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  • How is Lobste.rs? Why did it break from HN? How does one even get in?

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  • Personally, I think it's great. It's a smaller community than HN and the registration requirements, whilst not a perfect solution, do create a litmus test and ultimately creates an envrionment of mostly high quality posting.

    To get in, you need to be invited in by an existing user. If you don't know anybody, you can hang around on their IRC channel and once you're familiar, somebody may be willing to invite you.

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  • This should have been posted in programming.dev/c/meta. I'm leaving it up here as the question has been answered.

  • Why are you on Lemmy?

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  • I'm a bit less extreme about it than many here. But, in short, back when Reddit made sweeping API changes it immediately gave me 'the ick' and so I sought less centralised platforms. Lemmy is the closest thing I've found to people just hosting their own message boards like back in the early internet.

    I'm a big fan of decentralized platforms and I love the concept of ActivityPub.

    That said, I still use Reddit and have recently started to really enjoy BlueSky, so I'm not militantly against the corporate platforms or anything.

    Finally, I just like the natural selection things like Lemmy and Mastodon have for those who are naturally more techy and nerdy.

  • Advent Of Code @programming.dev
    bugsmith @programming.dev
    2024 Day 06

    Any Gleamings in the house?

  • Actress Dame Maggie Smith dies at 89

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  • She was 89 and no doubt lead a truly fulfilling life, and so I think objectively it's not a sad passing - she had a truly remarkable life and long life.

    That said, she was a significant part of my childhood, and always on the television in the various households I've lived in for one show or another. It feels like losing a beloved grandmother, and I'm devastated. RIP Maggie.

  • Programming @programming.dev
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    My Software Bookshelf

    olano.dev /blog/my-software-bookshelf/

  • Good software development habits

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  • Totally agree. Like most "rules", it just needs treating with nuance and context.

  • Programming @programming.dev
    bugsmith @programming.dev

    Good software development habits

    zarar.dev /good-software-development-habits/

  • What's an activity that you could foresee yourself doing every weekend for the rest of your life?

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  • I can totally see how it could be read like that!

  • What's an activity that you could foresee yourself doing every weekend for the rest of your life?

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  • Five-a-side is a specific format of football (soccer), aimed at more casual play with a much lower bar to skill level. Outside of five-a-side leagues (which do exist), it's rarely played with fixed teams and often ran in a more "pick up group" fashion.

  • What's an activity that you could foresee yourself doing every weekend for the rest of your life?

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  • Five-a-side football (soccer). I'm not a sporty person, but started going with a local group a few years ago and have reaped the benefits of doing some intensive team exercise once per week. I go with a bunch of guys way older than I am, and it's amazing how fit and healthy they are compared to the average person I meet of their age. I certainly plan to keep this up so long an injury doesn't prevent me.

  • Python @programming.dev
    bugsmith @programming.dev

    Polars — Announcing Polars 1.0

    pola.rs /posts/announcing-polars-1/

  • Godot 4: Sand pouring shader (quick tutorial)

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  • Nice. I've not seen any of your other videos yet, but I can say that for this one, I really loved that you just jumped straight in to the action and kept the video tight, without missing important details.

  • Self-proclaimed working class Clacton woman speaks out against Farage

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  • I really admire her after seeing this. She is so dialled in to what's going on in her working area, and she doesn't get flustered when probed with follow-up questions. Regardless of party, we could do with more people like her running and being elected as MPs - but I imagine she wouldn't even consider it.

  • United Kingdom @feddit.uk
    bugsmith @programming.dev

    Self-proclaimed working class Clacton woman speaks out against Farage

  • What's Your Favorite IRC Client, and Why?

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  • You know, I wish I could enjoy IRC - or chatrooms in general. But I just struggle with them. Forums and their ilk, I get. I check in on them and see what's been posted since I last visited, and reply to anything that motivates me to do so. Perhaps I'll even throw a post up myself once in a while.

    But with IRC, Matrix, Discord, etc, I just feel like I only ever enter in the middle of an existing conversation. It's fine on very small rooms where it's almost analagous to a forum because there's little enough conversation going on that it remains mostly asynchronous. But larger chatrooms are just a wall of flowing conversation that I struggle to keep up with, or find an entry point.

    Anyway - to answer the actual question, I use something called "The Lounge" which I host on my VPS. I like it because it remains online even when I am not, so I can atleast view some of the history of any conversation I do stumble across when I go on IRC. I typically just use the web client that comes with it.

  • Game Development @programming.dev
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    What is a collision?

    www.sassnow.ski /rigid-body-collisions/1

  • Piracy-Related Content on P.D: An Open Dialogue with Our Community

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  • For Lemmy, it is the latter. Federated content is stored locally on each instance.

