Long long ago there was a man who discovered if he scratched certain patterns onto a rock he could use them to remind him about things he would otherwise forgot.

Over time the scratching were refined and this great secret of eternal memory were taught to his children, and they taught it to their children.

Soon mankind had discovered a way to preserve through the ages his thoughts and memories and further discovered that if he wrote down these symbols he could transfer information over distances by simply recording these symbols in a portable medium.

Writing exploded it allowed a genius in one place to communicate the information he had recorded across time and space.

Thousands of years passed, writing continued to be refined and more and more vital. Eventually a humble man by the name of Johannes Gutenberg seeking to make the divine word of God accessible to the people created the printing press allowing the written word to be copied and circulated with great ease expanding vastly the works available to mankind and the number of people who could understand this arcane art of writing.

But mankind never satiated in his desire to know all there is to know demanded more information, demanded it faster, demanded it better. So the greatest minds of 200 years, Marconi, Maxwell, Bohr, Von Nueman, Turing and a host of others working with each other, standing on the shoulders of their brobdinangian predecessors, brought forth a way to send these signals, transfer this writing upon beams of light, by manipulating the very fabric of the cosmos, mankind had reach the ultimate limits of transmission of information. Man has conquered time, and space itself in preserving and transmitting information, we are as the gods!

My point is this, that your insistence upon having a meeting to ask a question, with 10 people that could've been answered with a 2 sentence email, is not only an affront to me for wasting my time, but also serves as an affront to the greatest minds of the 19th and 20th centuries, it is an insult to your ancestors who first sacrificed and labored to master the art of writing, it is in fact offensive to all of humanity up to this point.

In short by requiring a meeting to be held, not only are you ensuring the information is delayed because we all now need to find a time that all of us are available, not only are you now eliminating the ability to have a first hand permanent record of what need to be communicated, you are actively working against progress, you are dragging humanity collectively backwards. You join the esteemed ranks of organizations such as the oppressive Catholic church that sought to silence Galialio and Copernicus, you are among the august crowd that burned witches at Salem, the Soviet secret police that silenced "bourgeoisie" science, you join the side of thousands of years of daft ignorance.

If it were not for you people we would have flying cars, we would have nanobots capable of building things on a whim, we would all be programming in lisp. But because of you and people like you we are trapped in this world, where the greatest minds are trapped in meetings that never end, where mistruth and ignorance run rampant, a world where JavaScript is the de facto language of choice every where because it runs everywhere, and ruins everywhere.

So please remember, next time you want to have a meeting ask yourself first. "Could this be an email?" "Do I enjoy burning witches?" if you do this you might make the world a little bit of a less terrible place to be.

My mom couldn't stream YouTube videos to my Chromecast in her TV and asked me for help via Telegram when I was at the office of my second job

Turns out the USB cable was unplug 🤷‍♂️.

I won't rest until I can order Uber Eats from Emacs

infinite loop in nature

I'm having such a blast writing code in TypeScript. Once you learn it you cannot go back to regular JavaScript.

I've been waking up successfully for two weeks now at 6:30 am thanks to sleeping pills and Melatonin pills I'm taking 30 min. before bedtime.

I will change that to 6am starting today.

Yes, I'm sleeping 8 hours and a half, it feels great!.

I'm on my third day of vacation and I really wish I could code something for a bit

Jason arrived at the front of the queue, approached the restful priest, hands open.

The priest said, "body of request"

soy eating developer: * change the name of his master branch to "main" *

Me: That's it, you ended racism!

A new job.

I had a dream once that I gave up coding to join a monetary.

Is my subconscious trying to tell me something?

was jobless for some time but in those days I was seeing this smoking-hot mulata friend of a cousin. After several visits and "movie days" I asked her out for dinner which, to my surprise because I'm a nobody, she accepted.

we went out and eat some tacos in her favorite soda around the corner. And we went out a second time IIRC.

needless to say, the money that paid that modest dinner with such amazona was earned working as a freelancer in PeoplePerHour doing junior-level stuff in Python, I learned the language during my four last years in high school.

ah, how I miss that girl 🤷‍♂️.

woah woah woah, hello, based department?

