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The toxic reactions to “What would be good alternatives to Stack Overflow for questions about software solutions to drive hardware? – Meta Stack Overflow”

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/04/10

The toxic reactions to [Wayback/Archive] What would be good alternatives to Stack Overflow for questions about software solutions to drive hardware? – Meta Stack Overflow were surely inviting to never ever try and help improving StackOverflow again.

Lesson learned: Stack Overflow won’t ever be the welcoming environment it was 15 years ago and the toxicity will make it slowly become obsolete.

Hopefully the smaller Stack Exchange sites will take a long while to go in that direction.

Via [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers @wiert@mastodon.social on X: “The @StackOverflow toxicity: you start a discussion on meta to get better guidance for the community at large. – 13 downvotes & counting – a bunch of comments of which the majority is not helpful – no answers Deleting 429663. Never trying to help improving the situation again.”

--jeroen

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Open source StackOverflow/StackExchange like project codidact/qpixel: Q&A-based community knowledge-sharing software

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/04/10

Cool project for a community driven open source site (written mostly in Ruby): [Wayback/Archive] codidact/qpixel: Q&A-based community knowledge-sharing software

Rails-based version of our core software, powering codidact.com. Currently under active development towards MVP.

There are more related repositories under [Wayback/Archive] Codidact.

The project is explained at [Wayback/Archive] Codidact – Helping each other learn.

The many communities are at [Wayback/Archive] Codidact, including:

Via [Wayback/Archive] User Quasímodo – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange.

–jeroen

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Converting an html dl (delimited list) on a page to a table from the Chrome console

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/09/14

A while ago, I wanted to convert the dl delimited list html element on a web page into a regular table so I could more easily reorder the data into cells.

So I ran the below bit of code in the Chrome Console after first putting the mentioned table with id here_table in the place where I wanted the table to be included:


<table id="here_table"></table>

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var arr = $("#delimitedList").children().map(function () {
return $(this).html();
}).get();
for (var i = 0; i < arr.length; i += 2) {
$('#here_table').append('<tr><td>' + arr[i] + '</td><td>' + arr[i + 1] + '</td></tr>');
}

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convertDlToTable.js

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For this script to work, you need jQuery, so yesterday I wrote Better, Stronger, Safer jQuerify Bookmarklet | Learning jQuery.

The code is based on [Wayback/Archive.is] Rebuild each definition list () as a table using JQuery – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive.is] easy!) with an important adoption instead of calling text() to get the textual dt and dd information, it uses html() so the original innerHTML is being preserved.

Some similar JavaScript pieces of code are at [Wayback/Archive.is] Turning HTML into a nested JavaScript array with jQuery – Stack Overflow.

Related:

–jeroen

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Why should I hire a software engineer if I can just copy and paste code from Stack Overflow?

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/03/19

Via [WayBack] Your cut and paste skills are in demand ##IL – Christoph Puppe – Google+:

–jeroen

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Stack Exchange – stackoverflow OpenID

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/09/06

If you want to log into any stackoverflow/superuser/serverfault/stackexchange related network using their OpenID, then read the following from [WayBack] Stack Exchange:

Your Stack Exchange account, or StackID, is a reusable form of public identity that can be used to log in to any website that supports OpenID.

To log in to sites in the Stack Exchange network:

  • click the “Log In with Stack Exchange” button

To log in to websites that support OpenID:

  • enter the URL https://openid.stackexchange.com

–jeroen

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