  • DuckDB as the New jq

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  • I really like Nushell. I would not run it as a daily driver currently, as it mostly doesn't win me over from Fish, feature-wise, but I love having it available for anything CLI date pipeline work I need to do.

  • Piracy-Related Content on P.D: An Open Dialogue with Our Community

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  • I think that is really in the spirit of Lemmy and the Fediverse. Pick an instance that aligns with your interests / identity / geography / etc, and use that as an entry point to the rest. It doesn't work so well if that entry point has overzealous gatekeeping.

  • Piracy-Related Content on P.D: An Open Dialogue with Our Community

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  • We have not blocked anything proactively.

    For us, it was a priority to get some open communication out on this issue, due to any uncertainty caused my Lemmy.world's actions.

  • Piracy-Related Content on P.D: An Open Dialogue with Our Community

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  • Unfortunately, there are some cases of direct linking occurring. Fortunately, it's mostly caught by moderators and admins and removed. Defederating is certainly an extreme case, and it's absolutely not something we're intending to do. It would be an absolutely extreme scenario for that to occur in this case.

    Shouldn’t we defederate .world?

    There is no appetite to defederate from lemmy.world. I know their some of their decisions have been unpopular with some users, but they are by far the largest Lemmy instance, and that puts a target on them. Like us, they are a bunch of volunteers trying their best to run a large community and that will sometimes mean making decisions they probably aren't keen of themselves.

  • Piracy-Related Content on P.D: An Open Dialogue with Our Community

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  • Yes, my personal stance would also be against blocking. The general preference is to avoid blocking wherever possible.

  • DuckDB as the New jq

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  • Love this. Always interesting to see novel ways of querying data in the terminal, and I agree that jq's syntax is difficult to remember.

    I actually prefer nu(shell) for this though. On the lobste.rs thread for this blog, a user shared this:

     http get https://api.github.com/orgs/golang/repos
        
| get license.key -i
| uniq --count
| rename license

This outputs the following:

╭───┬──────────────┬───────╮
│ # │    license   │ count │
├───┼──────────────┼───────┤
│ 0 │ bsd-3-clause │    23 │
│ 1 │ apache-2.0   │     5 │
│ 2 │              │     2 │
╰───┴──────────────┴───────╯

  • Piracy-Related Content on P.D: An Open Dialogue with Our Community

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  • the piracy community isn’t on this instance, so it’d be a surprise if there’s any legal basis to charge PD with anything related to it.

    This is not so clear-cut. The nature of federation means that any posts you see through via this instance are hosted here too. How liable we are for that content is certainly an important question.

    Thanks for your feedback.

  • Programming.dev Meta @programming.dev
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    Piracy-Related Content on P.D: An Open Dialogue with Our Community

  • Golang @programming.dev
    bugsmith @programming.dev

    Go Enums Still Suck

    www.zarl.dev /articles/enums-take-two
  • Game Development @programming.dev
    bugsmith @programming.dev

    Watt-Wise Game Jam

    wattwise.games
  • Programming @programming.dev
    bugsmith @programming.dev

    Semantic AJAX-HTML

    herman.bearblog.dev /semantic-ajax-html/
  • Golang @programming.dev
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    What even is “Dependency Injection”? (a practical example using Go)

    medium.com /@LittleLeverages/what-even-is-dependency-injection-using-go-7f85724bbdb2
  • Programming @programming.dev
    bugsmith @programming.dev

    What even is “Dependency Injection”? (a practical example using Go)

    medium.com /@LittleLeverages/what-even-is-dependency-injection-using-go-7f85724bbdb2
  • Golang @programming.dev
    bugsmith @programming.dev

    Go Enums Suck

    www.zarl.dev /articles/enums
  • Accessibility @programming.dev
    bugsmith @programming.dev

    AccessKit: UI accessibility infrastructure across platforms and programming languages

    github.com /AccessKit/accesskit
  • Programming @programming.dev
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    I wish there were a better story around replying to blogs

    calebhearth.com /blog-replies
  • Accessibility @programming.dev
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    A One Handed Accessible Keyboard, Inspired by FrogPad

    www.kianryan.co.uk /2024-02-16-one-handed-accessible-keyboard-inspired-by-frogpad/
  • Programming @programming.dev
    bugsmith @programming.dev

    Parse, don’t validate

    lexi-lambda.github.io /blog/2019/11/05/parse-don-t-validate/
  • Programming @programming.dev
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    How I reduced the size of my very first published docker image by 40% - A lesson in dockerizing shell scripts

    bhupesh.me /publishing-my-first-ever-dockerfile-optimization-ugit/