Posted by jpluimers on 2023/12/08
The response to [Wayback/Archive] Daniel Feldman.yaml on Twitter: “What does JIRA stand for? Wrong answers only” were so great!
Just a few that I liked very much:
- It’s a recursive acronym for “Jira isn’t really agile”
- Just Issues Rarely Addressed
- jumbled information, reported arbitrarily
- Jumping
Into
Real
Agony- Just Individual Redtape Actions
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/11/06
We should do more to increase the accessibility of both software developers and users of software.
[Wayback/Archive] Serge Lachapelle 🇺🇦🇸🇪 on Twitter: “Quote of the day from @Vintharas. Don’t think of it as accessibility in your product design. Think of it as inclusivity.
#a11y#i9y“which refers to both
a11y– (computer) accessibility andi9y– inclusive design.
An important aspect there is to support case insensitive environments for both software developers and software users.
This sounds strange, as it makes systems less strict, but with the diversity of people not doing so makes it less accessible and decreases inclusivity.
It all started with reading [Wayback/Archive] /Fay-lee-nuh/ on Twitter: “Totally agree with this, case sensitivity does not add a lot apart from errors. Also note that some languages (Arabic, for example) do not have uppercase letters! So the whole idea of “case sensitive” to some people is new (and thus can make learning to program a lot harder)”.
Parts of the responses there and in the tweet Felienne quoted, were from people still insisting on case sensitivity or even limiting identifiers and filenames to US 7-bit ASCII.
I totally disagree, so I wrote a long thread in response, starting with [Wayback/Archive] “@Felienne @guido_leenders Sentence 2 in your first tweet should be an eye opener to everyone….” archived at the ThreadReaderApp as [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @jpluimers on Thread Reader App:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/28
Winter 2022, the Embarcadero docwiki (their most active site which contains all documentation for all their products) was down. Twice. First for a week, then parts of it for almost a week, then only parts of the Alexandria got up in a stable way.
Back then I published The Delphi documentation site docwiki.embarcadero.com has been down/up oscillating for 4 days is now down for almost a day.. The product and library documentation for the most recent version got back up in a week, but the Code Examples and older product versions took much longers.
Usually once learns way more about a system when it is failing then when it is working. That was the case this system as well.
Documenting the failing system took considerable time, but would have taken way more if not for these two JavaScript browser bookmarklets:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/15
As promised yesterday, I updated the scripts for Some JavaScript bookmarklets for WordPress published pages centered around navigation and IDs
Code (which broke at 20230914 because of WordPress.com changes: the undocumented
HighlanderCommentsstructure got removed; I will update the gist later on and post an updated blog post)
Instead of the undocumented HighlanderComments structure, I now use two (also undocumented) link rel elements.
In addition, I found this element that will be interesting in the future: <link rel='shortlink' href='https://wp.me/pvelJ-m8g' />.
You can view the change with the below archivals of the Wayback Machine and Archive.is.
And of course I learned a few things from these MDN entries:
<link>: The External Resource Link element – HTML: HyperText Markup Language | MDNrel – HTML: HyperText Markup Language | MDNThe 20230530 archivals (Wayback/Archive) of wiert.me/2022/02/14/philosophy-of-management have this HighlanderComments structure:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/29
Often the power is in the combinations of tools.
Read until the epilogue…
In this case, I needed to be able to query the JSON results of calls to REST services from the command-line so I could process them in Batch files.
Since I could not find anything readily available, I originally Originally I opted for the PowerShell command-line scripting tool, as that ships with recent Windows versions and can re-use anything that .NET brings. But though [Wayback/Archive] .NET has built in JSON serialization support, there is [Wayback/Archive] no querying support in it.
Then I thought about Delphi, as it [Wayback/Archive] too has a built-in JSON parser, but even the well known [Wayback/Archive] JSON SuperObject library has no query support.
