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spikej··on Code doesn’t have to be a mess
I'm going to steal your quote. I love it!

To add, how could they do any QA when testing needs to map to those unwritten requirements

spikej··on The Old Reader
Not your question, but I tried a bunch after Google Reader shut down and landed on Bazqux. I've been a happy paying customer for years since the dev was so responsive and even helped identify an issue with one of my self-created feeds...
spikej··on Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14M (2016)
I loved how well the Macromedia products played with each other. Freehand -> Flash or Director just WORKED! Illustrator to these failed miserably.
spikej··on Job interview questions engineers should ask, but don't
Typically, the company expects you've done your homework before asking them these questions...
spikej··on Fail Gardening: Low Expectations for Skillbuilding and Eventual Success
Or simpler yet: container gardening with pots and big totes
spikej··on Ask HN: What do you use VMs for regularly?
PiHole (https://pi-hole.net/) with PiVPN (https://www.pivpn.io/) on one and Huginn (https://github.com/huginn/huginn) on another
spikej··on The journey of sharing a wired USB printer over the network
Seems like a lot of work and hassle... I would have looked for a router that supported printer sharing via USB like this: https://www.tp-link.com/ca/support/faq/745/
spikej··on Lawn mowing frequency affects bee abundance and diversity (2018)
Thanks!
spikej··on My guiding principles after 20 years of programming (2020)
Valuing performance has indirect effects on other things: you're forced towards better models, better SQL queries and better validation/verification of data.
spikej··on My guiding principles after 20 years of programming (2020)
I take the original text as "don't just jump into coding right away" which I've seen so many people do. As you said, take a little bit to process and think through it, then start out your pseudocode, etc.
spikej··on Lawn mowing frequency affects bee abundance and diversity (2018)
Wow! Do you happen to know what flowers you've got planted there? I would love to do similar. So far I've been doing lots of clover and putting in crocus bulbs randomly.
spikej··on How to Design Better APIs
I don't think I've ever come across any third party actually implementing HATEOAS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HATEOAS)
spikej··on Some tiny personal programs I've written
Have a look here for the first one https://www.gasbuddy.com/
spikej··on Some tiny personal programs I've written
I have this set up for specific playlists that download to specific folders (tech,kids, etc) and when I or family member come across videos we want to watch later we just add to playlist and it's available for watching later on the HTPC.

I use a script to clean out the playlists occasionally.

spikej··on Some tiny personal programs I've written
That's a fantastic idea!
spikej··on Some tiny personal programs I've written
For me it really hit home starting with autoit on windows years and years ago. I still have scripts I wrote that work almost 20 years later!
spikej··on Ask HN: How do you deal with getting old and feeling lost?
With the rise of ORMS, I'm coming across more and more devs in my work that have no idea how to write performant SQL, and don't ever check to see what gets generated and run "behind the scenes"
spikej··on Adblocking people and non-adblocking people experience a different web
dude... go to a different restaurant. You might even find it's less crowded, and you get better service because there's no game on!
spikej··on My dishwasher won’t start until I let it update its firmware over the WiFi
This even goes for older smart phones. Just because the company needs to turn a profit, doesn't mean I have the means to continually upgrade every 2 years. I love the efforts people put into things like LineageOs.
spikej··on How to excel in tech without learning to code
Not as long as they have a good understanding of what's involved, and can ask questions leading you to deliver better value to business.
spikej··on IBM’s Watson Health is sold off in parts
Add this one to the list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_pay_system
spikej··on Zombocom is a well of deep wisdom (2021)
It used to all be flash based. One update is definitely the change to using CSS, etc.
spikej··on The Windows 11 taskbar is an annoying step backward
Heck, I still use the QuickLaunch toolbar. First thing I do when I get a new machine/OS is enable this:

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/4624-add-remove-quick-la...

spikej··on The Windows 11 taskbar is an annoying step backward
Gotta make use of those full-time UI people somehow... sigh.
spikej··on I automated my job over a year ago and haven't told anyone
This is basically why I read comments more than articles: to learn more about these kinds of tools :)
spikej··on My 70 year old mother has been using Linux on the desktop for the past 21 years
I'm primarily a windows user with a couple of linux-based servers. I just went through this very thing, except I ended up spending hours Googling after failed updates to ensure I could jump to latest LTS from two LTS versions behind.

Half way through I cursed myself for not having documented my set up well enough to just wipe and install clean latest LTS image so I wouldn't have to wade through various forum question/answers.

spikej··on Nine Raspberry Pis powering an office (2016)
Try installing DietPi with Pihole
spikej··on A framework for grading your performance on programming interview problems
This happens with graduate degrees also (not having one hindered a number of prospects)
spikej··on California moves toward ban on gas lawnmowers and leaf blowers
That's one of the reasons I went with corded... It's a little annoying, but a fraction of the cost, never runs out of juice, I never forget to charge it, and only thing I've had to do in years is replace the blade.

In most of these types of articles, no one mentions the problems that batteries are going to cause... (environment and convenience)

spikej··on Reading the web offline and distraction-free
Good luck! Those HTML issues you're coming across are tough and so varied across the web!

I was working with Mercury Parser (pluggable parsing for different sites) in the past.

https://github.com/postlight/mercury-parser

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