jasonpeacock

> You have to care about this for every final commit that lands in the project Same as having a standard coding style, you should have a standard commit message style that you do care about for e…

> Took a bit of doing to code the design by hand in Notepad with all the nested tables originally, however with Dreamweaver it's only taken a few hours, not weeks. So many memories...

I’m going to let my inner introvert (misanthrope?) speak for a moment, and honestly this sounds like a nightmare (with all respect)… I can’t imagine paying money to spend time with a stranger! It’s ha…

It's not "language safety", it's memory safety. You're saying that memory safety isn't a priority? When you run Coverity or other static analyzer on your code, how many v…

It's a skill that you need to intentionally practice, like anything else. I like this book for learning and practicing good penmanship: https://a.co/d/4HmGcC5 …

Handwriting is a skill, like anything else, and can be improved through intentional practice. This is a good guide and practice workbook for learning and practicing practical handwriting: https:/…

Alas, you still have to worry about having the right Bash installed :( For example, OSX (still) ships with Bash 3.x as the default, while many Linux distros have Bash 4.x, and the latest Bash is 5.x.…

There are many natural ecosystems being wiped out by invasive species that do not have human presence. https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/invasive-s... But humans …

The author falls into the trap of every "technical interviews such, just talk to them about their experience!" argument - it's easy to sound like you know what you're talking about…

Relatedly, not providing kids with cell phones to start with isn't as bad as it first sounds - even the kids recognize the benefit of being without: https://www.thecut.com/article…

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Kernighan's Law: Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.…

You could also just buy an actual timer ;) https://www.amazon.com/s?k=pomodoro+timer

For everyone asking for more IDE features...that's literally a non-goal for Neovim: https://neovim.io/charter/ Neovim aims to be extensible and enable plugins to do amazing …

Many languages have built-in support for managing tempdirs; if you're using Linux you can call `mktemp`: https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/mktemp.1.html …

Tell them you graduated with honors from AP English and your teacher called you "the next Faulkner". Or tell them that your high school didn't offer English class, learning was student-…

Saying "it's a joke" doesn't suddenly make it OK. "Tech CEO jokes about murdering rivals in MAGA-tinged Hill summit" "Tech CEO jokes about SWAT-ing rivals in MAGA-ti…

Third this. Don't look any further, just do it! Also, PlantUML + C4 is like peanut butter & jelly: https://github.com/plantuml-stdlib/C4-PlantUML I'll gladly give u…

You can also mount your git commits as a filesystem: https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/12/04/mounting-git-commits-as-fold... (previously: https://news.ycombinat…

This issue was first highlighted by Naomi Wu who called them out, which led to them dropping the N95 claims: https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/148044516835651993... …

Apps auto-update all the time, releasing new looks, features, and bug fixes. Why is that a "not nice" move? What would you have preferred? It's basically a re-branding, the existing app…

Spark[1] is a good book about the connection between exercise and brain performance, especially in school children. From 2008, this is nothing new. [1] https://a.co/d/9jqlU9z …

> There's plenty of things wrong with these tools: they are often wrong, are slow and the GPT4 ones are really expensive. So...why should they be included? I really worry about this "ofte…

It's 8-10 hours to transit the canal. Assuming a train is faster, you'd still need almost 40 trains to carry the same number of containers...are 40 trains still faster in total? Sure, you co…

An average container ship holds 15,000 containers. An average train holds 400 containers. That's 37.5 trains to move the cargo from _one_ ship. Plus the time to unload and load all those containe…

Virtual welding training is already a thing: https://www.lincolnelectric.com/en/education/training-progra... https://www.fronius.com/en/welding-technolo…

I've tried _hard_ to replace coffee with tea, but it's not the same. I'd rather just not drink coffee. "You want chocolate cake? Here's an apple pie instead!" ...nope, do…

> Fortunately chocolate products have plenty of substitutes. I don't understand - it's chocolate. That's like saying "coffee has substitutes" and yet none of them are coffe…