Notices by Cyberfæ :pentacle: (alexandria@anarchism.space), page 2

wanna see some bad code

of course u do

I found this in a repo which i will not name

injecting E depending on the phase of the moon, call that a trans lunar injection

techbros: storage is cheap now, u should back up ur stuff

me: ok are u going to pay me? no??? didn't think so

(cont)

if you're doing anything more than that, you know how to RTFM, and will get far more value out of skimming the GNU Make manual than you will from a blogpost. But also consider, not doing anything more complex than that.

> Mach v0.2 released - Zig game engine & graphics toolkit

Wasn't Mach like a kernel 5 minutes ago. or like a build system or something. Like I'm pretty sure it had something to do with Hurd. I'm sure there are plenty of words left in the dictionary for you to not overload another word and make older software harder to find out about

> Don't be clever

I don't even have to open this to know this is about clever code versus easy to read code. Unfortunately clever code will always win the battle between the two because it's more fun to write, and clean easy to read code is more involved and explicit and therefore: annoying.

> Better Builds with Make: A Beginner's Guide

Look there's only one makefile you should ever need and I'll write 90% of it here for you

.PHONY: release build test clean

release:
(shell commands to release should go here preceded by a tab)

build:
(shell commands to build should go here preceded by a tab)

test:
(shell commands to test should go here preceded by a tab)

clean:
(shell commands to clean the working directories should go here preceded by a tab)

Sarcastic review of the currently lobsters headings (thread)

"How should I read type system notation?"

Carefully. A more serious answer is that it's mathematical notation so you should skim a mathematical type theory text book along with a lambda calculus textbook, both of which i did on the way to college. Neither of those involve reading a blogpost though so it remains to be seen if a lobsters is capable of doing this or not

> Backward Compatibility, Go 1.21, and Go 2

No comment.

@lanodan Apparently most programmers escape into stuff like woodworking when they hit their 40s and im thinking that well, ive speedrun getting burnout and disability hell so maybe i should speedrun switching careers too to something that doesn't have me like building missle targeting systems for some fuckoff company or like, working next to people who are likely to make me start balding

and then when you have to take pull requests from them and they tell you to do something in a completely fucked up way, and not only does your manager not care but holds them with high esteem. So you lose points with your manager and the rest of the staff by going "eh? thats fucked up", everyone acts like you're weird for giving a shit about it, and when you ask a forum of your peers who are in more senior positions, they all agree that the suggested alterations are fucked up and wrong

I can't believe that I chose an industry where giving a shit about what I do and the codebases I work on is regarded as a negative thing and the only metric that matters is how fast you can shit out support for something and not like, idk, any of the other code writing things we have to do

Like in any other industry doing something well and correct is kind of rewarded whereas in tech you are just repeatedly shat on,

It doesn't help that that it compounds when you have coworkers that shit out absolutely terrible code at a high rate are then not only rewarded, but making the subsequent systems harder and worse to work through

@pry Yeah, the people who say "oh software development is just duct taping things together!" are either astoundingly good at their job, or utterly shite at it, and it's usually the latter. If you don't give a shit about the codebase you will end up mired in shit by your own decisions very fast

its friday (sound on)

@TakeV Yeah it was precipitated by:

- We can't get kids in schools using free software instead of Photoshop because the schools literally refuse to use the software based on its name

- While we're forking it for a branding change we might as well also change up the UI to make it more accessible to people

It was majority disabled people as contributors too. Free software fuckers went absolutely apeshit at the people doing the fork, said they were dividing effort from GIMP