Programming Leftovers
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Anton Zhiyanov ☛ Visualizations in code playgrounds
I'm a big fan of interactive code snippets in all kinds of technical writing, from product docs to online courses to blog posts. Like this one: [...]
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Francesco ☛ Design is NOT my passion
I’ve been working in the design field for the last 15 years 2, since my first job. Even if no one ever said it out loud, I’ve always felt this need, this obligation, to show that that’s what I was passioned about. In today’s world this obligation feels even stronger, due to the internet and the fact that our interactions, our posts, our hobbies, are visible by anyone.
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Rlang ☛ Demystifying Dates: Finding the Day of the Week in R with lubridate
R’s built-in date functions are decent, but lubridate takes things to a whole new level. Think of it as a Swiss Army knife for everything date-related. It offers a wider range of functions, clear syntax, and handles different date formats like a champ.
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Louis Dureuil ☛ Naming is hard
Some patterns are only made practical thanks to Rust's memory safety, and too dangerous to use in C++. Here's a concrete example.
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Victor Shepelev ☛ ChatGPT have killed my passion project and I am fine
…so, the story goes like this:
Just a few months after ChatGPT became an Internet darling, I suddenly understood that it (and LLMs in general) rendered my biggest personal project irrelevant.
One might ask: so what? In the ever-changing industry, nobody has a steady ground underneath their feet. A lot of software projects probably find themselves superseded or bypassed by a sudden new technology, and not only modest “personal” ones but somebody’s billion-dollar hopes!
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Linux Gizmos ☛ SparkFun Thing Plus Adopts ESP32-C6 Module with Thread + Zigbee Support
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Ubuntu Handbook ☛ Arduino IDE 2.3 Released, Debug Feature Goes Stable
The Arduino team announced the 2.3 release of the Arduino IDE this Wednesday. Since v2.3, the debug feature is now stable and fully incorporated into the IDE!
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Standards/Consortia
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Knut Magnus Aasrud ☛ kmaasrud
With OPML, you don’t need separate applications or services to categorize feeds. Categorization can be achieved within a single OPML file through its outlining capabilities or by managing multiple OPML files, each dedicated to a different category or use-case. It is a very viable workflow to have one OPML file for your YouTube subscriptions, another for your favorite Twitter/X and Mastodon users, one more for news sites, and yet another for personal blogs — the world’s your oyster. However, there aren’t many application that support nested OPML outlines or categorizing based on different files, sadly, but there should be! This is a call to action, developers: Perfect side-project!
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