I just have been with my kid to a doctor. Got some meds and was ordered to pray to the god, was almost dragged into discussion after saying that this comment was improperiate.
Somebody just criticized me about bringing politics into discussion.

I'm from POLand.

I fucking hate webpack and frontend development so fucking much, why do I have to see my site not loading the bundled JS code on production but being absolutely fine in dev? is like watching my mom being run by a car over and over and over while I try to remember how it all was before she gets run over, FUCKING STOP WEBPACK, I havent sleep but just 4 hours since yesterday, I NEED YOU TO WORK JUST AS YOU DID IN DEV WITHOUT THE PERKS OF HMR FFS, JUST FUCKING DO IT

I shitpost on LinkedIn

Yeah, I like React that much, how could you tell?

Smoking when I want (this picture of my pipe when I was visiting my parents)

why the fuck those images wouldn't load? they come corrupt from K8S, but they are fine if I run the container locally, like... wtf? is Ingress NGINX doing something to them or did I configure something wrong?!

I'm the maintainer of the Godot Engine package in AUR, some users have commented on the package that they would like to see it in the community repo of Arch Linux, but I have no idea how that is done.

Any pointers?

I'm only a humble customer service representative in Amazon, I really hate the email editor we use to mail the clients after they call or chat with us. This, of course, means I need to include Emacs on my workflow so I can suffer less, let's Elisp the heck out of this problem!

a federated AWS-like service where people share their resources, lives 100% on crypto and is easy to use and join.

Not a Number by "Evil Corp". Gf at the reflection

looks great this doom-miramare theme, huh

for the life of me I cannot figure out in my mind how to structure this project I want to start, and jumping right into coding does not improve this mental block.

At work this Golang code base has a clean architecture, so easy to maintain and extend, and I'm unable to replicate it on my own project(s). It sucks to be an ignorant.

I finally got one of these boards, I still need to figure what to track on it, I already have a planner with me for my day to day

any suggestions?

OH, OKAY! that's what I should have do like 4 hours ago. Well, today I learned more of what can `replace` do in Golang modules.

!rant

27 days ago I asked here for advice on how to mentor software engineer student that was terrible at coding.

So, we are in the middle of the mentoring, my approach is for her to get used to normal engineering tools, in this occasion she is learning Git and "kanban" (basically we are using Clubhouse for this one) and Github PR submission and approval (I'm the one who approves them, naturally) by doing.

With git, things are hard because we cannot share a terminal session (via upterm) due to her using Windows on her laptop (WSL is an option for using upterm but her internet is so damn slow doing the configuration takes way too long), otherwise teaching her use git would be smoother than it is currently, with the other tools she is gaining a good grasp of them, it pleases me that the bottleneck is with Git itself.

She is working on a hangman game with Python, nothing fancy just the terminal. I made the stories with the requirements in Clubhouse for her to work on each as a unit removing some "thought process" of reading requirements and implementing solutions (at Uni it seems the professor writes a document of several pages detailing the background of the project and the requirements, I can see how it can become confusing for some students like her).

She will start Uni again this August 10th, there is a chance that our first "session" at this will end by then, my fear is that she forgets how to use the tools she learned, so I need to find a way to encourage her to keep using them somehow.

I'm such a big dumbass causing a bad second-impression in my new job: missed the standup because I'm a retard at reading how Outlook shows you the time of a meeting when you accept it, the time shown is the time of the inviter not your local time! And that day-1 training? Had to be completed by yesterday. Had to message the higher up I knew and was available, own my shit and apologize. Received a call from the outsourcing company's boss as he got notify from HR of my faux pas with the training.

I need to do better...

long time not coming here

Crazy: I had this issue with vc-state reporting 'edited on a visited file even after all changes made were pushed to the remote Git repository in a commit. Looking for answers in Emacs Stackexchange I find someone having the same issue --in a different context-- but with no replies, the question passed unanswered like six months... until now!. Took me one minute this time (I have been dragging this during two years or so) to find out we had vc-refresh-state which solves my issue and the issue of OP in Emacs Stackexchange.

