stilgar

@stilgar@infosec.pub

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Software Engineer vs Software Developer⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  IMO an engineer should be able to develop a complex system which an entire company could potentially be based upon.

  A developer who isn’t an engineer would focus more on individual libraries, apps or tools that don’t necessarily require the mindset of an engineer to design and maintain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Introducing Numbat: A programming language with physical units as types⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This looks like a lot of fun to use, I loved the example from What If, so many units!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nothing to see here. Nope.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Big Tobias Fünke vibes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it really a breaking change if a method changes output after an update?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Only if it’s specified and documented as part of a contract with the user. If they’re relying on internal implementation details, well that’s a good lesson for them not too do that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blocked instances question⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They are correct though, it is subjective and it will shift over time as the “acceptable” political lines change over time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blocked instances question⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course it means something.

  Yes, it is a political decision in the sense that politics pervades all human activities and decisions.

  But it is obviously a different choice to that of many instances, where they actively use defederation as a tool to shield their users from any political opinions outside the mainstream.

  The admins here have chosen not to use defederation as a tool in this way and I applaud them for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blocked instances question⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The admins defedded from SJW because of the quantity of CP and other objectionable material coming from there. It was a matter of their modding workload, not anything to do with politics.

  The line in this instance is to not use defederation as a political tool, and that is IMO correct. At least that’s one of the main reasons I chose this instance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally! Now dependabot on github can send one PR to rule them all⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank fuck! I’m so sick of rebasing and merging Dependabot PRs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you agree?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  No, you missed the homeless encampments, forest fires and car centric cities.

  There’s no apt install utopia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I’ve promised myself never to use gradle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Gradle is absolute rubbish, definitely the worst experience I’ve had with a build system. But Maven is also rubbish.

  IMO a CLI should be the primary way of interacting with the build system (see e.g. Go, Rust, JS with NPM or Yarn, Python with Poetry) and manually editing the build file should be reserved for edge cases and extensions.