets email that asks for new features
* New features require some change that requires me to rewrite what I just finished

sigh();

So all you salaried programmers/workers in a programming related industry, what would you say are things to expect in a programming job? I'm considering going into the industry (I'm still young) and I'd like to hear about what it's like. Thanks a lot!

Too true too true 😆

Gotta love it when you've just hit your pace with a project and then the requirements change...

Three times in a row...