#Software Engineer

[la-principessa-nuova]

I made a support request with a vendor asking if there’s a way to leverage the logic they already have for determining what counts as a business day (it is very critical that this is done exactly correctly and that it never breaks in the future if nobody is maintaining it) when using their API since I didn’t want to have to maintain a separate source of truth for it, and in their response they said:

it is not too hard to do date/timestamp arithmetic

which any developer who has done date/time arithmetic knows is the understatement of the century

Famously everyone thinks so until they take down an important system by forgetting about DST, or leap years, or that leap years don’t happen every 100 years, or that they do happen every 400 years, or not considering implications of people using different calendar systems, even if they’re just slightly different like having weeks start on a different day, or they consider whether the first week of the month is the first full week or the partial week before that, or they format it in a different order.

Then when they finally think, “OK, but I know about that,” then they learn about the leap second, or the negative leap second.

So yes, date math is “too hard”.

[computer-nerd-girl]

[heart-ghost-studyblr]

I found myself surrounded by companions daring to tackle a real software architecture challenge. We shared a good wine and cheese to conquer it together! (Unfortunately, there’s always something waiting to be dealt with on Monday.)

The glow of my Neovim terminal in Monokai theme reflects my rhythm — a guy who doesn’t stop on weekends but knows that balance isn’t about being all-in, all day.

The setup screams character: a seamless fusion of productivity and comfort. Lazygit commands at my fingertips, a Ghibli-esque avatar paired with Neofetch adding a touch of Tumblr aesthetic, and a playlist of Korean indie OSTs playing in the background to add depth to every keystroke.

This is how I drive — in code, creativity, and moments that are unapologetically mine.

[gentlewareblooming]

I've been having a hard time with programming lately. Considering that it is my job i kind of need to get it together.

My plan is to start learning stuff that isn't just the only thing I need for my current project. Try to find things about programming and computer science that interest me and maybe talk about it on this blog. I think I need to expand my curiosity about the subject.

I have all these hang ups about feeling stupid and incompetent and how hard everything is, but I need to reframe it. Yes, it doesn't come as easily to me as to others, but that's ok because I'm capable and I can put in the effort to do and learn the hard thing. And I know that at the end it will be totally worth it.

[agent-z-coding]

I HAVE FINALLY SUCCEEDED

IT WORKS!!! IT WORKS!!!!!

[4, 5, 4.3] -> add BECOMES 13.3!!!!!!!!!!

YOU PEOPLE I HAVE DONE IT

source code will be coming soon (as soon as i get more helper functions working.

For now, PLEASE contribute if you can. Even as little as suggesting some helper functions could help me a ton.

Contribute below:

Open a PR, An issue, Anything, Just mention what the language lacks and you don't even need to implement it yourself, I'll add it to the To-Do list and get working on it ASAP.

Join the discord server, I will be posting updates and asking for suggestions and providing beta builds: https://discord.gg/JxnKn9jd

[dreamdolldeveloper]

[yourdailyqueer]

Melanie Anne Phillips

Gender: Transgender woman

Sexuality: N/A

DOB: Born 1956  

Ethnicity: White - American

Occupation: Writer, software engineer, director, editor, screenwriter, producer

Note: Set up the first transgender community support site, produced VHS voice training tapes that focus on resonance rather than pitch, and became one of the most cited advisors on how to develop a female voice. 

[soapdispensersalesman]

Still the wildest find at the computer science section of the library:

same energy as this:

Computer science people fascinate me so much, what kind of things are going on inside the terminal?

(side note: this made me super excited about the next update of my saturation plugin)

The "software engineer to living off the grid in a cabin far away from society" pipeline needs to be studied:

What was the name of that former Gameloft employee again who now makes Instagram videos in a cabin in the middle of the woods?

[higherentity]

[jujuthewulfpup]

I now know the devastating feelings of being laid off of work.

Mind racing.

Am I reasonably competitive in the current Software Engineer job market? Don’t think about that yet.

Oh noes, I’ll have to study for coding interviews *again*. No stop, wait until Monday. Do ANYTHING ELSE.

Cuddle stuffed animal. Hug husband. Call mom, dad, sister. Join their vacation coming up. Stick to good news. Play Minecraft. Fold laundry. Play Overwatch. Plan house decorations. Rewatch Spider-verse. Little things.

[la-principessa-nuova]

I spent so long today trying to figure out why .gitignore wasn’t working.

I spent *hours* going through so many StackOverflow questions and reddit posts where brand new developers are trying to use a .gitignore for the first time and getting the syntax wrong or putting it in the wrong directory or naming the file wrong or they already tracked the files. All common mistakes I made when I was new to this, but not what was wrong for me.

I’m suddenly reminded what it was like back then everytime I had a problem googling every little issue and thinking some obscure issue was happening or there was a bug in git or something, and then I’d find the small error I’d made. But now I understand it so well I’m stumped what could be wrong.

Flashback to when I was trying to decide which OS to use when writing it and decided it was simple enough that Windows would be fine. Plus I want this to be cross platform and so it’ll be good to be forced to deal with Windows compatibility up front.

Then finally I found the issue: I created the .gitignore from Powershell and it defaults the encoding to UTF-16LE??? Why would they do that? Just to prank people trying to create files to be used literally anywhere???

Changed it to UTF-8 and it works.

god

[computer-nerd-girl]

[heart-ghost-studyblr]

I work better at day, but study way better at night. This week I was made a deeply study using Lua Programming Language with LUAMQ to find a way to attach too many files in a MQ Queue. This means learn a lot of ways of how and the properly way to use Lua functions work with as bash/shell scripts, understand permissions and everything. Normally, there is a good tool to made things changes like that, like Ansible, but in some cases, it is not flexible enough. And I assume that could have been done with Python and a MQ library for py, but I don´t even bother myself to search for it. Lua was my first thought and for a simple task like that, it fits.

[snowcodes]

A little about me!

I'm learning to code through multiple means and websites, and I'm currently focusing on:

*HTML, CSS & Javascript (Harnessing those basics for Web dev) *Python (For my 8 month course that starts in January) In the near future, I hope to learn C#, so I can look into .ASP NET too! I'm hoping to become a junior Software Engineer or Developer this time next year.

I have a couple of side hobbies, learning the violin takes place over at @viowlett. I've recently started that and hope learning coding and violin side by side will keep my brain busy!

[lasynthese]

[dreamdolldeveloper]

      ★ . . . 𝐃𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐌 𝐃𝐎𝐋𝐋 𝐃𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐋𝐎𝐏𝐄𝐑 . . . ★

hello, i'm dreamdoll. you can read my bio here. this is my coding/studying blog where i talk more about my coding and language adventures as a beginner!

     ★ early twenties.      ★ self studying      ★ interested in web/app dev, neuroscience, all things stem, languages, and a bunch of other things.

     —   my “main” side blog: @dreamdolldiary      —  i follow from: @saintdreamdoll