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I was using git in the terminal just now and copy-pasted what I thought was a filename. I ended up issuing

git diff Taco Carne Asada

and was told

fatal: ambiguous argument 'Taco'

😢

#tech #dev #software #git #danger

Finally reviewed LazyGit!
Amazing #dev & #devops tool for #git
https://jelloeater.me/review/lazygit/

Applications for the 25/26 program of the Apple Developer Academy in Napoli 🇮🇹 are open! Meet hundreds of people from all over the world, make friends for a lifetime and grow as a human.

https://www.developeracademy.unina.it/en/enrollment/

Especially non tech people applying, don’t be worried! You’ll learn tech here. Diverse interests in other fields will help you much more. I would love to see you in our wonderful community here in Napoli one time ☺️

#buildinpublic #indiedev #swift #swiftui #iOS #dev #iosdev

Penpot is a free open source interface design platform based around open standards. It's web-based and can be used collaboratively on any OS. You can follow their video account at:

➡️ @penpot_app

There are already over 80 videos uploaded. If these haven't federated to your server yet, you can browse them all at https://peertube.kaleidos.net/a/penpot_app/videos

You can also follow their non-video account at @penpot

#FeaturedPeerTube #UI #UX #Interface #FOSS #Dev #Prototyping #PeerTube #PeerTubers

Nowadays programming in a programming language I don't use daily seems to always require an upgrade cascade of editors, tools, plugins, dependencies, libraries, my DNA, ??? I put some effort into keeping my environment static but all it takes is one autoupgrading thing I missed to kick off one of these cascades, and it feels like whack-a-mole trying to find and lock down every possible cause. This time it looks like a newer version of scala metals might have stopped supporting Java 11 and somehow got updated without my knowledge (maybe? I'm guessing).

P.S. This is not an invitation to post critiques about any of these technologies or recommendations about what I should be doing instead.

#scala #dev #tech #SoftwareDevelopment #coding #programming

Just performed a technical interview and during one of the discussions the candidate end up with the following code in codepad: struct S { int x = x; };

A bit to my surprise it compiled successfully with the codepad built-in GCC 12.

Then I was wondering what does that even mean.

It turns out that in C++20 this is a syntactically correct designated initializer for a non-union aggregate. And no one explicitly forbids it from being self-referential!
So basically that's attempt to assign the x value to the same x. Before it was initialized. And yes, that's possible, and yes, that's UB.

The more I see C++ code the more I grow an opinion "You can type any random string into modern C++ compiler and it would compile successfully. And it will contain at least one UB."

#dev #cpp

At some point Google Drive started preventing the context menu from appearing when you right-click something. I installed a browser extension that re-enabled this function. The modern web is quite tiresome.

#tech #dev #web #DarkPatterns #GoogleDrive

Oh, your service logged me out for my security? Great, I'll just open up the vault that contains my private keys so that I can open up the password manager with the master password of my other vault, which has the credentials I'll use to log back into my account. And then to finish the login process you'll send me a one-time password in clear text through SMS or email because those are the only options you offer for a "second factor". I feel much more secure now thank you.

(For clarity this is a sardonic post).

#InfoSec #cybersecurity #security #web #dev #tech

Feel like I really not updating a lot of my old project but today is the day I do!

finally updated my fork of imgs (A simple image sharing platform) imgp to support account, image management and API creation besides the original S3 storage modification

https://code.wedotstud.io/forks/imgp

#foss #cloud #sharing #dev #s3 #imagesharing #showfediverse

Software "agents" were a hype-y topic when I was a graduate student 25 years ago. I wrote one for a class. I feel like what's being called "agents" or "AI agents" these days are even less capable than what seemed possible a quarter of a century (1) ago when I was in school.

What I thought then is still true today: to make something like a software agent legitimately useful for a lot of people would require a large amount of low-level grunt work and non-technical work (2) of the sort that the typical Silicon Valley company is unwilling to do. (3) The technology is the absolute easiest part of this task. Throwing a Bigger Computer at the problem leaves all those other pieces of work undone. It's like putting a bigger engine in a car with no wheels, hoping that'll make the car go.

By the way #AI companies and VCs, I'm available for contract work and have done due diligence research before if you ever want to stop wasting everyone's time and money!

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #agents #hype #SiliconValley #VentureCapital #dev #tech

(1) Which we've been told repeatedly is essentially infinite time in the tech world.
(2) Establishing semantic data standards and convincing a large enough number of people to implement them being an important component. LLMs do not magically develop protocols and solve all the ETL-style problems of translating among different ones. The Semantic Web didn't really stick for a lot of reasons, but one reason is that it's hard!
(3) Back when I was still in the startup world I was asked several times by VCs to tell them what I thought about some new startup that claimed to be able to magically clean and fuse data. I think they're still very keen on investing in this style of magic, because it requires an intense amount of human labor, but I think where companies landed was invisibilizing low-paid workers in other countries and pretending a computer did the work they did. Which has also been happening for well over a quarter of a century.