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Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend in c/programming

[–] jim 9 points 1 week ago

This is a classic piece, and I love the contradictions in the text. It encapsulates my feelings on good software and code that it almost becomes an art than a science.

"Rascal Does Not Dream" light novel series by Hajime Kamoshida and Keji Mizoguchi has ended after over 10 years. The final volume, Volume 15, is titled "Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dear Friend." in c/[email protected]

[–] jim 3 points 4 weeks ago

What a wild ride! Can't believe it's been ten years.

PSA: You should know that Debian Trixie/Testing does not receive security updates in a timely manner, and is not intended for production use in c/linux

[–] jim 7 points 1 month ago

PSA for Debian Testing users: read the wiki

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianTesting

Control-F security returns 18 results. This is well known and there's even instructions on how to get faster updates in testing if you want.

Steam does the opposite of forcing Arbitration on its users in c/[email protected]

[–] jim 7 points 1 month ago

My thought was that a lawsuit is more expensive than arbitration, but settling a class action lawsuit is cheaper than thousands of arbitrations.

Final Fantasy VII - RUN! (by Ssambatea) in c/[email protected]

[–] jim 2 points 2 months ago

Took me a sec.

Python 3.13.0RC2, 3.12.6, 3.11.10, 3.10.15, 3.9.20, and 3.8.20 are now available! in c/python

[–] jim 2 points 2 months ago

Thanks for sharing. We use all pytest-style tests using pytest fixtures. I'll keep my eyes open for memory issues when we test upgrading to python 3.12+.

Very helpful info!

Python 3.13.0RC2, 3.12.6, 3.11.10, 3.10.15, 3.9.20, and 3.8.20 are now available! in c/python

[–] jim 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'm most excited about the new REPL. I'm going to push for 3.13 upgrade as soon as we can (hipefully early next year). I've messed around with rc1 and the REPL is great.

Do you know why pytest was taking up so much RAM? We are also on 3.11 and I'm probably going to wait until 3.13 is useable for us.

Python 3.13.0RC2, 3.12.6, 3.11.10, 3.10.15, 3.9.20, and 3.8.20 are now available! in c/python

[–] jim 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

EOL for 3.8 is coming up in a few short weeks!

Closeups of craters on Mercury by BepiColombo from 102 miles (165 km) up in c/[email protected]

[–] jim 2 points 2 months ago

So cool!! Mercury is definitely the most mysterious inner planet due to its difficulty to get a space probe there even though it's the closest planet.

The spacecraft will arrive next year, and I can't wait for all the Science it will uncover!

Make Heroine ga Oosugiru! • Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines! - Episode 9 discussion in c/[email protected]

[–] jim 6 points 2 months ago

Haha, I've been waiting for the 4K/8K reference in this volume. Poor Anna.

Which protocol or open standard do you like or wish was more popular? in c/programming

[–] jim 6 points 2 months ago

TIL this exists

[NEWS] Florida School District Bans "Sasaki and Miyano" Manga for 'Inappropriate' Content, Reading Direction in c/[email protected]

[–] jim 18 points 2 months ago

The complainant suggested other manga to replace the series such as Chainsaw Man, To Your Eternity, and The Seven Deadly Sins among others.

lol

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Is there software that tracks internal dependencies for CI/CD? (self.devops)

submitted 1 year ago by jim to c/devops

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Here's a hypothetical scenario at a company: We have 2 repos that builds and deploys code as tools and libraries for other apps at the company. Let's call this lib1 and lib2.

There's a third repo, let's call it app, that is application code that depends on lib1 and lib2.

The hard part right now is keeping track of which version of lib1 and lib2 are packaged for app at any point in time.

I'd like to know at a glance, say 1 month ago, what versions of app is deployed and what version of lib1 and lib2 they were using. Ideally, I'm looking for a software solution that would be agnostic to any CI/CD build system, and doubly ideally, an open source one. Maybe a simple web service you call with some metadata, and it displays it in a nice UI.

Right now, we accomplish this by looking at logs, git commit history, and stick things together. I know I can build a custom solution pretty easily, but I'm looking for something more out-of-the-box.

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Let transit take you out to the ball game: Ride Metro, Sound Transit, and Kitsap Transit for free July 10-11 - King County (kingcounty.gov)

submitted 1 year ago by jim to c/[email protected]

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Trying to figure out why comments aren't showing up on other instances (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by jim to c/[email protected]

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Hy - A dialect of Lisp that's embedded in Python (github.com)

submitted 1 year ago by jim to c/python

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One of the coolest projects I've seen: a lisp that is embedded into Python. Hy compiles to Python AST so it's (almost) fully interoperable with Python (some notes about it here).

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The problem with federated web apps (www.devever.net)

submitted 1 year ago by jim to c/programming

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Trying to make web applications federated is a popular effort. Examples include things like the “fediverse”, as well as various other efforts, like attempts to make distributed software forges, and so on. However, all of these efforts suffer from a problem which is fundamental in building federated applications built on top of the web platform.

The problem is fundamentally this: when building an application on top of the web platform, an HTTP URL inherently couples an application and a resource.

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[Fixed] Broken link in the sidebar (self.meta)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by jim to c/meta

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The sidebar for our instance has a broken link for programming.dev - it links to https://programming.dev/programming.dev

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So long RIF and thank you @[email protected] (self.redditwasfun)

submitted 1 year ago by jim to c/[email protected]

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It was a great app! Been a user for as long as I remember using reddit on my phone.

Thanks @[email protected] I appreciate all your hard work over the years.

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CLI tools hidden in the Python standard library (til.simonwillison.net)

submitted 1 year ago by jim to c/python

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An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyond coding (skamille.medium.com)

submitted 1 year ago by jim to c/experienced_devs

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I generally don't like "listicles", especially ones that try to make you feel bad by suggesting that you "need" these skills as a senior engineer.

However, I do find this list valuable because it serves as a self-reflection tool.

Here are some areas I am pretty weak in:

How to write a design doc, take feedback, and drive it to resolution, in a reasonable period of time
How to convince management that they need to invest in a non-trivial technical project
How to repeat yourself enough that people start to listen

Anything here resonate with y'all?