Obscerno

@Obscerno@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I would like some advice on where to go after university⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey high five, also a local newspaper guy! I bumbled into it maybe 7 years ago. It doesn’t pay well (it’s pretty rural) but it totally aligns with my principles. It’s rough in the newspaper industry these days but it’s also an interesting challenge. Your competition is basically Facebook and Google.

  I totally agree though. Certain small businesses are happy to have a skilled programmer. My boss gives me a lot of leeway to follow my principals when it comes to user privacy and stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RPGs for people who don't like RPGs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I also vote this. The side quest writing in the Witcher 3 is very high quality for the genre, and it’s easy enough to completely ignore the superfluous content like bandit camps and stuff littered around.

  It’s a long game but it’s so good I never got that feeling of “uhhhgg this was fun but I’m ready to be done”. The thing about very good writing is that more is always better. Even excellent gameplay gets old after a while.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in 2023 (Still No Excuses!)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Man, Unicode is one of those things that is both brilliant and absolutely absurd. There is so much complexity to language and making one system to rule them all ends up involving so many compromises. Unicode has metadata for each character and algorithms dealing with normalization and capitalization and sorting. With human language being as varied as it is, these algorithms can have really wacky results. Another good article on it is eev.ee/blog/2015/09/12/dark-corners-of-unicode/

  And if you want to RENDER text, oh boy. Look at this: faultlore.com/blah/text-hates-you/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[rambling] Some programming languages are better when you lack social skills⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I say learn Clojure… but only because it is really really neat.

  Can’t help with the job thing though, unless you want to work at a tiny little newspaper as their only programmer for not a whole lot of money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stack Overflow must change its attitude towards users.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I think redirecting new potential users is something the higher ups at SO would recoil against, even though it’s valid. I wonder if that’s why they’re pushing AI so much, to retain new programmers until they have problems worth asking humans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stack Overflow must change its attitude towards users.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m surprised at how negative the reaction to SO is here! It just takes a while to get the site, which unfortunately doesn’t work if you jump right in without lurking. If you ask questions the moment you run into trouble, you kind of project a disrespect for the answerer’s time by not trying to solve it yourself first. If you ask as a last resort and list what you’ve tried, people are waayy nicer, even if your question sucks.

  I think the real problem is that people’s expectations aren’t properly primed going in. The site could do a much better job about that. If you ask only as a last resort, you end up solving most of your problems yourself, and SO is REALLY good at helping you do that, in a way that leaves most other sites in the dust, in my opinion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xdebug with PHP is a lifesaver⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  WHAT?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xdebug with PHP is a lifesaver⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m on Ubuntu, but from what I remember to get it working in my local environment I just:

  1. Installed the module.
  2. Added the following to the php.ini file:

      [xdebug]
      zend_extension=xdebug
      xdebug.mode = debug
      xdebug.start_with_request = yes
  

  3. Restarted the apache server.
  4. Installed the PHP Debug extension for Visual Studio Code.

  And now I just hit F5 and select “Listen for Xdebug” and I’m ready to go.

• Xdebug with PHP is a lifesaver
  Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨programming@programming.dev⁩ | ⁨6⁩ ⁨comments⁩