It was a matter of hooking it with some Magit's hooks and you are ready to go!.

Integrated vterm package in Emacs, I'm glad having true-and-efficient terminal emulation inside Emacs

has anyone developed a math formula for GitHub repositories using the stars, the issues open and the amount of PRs to judge how strong the project is?

How do I help a software engineer student be better at developing software?

Background: I have this friend that started university with my young brother, two-or-so years ago my brother finished the career and got his degree while she is still there trying to finish the same career (!), we were looking the chance of changing careers but due to her low grades this is not possible and according to her U's counselor is better that she just finishes the career and gets her degree.

We scheduled a Zoom meeting for Sunday next week, to talk about her pain-points and see what improvement we can chase; issue is that I've never mentored anyone ever in my professional life (my brother from time to time drops a question to me or so, but that's different).

My plan is to either see if she suffers from lack of practice (meaning: she does not write software more often in order to improve her skills) or if it's hard for her to think in abstracts, either way, I believe that the latter improves if you do the former (just correct me if I'm wrong), thus the plan would be to assign her a bunch of programming exercises and have meetings at least once a week during her vacations.

My plan would be for her to actually learn game development with Godot, since the final result is always a game my hope is that having something to show encourages her to do the thing, but, who knows.

Have you ever done something like this for someone with the same issues? What was your experience and what nuggets of knowledge can you lend me?

P.S.: We don't live in the States but in Costa Rica, she does not have to deal with crippling student loans.

I'm going through Cookin Soul's mixes on YouTube, they put me in 'the zone' fast

Google is Catholic bruh...

How do I become a consultant? Do I need to master some programming languages and programming patterns and get "know-how" beyond of the general population of software engineers?

Did you hear the joke about the wandering nun? She was a roman catholic.

this sucker. Don't make me laugh. Yes, I know what place is that, and yes, I know many of those and most of them rip you off (tho they are good for anyone starting on anything) but no, I'm not interested, Mr. Shady Russian guy.

Never used Emacs in batch mode, did it today to transform some code generated by struct2ts (convert Golang structs to Typescript classes/interfaces).

I won't rely on sed/awk for complex stuff ever again, is much pain in the ass for me tbh.

Why!!??

Why have antd crush my content like this on mobile?

well, I'm free now. In case you need a freelance software developer with experience in Python, Go and React living overseas drop me a message :)

honest question: if I know ReactJS, Golang, Python, Typescript, and a bit of Postgres and living in Costa Rica, what sort of freelance services could I promote on the net?

I used to freelance on sites like PeoplePerHour, doing projects of 1 month in 3 weeks or less, but I would like to do that again in my own website under my own terms, sort of speak.

any recommendations?

The Catholic head-quarters are at the same place as the Mafia's origin.
How do we know that the Catholic is not a Mafia racket?
How do we tell which is older?
Why are their organizational structure so similar?
You know like the God-Father and the Pope.

After 1 year decided to install Nextcloud on my Digital Ocean droplet under a subdomain. I'm happy with the results, and now I'm moving my Google Drive data (including contacts) to my Nextcloud instance.

Wish there is a Google Docs equivalent for Nextcloud I could install!.

I'm studying the chance to offer cloud space to my family for free too.

I fucking hate manual testing, specially if a DB is related

!rant
learned about antd on Reddit when it had version 4.0.1 released and so far rewriting from scratch the frontend of one of my products has been a breeze, specially since I'm using Typescript.

I'm absolutely happy with the results so far, and how forms are managed within the library makes Formik redundant, great!

having React Cosmos is helping a lot when designing my components too.

In general, I'm really happy!

boi, k8s is hard, even if it is managed by Digital Ocean. Is there something I can install on my droplet that can help me release software from my gitlab repositories?

