won’t be updating to Java 21

happy sad dev noises

Keep it simple, stupid.

I’d use the built-in dataclass (or something even simpler) where possible. Only when I need more functionalities (e.g. validation) would I switch to using Pydantic model.

I appreciate your effort. I was more of a lurker on Reddit, but realised we all got to actively participate here if we want Lemmy (and the Fediverse at large) to succeed.

Unfortunately, content marketing is a long-term ROI strategy. IMO other marketing means (e.g. ads, influencers) would do a better job of bringing new users onboard in the short term, helping us to tap into the network effect.

IMO there hasn’t been enough marketing of Fediverse / Lemmy / etc.

How about more marketing efforts? Buying ads?

In the ‘Medium’ difficulty category, OpenAI’s o4-mini-high model scored the highest at 53.5%.

This fits my observation of such models. o4-mini-high is able to help me with 80-90% of the problems at work. For the remaining problems, it would come up with a nonsensical solution and no matter how much I prompt it, it would tunnel-vision on that specific approach. It could never second guess itself and realise that its initial solution is completely off the mark, and try an entirely differently approach. That’s where I usually step in and do the work myself.

It still saves me time with the trivial stuff though.

I can’t say the same for the rest of the LLMs. They are simply no good at coding and just waste my time.

Personally, I have seen so many memes about exiting vim that by the time I got to use it for the first time, exiting it was a no-brainer.

For any newbies out there, the command is

:wq

Spaghetti is all messy and tangled up; spaghetti code is the same.

when the order of execution was obfuscated due to excessive jumps and GOTOs

That’s one way to make your code messy and thus achieve spaghetti code.

In general, when some code is very poorly written, it becomes spaghetti code.

No need for all that.

You’ve just got to see my code.

Too lazy to check the logic but if possible, consider using enums.

It’s a long shot but I hope they would make it available on Linux.

Depending on how the keybindings work, I think it would be fun to play a class like Aran on the Steam Deck.

Edit: wait a second, Aran wouldn’t be part of Classic World

Any tips or pointers (unintentional pun) will be greatly appreciated!

IMO the most important thing when it comes to frameworks like this is state management.

Once you truly understood it / know how to do it properly, you are good to go.

P.S. My guess is that React got its name because it reacts to changes in state

P.P.S. this documentary on React provides insights on its history

No punchline…

The Software Craftsman by Sandro Mancuso

It’s less of technical stuff, but more about the attitude one can (and should) have in our profession.

IMO this interview with the author sums it up nicely.

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One of my undergrad professors said that they look as such because I, V and X can be easily marked using axes.

Not many in my teams could put a finger on what exactly I did, but all agreed I was fairly valuable and things became worse when I left.

See: Being Glue

This is just a meme, but I find that communication is an underrated skill among software engineers.

Personally, I’m trying to get better at it.

Sounds like pain.

Thanks anyway.

FYI

1. branch protection is a thing
2. commit signing is a thing