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What's a good short name for a program that (1) syncs files and (2) runs builds?
#programming #askfedi

Happy Everything Breaks Day! The day when all the major tech companies lift their change freezes and deploy to production for the first time in weeks.
#tech #software #programming

🔧 Antifragile Programming and Why AI Won’t Steal Your Job
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Antifragile Programming and Why AI Won’t Steal Your Job
Whenever I say I dislike debugging and organize my programming habits around avoiding it, there is always pushback: “You must not use a good debugger.” To summarize my view: I want my software to be antifragile (credit to Nassim Taleb for the concept). The longer I work on a codebase, the easier it should become … Continue reading Antifragile Programming and Why AI Won’t Steal Your Job

😒... I just had Junie (the Jetbrains AI agent) accuse me of spamming with the autoposter that I wanted it to modify!
#programming #software #autoposter

Out with the old, in the with new!
Here's a comparison of the current TV Season screen and the updated TV Season screen I just completed in #Jellyfin for #Roku.
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#Programming #coding #codeReview

Why Engineers Can't Be Rational About #ProgrammingLanguages
https://spf13.com/p/the-hidden-conversation/

(2 statistics profs, arguing.)
Don't try to tell ME that homo and hetero are the only kinds of skedasticity out here!
RRRRRR. I got your skedastic package RIGHT HERE!
#Maths #Statistics #Programming

I do like a bit of #fireship so here is their take on the #history of #programming in about 6 minutes:

Installing Visual Studio 2026 to see what all the buzz is about. Planning to migrate my project data web api from .NET 9 to 10, along with the new ide.
#programming #visualstudio #dotnet <…

Code is not always a liability. Code does have value. The value of code is measured by how much other code doesn't need to exist as a result.
#Programming #Software

Started the official rewrite of the Sisyphus client in #golang, working on getting the Ffmpeg command-line tasks parsed and validated against the schema. This should make things easier to distribute with respect to the client as I can just distribute static binaries.
#programming

Oh wild! Full circle moment today when I found out #jellyfin uses PlaylistsNET, a library I contributed to years before even hearing about Jellyfin 🤓
#OpenSource is so cool!
#programming

My hobby: creating PRs to open source projects with ‘printf(“here! Line: xyz”);’ after every line.
Because those messages are so helpful. #programming

had that moment when I did "npm install" and it found 0 vulnerabilities and I'm like... that never happens!
#software #programming #npm

#programming #ProjectManagement #developers #deadlines

Happy National Rubber Ducky Day!
Today is the day to celebrate a programmer's best debugging tool!
#programming #rubberduckday #rubberduckyday

When #teaching #Rstats / #statistics courses, I (and several colleagues of mine) made the experience that it is indeed pretty hard for a lot of students to cope with the file system on their computer. They have questions like: How do I know the "path" of a file? How do I control in which directory something is saved? WHY DO I NEED THIS?!?
I don't want to make fun of these students because I know that this could be because operating systems are increasingly obscuring file/directory systems from their users.
But if I want to teach students to use a scripting/ #programming language independently, that's a real problem!
So my questions to you are: Do you have the same impression when teaching? And if so: How do you deal with this from a teaching perspective? To be honest, I don't want to use precious course time to teach the absolute basics of computers' file systems in the first session(s).