Programming

I am trying to write my own string.h functions, my library currently have no dependicies and 11 functions completed. Has basic and readable code to understand. Small binary size. Freely distributable with BSD-3-Clause license. Have a look: mstrutils

Sometimes, there are moments in life then you feel loosing control over your life, when there is to much on a plate and all this overwhelms you, makes you anxious. For me, solution always was to use kind of “get things done” tools, to organize myself. I tried enormous amount of todo apps, even bought a paper todo, but this wasn’t enough this time. Every restriction in functionality, every missed feature made me feel I’m loosing control again. And one moment I gave up and decided it is time to make my own tool and make it right (in my understanding), i.e . a todo that is highly customazible and instead of hardcoded features can have any you want. Despite todo app is an anecdote and there are thousands of them, same as with an edit tool microsoft it is quite a challenging task to make a really good one.

I’m currently using a pagination, link extraction, and Python filtering process before feeding links to fichub-cli to download all stories from a specific forum. The workflow is detailed in this post: https://piefed.zip/post/1151173 . Looking for a more streamlined, possibly one-command solution that could crawl the forum, extract thread links, and download them automatically. Any suggestions?

I just read how someone on RetroArch tries to improve documentation by using Copilot. But not in the sense as we might think. His approach is to let Copilot read the documentation and give him follow-up question a hypothetical developer might have. This also could be extended to normal code I guess, to pretend it being a student maybe and have it ask questions instead generating or making changes? I really like this approach.

I’m looking for advice on building a collaborative caching system for APIs with strict rate limits that automatically commits updates to Git, allowing multiple users to share the scraping load and reduce server strain. The idea is to maintain a local dataset where each piece of data has a timestamp, and when anyone runs the script, it only fetches records older than a configurable threshold from the API, while serving everything else from the local cache. After fetching new data, the script would automatically commit changes to a shared Git repository, so subsequent users benefit from the updated cache without hitting the server. This way, the same task that would take days for one person could be completed in seconds by the next. Has anyone built something like this or know of existing tools/frameworks that support automated Git commits for collaborative data collection with timestamp-based incremental updates?

I was handed a pile of vibe code. And you might be surprised to learn that it has a ton of bugs.

I’m building an anti AI thing for my personal project. Please provide some phrases you think should trigger AI safeguards.

TL;DR detect donation options on a website, track website visits locally, show a monthly view of websites visited monthly with donation options, donate to your favorites (manually at first, automatically later - never worked in banking)

Decided to bite the bullet and learn PHP, which is used for nearly everything at my job. My starting voyage was to mess around with “pure php”, as in, no frameworks, no libraries, not even javascript, just the basic server with v8.3 running and some (currently very shitty) CSS styling.

I’m looking for a forgejo cli (something similar to gh for github or glab for gitlab - neither of which I’ve ever used).

I have been building a small browser multiplayer project that was text only. Mostly social and party type games.

I saw the post earlier about making maps using Python. I thought that was a really cool concept as I love seeing open art projects like that. Do you know any other projects that allow you to make art with code?

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I’m talking about programs that can’t be improved no matter what. They do exactly what they’re supposed to and will never be changed.

What if I want to make an RPG game with a text dialog that you can scroll down? And according to my research, 50% of mobile games are made with Unity? Maybe some for the engine, some for pure coding? Maybe that’s their trick?

Not sure if this goes here or not? but ive dabbled a little here and there with different things but i lack like every skill to make a game. Im wondering what aspect or skill is worth getting better at, for gamedev?

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This is a question regarding the frontend framework Slint

Hello! First of all this is my first Lemmy post, so if I did anything wrong pls tell me!

Quick update: I added some small but handy improvements to The Hideout:

The Hideout is a browser-based place to play social deduction games with friends or randoms.

I’ve recently started to get into containerized development (of LaTeX documents for now) using VSCode with the Dev Containers Extension. While compilation and everything works fine, I’m a bit annoyed by the very barebones shell of my podman container in the integrated terminal. I’m used to zsh with syntax highlighting and autocompletion, I like to use neovim to write my commit messages (even when I’m using VSCode to write my code) and of course I need git and ssh to push to my git forge.