Old grumpy software architect and engineer. I create, perform, and teach music. I´m married, have kids, dogs, dabble in fine arts, and talk psychology, culture, and politics.
GPT-Burn: a simple and concise implementation of GPT in Rust and Burn
Implementation of the GPT architecture in Rust 🦀 + Burn 🔥 - felix-andreas/gpt-burn
The Windows 10 equivalent, Timeline, got discontinued in 2021. At this point in time it is unknown whether Microsoft will retrofit Recall into Windows 10. Knowing Microsoft it is safe to assume they’ll try anything for profit.
Microsoft has a history of doing so, both with Minecraft customers and others. They just don't care.
Some web applications force me to open their screens in separate tabs and windows, by making the screens remove any filtering on revisit by back button. And thus I have 20 tabs open that all start with the same meaningless word.
Arbitrary file execution vulnerability in Jenkins CICD CLI
pentesting, cybersecurity, cve
Indeed. I'm not totally oblivious. Luckily I have learned a few phrases and figures of speech. But it seems I had a way harder time learning those than my school mates who weren't on the spectrum.
Right! I totally missed that! Why is Jalopnik advertising for the Post?
I took that AQ-10 test, and also pondered this particular question. No, I suck at reading between the lines. Give it to me straight, please. No beating around no bush.
Figures of speech pose an equal problem: I may just lack the cultural awareness that allistic people enjoy, but it's rare for me to understand a common phrase, and more often than not I'll invent a completely new one.
Reading between lines: do allistic people do that? How? Is it some skill I can learn?
Thank you! As I'm learning more about my own autism, I'm quite willing to share experiences.
No, they aren't. You can switch to their Universe patches anytime, at your own risk. If you want Canonical to mitigate that risk for you, you pay. Simple, really.
The Post? Really? Half of that article is an ad for the Post itself!
All the good things Records bring are stifled by JPA and DAO conventions and requirements. I really hate JPA for that reason, and have avoided Hibernate in favor of my own DAO implementations.
Records will slash thousands of lines of code from my implementation and will make it infinitely easier to maintain, and trust down-stream.
Java Records slash a million lines of code off my programs
Advances in the java programming language, version 16 and newer, slashed a million lines of code from my codebase. Maintaining my programs became easier overnight, due to this 1 secret trick: Records. Unfortunately version 16 was not LTS, so I had to wait until this year's release of version 21, which is LTS. Go read the linked article. It explains Java Records in a very approachable manner.
From the perspective of maintenance and technical debt: yes, you do want your code to be as clear as possible. But some languages, like assembler and mindfuck, simply weren't designed to be semantically expressive. Assembler clearly states what is happening but not why. And mindfuck is created to be as hard to parse by humans as possible. Without a description of why things exist or what they should be doing, you're going to have a bad time.
Writing Comments Is Lazy Coding
Andrez Sainz de Aja writes that comments are a code smell: they make us lazy. Instead of using comments to convey intent, the coding should. But that is hard, so it is easier to write dumb coding and just put the intent into comments.
Designers, they're gaslighting you.
"You can't prove your value to someone whose business value relies on not seeing it," and other inspirational meanderings by Wachter-Boettcher about the position of UX and design in product development, where designers' livelihood and mental well-being gets threatened by late-stage capitalism.
With some of my smaller clients, the CIO is the same as the CTO and the same as the IT Director. There, IT is developers, too.
Enterprise will cause a boom in hiring VBA devs to migrate legacy apps to other programming languages, then hear Microsoft will extend support for a few more years, then fire all those VBA devs again. If Microsoft had some wits, they'd create easy tools to migrate VBA to C#.
Wouldn't it face the exact same security issues as VBA, with drive-by installs of obfuscated malware and executions of arbitrary code?
Stop Firefox from suggesting github.blog web address whenever I enter "github" into address bar (solved)
Solution: delete all bookmarks that point to an article hosted at github.blog.
Background: For the longest time, Firefox would suggest the github.blog web address whenever I type "github" into the address bar. I found that weird: yes the word "blog" starts with a letter lower in the alphabet than the word "com", but the ".com" TLD is much more popular so should show up first, right?
Right... unless you, like me, have web search suggestions turned off when entering web address into the address bar. Instead, it takes suggestions from my bookmarks and open tabs, like I instructed it.
Thus, Firefox is behaving exactly as designed and instructed, and the solution is to remove the bookmarks that point to github.blog.
I only wish I'd had recognized that sooner...
Stop Firefox from suggesting github.blog web address whenever I enter "github" into address bar (solved)
Solution: delete all bookmarks that point to an article hosted at github.blog.
Background: For the longest time, Firefox would suggest the github.blog web address whenever I type "github" into the address bar. I found that weird: yes the word "blog" starts with a letter lower in the alphabet than the word "com", but the ".com" TLD is much more popular so should show up first, right?
Right... unless you, like me, have web search suggestions turned off when entering web address into the address bar. Instead, it takes suggestions from my bookmarks and open tabs, like I instructed it.
Thus, Firefox is behaving exactly as designed and instructed, and the solution is to remove the bookmarks that point to github.blog.
I only wish I'd had recognized that sooner...
Molly Holzschlag, whose pioneering work in online design standards led to her being dubbed "the fairy godmother of the web," has died at age 60.
Wow. Molly Holzschlag passed away. An invaluable force for adoption of web standards and usability. May Molly's loved ones find solace in sharing those memories that inspire them most.
Every time the driver asks me, my brain struggles to produce (the bus stop name)
Every workday I take the bus to the office. For the past 5 years I transfer at the same stop. But every time the driver asks me at its name, my brain struggles to produce. I have to force myself to remember: there's this landmark, then that one; I know that name, now what is the name of the bus ...
File naming bug during saving to folder that is receiving other files too
When attempting to save a file using MS Windows 10, into a folder to which other files are written at the same time, it's impossible to change the name the file should receive, as each new file causes an update of the save dialog, moving the file name cursor back to front.
Discovered today, using Windows Pro, version 10.0.19044.2846
Why doesn’t my Java Stream do anything?
Chances are you forgot to kick it.
The linked article is written by me. It explains how Java streams need a terminating operation in order to start any actions. For more explanations and code examples, do follow the link and read the article. It's free.
How to build intuitive and engaging interfaces
Listen, gain, build, test, query: 5 tips from experience.
Listen.
Observe other interfaces. Study them. Are they intuitive? Are they engaging? Who thinks so? Just you? Your boss? Millions of users? Who are those users? Local people? People like you? Or people from other cultures? People unlike you? More is better.
Gain
Gain examples of intuitive and engaging interfaces in the wild. Determine which of those can be made to fit whatever product or service it is you want users to use, or customers to purchase.
Build
Build the interface. If you’re the designer: don’t worry about coding, storage, security, and payment models. Focus on the components and how they fit into the larger view. Start with pen and paper, then move on to tools like Axure and Figma.
Test
Test how it feels. Does the flow guide you well? Or does it have you bouncing around? Can people who live in other parts of the world, enter their information? Can people who use smaller or larger devices enter information and see what you want them to see? Can people who are blind, or who work in a loud factory, or cannot move very well, also use your interface?
Question
Question your own assumptions. Question why differing people find differing interfaces more intuitive. Why don’t we all simply agree that what I find intuitive is intuitive for everyone?
Rinse and repeat.