Back to .NET, which – like Delphi – has a well known and respected third party JSON library as well: [Wayback/Archive] NewtonSoft JSON aka JSON.net and that one [Wayback/Archive] does have support for querying JSON with the SelectToken function.
That’s the fundament of the rest of this article, with the potential to be used in a cross-platform as well.
So no need for a plan B.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/24
For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] Bruce Tate on Twitter: “What’s the most unique feature of your favorite programming language?” / Twitter
From the languages that I have been using most:
Of course they can; most of Linq is built around interface extension methods.Interfaces were actually one of the driving forces for the development of extension methods; since they can’t implement any of their own functionality, extension methods are the easiest way of associating actual code with interface definitions.See the Enumerable class for a whole collection of extension methods built aroundIEnumerable<T>. To implement one, it’s the same as implementing one for a class
It was a kind of follow-up on his earlier tweet that also sparked nice responses at [Archive] Bruce Tate on Twitter: “What is a #programming technique or construct that other people like but you think is overused?” / Twitter.
In my respons I phrased my decades long pet peeve [Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “@redrapids OOP: inheritance over composition. This leads to deep hierarchies that eventually nobody understands.” / Twitter.
Whereas with OOP (object-oriented programming) one should use composition over inheritance, often the reverse is true.
Actually my take can be generalised into two directions as these hierarchies:
JavaScript for instance takes the crowded global namespace one step further by many libraries taking $q, $_ or $x, which is part of my take
[Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “@redrapids Mutation of global state followed by an overly crowded global namespace. Example on the JavaScript side: too many libraries and projects using the global `$` and `_` symbols.”.
[Wayback/Archive] joao on Twitter: “@redrapids But to be more specific, I think sometimes there’s too much indirection with very deep class hierarchies. In the same vein those rules of “functions should have at most 6 arguments and 5/10/20 lines” can lead to a ton of indirection chasing the subfunctions being called”.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/03/01
[Archive.is] Exact Instructions Challenge – THIS is why my kids hate me. | Josh Darnit – YouTube
We asked the kids to write instructions for a simple task but left out that we were going to be following their instructions EXACTLY as written. Great lesson for communication and a fun practice in patience!
Via [Archive] Maarten van Smeden on Twitter: “This is why programming is an acquired skill ” / Twitter
Q
It spurred all kinds of reactions about software development, like that programming should read like poetry, software development is about slowing down your thoughts, and that some high schools and some universities do this experiment at the start of their software development curriculum.
This is a cool experiment to do, even outside the USA, as many countries or regions have their own sandwich style, some of which are way harder to make than PB&J (:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/02/15
Forgot to schedule this in 2014, so here it finally is, as the content is still relevant:
A long time ago (almost 10 years) I did some stuff with State Machines in .NET.
Since then the world has changed, and a lot more libraries have become available.
As I mainly use .NET and Delphi and there is a reasonable chance I need to do some more state machine work, here are some links about State Machines in both environments.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/01/17
After last week’s posts PostgreSQL Exercises and SQLZOO: Interactive SQL tutorials (no login required), I did a Twitter search:
This got me to [Wayback/Archive] The SQL Murder Mystery (which is fun!).
I got there via [Archive] Lætitia on Twitter: “@nthonynowocien I’d say pgexercises is a good start for SQL pgexercises.com Even though, the last exercises are not beginner level. The SQL murder mystery is more fun mystery.knightlab.com” / Twitter
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/01/13
I have had the below Archive.is spinner “Loading” without any progress indication on a couple of URLs the last few months and I think they are tied to having special characters in the URL-to-be-archived.
My usual workaround was to first archive in the Wayback Machine, then archive the resulting URL in Archive.is as it would automatically follow the path up to the original URL,
That of course failed when https://web.archive.org/web/*/vx-underground.org did not want to save in Archive.is: either these would give an eternal spinner on the “Loading” page no matter the browser you were using either the escaped %2A or *:
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 