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[–] bugsmith@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That one has been on my list for a while. Are you finding yourself able to easily apply what is taught to your day-to-day?

[–] bugsmith@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago

Different strokes for different folks, I guess. I enjoyed Heroes for what it was.

I agree that Sonic Battle was one of, if not the best entries for character building. And SB is, in fact, my all-time favourite Sonic game. Breaks me that I may never see a sequel / reboot, and get to relive Emerl's story.

[–] bugsmith@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'd honestly be happier with no guns. Not sure if that was their greatest move, in their effort to make him 'edgier'. He was perfect in SA2 and Sonic Heroes.

[–] bugsmith@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I am very excited for this. One part of my childhood that I've never been able to let go of is my total fanboy-ism of Shadow.

[–] bugsmith@programming.dev 7 points 2 years ago

I have read a few of these books. As for non-fiction:

Pragmatic Programmer Excellent book; should be compulsory reading for all software developers.

The Phoenix Project Enjoyable enough. It's a fictional story and has some extremely role-cast, trope filled characters. But its purpose is not to be a great novel. Its purpose is to teach the history of and purpose of how dev-ops came about. I think it's worth reading. I'm yet to try the Unicorn Project which I understand is actually more about software.

Eloquent JavaScript I am not a huge fan of working with JavaScript or front end, but I did read this when I got placed on a long term project where I would be using it for the duration. I found this book excellent, and my JavaScript certainly benefitted from it.

I also read a bunch of the fictional books. Bobiverse is one of my favourite series ever, despite the weirdness of the fourth book (it was still good). I'm just over halfway through Children of Time, and seriously regret not picking it up sooner. Well kind of, if I had I suppose I wouldn't be enjoying it so much now!

[–] bugsmith@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago

I believe the lower cable connects the two boards. The upper cable is for connecting to your device, so would only be connect to one of the boards when in use.

[–] bugsmith@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago

I use UK standard layout, and Apple UK for work. It always takes me a few minutes to switch between them, but both are absolutely fine for programming. Just the odd placement of # that bothers me a little, but I tend to use that only for Python comments - which I tend to do more commonly from a keyboard shortcut anyway.

[–] bugsmith@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago

As mentioned, LinkedIn seems to be the prime spot for getting initial work in both employed and contracted work, currently.

Long term, you want to "always be networking", as much work will come from word of mouth. Make sure to be creating contacts and relationships at each job you do get, as you never know who the next lot of work might come from.

I did some contracting for a brief period. My second contract came from the personal assistant of the Managing Director for the first job. We chatted a few times whilst I was working there, and it turned out her husband ran a software firm and was in need of my skill set. My understanding is that this type of situation is not uncommon.

[–] bugsmith@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago

Currently, it is non-extensible - or at least it lacks a plugin system. It is also OSX only, which is obviously a downside if you're not on that platform, however it doesn't run on electron and should be far more performant. Here are some measures taken by a user last year.

[–] bugsmith@programming.dev 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Perhaps not major, but I'd just like shout out my PR which was merged in this release:
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/2322

It adds another view to Registration Applications to show only denied applications, helpful for identifying spam applications and rule circumventers. I know a few people have been asking for something similar to this.

[–] bugsmith@programming.dev 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The same reason a lot of companies support a community edition. It means that people can use, learn and become experienced with the product without forking over a tonne of money.

This results in a larger number of developers, add-ons and community surrounding the product.

This makes it a more appealing product for companies looking to build a business using it.

It's the same reason you can use AWS for free, get some JetBrains products for free and often find community editions for similar products to Magento.

[–] bugsmith@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Well TIL. Didn't think to search for it. I am in my thirties and have lived in the UK my whole life, and I have never encountered or heard of such a device until now!
Given that, I think it's really creative name to use for such a purpose 👍

 
 

I've noticed that for one instance in particular (in my experience), feddit.uk, I am regularly seeing posts not federate properly. The most recent example I have found of this is c/britishproblems

If you compare:
https://programming.dev/c/britishproblems@feddit.uk
with
https://feddit.uk/c/britishproblems

You will see there are two posts on the home instance that have not federated to programming.dev, despite both being a month old.

Is there a technical reason that posts so old would not have federated in all this time?


Edit: I seem to be incorrect. The posts are not missing. The instances just show them in a different order (despite both being sorted by 'Active'). I am an idiot.

I'll leave this up as there may be some interesting discussion on how federation does / does not work.

 

New libraries are springing up all over currently. Which one's have you seen that looked promising / interesting?

Which one's are you planning to utilize for bot creation?

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