While certainly not a solution to everything, I find I’m using temporary SQLITE database a bunch to solve problems with a few lines of sql and less then 50 lines of code (to insert data into the SQLITE DB) instead of several hundred of lines of code and a bunch of arrays.
@enkiv2@www.lord-enki.net Minifesto uses more code than i would expect :/
Deep code search | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/06/26/deep-code-search/
@metamurks@www.metamurks.org I have tried several times to learn Morse Code. Sadly, I keep having distractions.
Sometimes, I hate debugging code.
@metamurls I love “map ,pt ma:1,$!perltidy^M’az.” to tidy up my code and jump back to my old line
Holy shit, Morning Cup of Coding featured my article about Scene/Sequel as a part of their description of NaNoGenMo. http://tinyurl.com/yayvdl9u #botally
Thread by @colmmacc: “Have you ever needed to generate a random number in code? whether it’s for rolling a dice, or shuffling a set, this tweet thread is here for […]” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1012719876706840578.html
How much bad UI design comes from a focus on making the UI consistent with underlying code that was designed based on ease of implementation in the programmer’s language of choice?
GitHub - nickolas360/markov-complete: A hackathon project written with ~bobbybee. Inspired by code written by ~hardmath123 and me. https://github.com/nickolas360/markov-complete
I changed the code of #goxtxt (my #twtxt #xmpp bot) a little bit. If all went good there should be no change in functionality but it is no more depending on #head and #grep.
The khipu code: the knotty mystery of the Inkas’ 3D records | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/the-khipu-code-the-knotty-mystery-of-the-inkas-3d-records
Bad idea of the day: Distort text so that, from a distance, it will be read as a QR code containing the same text – a typographical pseudo-quine
A Beginner’s Guide to Coding Graphics Shaders https://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/tutorials/a-beginners-guide-to-coding-graphics-shaders–cms-23313
Myths programmers believe | Átila on Code https://atilanevesoncode.wordpress.com/2018/06/12/myths-programmers-believe/
Re-coding Black Mirror, Part V | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/05/18/re-coding-black-mirror-part-v/
Re-coding Black Mirror Part IV | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/05/17/re-coding-black-mirror-part-iv/
Re-coding Black Mirror Part III | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/05/16/re-coding-black-mirror-part-iii/
Re-coding Black Mirror, Part II | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/05/15/re-coding-black-mirror-part-ii/
Re-coding Black Mirror, Part I | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/05/14/re-coding-black-mirror-part-i/
The Shape of Code » Premium mediocrity is software engineering’s demographic http://shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com/2018/05/21/premium-mediocrity-is-software-engineerings-demographic/
Java: Executing code in comments?! | Programming.Guide http://programming.guide/java/executing-code-in-comments.html
Using Vim’s Conceal Feature to Make Code More Readable (For You) – Every Man a Debtor https://alok.github.io/2018/04/26/using-vim-s-conceal-to-make-languages-more-tolerable/
In the future when people tell me the web stack is an acceptable GUI layer I should just show them this: https://www.vox.com/2018/5/3/17309078/digital-art-diana-a-smith-francine-coded-browser-art ; if drawing a picture is impressive with your tools, your tools are shit
Hot take: most of the code a non-programmer end user runs should be written by that non-programmer end user, the same way most of the food a non-chef eats was cooked by that non-chef
GitHub - luanfujun/deep-painterly-harmonization: Code and data for paper “Deep Painterly Harmonization”: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.03189 https://github.com/luanfujun/deep-painterly-harmonization#user-content-examples
Code and Data for the Social Sciences:A Practitioner’s Guide http://web.stanford.edu/~gentzkow/research/CodeAndData.xhtml
Robert Virding, Mariano Guerra - Implementing Languages on the BEAM - Code BEAM SF 2018 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkAbwmn5Rv8
With Musical Cryptography, Composers Can Hide Messages in Their Melodies - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/musical-cryptography-codes
When coding style survives compilation: de-anonymizing programmers from executable binaries | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/03/16/when-coding-style-survives-compilation-de-anonymizing-programmers-from-executable-binaries/
Stack Overflow Culture | Jon Skeet’s coding blog https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2018/03/17/stack-overflow-culture/
Joe Armstrong - Keynote: The Forgotten Ideas in Computer Science - Code BEAM SF 2018 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I_jE0l7sYQ
Hot take: the whole ‘you need to code in your free time’ is partially justified by the way a 4 year CS degree doesn’t remotely prepare you for an entry-level code-crunching position.
How knowing Lisp destroyed my programming career http://coding.derkeiler.com/Archive/Lisp/comp.lang.lisp/2006-04/msg01644.html
Community/Creative Commons - J Wiki http://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Community/Creative_Commons
Anton’s Research Ramblings - 2018_03_08_how_i_write_code http://antongerdelan.net/blog/formatted/2018_03_08_how_i_write_code.html
BBC iPlayer - Bletchley Park: Code-breaking’… https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b069gxz7/bletchley-park-codebreakings-forgotten-genius
The Coming Software Apocalypse - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/09/saving-the-world-from-code/540393/
Evil Coding Incantations - Posts http://9tabs.com/random/2017/12/23/evil-coding-incantations.html
GitHub - Jam3/math-as-code: a cheat-sheet for mathematical notation in code form https://github.com/Jam3/math-as-code
This Code Is Remix… https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vbzvad/this-code-is-remixing-translations-of-the-bible-to-find-new-meanings
The Weird Logic Behind Area Codes https://tedium.co/2017/10/31/telephone-area-codes-history/
Tech’s push to teach coding isn’t about kids’ success – it’s about cutting wages | Technology | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/21/coding-education-teaching-silicon-valley-wages
How the judge on Oracle v. Google taught himself to code - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/19/16503076/oracle-vs-google-judge-william-alsup-interview-waymo-uber
"Key to the City: Writing Code to Induce Social Change" by Jurnell Cockhren - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34Z0LGeQCWU
Sometimes I feel at work that when they mention ‘standards’ it just code for I don’t understand the code you wrote, so rewrite everything