When your test data ends up in production

https://yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/...

Got a new Mac from work, wanted to do some magazine editing so downloaded Scribus.

I begin to panic because most of the top toolbar icons were not visible. I figured it was bugged.

Okay, calm, it's still vaguely usable with shortcuts and menu. But damn this sucks.

Oh,

They just haven't adapted the program to work with system wide dark theme.

That, that would be why.

Booting up an ancient laptop because I want to burn some music CDs

My entrance into the mechanical keyboard world.

Ducky Shine 7 Cherry MX Brown

https://youtu.be/JWD1Fpdd4Pc

Pretty good explanation of why emacs is great. I was an evangelical vim user until I came to realise these points.

TL;DR main point:

The editor is second to the powerful and extensible underlying runtime, that makes extensions far easier to make and thus provides a better ecosystem. Although neovim is making strides to fix this

Bahaha just found out that Edge is switching to Chromium.

Now Chrome blocking ads suddenly makes more sense.

Got distracted for an inordinate amount of time with this demo

https://blueprintjs.com/docs/...

I wonder if people think they're original when they shout "it's Jesus!" because I have long hair and a beard

I often resort to a hipster bun so people would just leave me out of their "humour"

I won't mention the fact he was from the Middle East and was most definitely not white

Still not sold by OO, but I'm hook line and sinker for pharo/smalltalk.

It actually seems to share a lot of fundamentals with Lisp namely extremely tight syntax and live code reloading.

My opinions of a productive language being dependant on a specific paradigm might be changing in favour of the tooling supplied with a technology/language.

Is bower still a thing people use?

Smalltalk, the language that keeps popping up in articles I read about nice languages and seems like the real underdog that's gone under the radar now that FP has taken hold. Must give it a go.

Working for a company with solid procedures really makes me appreciate how important they are. Knowing someone will be scanning through my pull request made me *really think* about appropriate layout and commenting. Before I could submit any old code and the other programmer wouldn't give a monkeys.

I guess that's a poor reflection on my performance but, I'm working on it

Kettle switch has stopped working (i.e. it needs to be held down to make it work). But that got me thinking, I could get a pi zero, attach it to a relay, serve up an interface that allows me to select amount of water and temperature, glue the button on and I have my very own smart kettle.

People here love IoT right?

Keeping things tidy when it comes to stickers

Following from https://devrant.com/rants/1516205/...

My emacs journey day 0-1

0: quickly realised what I was getting myself into, wow that is a learning curve. Head is buzzing with different key commands (and thank you to everyone who's helped out in my original post). I've been here before with Vim, but it's so hard when I am proficient with another editor, one of the most difficult aspects is getting it set up to even format my code appropriately (the right tab width etc), but I press on, something tells me it will be worth it in the end.

1: I come across a tutorial for clojure and emacs (https://braveclojure.com/basic-emac...), this looks good, oh sweet it shows how to load a good configuration, some more useful commands, feels like I'm getting there. Then it hits me, I manage to put my finger on why I decided to take the plunge: emacs isn't an editor at heart, at its heart is lisp. From its core it is scripted using one of the most powerful types of languages. Rather than some bolted on domain specific scripting language.

Now the real learning begins.

Having a crack at switching from vim to emacs, my understanding of the major differences are as follows

* departure from modal editing
* emacs provides a more comprehensive environment
* More powerful scripting capability,
* my pinky will complain,
* I might just about to enter a new church

Any advice for a newb? Hoping there's a few of you out there

Switched back to windows because I needed IIS for work and I did miss having a touch screen (could not get driver working on Linux).

A few gripes.

I mean, the standard "oh great, half a day downloading and updating my machine" applies.

The thing I forgot about Windows is that after everything I do it wants to restart. Updating itself forced the computer to restart several times, wtf.

Powershell (ironically) holds a shadow of bash's power

So many "power user" actions are done with a gui, dear lord give me a terminal command and a man page any day over the convoluted way to do some actions. Changing permissions for IIS was several layers of gui dialogues, where it would be a couple of commands in bash.

Sorry to be unoriginal and moan about an OS, as an end user windows is great and a lot more streamlined and arguably prettier, but as a programmer it doesn't make life half as easy as the realm of *nix

Anyone had much experience with Om.Next? It looks neat. From what I understand their way to tackle state management is very reasonable. Looks like GraphQL but for both client and client/server.

First day at new job yesterday, and it was really enjoyable, it's nice to be at a place that is actually competent at software development. I actually have people I can turn to who are tons more experienced than me.

Aside from the usual orienteering, I spent my time examining their existing systems and wrapping my head around the project I'll be working on for my trial period.

People seem friendly, coffee is good, they know what they're doing, willing to experiment and try new things, and I will get a free mac book pro as an employee.

Hope I get this.

Anyone watch this guy? Very much addicted to his videos, informative for a newbie at electronics, and always waiting for the next moment he shorts a circuit, shocks himself or creates a light bulb.

There are compilations, but the videos are way better and give you the suspense.

https://youtu.be/sI5Ftm1-jik

Just discovered this feature, cool!

Update to interview that I had, it went well, I'm starting a 3 month contract 30th May, (soon after my honeymoon). When that's over we'll have a discussion and hopefully I'll be the right fit for the company.

Waiting for interview now, wish me luck!

!rant

Interview on Monday. Buzzing! The company is pretty cool, they have a startup buzz but part of a wider umbrella of businesses so don't suffer from the financial uncertainty that destroyed my last company (that and my old boss was pretty clueless about everything except sales). They also give time for personal projects, allow remote working, bonuses if the company does well and provide its employees transparency to its finances.

In short, I'm not going to be a cog in a big corporate wheel. If I get this.

Well they liked the code I produced for their programming test, so good start.

Meta: categorised this as rant because it's tech related, but obviously it's not a rant, what's the protocol? Random?

!dev

People over here going nuts over the royal family, so glad I'm out of the country on honeymoon when Harry and Meghan get married. It will be on the headlines every where. I guess people prefer consuming that kind of drivel rather than face real world issues.

But will I actually escape it? Are Italy or Switzerland nuts on the UK Royals?

Many articles about the best languages to learn, here's one about the worst

Source: https://uk.dice.com/technews/...

I've said it before and I'll say it again, React CSS-in-JS is the way forward. Styled-jsx is brilliant.

Currently delving into the realm of tabletop game design and I'm noticing the transferable skills between that and programming. Has anyone here got similar experiences?

No, extending PureComponent in EVERY DAMN COMPONENT IN THE APP does not improve performance

When it was "bring your children" day at my mums work she took me to London, I used to draw houses with paint on her work PC and sending them via fax to my grandma miles away. It was pretty magical to me.