Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/03
Interesting responses [WaybackSave/Archive] Tom Sydney Kerckhove on X: “I haven’t found any programming tasks that an LLM could do even barely correctly. What kind of code are you all writing?!” and later
They all come down to
- excuses for using LLM without any substantial result (most of the results come down to one having to become the tester and fixer of the generated code without newer generated code being improved: the opposite of coaching an apprentice)
- become better at prompting (which is basically regarding the prompt as a new programming language: been there, done that)
[WaybackSave/Archive] One of the “become better at prompting” replies referred to a blog post disguising prompting as writing lots of unit tests: [Wayback/Archive] The Cline AI Assistant is Mesmerizing · mtlynch.io
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/03
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/29
Het overkomt te vaak dat barcodes beschadigd of overplakt zijn (hallo Too Good to Go, hallo “samen minder verspillen” van Jumbo en vergelijkbare acties)
Daarom wat barcodes van producten die je er overheen kunt plakken:
Gerelateerd: Generating EAN-13 barcode EPS files for your article numbers – die had ik al eerder bijgewerkt met gearchiveerde links.
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/29
Now that Python 2 has been dead for long enough (has it been unsupported for 5 years? yes it has: [Wayback/Archive] Status of Python Versions), it was finally time to change my alias for running a local web-server to serve files from a directory (:
So, from [Wayback/Archive] What is the Python 3 equivalent of “python -m SimpleHTTPServer” – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] ryanbraganza, [Wayback/Archive] k.avinash and [Wayback/Archive] Petr Viktorin):
python -m http.server 8000, it will start the server on port 8000
Docs with the migration hints: [Wayback/Archive] 20.19. SimpleHTTPServer — Simple HTTP request handler — Python 2.7.18 documentation
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/27
This case, it was C# accessing a SQL back-end, but the responses to the Tweet how so many more examples not even related to software development.
Remember that plane crashing because they overloaded while they thought the fuel load numbers were in Imperial pounds where in fact they were in metric kilograms?
That’s why naming things that contain numbers should contain the unit in their name!
Related blog post: Watch “Felienne Hermans: How patterns in variable names can make code easier to read” on YouTube
Tweet: [Wayback/Archive] Nick Craver on Twitter: “Troubleshooting a hanging test suite and godDAMMIT. “In seconds”. Integer timeouts should be a felony offense punishable by an indeterminate amount of seconds/milliseconds/hours/fortnights/whatever the judge chooses.”
var csb = new SqlConnectionStringBuilder(TestConfig.Current. SQLServerConnectionString) { ConnectTimeout = 2000 }; int SqlConnectionStringBuilder.ConnectTimeout { get; set; } Gets or sets the length of time (in seconds) to wait for a connection to the server before terminating the attempt and generating an error. Returns: The value of the SqlConnectionStringBuilder, ConnectTimeout property, or 15 seconds if no value has been supplied.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/22
[Wayback/Archive] Electronic Basics by GreatScott! – YouTube
At the time of writing these were some 60 videos each 5-15 minutes long in reversed order (#1 at the bottom, #61 at the top).
This means it is about 10 hours of watching time well worth it.
--jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 