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by 90s_dev 1y ago
> Don't misunderstand me - I love using foreach in other languages; the added syntax better expresses your intent, reducing logic errors. It did jump out at me as "this isn't C" though. Because it's not. The whol
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
I'm on the fence about function contracts like this. I've seen them for a decade in other languages, but never really used them, so I can't say how I feel about them. But having them be inside comments is just weird.
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
> it's also the opinion of Tim Berners-Lee, which I would hope carries at least some weight Not at all. He's famous for helping create the initial version of JavaScript, which was a fairly even mixture of great and terrible. Wh
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
Magit was the last thing I had to let go of before deleting Emacs, and it took a while, too, before I could delete it altogether. Magit is really powerful. But after a decade of not using it, I struggle to remember whatever it was that was
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
I find this site very useful for when you need to tell Conan O'Brien your favorite pizza toppings quickly and easily, for example from a cell phone browser.
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
Not always. I love it when people offer me a much simpler solution to a problem I overengineered, so I can throw away my solution and use the simpler one. Half the time people are suggested a better way, it's because they're actua
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Tell Conan OBrien Your Favorite Pizza Toppings .com(tellconanobrienyourfavoritepizzatoppings.com)
3 points by 90s_dev 1y ago|3 comments
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
> For me, the joy is not in having a website, the joy is in building the website. Sure, that's a fine purpose. But some websites just want to get a specific job done and be done with it. Like https://tellconanobrienyourfa
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
Highly recommended as a fun way to learn programming, or game making, or how to manipulate computers via binary, or how old school computers worked, or learn Lua, etc.
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Tell Conan OBrien Your Favorite Pizza Toppings .com(tellconanobrienyourfavoritepizzatoppings.com)
2 points by 90s_dev 1y ago|0 comments
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
> hardly anything anyone does is important Agreed.
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
You must have several TB of the internet on disk by now...
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
It's almost like URNs were born in an urn ! [1] [1]: ba dum tss
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
It's always bothered me in a small way that github doesn't honor this: https://github.com/sdegutis/bubbles https://github.com/sdegutis/bubbles/ No redirect, just two renders! It bot
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
My solution has been to just remember the important stuff, or at least where to find it. I'm not dead yet so I guess it works.
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
If it's JSON then name it /foo/bar.json, and as a bonus you can also have /foo/bar.html! You say the extension is cruft. That's your opinion. I don't share it.
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
There's strong precedence for associating file extensions with content types. And it allows static files to map 1:1 to URLs. I agree though that I was too harsh, I didn't realize it was written in 1998 when HTML was still new. I p
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
Found it: https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI Why did I think Joel Spolsky or Jeff Atwood wrote it?
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
I've been making websites for almost 30 years now. I still don't know the difference between URI and URL. I'm starting to think it doesn't matter.
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
Some famous programmer once wrote about how links should last forever. He advocated for /foo/bar with no extension. He was right about not using /foo/bar.php because the implementation might change. But he was wrong, i
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
JSPI wraps calls from WASM to JS with "await" when promises are involved. So your C/Rust functions can now call async JS functions and it just works. Details: https://v8.dev/blog/jspi
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New in Chrome 137(developer.chrome.com)
3 points by 90s_dev 1y ago|1 comments
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
Meh, I haven't worked in software in years, so I'm fine.
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
> My #1 saying in coding is "simplicity is harder than complexity." That's a great way of putting what I've been thinking for a few years now. It's the same reason I designed https://immaculata.dev so
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
Yeah it wouldn't be age-based. It would be 90s-themed, but the focus would entirely be on the cultivating the craft itself. To clarify the AI stance, I meant it in the context of the article: it would encourage cultivating our skills s
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
Definitely. Honestly I was going to write a custom forum in the style of those perl bboards but with https://90s.dev aesthetics (the website, not the os). But maybe first and foremost I need a mailing list so people can be notif
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
It's almost like people outsourcing their job to AI are asking to get fired, not only by proving that a computer program can do their job better, but even paving the way for it!
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
It's occurred to me more and more that I need to repurpose 90s.dev into a non-AI community, focused on the ancient art of writing software well, and welcoming to all who honed that craft. What would it need to start with? Forum? Mailin
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
Tell your boss a realistic deadline, honor it to the best of your ability, and if they fire you so be it, and if they harass you to work faster, find another job.
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by 90s_dev 1y ago
Yeah I was thinking there's gonna be a lot of work for us in a couple years when AI makes a giant mess and corporations come crawling back to us with their tails between their legs. Now I really need to jumpstart repurposing 90s.dev to

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