I'm on Debian 10.11

if I have to perform coding tests on CodeSignal, should be good enough to practice some hours on leetcode or hacker rank? I don't want to blow up this one, I need to job

I was hearing Mary on a Cross by Ghost, while using ChatGPT for some TreeJS bs, and I randomly asked it to provide me the lyrics to the song and it denied it on the basis that it contains offensive lyrics, I found 0 offense on those lyrics, but then again, I am a shitty Catholic (I don't believe in religion but that is the one I was raised on) and we then went on an argument about even if data is "offensive" it should be something that should be provided

last week I finished a course on k8s "simply, for developers". Today I decided to fiddle with kubectl to move a project I'm working on to k8s and it was a complete success (thing runs on minikube and pulls containers from a private Gitlab registry).

I'm happy with the results, there is still room for learning k8s and devops in general.

"Per our conversation [Redacted] would like to do a Teams Video call with you to discuss RonR opportunity with us."

What's RonR? I'll interview for a backend software engineer position with an offshore company

Emacs is the reason why I screw my own agenda for Saturday, but sweet baby Jesus the mode-line now looks H O T for sure

I literally cried to the Lord while reading the Rego language reference. Man, that thing is HARD to grasp.

After a while I just gave up and switched to Windows (wanted to play) but Windows needed to apply an update thus I decided to reboot and while GRUB was counting down I decided to turn back to Arch and give a try.

I was heard, now this damn policies works and the Go code do not panic anymore.

is there a Go module for editing Flat Open Document Text? I'll like to edit placeholder text from a fodt file and send the results to thecodingmachine/gotenberg to convert the file to a PDF

I really need to learn flex box, sadly I'm dense and cannot wrap my mind around how it works :(

Damn it, why I can't find the COBOL course by IBM?? It was supposed to go online this week in Coursera.

So, I told the interviewer that my frontend skills are bad. He said that I should not worry as the tests where backend centered, good. Later, I got the job, now the interviewer, which happens to be the head of tech in the company I work for, has assigned me two tasks involving 99% of work on the frontend.

FFS, I've been searching on Internet and reading Kendo UI documentation for 4 hours to figure how to trigger the KendoGrid editable popup with populated data to enable the user to update such data. AAAAARGH!!!

Which in the Hell is the key shortcut in GraphiQL to autocomplete all the fields on a query?

is it sane to choose Notion instead of Confluence and Shortcut (Formerly Clubhouse) instead of Jira, or do I come as a total hipster?

Or better yet, instead of Shortcut or Jira, choose Todoist?

I'll just configure Pulseaudio, bindfs and MediaTomb while that movie is download... Stupid Popcorn Time and stupid buffering

I don't describe what I did in my CV for any of my current or past job(s). Any tips to end that bad practice?

I'm looking to switch jobs for a larger pay (around 35% to 81% more)

In the beginning I was a retard, but then found out about React Query, learned it, made some abstractions around Axios and my JWTs, and now I have 200+ IQ.

God bless Tanner Linsley, you mormon crazy bastard, you did it, you made my life easier.

Given an ordered deck of cards (like those for poker), if you split evenly in 26 cards and riffle shuffle perfectly one card over another, how many riffle shuffles should you perform to have the deck ordered as in the beginning?

any alternative to Facebook's watchman? They had to make it difficult to use over the months, and I don't have time for that.

I'm gonna do it, no one can stop me! I will do it now, I will create yet another file format using YAML for Biblical software!!

I'm afraid of trying micro-services for the second time, spent my evening couping playing Far Cry 5 instead :/

(this time with go kit toolkit).

!rant

So, at this day I have two jobs as software engineer (I'm self thought). The first one with a friend from high school, a billing platform. The engineer he had flew to Canada and leave him with nothing, so I made one from scratch, I couldn't deliver on time and most of the clients he had moved to another services so the benefits of the deal I made with him ended being less than expected (there was a deadline set by our government as these clients are merchants and the Costa Rican IRS equivalent is moving everybody to electronic billing to mitigate tax evasion). The backend was done using Go, the front-end with React and MobX.

