In this letter, Dijkstra talks about readability and maintainability in a time where those topics were rarely talked about (1968). This letter was one of the main causes why modern programmers don't have to trouble themselves with goto statements. Older languages like Java and C# still have a (discouraged) goto statement,...
Some of you may have come across Helix - a very fast editor/IDE. Unfortunately, Helix has its own set of keybindings, modeled after Kakoune....
Not sure if this is the right community, but I didn't see a general one. What search engine do you use? Besides Google increasingly spying on its users, the quality of its search results seems to have gotten significantly worse over the last decade. What search engine(s) do you use?
Thanks to the current SEO nightmare, I can no longer use search engines the same reliability as before. Stackoverflow is too toxic and often all I need is to properly look up some more obscure stuff about some API, which "could just be googled". AI, of course, is very unreliable....
I feel like there are many devs out there who expose a lot of personal details and opinions all over the web. Maybe it's just me, but when starting out with the internet I tried my best to separate my personal details (name, age, sex, country, ethnicity, family ties, relationship status,...) from usernames in public....
I need to help auditing a project from another team....
Hey all, thought this might be of interest to some here....
So I've come to the point where I've wanted some to see some features on the software I regularly use and I feel confident enough that I can pull it off. However, once I start getting into it, it all becomes so overwhelming that it's hard to get anything done....
Solution was quite easy. Thanks to the user reply here: beehaw.org/comment/3535588 or programming.dev/comment/10034690 (Not sure if the links actually work as expected...)...
https://github.com/HigherOrderCO/Bend...
Can someone please help me understand how one could make his own frontend for the Ferdiverse? It seems like to run on a bespoke protocol, and has HTTP endpoints as well. The help says you can create your own frontend, divorced of HTTP. What I am wary of is the documentation being out-of-date....
For some time now, I've been thinking about the concept of interactively manipulating mathematical expressions and equations via software. Like doing some quick algebra in Notepad or similar, except there's no potential for arithmetic/algebra errors, typos, etc. ruining any results....
Start learning at 50...
I am building an application that is using JSON / XML files to persist data. This is why I indicated "outside of SQL" in the title....
I've heard it thrown around in professional circles and how everybody's doing it wrong, so.. who actually does use it?...
I used Pull Panda a while back to get organizational info and really good analytics on PRs....
Video is nearly 3 years old now, but I think it's worth watching. Her presentation starts at around 2:30....
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15433712...
What is Test Coverage?...
