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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • There are two main schools of thought in software development about how to build really big, complicated stuff.

    IT vs OT?

    The career path of most application programmers is fairly short.

    I think it’s due to the crazy growth programming has (and is) gone through. I think there’s still a relative ton of greybeards around, but they are vastly being outnumbered by the newbies.

    This is also why I think we keep reinventing shit, typically in a worse way, because there are not enough greybeards to go around.



  • I prefer to flip the logic of the .gitignore.

    # ignore root files/folders
    /*
    
    # unignore files
    !.gitignore
    !README.md
    !Justfile
    !flake.nix
    !flake.lock
    !pyproject.toml
    !.python-version
    !uv.lock
    
    # unignore folders
    !src/
    !docs/
    
    # reignore (recursively)
    __pycache__
    

    This includes the files and folders (and their subfiles/folders), while recursively ignoring any pycache bullshit.

    • Small
    • Maintainable
    • Easy to change
    • Readable










  • /u/spez is the effective reason.

    Reddit was great for me, back in 2008, but over the years slowly got more and more “normy”/less technical, more drama, more celebrities, the new UI, letting in the Digg refugees, not keeping old.reddit.com somewhat up-to-date while forcing me to use the new UI for certain pages, letting users get banned from subreddit A because they ever posted on subreddit B, with the API bullshittery as the straw that broke the camel’s back. Oh, and the MASSIVE amount of shadow-banning/deletion that happens. You have NO idea how many comments get removed, just from your own account. Check out https://www.reveddit.com/ for evidence.

    I slowly deleted 9 of my 10 accounts (one of them was combine_policeman, which I used to tell a user to “pick up that can, hehehehe”), kept my last one, until I made a flippant comment about whether Americans were going to burn down a city, because Mrs Good got killed (because, you know, people burned down their own city after George Floyd), which I said because I know white Americans don’t care about their own. Individualism for thee, but not for me, and all that.

    Anway, felt offended about the warning (and deleted comment), so I deleted my account that night. Fuck 'em.

    I already had done a request-for-data, which I used to delete my thousands upon thousands of comments from the site. Because fuck 'em!

    Lemmy/programming.dev feels so much more like 2008 Reddit, it’s insane. There are more communists here, than 2008 Reddit, but they had a bunch of Libertarians, so it evens out, lmao.