monomon

@monomon@programming.dev
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Funnily, due to this, i often find an open source app that is way better than whatever annoyed me.

Just today i used an Adobe product that got me raging. Within minutes i installed an oss equivalent that was a joy to use in comparison.

It's an interesting trend.

I know you asked about VMs, but fwiw there are GPU-capable containers now: https://docs.nvidia.com/datacenter/cloud-native/container-toolkit/latest/install-guide.html

Used one of these and the setup is as easy as it sounds. It can run Houdini, Stable Diffusion.

Same here, SMB was significantly slower in our organization than NFS.

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As others said, in-depth design is often skipped, especially if the dev team started very small. Sounds like your intuition is right, though - the lack of design bit them on the ass when they realized they missed a part.

I have also been laughed at when I suggested a UML diagram in the past. However, it is helpful. For more visually oriented people even more so.

I'd suggest to go ahead and do it, unless your boss is adamant that it is a waste of time. When they see the result they might be happy.

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Scary, there is a real danger for Bulgaria to go the same route, after brain drain rate at least reversed in the last years. Here's to hoping

For this reason I'm building my own generator in Common Lisp, leveraging cl-who and parenscript. All components are descibed in one place and render as web components, which allows me to attach dynamic behaviors easily.

This works great for business-card style sites, deployed to netlify.

Lisp macros.

But I'd be curious of the possibilities of generating code with tree sitter.

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My kids (4 and 8) love stardew valley. Also it works on every device. Been considering don't starve for a while. Will check if valheim fits the bill, thanks.

So relations are improving after the Russian "peacekeepers" left?

Concepts like Reactive programming are widely used in web/UI contexts. The problem of connecting a UI to an underlying data set is not trivial. Several frameworks deal with this.

As was already said, concerns like Accessibility are studied academically. They have more to do with user experience than the technology, so not sure if they match your question.

It does look pretty damn cool. One thing that bothers me is it is in the npm ecoystem :)

Not always, i think. There are some SSO solutions that behave like this, and password gets filled in fine.

Same. Really happy with it.

One suggestion - if you get 10 plain black t-shirts, then implement your style!

I am a dev who was focused on design and ux early on (this has changed as the needs of my work changed).

@abhideckert's suggestion on how to analyze the needs is great. Now on to the implementation.

Similarly to development, you start out with some requirements - you need to show an input box, a history of inputs, and a sidebar with categories. You work out the layout (with wireframes, pencil drawings, etc.). Then comes visual style, which I guess is the thing you struggle with?

In both layout and visual style, you need to apply design principles, but ultimately the goal is to guide the visitor's eye to the right places. This is where rhythm, repetition and contrast play a role. Basically highlight important elements, make the order of elements logical and not boring, avoid large empty areas but leave sufficient "breathing room" between elements, etc.

For visual style, you should make your own "style guide" that you apply to all personal projects. You can vary it a bit for each, if you are worried about them looking the same. Make that into a css file with a dummy html page to test. Add an input box, a textarea, select, unordered lists, etc. and style all of them to your liking. This guide will capture a lot of visual ideas, colors, spacing, which you can paste straight into your project. Do not sweat too much about stealing other people's ideas - it's an intrinsic property of art, and anyway it will probably not look 100% the same even if you copy it.

Edit: PS: spend some time just looking at the design and thinking.

Thanks for the insight

I think IS are not too much into music, on the whole.

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Wow, that's really cheap! I should check it out now.

The tee program is also very useful!

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Recently discovered d2 which has a somewhat nicer syntax.

Hands down the best programming book. It has a great section on abstraction through data structures.

A generator can help if you have a bunch of data that you need to convert to some html structure. I know what you are saying though, as little complexity as we can get away with, innit :)

Another cool thing I realized - you avoid the chance of some framework updating under you and breaking everything. It's a bit like pdf, it gets fixed and generally untouched.

Great answer. I am also a fresh "lead" and am struggling with some aspects, but as you said, clarifying the direction and working together are the most important ones. Pairing also allows you to explain things in more depth, which aids understanding.

We don't do complex planning, usually have a few meetings and we start prototyping. So that's been a non-issue luckily as a lead. Detailed estimation can be really exhausting and takes a toll on the team.

Nice. I am working on some improvements to parenscript, this might come in handy.

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Yes, it is. I find navigating s-exps way easier. Also it has some lispy features, and macros.

Matrix does support voice, and I found the quality to be amazing.

Fair enough, i thought it should be noted. The difference was significant at times.

I have set up forgejo, which is a fork of gitea. It's a git forge, but its ticketing system is quite good.

I started doing exactly this. Write a bunch of functions, that may end up in different systems, on different machines, even. This allows you to define the interfaces, figure out data dependencies, and so on.

The code may be runnable, just printing out some statements. Then I copy blocks of it to the place where it will belong.

It's more of a thinking tool, than "actual code".

Ditto. Pity that a "renaissance" education is not in very high regard nowadays (or I'm not aware). It's where a lot of innovation happens, too.

Consumer drones already exist, that can recognize you by face and follow you.

Same. Writing code is FUN! However that's not the only goal there is. It's a part of the puzzle. Perhaps it takes some maturity to reach that point.

It's a pity it doesn't work with the nvidia drivers. I would've switched by now, otherwise.

Any other recommendations for wayland? I've been through i3, awesome, xmonad.

That's so weird. So musical instruments are banned, but there is a loophole for a capella...

Just thought of an example. If you want to, you can open a file at macroexpansion time, and generate code based on its contents. There are no limits, pretty much.

Both languages you mentioned i highly recommend.

Lisp macros are another level, because they are part of the language - you can use all language primitives to transform forms however you like.

Haskell will give you a different view of programming. It's beautiful and concise, and implements all sorts of academic research in languages. Ocaml is similar in many respects.

From what I read, the incursion force brought AA, making it hard for Russian air. Moreover, they did strike a few nearby airfields.