#software development

[geminisee]

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[therian-database]

Hello there!

so, here's the deal:

I, a burnt out autistic highschooler, want to create an app for therians (as a therian myself).

Here's the basic features:

A database full of information on as many animals as possible (that can and will be updated!)

Blank templates for otherkins!

Each user has a profile- public or private- and can add theriotypes and notes about those theriotypes!

A journal feature where you can add pictures, drawings, and notes to a digital journal, similar to a glorified notes app lol- and you can make certain parts of your journal public or private!

Packs!

What are packs?

Have some word soup as an explanation: Basically if you want to create a pack to either make friends or add your friends, you can submit a pack request, where you explain why you want to make a pack and if you have specific people in mind to join, and I'm thinking that I don't want it to be like everyone has their own pack or whatever so that's why it has to be approved and stuff like I don't want too many different packs. Basically it's like a discord server or an amino thingy it's a big group chat and the pack creators can set up virtual events and send out pings like "hey! Join this zoom call if you wanna do some arts and crafts!!" Or smth like that

It's a database and a community!! If you would like to help out, please please please send an ask!! I would love all the support I can get!

P.S.

BE NICE AND DRINK WATER

[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”.

[nixcraft]

[mlembug]

the current landscape of webdev needs to know that I don't need web applications that scale up to millions of users, I need web applications that scale down to 5 users or less

[heart-ghost-studyblr]

Getting old is interesting. I've always been a middle ground between sports (skateboarding, surfing, jiu-jitsu) and an avid student. Over time, it's clear that you can't keep trying the same tricks, just as you can't study the same way.

Today, as I'm writing an article about event-driven architectures, I realize that final exams in college were much easier, just like it's not as easy to jump the same stairs on a skateboard as I did when I was 18. In the image, you can see my favorite note-taking app, Obsidian, and my Neovim terminal. I'm diving deep into Java, and for that, I'm taking a Spring Boot bootcamp offered by Claro through the DIO Innovation One platform.

[moose-mousse]

Ok. I am going to let you in on a secret about how to make programming projects.

You know how people write really good code? Easy to read, easy to work with, easy to understand and very efficient?

By refactoring.

The idea that you write glorious nice code straight is an insane myth that comes from thinking tutorials is how people actually code.

That is because programming is just writing. Nothing more. Same as all other writing.

The hobbit is ~95000 words.

Do you think Tolkien created the Hobbit by writing 95 thousand words?

Of course not! He wrote many many times that. Storylines that ended up scrapped or integrated in other ways, sections that got rewritten, dialog written again and again as the rest of the story happened. Background details filled in after the story had settled down

Writing. Is. Rewriting.

Coding. Is. Refactoring.

Step 1 in programming is proof of concept. Start with the most dangerous part of your project ( danger = how little experience you have with it * how critical it is for your project to work )

Get it to do... anything.

Make proof of concept code for all the most dangerous parts of the project. Ideally there is only 1 of these. If there is more than 3 then your project is too big. ( yes, this means your projects needs to be TINY )

Then write and refactor code to get a minimum viable pruduct. It should do JUUUUUST the most important critical things.

Now you have a proper codebase. Now everytime you need to expand or fix things, also refactor the code you touch in order to do this. Make it a little bit nicer and better. Write unit tests for it. The works.

After a while, the code that works perfectly and never needs to be touched is hard to read. Which does not matter because you will never read it

And the code that you need to change often is the nicest code in the codebase.

TRYING TO GUESS AHEAD OF TIME WHAT PARTS OF THE CODE WILL BE CHANGED OFTEN IS A FOOLS ERRAND.

( also, use git. Dear god use git and commit no more than 10 lines at once and write telling descriptions for each. GIT shows WHAT you did. YOU write WHY you did it )

Is this how to make your hobby project?

Yes. And also how all good software everywhere is made.

[code-es]

Coding resource!

exercism.org

A free website where you get specific problems to methodically learn small concepts of a programming language. Do 10 minutes to 1 hour every day, and then you will keep practicing every day, and you will be able to use the skills you learn in your real projects. They walk you through the problem all the way, and it's a super good way to learn!

[jay0fspad3s]

I swear that half of programming is staring at your screen going "how do I do this" and the other half is figuring out why something doesn't work and being like, "oh duh I'm just fucking stupid"

[hayacode]

Officially a Software Developer! 🥳

This has been one of my favorite experiences ever! It was super challenging, but I loved every minute of it.

Yes I cried a lot and I felt anxious more than I have ever in my whole life but hey I did it at least. 💻✨

Can you believe I reached this level in a year and half only 😭 all thanks to my hard work ⭐️

My next goal is to update my graduation project, add more features, and of course, build even more personal projects!

Now let me tell you about my graduation project, Ganbare is a web application designed to help Japanese language learners practice vocabulary, kanji, and grammar. It's a full-stack project that was built with .Net 8 and React JS.

The design needs a lot of work but hey I had a very limited time (3 weeks for backend and 3 weeks for front end) so I couldn’t be that creative.

You can learn more about my Ganbare project here:

Backend: https://github.com/HayaTamimi/Ganbare

Frontend: https://github.com/HayaTamimi/ ganbare-jipt

Please check github code instead of the deployment links (deployment links need more works)

Unfortunately, the deployment link isn’t working (fetching the database is very slow) but I will update it and fix it after I solve some problems and add more features.

For the leaderboard, I am not able to save the score of the user to the l database. Also I need to fix the admin dashboard, it’s not suitable for how my backend is designed.

I got full mark because I fulfilled all the requirements but that doesn’t mean my project is perfect, its far from perfect actually.

Next, I want to tell you about the career update, put let this be for other day.

[izicodes]

C# Study Links | Resources ✨

As I am starting to relearn C#, I thought why not share some links that have helped me in the past and what new ones I will be using this time to learn! I already made a similar resource post (post 1 | post 2) for C# in the past but why not a new one? 🤗

Microsoft Learn - LINK

C# Station - LINK

YouTube - LINK

SoloLearn - LINK

Codecademy - LINK

Learn C# - LINK

C# Yellow Book - LINK

C# Programming Guide - LINK

Tutorials Point - LINK

Roadmap to ASP.NET Core Developer (C#): LINK

C# Subreddit - LINK

Dot Net Perls - LINK

C# Coding Conventions - LINK

The Ultimate C# Guide For Beginners - LINK

That's all for now! If this does interests you, do check out the other posts (1 | 2) I made of other C# resources!

Happy coding/programming! 😎💻👍🏾

[computer-nerd-girl]

[nixcraft]

I'm a programmer with the trifecta of coding ineptitude 😅 🤣

[dabossgobbuk]

Gonna work on this.

with Benny.

It's about 3PM British time.

2 hours.

Time me gentlemen.

[heart-ghost-studyblr]

Today I have an merge conflict plus a deploy error in my link in bio app which is deployed in Fly io. Not big deal, just came out that was auth error in deployment, but about the merge conflict was a little bit more than a few lines.