bugsmith

@ bugsmith @programming.dev

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Tauri programming.dev

Accessibility programming.dev

2y ago

True Story
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bugsmith @programming.dev 2y ago
Thanks. I didn't know about these advanced libraries, and had not heard of C++ modules either. Appreciate the explanation.

2y ago

True Story

I don't code in C++ (although I'm somewhat familiar with the syntax). My understanding is the header files should only contain prototypes / signatures, not actual implementations. But that doesn't seem to be the case here. Have I misunderstood, or is that part of the joke?

2y ago

Is it OK for a company to expect using their paid product for a job interview?

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bugsmith @programming.dev 2y ago

Yes, I can see cases where this might be valid. For example, if you wanted to be some kind of SAP administrator / programmer (a paid-only enterprise management software), nobody would hire you for such a role without having some experience with that product. Same for something like Salesforce.

2y ago

Go Enums Still Suck

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bugsmith @programming.dev 2y ago

I agree. The content is reasonably sound, but from a design and UX perspective, it's awful.

2y ago

Go Enums Still Suck

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bugsmith @programming.dev 2y ago

A follow up post by the author, original shared and discussed here.

2y ago

What's your favorite terminal?

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bugsmith @programming.dev 2y ago

I like Konsole.

It comes with KDE, supports tabs, themes, and loads very fast.

I don't really need more from a terminal than that. When I, rarely, need more advanced features like window splitting and session management I also use Zellij (previously I used tmux).

2y ago

It's my birthday.

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bugsmith @programming.dev 2y ago

First I've heard of "Out of Darkness". How was it?

2y ago

Claude 3 launched by Anthropic — new AI model leaves OpenAI's GPT-4 in the dust

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bugsmith @programming.dev 2y ago

Interesting. That's not something I've heard about until now, but something I'll surely look into.

2y ago

Claude 3 launched by Anthropic — new AI model leaves OpenAI's GPT-4 in the dust

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bugsmith @programming.dev 2y ago

Mistral-large is probably the best large model for practical purposes at this point.

What makes you say that? I have not performed my own comparison, but everything I have seen and read suggests that GPT4 is king, currently.

2y ago

Mistral AI bot on Lemmy

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bugsmith @programming.dev 2y ago

Okay, that makes sense. Cheers.

2y ago

Mistral AI bot on Lemmy

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bugsmith @programming.dev 2y ago

Are you self-hosting Mistral for this bot, and if so, do you have any insight on the cost of running that bot vs the ChatGPT one? (the latter of which I assume you have capped the max billing of, or I certainly hope so, at least)

2y ago

Introducing Notes, Files, Schedule, Vault, and Polls!

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bugsmith @programming.dev 2y ago

2y ago

Introducing Notes, Files, Schedule, Vault, and Polls!

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bugsmith @programming.dev 2y ago

The instance is currently funded entirely by @snowe@programming.dev and a handful of kind donators chipping in. If you (or anyone else) is interested in helping out, you can sponsor the project on Github here.

2y ago

Go Enums Suck

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bugsmith @programming.dev 2y ago

I disagree that it's clickbait. Go does not have enums, that is undeniable. But we often encounter problems in software development where enums are an effective solution - arguably the right solution a lot of the time. Even if enums are not a language feature of Go, many of us are (rightly or wrongly) doing programming cartwheels to implement them ourselves. So I think an article discussing how one can roll enums or at least enum like behaviour in the language is relevant, and the awkwardness of that experience is captured in the blog's title.

2y ago

Selfhosted twitter alternative, not mastodon if possible

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bugsmith @programming.dev 2y ago

Yes, I don't know how I forgot to mention that Iceshrimp and Sharkey both have Mastodon compatible APIs - so all the same apps work (mostly).

2y ago

Selfhosted twitter alternative, not mastodon if possible

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bugsmith @programming.dev 2y ago

Based on your requirements, I would suggest looking at one of the Firefish / CalcKey forks. They are ideal for single user or small instances and they support s3 compatible object storage out of the box.

I would recommend looking at Sharkey or Iceshrimp. Both are under very active development and have very responsive developers if you need support.

If you would like to check out an example, Ruud (of mastodon.world and lemmy.world) set up an instance of Sharkey at (you guessed it) sharkey.world.

2y ago

Introducing Stacks: The official Programming.Dev blog

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bugsmith @programming.dev 2y ago

Would be nice to have the RSS feed better advertised on the site (although any decent RSS reader can pick up the feed just from the base URL). Great to see this 🎉

2y ago

Favourite British animal?

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bugsmith @programming.dev 2y ago

This one.

2y ago

Privacy focused email recommendation

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bugsmith @programming.dev 2y ago

Another vote here for Fastmail. I also like Posteo, Mailbox and mxroute, but these are not as fully featured - which may be perfect for you if you're after email only. What I really like about Fastmail is that on top of being a customer-focused business (rather than a customer is the product business), they offer a really snappy web interface with excellent search - and they are extremely compliant with email standards, building everything on JMAP.

I do not like Proton or Tutanota. I have used both, including using Proton as my main email account for the past two years. I do believe they are probably the best when it comes to encryption and privacy standards, but for me it's at far too much cost. Encrypted email is almost pointless - the moment you email someone who isn't using a Proton (or PGP encryption), then the encryption is lost. Or even if they just forward an email to someone outside your chain. I would argue that if you need to send a message to someone with enough sensitivity to require this level of encryption, email is the wrong choice of protocol.

For all that Proton offer, it results in broken email standard compliance, awful search capability and reliance on bridge software or being limited to their WebUI and apps. And it's a shame, because I really like the company and their mission.

2y ago

Parse, don’t validate

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bugsmith @programming.dev 2y ago

Honestly, for any large scale project in Python, Pydantic makes it bearable. We use Python heavily at work (and I'd argue we shouldn't be for the projects we're working on...), and Pydantic is the one library we're using that I wouldn't be without. Precisely because it allows us to inject some of these static typing concepts and keeps us honest, and our code understandable.