On older, more experienced developers, and the remarkable growth of the programming community: https://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2014/06/20/MyLawn.html
miniblog.
From Rust's latest community survey: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2018/11/27/Rust-survey-2018.html
As consumer platforms become less programmable, perhaps we will increasingly see development primarily on Linux? (The year of Linux on the desktop is coming! 😂)
Adding a language feature is like adding a new shape to a lego set. It enables a huge range of new combinations (for better or worse).
I had no idea how many tech companies have created their own fonts! https://www.arun.is/blog/custom-typefaces/
(Unique branding, better language coverage, and it may be cheaper than licensing an existing typeface.)
@MightyPork@dev.glitch.social Stupid question: why not? Surely you'd still push the relevant commits to your git repo?
Interesting question: how do you do comments in block oriented programming languages? https://twitter.com/sayamindu/status/1067466198181400576
Today's compromised npm package: https://github.com/dominictarr/event-stream/issues/116 only had the malicious code in the minified version.
We don't always think of JS as a compiled language, but reproducible/verifiable compilation would have helped here.
A fun overview of basic operating system development: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22054578/how-to-run-a-program-without-an-operating-system/32483545#32483545
Syntax highlighting of diffs feels like an under-researched field. Doing a good job on incomplete snippets is a hard problem.
'YouTube Voice' (the speech style used by many youtubers) is often more enunciated: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/12/the-linguistics-of-youtube-voice/418962/
I think the internet has done something similar to writing styles too. I certainly use more exclamation marks!
Inline links are much more convenient than footnotes. However, they're more distracting. Unless I'm completely new to a topic ("for an overview of the field see [3]") it's better to read the whole article first.
Are there better UIs? Hide the links at first?
@bugaevc@mastodon.technology Idle thought: why not make the command grey, leaving white for output? The user knows what they've typed, but doesn't know what the output will be.
@bugaevc@mastodon.technology Beautiful! I've wanted a card based terminal for a long time: it feels like a great design for commands that sometimes write a ton of output.
@kensanata@octodon.social A great point, but many smartphone apps would work fine as websites.
I really like Stylus, the Firefox plugin for writing custom CSS for websites.
My rules aren't clever though.
The vast majority are just adding display: none; for distracting UI elements. The remainder are for excessively responsive sites that become unreadable on wide monitors.
HTTP/3, and how it tackles the limitations of today's TCP: https://blog.erratasec.com/2018/11/some-notes-about-http3.html
I'm beginning to wonder whether computer form factors are a product of the environment.
Suppose I went back in time 20 or 30 years, and told manufacturers that powerful handheld devices with touchscreens would be popular. Would they be able to do anything with that information?
Moving Android towards unpatched, mainline Linux kernels: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/771974/ade4e5fb18058302/
Shower thought: plurals are basically Hungarian notation, but with a suffix rather than a prefix.
My email load is sufficiently low that I'm willing to budget one response per person to emails from strangers. I don't understand how people with high profiles (e.g. running major OSS projects) manage.
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