Do you have any book recommendations?

I think The Pragmatic Programmer by Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas is a great book everyone should read every couple of years. It’s not really a lot of “low level coding tips” - more like overall paradigms

I’m always privating my repos because I’m not sure if I’m doing some horrible beginner inefficiency/bad practice where I should be embarrassed for having written it, let alone for letting other people see it.

Well that’s something not to do. Make you “horrible code” public, and ask people to do a code review. Or see what contributors want to change through a PR (if you’re so lucky). You’re not going to learn anything from others by hiding your mistakes. And no one besides you really cares if you’re committing horrible code.

It’s pretty hard to just give generic advice on how to write clean code, but if people can just tell specifically what you can improve it’s much easier

Me: building a fluent interface framework…
I already support a WrapperOf<T, T, T, T>
User: Can I have a WrapperOf<T, T, T, T, T> because I’m doing something weird?
Me: *sigh* god-damnit. You’re right but I still hate it.

How essential are certifications in this field? Can I pursue a career without them or with only a few to kick-start my early career?

It depends what kind of company you want to work for. Most ‘real companies’ barely care about your diplomas or certificates. If you want to work from some consultancy company like SAP or Capgemini these certifications check checkboxes you need to have checked to get promotions

O(n)? More Like Oh(No)

Right… well clearly I have clicked all the links, and read all the things, and I still don’t understand it. “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”

So assume in good faith, assume I have absolutely no idea what the problem even is due of my own stupidity. So ELI5 and give a synopsis of the problem.

Did you stop reading or are you intentionally trying to phrase it as if the universities won’t do anything? […]
It doesn’t seem like you’re even trying to make a good faith argument.

My first sentence and first 4 words are “So what’s stopping them?”. So did you stop reading before that - or what are you even arguing about, and where is your ‘good faith’? You’re arguing about meta-nonsense without answering

What’s stopping them? What do they even need from “federation” or “ActivityPub” to just build this?

Hmm, I’m thinking - We should place a bunch properties and just name them something like "${username}" - "${password}" and variations of that, and see we can “find/replace” cross-site script them into sending their bots details

So what’s stopping them? Universities have internship programs and internal projects. In a university team of 4 people doing projects, 63x4 252 students could be assigned to a project to build this.

But

The french open science committee (CoSO) is indeed interested in the ActivityPub implementation in GitLab

Good phrasing. They are “interested in the ActivityPub implementation” not “interested in the implementing ActivityPub” - so who gives a shit what a bunch of universities are interested in

Pretty cool to show that sample size matters a lot during testing…

Sample size = 10: “There’s 20% 8! WTF, should be 10%”
Sample size = 10k+: “Oh wait nevermind”

Removed by mod

base63? I’d guess you’d mean base64?

Anyways, doesn’t that fuck with performance?

I’m using this in production: RT.Comb - That still generates GUIDs, but generates them sequential over time. Gives you both the benefits of sequential ids, and also the benefits of sequential keys. I haven’t had any issues or collisions with that

Yea, should have been V-00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000008 instead

Before clicking the link and reading the article I was thinking… “Why would you put ‘Eclipse’ in the name? Don’t they know that like 10 years ago there used to be this horrible IDE for Java called Eclipse?”

Then opening the link…

Some seven years in the making, the Eclipse Foundation’s Theia IDE project is now generally available

git reset head~9
git add -A
git commit -am 'Rebased lol'
git push -f

Cowboy Programming:

PO: Hey we want to go to Mars
- 3 weeks of silence -
Developer: Hey I’m there, where are you?

Hmm, maybe I misunderstand what you want to do - but that works fine for me (on windows) - (are you on a different OS)?

Otherwise, try installing Powertoys - that comes with FancyZones and gives you more control over how window snapping should work.

and different tool windows run when debugging so I have to reposition the pane boundary’s again whenever switching between run/design time.

Also isn’t this a one-time-activity? Once you’ve put them in place, for me it remembers where it should be. Otherwise, I suppose in visual studio you can also manually save the layout (Window -> Save Window Layout) and then restore it again later (Window -> Apply Window Layout)

We have seen time and again, especially on Android, that whenever a moderately-popular app goes open-source, it is immediately picked up by unscrupulous developers. They download the source, add obnoxious ads […]. tracking code […]. Finally, they publish it to the Play Store

This is a pretty bad argument, especially when you’re specifically talking about Android. Android APKs are extremely easy to just download from closed-source, decompile them, and add new things or overwrite existing things.

The argument makes more sense for things that are harder to decompile and recompile

Yea, I wasn’t saying it’s always bad in every scenario - but we used to have this kinda deployment in a professional company. It’s pretty bad if this is still how you’re doing it like this in an enterprise scenarios.

But for a personal project, it’s alrightish. But yea, there are easier setups. For example configuring an automated deployed from Github/Gitlab. You can check out other peoples’ deployment config, since all that stuff is part of the repos, in the .github folder. So probably all you have to do is find a project that’s similar to yours, like “static file upload for an sftp” - and copypaste the script to your own repo.

(for example: a script that publishes a website to github pages)

What kinda “multi-monitor” features are you looking for?

I usually use Visual Studio (the real one, not VSCode) - and their multi-monitor support seems fine to me. You can drag out any window component and put them somewhere else in a different screen. And when you drag things somewhere else, you can still snap them back together, so it’s really just 2 windows again, not just loose floating boxes.