For 20 years, I've worked in the software industry. Rarely do I code.
The coding I've done is somewhat laughable too. The languages I know are BASIC, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Markdown, and a bunch of stuff nobody cares about.
For example, here's a LOLCODE demo:
HOW IZ I fetch_rss_feed YR feed_url
I HAS A result
I HAS A feed_json
BTW Fetch the RSS feed using HTTP GET request
result R "HTTP GET" feed_url MKAY
BTW Parse the RSS feed into JSON
feed_json R "PARSE RSS" result MKAY
BTW Create an ActivityStream object
I HAS A activity_stream
activity_stream R {"@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams", "type": "OrderedCollection", "items": []} MKAY
BTW Convert RSS items to ActivityStream items
I IZ 0
IM IN YR item LOOP
I HAS A item
item R feed_json["items"][I] MKAY
BTW Extract relevant data from RSS item
I HAS A title
I HAS A content
I HAS A published
title R item["title"] MKAY
content R item["content"] MKAY
published R item["published"] MKAY
BTW Create an ActivityStream item
I HAS A activity_item
activity_item R {"@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams", "type": "Article", "name": title, "content": content, "published": published} MKAY
BTW Add the ActivityStream item to the collection
activity_stream["items"] R activity_stream["items"] AN activity_item MKAY
I R I SUM OF 1 AN 1 MKAY
IM OUTTA YR item LOOP
BTW Return the ActivityStream object
FOUND YR activity_stream MKAY
IF U SAY SO
BTW Example usage:
I HAS A feed_url
feed_url R "https://example.com/rss_feed.xml" MKAY
I HAS A activity_stream
activity_stream R fetch_rss_feed(feed_url) MKAY
BTW Print the ActivityStream JSON
VISIBLE activity_stream
None of this is useful. It's actually quite frivolous. Any "serious" coder reading this is probably rolling their eyes.
I've never coded professionally. I only do it for fun.
The only reason I started coding is because I couldn't afford games for my Commodore 64, and I thought that if I could make them up, I'd have more games. This was entirely my motivation for learning BASIC.
Coding has given me insight into how apps are made, and whether or not something is doable. And that has helped me in my work.
I appreciate coding, but it certainly isn't my specialty.
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Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@calckey.social)'s status on Friday, 23-Jun-2023 08:55:14 JSTChris Trottier