Look at those digits lol

from https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/...

Is there any way to tell Libre Office Writer to stop removing XML comments from a fodt? https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/...

looks great this doom-miramare theme, huh

I'm having troubles with gRPC inside Docker, cannot figure out why some references are undefined in the *_pb.go files

pkg/proto/notify/notify_grpc.pb.go:14:11: undefined: grpc.SupportPackageIsVersion7
pkg/proto/notify/notify_grpc.pb.go:71:30: undefined: grpc.ServiceRegistrar

More details: https://stackoverflow.com/q/...

Integrated vterm package in Emacs, I'm glad having true-and-efficient terminal emulation inside Emacs

I'm the maintainer of the Godot Engine package in AUR, some users have commented on the package that they would like to see it in the community repo of Arch Linux, but I have no idea how that is done.

Any pointers?

!rant

27 days ago I asked here for advice on how to mentor software engineer student that was terrible at coding.

So, we are in the middle of the mentoring, my approach is for her to get used to normal engineering tools, in this occasion she is learning Git and "kanban" (basically we are using Clubhouse for this one) and Github PR submission and approval (I'm the one who approves them, naturally) by doing.

With git, things are hard because we cannot share a terminal session (via upterm) due to her using Windows on her laptop (WSL is an option for using upterm but her internet is so damn slow doing the configuration takes way too long), otherwise teaching her use git would be smoother than it is currently, with the other tools she is gaining a good grasp of them, it pleases me that the bottleneck is with Git itself.

She is working on a hangman game with Python, nothing fancy just the terminal. I made the stories with the requirements in Clubhouse for her to work on each as a unit removing some "thought process" of reading requirements and implementing solutions (at Uni it seems the professor writes a document of several pages detailing the background of the project and the requirements, I can see how it can become confusing for some students like her).

She will start Uni again this August 10th, there is a chance that our first "session" at this will end by then, my fear is that she forgets how to use the tools she learned, so I need to find a way to encourage her to keep using them somehow.

OH, OKAY! that's what I should have do like 4 hours ago. Well, today I learned more of what can `replace` do in Golang modules.

Just learned about nest.land which is the module repository registry for Deno. They use the Arweave to register a permanent version of any module, which by itself address some complaints of people had with Deno and it's module importation methods.

How do I become a consultant? Do I need to master some programming languages and programming patterns and get "know-how" beyond of the general population of software engineers?

since we have go mod I believe that if you are doing microservices or fracturing a monolith app into microservices for that matter, you rather have a monorepo. I'm finding really useful to do `import ("backend/monolith" "backend/notify")` and such than sharing protobuf files by copying with some Makefile target.

I'm afraid of trying micro-services for the second time, spent my evening couping playing Far Cry 5 instead :/

(this time with go kit toolkit).

Why... why they have to be like that?

https://github.com/micro/micro/... was reported 11 days ago, I have this issue with the dashboard inside docker than registers no services nor clients, a shame because this enables testing and that comes handy specially if you have never ever done micro-services.

Despite linking to a minimal example that reproduces the issue I have in my project I'm not getting any support from the developers of Go Micro other than "use the latest Docker image, it shouldn't panic", sadly others give it a try too but their directions won't fix the problem.

So this makes me wonder, after 11 days and a minimal reproducible example provided from day one, why no developer have offered any hint of what I'm doing wrong? they know their software, it should be easier for them to spot why the bloody dashboard is not working as it should.

I made this: https://gitlab.com/snippets/1992288

Spare me if the title makes no sense grammatically, not a native speaker.

I'm building a microservice that keeps a check of the subscribers on my product, I wanted to keep an eye of those subscribers that may be missing the latest payment.

One way to do that is to make it work with my code and some ORM magic, but that may become unsustainable as the customer base grows, another idea that occurred to me was doing it fully inside (?) the database. The solution is to compare how many days have passed since the last payment and right now, if 'right now' is larger than 'last payment' then the subscriber is late with their next payment.

I did this as a PL/pgSQL function with an example usage accompanying that code.

