backlever

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How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner - annie's blog in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
[–] backlever@programming.dev 17 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

Imagine a chemistry lab tutorial aimed at 9th grade students getting "as a non-chemist, this reads as gibberish" comments from first graders. Nobody would blame the tutorial authors.

People need to start putting in the effort. There is no such thing as learning for free.

Porn censorship is going to destroy the entire internet in c/privacy@programming.dev
[–] backlever@programming.dev 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I agree about everything said about it being a gateway to authoritarian measures, digital feudalism and all that. But there's a silver lining

Porn censorship is going to destroy the entire internet

Yes. And this is our chance of building a better "parallel" internet. The tech exists (BitTorrent, Tor, Bitcoin, Nostr, Reticulum, Radicle, and myriad others), people need to start using it.

Comby is a tool for searching and changing code structure in c/programming@programming.dev
[–] backlever@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fair enough. I hate YAML too, but I'm stuck with Python for now and Comby doesn't handle indentation too well (it's in their FAQ).

Comby is a tool for searching and changing code structure in c/programming@programming.dev
[–] backlever@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago (4 children)

ast-grep is worth checking out too: https://ast-grep.github.io/