Tootfinder

Hell yeah, finished up the GPT-side of the Zig driveinfo program. JSON output looks exactly like it's supposed to, and now to move the allocator back into the struct which will clean up stuff as well. I'll deal with the MBR-side tomorrow, but pretty happy to have figured this out.
#programming #zig

I like people I can vibe with. Not machines to vibe at.
#Programming #AI #LLM

On #learning #programming in an age of #LLMs

The ternary operator is all fun and games until you end up with a branch coverage drop without a line number for the culprit (because one of the branches is covered).
#dev #programming #JavaScript…

A Winamp skin was not part of the original scope, but I talked to the board (myself) and decided it was a must-have. I also learned you can't shrink a PWA's window below 500px wide, so I got black borders, but hey, it's there when I'm feeling nostalgic.
It really whips the llama's ass
#programming

Arguing about arguments
#programming

I hate dealing with file permissions. *HATE*.
#Programming #PHP

The existence of both *.yml and *.yaml is a blight upon the tech industry, and whoever is responsible for this travesty should be shunned from the field forever.
#Rant #Programming

🧠 The "A" in #AI can also stand for "Apathy": more #developers are losing joy in their craft as AI-driven development reshapes the job — a reminder to managers that developer happiness pays off beyond the next quarter

Sometimes, you just need a nice standard-sized unsigned integer of exactly 48 bits...also, I think I hate UUIDs.
#zig #programming

Якщо type definition каже, що експорт є, а рантайм кидає в помилку
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The requested module 'jsonwebtoken' does not provide an export named 'JsonWebTokenError'
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...не довіряй definition.
Lesson learned.
Everybody lies. Навіть такі базові NPM-пакети, як jsonwebtoken.
#IT #programming

Code that was working and passing all tests, untouched for weeks, now failing tests on the exact same computer, exact same checkout, exact same commit.
This is the bane of my existence. And no, Grand Theft Autocomplete will not fix this. (It will probably make it worse.)
#Programming #AI

Created a music organizer/downloader using beet, navidrome and slskd. I was doing meta tag edits manually through CLI and that was such a pain. Especially album art. Now I can easily find albums I am missing by checking MusicBrainz via api and sending that album (or just songs) to slskd all through a GUI. Fun project.
#programming

Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning.
Weeks of speculating can save you hours of coding.
As in all things, balance.
#Programming

So, seems I have a new job lined up finally as I've signed the tentative offer letter. Also, still working with Zig and made progress with grabbing information from the Linux `sys` tree for sector/logical block sizes. Been a busy yet awesome day.
#zig #programming

Running Docker such that files in the container mount end up owned by the current host user is what I want 100% of the time. Absolutely 100%.
So why is it always pulling teeth to make it work, and it's different for every bloody container image? WTAF?
This is why I hate Docker.
#Docker #Programming

RE: #ai #programming

Good documentation is a gift you give yourself in a month.
#Programming #PHP

What's the best #programminglanguage for #codingagents?
https://danluu.com/pl-tokens/

The Zig journey continues, things get a bit cleaner and we're now parsing the primary partition entries in the MBR. Very nice...
#programming #zig

TFW you realize you already wrote a tool to solve the problem you're working on, but you totally forgot about it so used 50 workarounds that your tool exists to already solve for you...
#Programming #PHP

More progress. I've got the entire MBR processing finished up with a ton of cleanup. Processing the extended partition entries is always fun, but after a fixing a few dumb mistakes everything is parsing out correctly. Even better: no memory leaks.
#zig #programming

I was today years old when I learned that Dockerfiles support heredoc-like syntax, and I am furious at every tutorial and presenter that has used a dozen lines with \ instead of that.
#Docker #Programming

Please, don't let yourself be in this video.
#Programming

Holy crap, I have to be missing something with respect to HashMap construction...I officially have all of the `try put` statements...lol. It does work though, and now the primary MBR partitions have appropriate partition type descriptions.
#zig #programming

Moar progress, will probably move this into the struct along with MBR reconstruction from the struct. This might actually end up doing a bit of `fdisk` stuff...
#zig #programming #mbr

Every time I brainstorm/daydream on how I'd design an ideal type system... I eventually end up with Rust.
It's kind of annoying, really.
#Rust #Programming #Types

So, after some consideration I decided to break out the block device reading operations out into its own module. Also, the returned data is now in a struct with a `.deinit` method that will handle cleanups. It might be more complicated than necessary, but it's clean.
#zig #programming

Nothing like converting slices of `u8`s to `u16`s. The GPT partition names are all `UTF16LE` which makes things interesting...however, that part is done and scraping GPT information is working as expected.
#zig #gpt

So, after searching far and wide on the internet I have managed to open a file from a command-line argument and read 10 bytes from it using Zig v0.16. I was not expecting it to be quite this complicated.
#programming #zig

Do the simplest thing that will work, except for when you need to do the most robust and forward-thinking thing that will work.
Determining when to do which, that's the rub.
#Programming

Things I've learned today:
- Valgrind does not support AVX512 instructions. That was an adventure because I was writing purposefully bad code at the time...
- However, changed strategies and used `clang` with the `fsanitize=address,undefined` option which seems to work perfectly fine.
#clang

Вибирайте свою ЦА.
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Pick your target audience wisely.
#IT #programming #kek #meme

Programmatic database resets
#PHP #Programming

Programmatic database resets
Make your tests faster and safer with this one cool trick!

SQLite for Everything
https://joecode.com/2026-08-19-sqlite3/
We have so many remarkable tools that we avoid using because something else has a shiner marketing budget. (Though SQLite's type system is pretty mediocre.)

The perils of under-engineering:
#PHP #Programming

The perils of under-engineering
When Yes, You're Gonna Need It

Do the simplest thing that will work, except for when you need to do the most robust and forward-thinking thing that will work.
Determining when to do which, that's the rub.
#Programming

I mean, this is fair and accurate for all languages mentioned...
#Programming #PHP #CPP #Javascript