In my experience, the biggest problem is that maintainable code necessarily requires extending/adapting existing structures rather than just slapping a feature onto the side.

And if we’re not just talking boilerplate, then this necessarily requires understanding the existing logic, which problems it solves, and how you can mold it to continue to solve those problems, while also solving the new problem.

For that, you can’t just review the code afterwards. You have to do the understanding yourself.
And once you have a clear understanding, it’s likely that the actual code change is rather trivial. At least more trivial than trying to convey your precise understanding to an LLM/intern/etc…

Yeah, IPv4 addresses use four bytes. Those four bytes are represented as four decimal numbers, separated by dots. And a byte can only represent the decimal values 0–255.

Everything I implement at work is open source because I don’t want to wait for a purchase approval.

Just to say, though, I feel like 99% of the software we deploy is open-source for that exact reason. Projects generally start out small, where you try to evaluate some concept. You’re not gonna spend months to go through the purchase process of some proprietary tool, if you can help it…

Yeah, if the fascists want to lock you up, they’ll declare you a terrorist. You need to make sure that the non-fascists know this is not true.

So, uh, if you’re already using jq, this should also format JSON:

echo "{\"key\":\"value\"}" | jq

😅

Was recently thinking this might happen to Pinterest, too. Their webpage was never great, with how it tried to prevent you from downloading images, when that was literally the only reason I would ever visit. But at least, they did have a big database of images and a decent algorithm for detecting visual similarity.

And well, they have an even bigger database of images now, but the majority of it is not worth looking at, because the images are not real. I don’t bother visiting anymore, because you can’t find anything worthwhile on there anymore.

They did announce going all-in on AI at some point, but I don’t know, if they actually decided to generate images themselves. That seems almost too stupid.
Could be that they have some financial incentives for folks posting and that alone lead to tons of AI-generated uploads. I don’t actually know how Pinterest was supposed to work…

Well, even before those, there were machines which wouldn’t spin the can. It would just conveyor-belt it under the sensor, not find a barcode and then conveyor-belt it back out, until you turned it the right way around…

Well, this version is going to be in the Ubuntu repos eventually, but might take a while. Ubuntu 26.04 is already in feature-freeze, so it’ll be in 26.10 at the earliest (or 28.04, if you follow the LTS releases).

I guess, it would probably also show up in the “backports” repo before that, if you enable that, but might be easiest to use the Flatpak or AppImage instead…

These machines used to require you to put the barcode into the right position. Maybe they’re still used to those machines and therefore look for the barcode on each container?

From what I’m reading online, you want to install qt5ct (via sudo apt install qt5ct presumably) and then run that to set a proper theme for the KDE applications.

You’re on the programming.dev instance, so here’s the technical details, in case you’re interested:
KDE apps use the Qt GUI toolkit, whereas Cinnamon, GNOME, Xfce use the GTK GUI toolkit. These toolkits have different ways of theming them, including different configurations formats for that. The KDE Plasma desktop actually supports theming GTK applications by adapting the Qt theme configuration format into the GTK theme configuration format, but Cinnamon/GNOME/Xfce don’t support that in reverse.
So, what you’re seeing is the KDE application not having any theming information and just trying its best to display something, including the use of the icon set that’s available on the host system. By using qt5ct, you can set this Qt theming configuration manually, so that it doesn’t have to guess anymore and can use a more fitting icon set.

Are you using it on GNOME or Xfce or something? This is what it looks like with KDE’s icon set (Breeze Dark):

Their biggest challenge is getting attention, because most users just use the default browser. A redesign brings them into the news, as can be seen above.

Very different personnel involved in those tasks…

Has he considered sending a message to the guy directly rather than posting about it on social media?

Ah yeah, that seems to be it. When I drop my keys in the right place, it goes into suspend. If I lift them back off afterwards, it wakes back up.

Neat. 🙃

Oh yeah, I was kind of playing devil’s advocate. It is certainly also cursed in many ways…

Hmm, that is kind of cool, in that you can have text on all 4 sides and it’s still generally readable. Not really possible for vertical panels…

Today, I noticed that my glasses case sticks to my work laptop like a magnet.
I played around with it for a few seconds, then the thought struck me, that it might be my glasses case that’s magnetic, and I might be fucking up the electronics or the HDD or something by holding it close to my laptop. Pulled away real quick then. 😅

I did try with my keys later, and well, turns out that it’s my work laptop that’s magnetic, so I guess, I wasn’t fucking anything up after all…

Damn, I’m seeing the ads for the first time, but have heard multiple times already of people calling them confusing, and I definitely understand why.

Imagine telling your mum you want an XBOX for Christmas and she buys you a laptop…

Feels like one of those jokes that explicitly shouldn’t go into programmerhumor. A programmer that doesn’t interact with Linux, that’s something to tell the world about…