Niko Heikkilä @nikoheikkila@mastodon.technology

New post on my blog: "Self-hosting VSCode"

https://fribbledom.com/posts/selfhosting-vscode/

If you like neither VSCode nor Docker, pretend this blog post never happened 😄

For everyone else: this was actually quite an interesting experience and I love this setup!

We went from the Turing Test, where a computer tries to convince a human that it is not a computer but a real person, to Captchas, where humans try to convince a computer they're a real person, not a computer.

If I feel I'm not "done" with a programming task at the end of my work day, I leave myself detailed notes on what to do the next morning. Like: the next ~3 things I think I am going to need to do (update function X, run the tests, investigate function Y if the tests fail, etc). I've attached this morning's notes-to-myself.

Basically this lets me just "follow orders" at the start of my work day and ease my brain back into a place where I can start thinking at 100%

Junior dev: What's the best prefix for global variables?

Senior dev: //

bye bye travis ci https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/06/14/bye-bye-travis-ci/

#TIL The #Brainfuck programming language has a dialect called "I use Arch, btw". In this dialect, the original symbols are replaced with "I", "use", "arch", "linux", "btw", "by", "the", "way". #Arch #ArchLinux

https://github.com/OverMighty/i-use-arch-btw

This is a "Hello World!" example:

arch the i the use linux the way i arch the i arch arch arch i the arch arch arch arch arch arch arch arch arch arch arch i way the i way linux the use way i linux way way arch arch arch arch arch arch arch arch arch arch use way i i i i i i linux linux linux linux btw use use arch arch arch btw use linux btw btw arch arch arch btw use linux btw i i i btw use use btw arch arch arch btw linux linux linux linux linux linux btw i linux btw use use arch btw use btw

Twitter announces "Blue", a subscription service for a monthly fee, that unlocks a bunch of extra features.

Editing tweets is among them apparently.

Why that is a horrible idea:
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/06/if-you-could-edit-tweets/

Day five of not using my phone: I have read five books and written twelve. I now perfectly understand what Hegel was going off about. I have learned to astral project

It's not often that I read the macOS system.log. It's written in an interesting tone, polite yet informal and to-the-point.

If it involves a couple of hacky tricks, I don't care if your code solves the problem 6% faster.

Hardware scales and will improve over time. The human capacity of understanding and maintaining code does not.

There are always exceptions to the rule, but generally speaking:

clean code > performance.

When the iPhone launched, all the cool apps were on the desktop, and you had to live with shitty web apps on your mobile.

Nowadays all the cool apps are on the mobiles, and you get shitty web apps for the desktop.

“How Apple screwed Facebook - Apple’s iOS 14.5 update has triggered an unstoppable collapse in Facebook’s ability to collect user data”

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/apple-ios14-facebook

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