"everyone who thrives at coding is able to deal with mind-bending levels of frustration[...]
It's not going to get any better, because the better you get, the harder [it] will be. But the pleasure that comes when you finally get things working is [huge]"
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/04/how-the-new-art-form-of-coding-came-to-shape-our-modern-world/
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One day I am going to reach the height of technological sophistication, and every clock in my house will handle daylight savings automatically.
I'm not there yet. I think modern appliances are getting better though.
(Does a microwave really need to know the current time?)
I've released difftastic 0.63! In this release:
* Better parsing of Elixir, LaTeX, Make, Nix, Rust and YAML
* Better detecting of text encoding, especially on Windows
* Prebuilt musl binaries, so you can run released binaries on older systems!
https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic/releases/tag/0.63.0
TIL Advent of Code and Project Euler will deliberately look for puzzles where the naive solution is worse than quadratic.
This ensures that people can solve them with any programming language. You don't want fast languages to be able to use the naive solution.