One of the coolest good bye message I have ever seen in my company...

The code is so clean with proper comments...

Practical example of why you should sort your code by feature (users, notes, analytics) instead of technical layer (models, views, controllers, etc)

Today I discovered by myself that...

...in a shell...

...when entering a password (e.g. ssh)...

...and you make a typo... 🤦‍♂️

...you don't need to smack that backspace key like a maniac! You can just use the clear line shortcut: control+U (^U). This clears all input to the left of your cursor and this also works for passwords.

What is a pointer?

A descriptive and ELI5 answer found on Reddit:

You have a house.

When you’re outside, and you want to go home, you don’t make another house right where you are, because it’s too big for you to carry around or take apart.

So you carry a piece of paper or store on your phone the address of your house. Now you always know exactly how to find your house so that you can go home.

The piece of paper or your phone is a variable.

The variable contains an address (a reference) to your house.

You can make a copy of this piece of paper and hand it out to your friends when you invite them over, instead of building each friend a copy of your house.

You can have an address book filled with pages, where each page is an address (i.e., an array of pointers). Each page you turn (each index you increment) goes to the directly next address-containing variable.

Now if you cut the address book in half along its height, and then attach the lower half behind the upper half, then you have a book with smaller pages but more pages.

You can store phone numbers in this, and even if it’s the same total size, you have double the number of pages and double the number of phone numbers (if you store one number on each page).

Now, since the pointers to home-addresses are different from pointers to phone-numbers, turning the page in an address book (increment pointer by 1) moves forward by one address.

But turning the page in the phone book (incrementing pointer by 1) leads you to the next phone number, even if you technically turned only “half a page”.

That’s how pointer arithmetic works.

Source: https://reddit.com/r/...

I was so proud of my recent tiny little node script that I published it on npm.

I really just kinda wanted to learn how npm worked. I don't expect anyone to find any use from this.

I wrote the README in a sarcastic tone if anyone is interested in reading that

https://npmjs.com/package/...

I hacked this mini-project yesterday night, Computer generated photo-montage by scenes extracted from the movie.
It's an end to end python script which will work for any video and a high res poster.

Before an interview prepare a list of questions for them, they expect it!
My list to give inspiration:

Describe your company culture? - if the response is buzzword heavy, avoid.

What’s the oldest technology still in use? - all companies have legacy systems but some are worse than others

Describe your agile process? - a few companies I’ve interviewed with said they are agile but it’s actually kanban

Are developers involved with customers?- if they trust you to talk to customers you can infer trust to do your job ( I’m sure others will disagree)

Describe your development environment?- do they have such a thing as dev, test and prod?

These are the only ones I can remember but should give others a bit of inspiration I hope 😄

1. The quality of the coffee and toilet paper you encounter during an interview tells you more than promises about table tennis or fruit baskets.

2. Try to determine who their primary client is: subscribers, app buyers, advertisers, etc. It's a major influence on the company dynamic.

3. Before an interview, you can just say: "I would like to sit down with a PO and run through one backlog feature and one bug, to get a feel for the type of tasks at the company". Such an activity immediately reveals team structure, whether they have product owners & scrum masters, what a sprint looks like, how they prioritize tasks, and how organized/chaotic your work experience will be.

Vim is super easy, guys! You don't use arrows to navigate around the text, that's too obvious! Instead you use HJKL keys, because it goes Hup, Jleft, Kright and Ldown. You can also use B to go Beginning and E to go to End of the word, oh and W to go to the WstartOfNextWord.

From the Gods of The Stack Overflow for the pesants of the community:

https://goalkicker.com

Just go there. This is everything you have to know, ever.

User Ip Address is too long (maximum is 30 characters).

Okay, dear third-party API, I guess users with IPv6 don't deserve the service... And wtf is 30-char limit for an IP address, when IPv4 can be only 15 characters long, and IPv6 can be up to 39 characters? Did you calculate a weighted average of IP length to get that number?

All love to Android community.

I made a parental control app where parent can control child phone using SMS. Also I published research paper on it and gonna do presentation on March 23.

I'd hate to keep myself away from devRant... But it's for the best so I can get some work done.

#mindhacks 😎

If Big O notations where emojis.  This chart shows you common big-Os with emoji showing how they'll make you feel as your data scales. Source blog.honeybadger.io

Hi, please advise me on your best price/quality reseller of supermicro servers, no refurbished, preferrably germany cause they are cheaper compared in belgium...

Your guys' opinion on this?

https://bambusource.de/parallax/

My weekend project. Anyone else built a Raspberry Pi 3 cluster (for Kubernetes)?

I finally put the "blurred background system" on GitHub.

I simply called it BackBlur.js and I made it to don't require jQuery or any other libraries.

It's now on my new GitHub account: https://github.com/Norech/...

If you don't know what I'm talking about: https://devrant.io/rants/888497

If you want to help me to add more supported platforms, feel free. 😀

An SEO expert walks into a bar, bars, beer garden, lounge, pub, tavern, night club, mini bar, drinks.

Every dammed webmail client looks like 2005. Currently I use roundcube but it looks also very old.
Someone can prefer a good webmail client for self hosting?

I don't use Google/Facebook for privacy reasons (and their sub-services etc). Haven't used them for ages but noticed that google still loads a lot of domains like analytics etc. This goes for facebook as well.

I now blocked a lot of google/facebook domains through my hosts file.

It's funny to see the amount of DNS requests to those fb/google connected domains nearly go to zero and also the fact that I literally can't load google/facebook anymore!

since everybody seems to hate gradle i would like to say how much i like gradle for its possibility to build even big java projects from the commandline without the need of a a lot o scripts and especially the possibility to create a wrapper in order to use it even when its not installed on said machine.
it is the only reason why i am learning java now (i fucking loathe eclipse at the moment).

and regarding its speed. i had both. windows and linux. and for some reason i could only verify its slowliness on windows.

For all of you out there sitting infront of a computer all day, here's a handy pdf to help fix you're sitting posture and various other stuffs. Cheers :)

Fixing the computer guy posture:
http://kaasplateau.com/stretches.pd...

Get. This. Font.

You will ♥️ it.

https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode

Guys check out devRant CUI

https://github.com/Jay9596/...

Very buggy at the moment, but can be used to browse rants,stories,etc.