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Programming Leftovers
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Jason Becker ☛ The trouble when a PM writes code
It’s not an issue of understanding the data or what needs to be done. Instead, I’m in a complex area of code we all desperately know needs to be refactored. I now can choose to spend days in a fraught rewrite, abandon this effort for later, or spend hours making tiny tweaks to find the exact right incantation to pile on more technical debt but get it working.
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Part 3 of SOK 2025
Work done so far
Implemented the PvP mode by leveraging XMPP for communication, enabling the played to exchange moves. The code for this are implementd in
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Rlang ☛ [R] data.table’s frank()
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Salih Emin: Git turns 20! : A conversation with creator Linus Torvalds
Watch a conversation reflecting on the 20th anniversary of Git, the version control system created by Linus Torvalds. He discusses his initial motivations for developing Git as a response to the limitations of existing systems like CVS and BitKeeper, and his desire to establish a better tool for the open-source community.
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Rlang ☛ Generate Route Titles and Descriptions from GPX Files with LLMs and {ellmer}