Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/27
These Tweets from Kris are food for thought about using standards for Commit Messages and Commit Emojis.
It is the “writing zzzz by convention” mantra all over the place (where zzzz can be anything from code to documentation): does it add value, should it be formalised, can it by achieved by other means?
I need to think about it later, so I saved his tweets below:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/13
Kevlin Henney being interviewd by Richard Seidl [Wayback/Archive] MDVxFQrqZnh1OxlP.jpg (1200×675)
The quote from this abstract of the January 2024 interview with Kevlin Henney by Richard Seidl is important:
You really need to understand history. First of all, you need to understand history. Then, you need to understand language. And you need to go and talk to some customers. And then, you will realize how safe your job is. Because programming is not merely the assembly of syntax. It is the application of precision. It is the seeking of precision.And what is the answer? What is it that I’m trying to do?And it turns out that if you specify something badly in natural language, it works out even worse than if you did it in code.And we already know, for example– we can actually take inspiration from the most widely used programming paradigm on the planet, the spreadsheet. What we know from the spreadsheet is that most people who use a spreadsheet do not have a software development background.
Yes.
We also know that most spreadsheets are unmaintainable, incomprehensible, and buggy. If we are saying that the future of software development is people who are not software experts doing this stuff, your job is safe.
It is a fragment of the vodcast episode [Wayback/Archive] Software Engineering im Jahr 2034 – Richard Seidl which limits the quote to this:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/08
I responded to [Wayback/Archive] jilles.com on Twitter: “@0xD4ni @Twitter What is the regexp for an emoticon ?” with [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “@jilles_com @0xD4ni @Twitter \p{So}+ See …”.
I got the answer from [Wayback/Archive] java – What is the regex to extract all the emojis from a string? – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] vishalaksh, and [Wayback/Archive] Desgard_Duan) which refers to the quoted section below.
Note that correctly matching highly depends on the versions of the libraries you use: there have been lots of releases of Unicode versions over the last years (since 2014 roughly every 12 months) each usually adding more Emoji.
In addition, many Emoji are not single Unicode codepoints: often they are code points (with or without any of the variation selectors) stacked on top of each other with zero-width joiners like I described in Kris on Twitter: “Company chat: »Right, we need more languages with Emoji as variable type indicators and pointer symbols.«….
I tried fiddling on [Wayback/Archive] regex101: build, test, and debug regex and could not always getting it to work as I hoped for, but also could not figure out how recent their libraries are.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/07
At the time of writing a lot of this might be more recent, but for quite some time codepoints.net had not been updated with code point information newer Unicode releases.
Basically it was stuck at Unicode version 8.0 with some 120k glyphs. At the time of writing Unicode version 15.0 is in beta and the difference between 15.0 and 8.0 is some 24k glyphs.
So I had a quick twitter chat with the author and jotted down the links in this blog post so I won’t forget them.
There I learned it was open source (I think it is the only Unicode codepoint site that is).
Here it goes:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/06
From about a year ago, but too funny not to repeat:
[Wayback/Archive] Leah Neukirchen: “Lesser known pop music facts: The song “Nothing compares 2 U” is actually about the floating point value NaN. …” – BLÅHAJ Social
Via [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers @wiert@mastodon.social on X: “Lesser known pop music facts: The song “Nothing compares 2 U” is actually about the floating point value NaN. blahaj.social/@leah/110781718156325459“
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/06
Please do not overdo Unicode outside the ASCII realm for identifiers and stay away from Emoji: [Wayback/Archive] Kris on Twitter: “Company chat: »Right, we need more languages with Emoji as variable type indicators and pointer symbols.«…”
Company chat: »Right, we need more languages with Emoji as variable type indicators and pointer symbols.«
»🎼initializer🎱«
»💦 mutable, 🧱 not.«
»🎁 on the heap, 🥞 on the stack«
»🍼 ctor, 🪦 dtor«
»� non-utf string result«
»any of 👩❤️💋👨 as a concat operator«
»📁📂 block delims«
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/05
For my slide archive:
[Archive.is] Ian Coldwater 📦💥 on Twitter: “Who called it a Kubernetes penetration test and not a clusterfuck“
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/01
The below picture is a modification of [Wayback/Archive] 2347: Dependency – explain xkcd
Title text: Someday ImageMagick will finally break for good and we’ll have a long period of scrambling as we try to reassemble civilization from the rubble.
It actually emphasises the problem both that [Wayback/Archive] xkcd 2347: Dependency is way too optimistic, and that everyone uses that to point out dependency issues or worse as a thought-terminating cliché .
The second problem amplifies itself by increasing the popularity of the comic, and the attracts people to use it even if they hardly know about dependencies.
In turn it diminishes the meaning of it, kind of making it more optimistic by basically amplifying the message “there is just one really fragile project our design/infrastructure depends on” (the infamous “A project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003”).
The sad reality is that this single fragile project is just not true. Modern development and infrastructure systems usually are underpinned by package managers installing the complex graphs of dependencies of which dozens, heck thousands are maintained for “free” by, more often than not, a single worn out maintainer per dependency.
It’s just that over the last few decades usually only one such package at a time posed a serious problem. But with dependencies on very small building blocks, the amount of blocks is rising as is their usage. Just two examples out of the Node JS world (mind you, each development and infrastructure stack lives in comparable worlds):
Mind you, these links are 2021 and 2022, so the numbers have increased.
Many think such problems are limited to programming errors, but over the last decade these have become the tip of the iceberg. The real problems now are that maintainers are fading away as they have for instance been worn out for too long, or simply are aging. So what we have seen over the last decade is the rise of supply chain attacks.
One such example was the XZ utils backdoor which was, by sheer luck because one guy tried to investigate why connecting over ssh had become much slower than before, barely detected in time. It had a CVSS score of 10.0, the highest possible score.
So be prepared that the below picture will have “your business structure” on the top, and towards the bottom a bunch of small fragile pillars with the text “many projects, each maintained by a worn out person on the verge of collapse”.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/31
Important code optimisation thought: [Wayback/Archive] Programming Quotes: “No code is faster than no code. — merb motto” – Mastodon
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/30
I love the new title-text for the 2018 “Clippy” picture at [Wayback/Archive] CrazyMyra: “After AI took his job as an online assistant, Mr Clippy was obliged to seek work in other sectors…” – beige.party
A metal toilet paper holder in a corner od a bathro,with an empty roll, that looks similar to a large paperclip
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