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Coding

[(Anonymous)]

Talk code, talk tech world more generally.

Re: Coding

[(Anonymous)]

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/10shx1n/another_offfosdem_event_is_offdem_an_event_that/

well that looks like the worst event I've ever seen.

Re: Coding - Grafana

[(Anonymous)]

Any techdans here familiar with Grafana? I've been working on migrating our metrics to it by company order, and holy shit, I am convinced whoever designed it has never read a graph in their lives.

This morning I pulled up a 30-day graph of our data processing throughput and nearly had a heart attack because it looked like the second half of a roller coaster - just a race to the bottom, with a few bumps in between.

Then I looked at the y-axis. There were five data labels on the y-axis. The first label said 1.45b. The second label said 1.45b. The third label said 1.45b. The fourth label said 1.45b. The fifth label said - you guessed it! - 1.45b. There are no more specific numbers if you hover over the individual data points.

I have yet to find an option to configure the y-axis range.

Re: Coding

[(Anonymous)]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41788026

Impressively awful idea, roundly mocked.

Re: Coding

[(Anonymous)]

> I flag nearly all abbreviations in code reviews because code is meant to be read and the names of things should be clear.

Mildly traumatized by this HN comment because I've been going through a bunch of code written by one of my copilot-abusing coworkers and abbreviating all the ridiculous variable names they shat all over our codebase, e.g.

> PseudoAnonymousIdentifierNetworkConfiguration pseudoAnonymousIdentifierNetworkConfiguration = new PseudoAnonymousIdentifierNetworkConfiguration(feederVariable);
> long pseudoAnonymousIdentifierNetworkConfigurationId = pseudoAnonymousIdentifierNetworkConfiguration.get_id();

We're already cursed with long-ass Java class names. No need to make it even less readable.

Re: Coding

[(Anonymous)]

More bad news for the Internet Archive - users visiting the website were greeted with this window.alert(); message.

> Have you ever felt like the Internet Archive runs on sticks and is constantly on the verge of suffering a catastrophic security breach? It just happened. See 31 million of you on HIBP!

Looks like the actual breach took place three days ago. Welp.

Re: Coding

[(Anonymous)]

Oh no, for I also use the same login for...

JSTOR!

Meh.

Re: Coding

[(Anonymous)]

Please can the world just resurrect python2.7. I miss it when files were easy to read at a glance.

Re: Coding

[(Anonymous)]

This is fun: https://gist.github.com/hackermondev/68ec8ed145fcee49d2f5e2b9d2cf2e52 (zendesk vuln)

(though he really should've asked for more money)

Re: Coding

[(Anonymous)]

About to put a new harddrive with a new os in my laptop! Wish me luck! :)

Re: Coding

[(Anonymous)]

Linux Mint is nice, so far. Works, customisable, nice vibe (explicitly non-political community) and I really like the amount of info on the help forums.

Re: Coding

[(Anonymous)]

https://twitter.com/mrdoob/status/1853374924658020711

Re: Coding

[(Anonymous)]

Anyone got friends at vmware? i want the gossip. :p

Re: Coding

[(Anonymous)]

Frontend devs, i don't understand you. I had to do frontend today and im 30000 years older

why is my datalist covering my mobile keyboard how do i get it to stop why isn't there a text input dropdown builtin in 2024 how do i get to any of my variables aaaaaaaaaaagh

Re: Coding - Visual novel engines?

[(Anonymous)]

Anyone used rakugo with godot? I like the idea of doing a project that's a visual novel that can hop into minigames every so often, and I'm thinking that ren'py probably isn't best suited to the action parts, while I've heard godot doesn't handle long dialog passages that well. So am looking for ways to bridge that gap, and have seen rakugo suggested, but haven't used it, and the docs look a bit creaky... Curious what people have found, if anything.

Re: Coding

[(Anonymous)]

Have discovered vim. Oh no! This is exactly my kind of rabbit hole.

(It's probably more useful for hobbyist than work projects but that doesn't mean I haven't used it a little at work today.)

Re: Coding

[(Anonymous)]

Advent of code time!

https://adventofcode.com/

(bit of a nonsensical start to this year's, oh well)

Re: Coding

[(Anonymous)]

Got this email from a recruiter on LinkedIn:

> It’s no secret that [company] are big believers in functional programming, and use OCaml, a statically typed functional language, for their primary development platform.
> Functional experience is not needed for any core engineering position within the group but it must be something you would be open to working in (I understand its pretty fun using Ocaml though).

I'm not feeling very convinced by this pitch.

Re: Coding

[(Anonymous)]

https://github.com/TencentCloud/tencentcloud-sdk-nodejs/issues/160

I love it when people put companies on blast in their Github issues.

Re: Coding

[(Anonymous)]

One of my coworkers merged in a PR titled [DON'T MERGE] because he forgot to change it, and eight months later, it still haunts me.

Re: Coding - Webdev Frameworks?

[(Anonymous)]

Thinking about putting together a SPA hobby project because I desperately need to write some code that isn't for my job. Any suggestions on which popular webdev framework I should learn for it?

I learned React back in the day but it's basically become a completely new language since then. Svelte looks fun. No experience with Vue whatsoever. I know they're all approximately the same and the choice doesn't actually matter, which is why I need an adult to make decisions for me.

Re: Coding

[(Anonymous)]

I've ignored so many calls from PagerDuty that my phone now categorizes the number as 'Scam Likely.' Life is good.

Re: Coding

[(Anonymous)]

Apparently my workplace has a new Slack-based AI assistant, and it's very important for us to know that its pronouns are they/them.

Re: Coding

[(Anonymous)]

Management: 'To reduce ballooning storage costs, we are implementing a policy where we only keep the last 30 Docker images.'
Images Dan, who lives in a monorepo and pushes over 30 Docker images a day:

Re: Coding

[(Anonymous)]

https://pypi.org/project/tariff/1.0.0/