I share the same sentiment and experience from trying to get into C++. I bought "A Tour of C++" (2022, Stroustrup), I read it back to back, and I thought to myself "it's not so bad, seems quite nice actually, specially the modules part"... oh boy. After 2 weeks writing a HTTP requests CLI tool I was feeling really demotivated, I gave up and went to rust, for no special reason, I just had it queued up after reading "The Rust Programming Language" book.
> pre-LLM, so maybe it's better now?
I came back to the toy tool some time later and used GLM 4.x to implement it further. I had a good experience with it and I understood the code it generated. From my experience, in general, LLM is a good mentor, if you are willing to ingest the content step by step. For me, it is no different from when I used StackOverflow (and other forums) to try and ask how a thing is done.
My last position was "Software Analyst", which roughly translates to Sofware Engineer II. I took part of many inceptions of applications, ranging from front-end (React, Native React, Flutter) to backend (.NET, Nest.JS, Fastify), working until their very delivery in production. Dealt with on-premise servers based on Windows Server 2008 to deliver a middleware for Point of Sale products (based on SAP, and Oracle's MySQL). I also helped migrating a large amount of data (peta bytes) from Oracle to Azure Cosmos (with PostgreSQL as backend), while keeping backwards compatibility with existing systems -- my biggest, demanding and fun challenge to date, next to working as a consultant (while in Tivit, formerly Lambda3) to implement Bacen's PIX payment method, in 2021, for ABC Bank.
I'm an anonymous person by default, and a bit paranoid about security and privacy; I don't mind giving away public data, such as the above.
I left my previous work to finally read through my backlog of books (which is going great so far, currently reading "Crime and Punishment" and Xenophon's "Anabasis" in German), and to work on my game (I enrolled in a Distance Learning institution, with Digital Games competence); but I think the time has come to look for new challenges.
Wellp, not for me... Shame, reddit has/had really good answers to a variety of problems that I've had over the years. Not sure if there's a replacement for it, or if there will ever be another.
You can still add .json to any thread and get the full comments in a single object. The anti scraping features must be a rate limiting thing, because it’s very machine readable otherwise. They just want to push people to be logged in and use the app.
When I go to https://leaks.psylo.app on "Possible IP leaks" side I see only "WebAuthn" with my real IP and, occasionally, WebTransport with an incorrect IP. For "HTTPS Traffic" it always show some other relay. Using Safari 26.5
I'm not sure what would I use WebAuthn for, if ever, maybe I could disable it through "Feature Flags" menu?; regardless, I never treat Apple's services as "premium", since the email fingerprinting thing. I pay mainly for Hide My Email, just to organise things per domain, and it's cheap.
On top of that, the seemingly endless remakes... Some are praise worthy others not so much. I got tired of Resident Evil Remakes, they are just recycling the same formula over, and over, and over again... Innovation has left a long time a go. Other example is the recent Assassin's Creed Black Flag "Resync" (which is a remaster with some things on top of it), I was planing on buying it, but Jesus, Ubisoft couldn't let it pass: their launcher is still there, all DLC's together cost more than the base game (and why have DLC in the first place?), the menu is has an ad for Assassin's Creed Shadows which, etc.
I'm currently doing a course (I think it's equivalent to an "Associate degree" in USA) in Game Development. I feel demotivated to take part in this industry, and I think that, at least for me, it should be just on and off gig to do in my spare time, perhaps with other enthusiasts too, but I don't plan to pursue it.
Why not both? A small button with "Copy link" text to, well, copy the current URL and another that calls "native" share, if available. I don't find it to be too many options, but I would guess that perhaps "Copy link" would have more clicks than `navigator.share`.
I was wondering if it's possible to have the container volume change to, say, an external drive. I currently use QMEU with qcow2 images to achieve this, works well enough.
I've used this a good amount of times, when I coded in front end projects. The first time gave me that satisfying feeling of using the right tool for the job, like completing a puzzle of HTML semantics. I remember JAWS not announcing it correctly in 2018, not sure if it's better now.
When I checked in 2024 or 2025, Windows Narrator announced it differently in Chrome, Firefox, Edge (Chromium mode) and Edge (IE mode), and none of them worked how I would expect them to. Adrian Roselli's verdict (https://adrianroselli.com/2025/01/updated-brief-note-on-desc...):
> Description list support continues to be generally good (with VoiceOver still the outlier), even if you may not like how it is supported.
You shouldn't try to fix this kind of thing by mangling the HTML, since (1) users tend to be used to their screen reader's quirks, and (2) in situations like these, making it juuuust right in one screen reader is likely to make it incomprehensible in another. But it is important to be aware of these quirks, so you don't accidentally design an interface that relies on less-quirky behaviour.
> pre-LLM, so maybe it's better now?
I came back to the toy tool some time later and used GLM 4.x to implement it further. I had a good experience with it and I understood the code it generated. From my experience, in general, LLM is a good mentor, if you are willing to ingest the content step by step. For me, it is no different from when I used StackOverflow (and other forums) to try and ask how a thing is done.
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