Now, I just need to figure out how to use the result of those calculations in a WHERE statement...

How do I help a software engineer student be better at developing software?

Background: I have this friend that started university with my young brother, two-or-so years ago my brother finished the career and got his degree while she is still there trying to finish the same career (!), we were looking the chance of changing careers but due to her low grades this is not possible and according to her U's counselor is better that she just finishes the career and gets her degree.

We scheduled a Zoom meeting for Sunday next week, to talk about her pain-points and see what improvement we can chase; issue is that I've never mentored anyone ever in my professional life (my brother from time to time drops a question to me or so, but that's different).

My plan is to either see if she suffers from lack of practice (meaning: she does not write software more often in order to improve her skills) or if it's hard for her to think in abstracts, either way, I believe that the latter improves if you do the former (just correct me if I'm wrong), thus the plan would be to assign her a bunch of programming exercises and have meetings at least once a week during her vacations.

My plan would be for her to actually learn game development with Godot, since the final result is always a game my hope is that having something to show encourages her to do the thing, but, who knows.

Have you ever done something like this for someone with the same issues? What was your experience and what nuggets of knowledge can you lend me?

P.S.: We don't live in the States but in Costa Rica, she does not have to deal with crippling student loans.

What are your thoughts about Manning Publications? IMHO they are cool and I like what they have to offer in terms of consumption of books and videos.

I'm gonna do it, no one can stop me! I will do it now, I will create yet another file format using YAML for Biblical software!!

is there a Go module for editing Flat Open Document Text? I'll like to edit placeholder text from a fodt file and send the results to thecodingmachine/gotenberg to convert the file to a PDF

"InvalidStateError: An attempt was made to use an object that is not, or is no longer, usable"

I really hate you fucking InvalidStateError, I hate you will all my heart. How can I debug this fucking hell of error? form.setFieldsValue(mydamnvalue) should just work so I can be happy and advance the work on this app, fuck!!

I really want to divide this frontend into two parts, one that faces the users and other for administrators so I can release changes on both without works on one part blocking the other, but, I have many question, like, how do I manage authentication in two different React projects from one login page?

Maybe there are more problems than benefits, what do you think?

Never used Emacs in batch mode, did it today to transform some code generated by struct2ts (convert Golang structs to Typescript classes/interfaces).

I won't rely on sed/awk for complex stuff ever again, is much pain in the ass for me tbh.

I will build something that aids me on digitalizing expensive out-of-print books, What 4K DSLR do you know that is programmer friendly? Asking because I would like to interface it with my PC via USB and use custom-made software to control it, take pictures and (maybe) get send the pictures over the connection to my PC.

Maybe I could work better with an Android phone, tho, but I would prefer an DSLR.

I just can't believe react-component/form (rc-form) has no dev tools available

I really need to debug a strange behavior in one form as it seems the object of an InputEvent (I believe) is being passed along with the value (pic related)

deno is v1 now https://deno.land/v1

Just getting on the loop with all this drama with Tren Black, TechLead and JomaTech after TheQuartering made a video about it. I just unsubscribed from TechLead YouTube channel because I think that move of deleting bad reviews of your products or issuing Copyright strikes at YT video that criticize them is a really shitty move.

On the other hand, I asked here wherever I should start doing content on YouTube related to software development in English or Spanish and after seeing all that drama it made me wonder if eventually my name would get drag into some of that jaja, oh boy...

Damn it, why I can't find the COBOL course by IBM?? It was supposed to go online this week in Coursera.

I fucking hate manual testing, specially if a DB is related

I don't get it, why having more than one decorator looks "weird"? that's idiomatic Python AFAIK, that's sounds more like nitpicking on aesthetics :/

How do I go into tokenizing strings of text from a LaTeX file into a Go structure for further processing? I feel like splitting hair trying for loop over an io.Reader and using regexp to find where a sentence ends; there must be a better way...

this sucker. Don't make me laugh. Yes, I know what place is that, and yes, I know many of those and most of them rip you off (tho they are good for anyone starting on anything) but no, I'm not interested, Mr. Shady Russian guy.