Then, the second job. I'm being staffed to a big outsourcing company for a North American business. The engineer team is small compared to the other departments and the people are really nice. Their stack is Python and React, I'm the only guy allowed to use a different editor than Neovim (Emacs in my case).

between the two I work 11 hours per day, and I'm satisfied with this.

This is way better than my old CS job at Amazon Spain where I couldn't use Emacs to have a decent text editing experience.

Thanks, Lord.

I'm attracted to the idea of producing content related to full stack development and/or gamedev (not that of my strongest point but I like to do that too) but something I cannot decide on is which language to target, as I'm a native Spanish speaker.

The only reason I see to do content in English is that it would reflect good on my CV and/or any future business opportunities, also that in regards to tech videos is what I watch on a daily basis as content in my native tongue is poorly produced and/or dated.

the only set back is that I suck a bit speaking English and my grammar sucks a lot, and that can ruin it for me.

what should I do?

Somehow mocking xhr requests (?) for Axios is really hard to make it work. I use React Cosmos as I'm re-doing the frontend of this already running in production and works great, but when my component communicates with the backend it breaks and I'm unable to test the full behavior.

Then, it occurred to me that trying to mock Axios may not be the best. So I came with this scheme where I would have a configuration variable with a default value and change that when I need to work with React Cosmos, which in turn changes the behavior of `/auth` to return a valid JWT in response to a GET, put an Axios interceptor in my outermost Cosmos decorator and BAM! suddenly was able to develop and test my React components closer to how they would work in production.

It surprises me how simple this endeavor was, and because everything runs orchestrated by docker compose things run smoother.

(this is not an excuse to not to learn how to deal with the mocking issues of Axios, after all I wont have a working backend every time I work in some frontend application)

Discovered AntD couple of weeks ago, now I'm on the way to re-write the frontend for a product I have, was checking their documentation, and I am astonished how great it is ant.design

What service would you recommend for monitoring systemd services and notify me when one of them are down?

I worked on a game about or politicians sending home tourists, is a brawler. I'm still working on it tho.

Several months ago I was praising antd's forms but honestly I can't figure how to debug them with React Context Devtools, let alone do that inside React Storybook.

Unless I come up with a solution for this problem I'm a dead man.

Be better with React and Co. Learn Typescript to improve my sanity. Learn Rust. Read and study my copy of Computer Science Distilled: Learn the Art of Solving Computational Problems.

Trying to craft a capturing subtraction group without having a good grasp of regex... That's a bad practice, right?

> * npm login *
> puts everything right, uses token because of OTP
> npm login fails: incorrect user or password

you know what, fuck you

Since I don't commute to work since last year I don't really know how to consume those podcasts and audiobooks I care, I cannot listen to them while I work. If you encounter this problem, how did you solve it?

For a small team (<= 7 people) working on a self-managed Gitlab instance ('Starter' subscription), is it better if each user keeps a fork of the project they work on (working on other branch than master) or have everybody work on the same fork (still, different branches)?

Also, squash commits on branch merging, yes/no and why?

as long as I keep it small (?), and computing resources are enough, it is possible to run custom software in a Raspberry Pi Pico right? say, software I write from scratch (with Rust) specifically for it

that ticket I've been postponing because there is always something more important to work on

I take a walk on home, like a caged lion but without the intent to kill, after meditating the roadblock I jump back to my chair and try again.

I'm thinking on working something with Godot Engine and React to form a platform that allow people to register, categorize and explain exercises

like Wikipedia but for fitness, but with data to use for free

I don't get it, why having more than one decorator looks "weird"? that's idiomatic Python AFAIK, that's sounds more like nitpicking on aesthetics :/

I'm getting contacted by remotely.works with job offers, I like the idea of doubling my current salary, but it really worries me the job stability and I believe switching jobs to work remote for a US-based company leaves me with responsibilities an employer normally take cares for me.

Should I risk it and give it a try?

How do I go into tokenizing strings of text from a LaTeX file into a Go structure for further processing? I feel like splitting hair trying for loop over an io.Reader and using regexp to find where a sentence ends; there must be a better way...

Felt like an idiot when realized that argument `back_populate` refers to the attribute of the class passed to `relationship`, not the stupid name of the table of any class, ugh

so continuing with my dilemma about audible media and consuming that in a world where I don't commute to work anymore, I will take the advices from the comments on my previous post. Also, Audible warned that my 7 credits may expire soon so decided to get more audiobooks (see screenshot)

My latest question on what to do to start freelancing didn't get any traction. My guess is that the question was put incorrectly or was too broad.

Anyway, I'm still interested on working as a freelance

Learning

Just learned about nest.land which is the module repository registry for Deno. They use the Arweave to register a permanent version of any module, which by itself address some complaints of people had with Deno and it's module importation methods.

How does Git collaboration on a web text editor/web IDE works behind the scenes (like that of GitLab)? Do they shallow copy the git repo per user working on it and apply any operation (like branching, merging, rebasing) over that or how does that works?

What are your thoughts about Manning Publications? IMHO they are cool and I like what they have to offer in terms of consumption of books and videos.

I just can't believe react-component/form (rc-form) has no dev tools available

I really need to debug a strange behavior in one form as it seems the object of an InputEvent (I believe) is being passed along with the value (pic related)

Just getting on the loop with all this drama with Tren Black, TechLead and JomaTech after TheQuartering made a video about it. I just unsubscribed from TechLead YouTube channel because I think that move of deleting bad reviews of your products or issuing Copyright strikes at YT video that criticize them is a really shitty move.

On the other hand, I asked here wherever I should start doing content on YouTube related to software development in English or Spanish and after seeing all that drama it made me wonder if eventually my name would get drag into some of that jaja, oh boy...

I will build something that aids me on digitalizing expensive out-of-print books, What 4K DSLR do you know that is programmer friendly? Asking because I would like to interface it with my PC via USB and use custom-made software to control it, take pictures and (maybe) get send the pictures over the connection to my PC.

Maybe I could work better with an Android phone, tho, but I would prefer an DSLR.

what are the basics I should know about "data streaming" for working on video streaming companies as a future senior backend Golang developer?

I feel discouraged about working on this personal project because I fear doing something wrong designing the database architecture

is there an algorithm that can spot similarities between two linked lists on the virtue of what an element is linked to? I'm working with my bank statements in CSV and want to work with them mechanically, and I don't really want to spend time checking manually what I have imported (to Wallet by Budget Bakers) and what I'm missing between imports

is there a tool I can use to render a candle chart (like those use in trading) but with code? like PlantUML but allowing to render candle charts

I really want to divide this frontend into two parts, one that faces the users and other for administrators so I can release changes on both without works on one part blocking the other, but, I have many question, like, how do I manage authentication in two different React projects from one login page?

Maybe there are more problems than benefits, what do you think?

What's the name of that protocol that federated social media software implements? ActivityPub? well, what ever the name is I know it does not implement any concept for fitness specific social updates (like this app Hevy does)

super.so is annoyingly expensive

am I crazy if I want to integrate Notion with a custom site solution built with SvelteKit?

I'm using react-auth-kit and gave feedback to improve the library, so far so good! I was wondering if sites like codesandbox allow you to run a "backend" along with your frontend because I would like to implement some real world examples about using react-auth-kit, to improve the documentation.

since we have go mod I believe that if you are doing microservices or fracturing a monolith app into microservices for that matter, you rather have a monorepo. I'm finding really useful to do `import ("backend/monolith" "backend/notify")` and such than sharing protobuf files by copying with some Makefile target.

no, thanks, I wont use Pycharm.

I can debug this with dap-mode (as soon as I figure out the templates thing)

"InvalidStateError: An attempt was made to use an object that is not, or is no longer, usable"

I really hate you fucking InvalidStateError, I hate you will all my heart. How can I debug this fucking hell of error? form.setFieldsValue(mydamnvalue) should just work so I can be happy and advance the work on this app, fuck!!

is there no way to edit your user name here, right?

so what do you look when you do a "code review" anyway?