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JackbyDev

@ JackbyDev @programming.dev

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Any pronouns. 33.

Professional developer and amateur gardener located near Atlanta, GA in the USA.

I'm using a new phone keyboard, please forgive typos.

  • Licenses are boring but you really need one!

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  • If your company won't let you use MIT licensed software I don't know what to tell ya. If your company won't let you use MIT code, which FSF and OSI endorse, but will let you use CC0 code, which FSF and OSI do not endorse, then I really don't know what to tell ya.

  • The Accountant's Revenge

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  • Tax season is a term that applies to the period that the US federal government accepts tax return documents for the previous year.

  • The ‘Profound’ Experience of Seeing a New Color

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  • Yeah, that's the entire point I'm making. In the same way magenta is not a single wavelength but a side effect of our perception, olo is an effect of stimulating individual types of cone cells instead of the eye as a whole.

  • Licenses are boring but you really need one!

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  • Absolutely not! Avoid CC0! Stop spreading bad information. If you want a public domain dedication with fallback permissive license the best choice is (sadly) The Unlicense. It is the only public domain dedication with fallback permissive license approved by both FSF and OSI. It's unfortunate because The Unlicense is still a crayon license.

    If you don't want to burden some stream projects with including copyright notices, just don't enforce it if you find people who forgot.

    https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#CC0

    If you want to release your non-software work to the public domain, we recommend you use CC0. For works of software it is not recommended, as CC0 has a term expressly stating it does not grant you any patent licenses.

    Because of this lack of patent grant, we encourage you to be careful about using software under this license; you should first consider whether the licensor might want to sue you for patent infringement. If the developer is refusing users patent licenses, the program is in effect a trap for users and users should avoid the program.

  • Licenses are boring but you really need one!

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    1. AGPL. Strictest. You want a strict license. Don't let people take advantage of you. I see no good reason to pick GPL when AGPL exists.
    2. LGPL. If you want people to be able to use it (but not modify it) without their code having to be FLOSS as well. Still quite strict relatively with everything below.
    3. Apache. Permissive license. If you really want a permissive license, this is the one to go for.
    4. MIT. Permissive but less explicit. Okay for super short code.

    Avoid at all costs CC0. CC0 explicitly does not give patent rights. MIT implicitly does.

  • The Accountant's Revenge

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  • Y'all aren't searching "1099" in your email during tax season?

  • The ‘Profound’ Experience of Seeing a New Color

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  • You say that, but Magenta is similar. It's a unique reaction in our perception to two different wavelengths of light combining. Magenta is not in the rainbow.

  • AI models routinely lie when honesty conflicts with their goals

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  • I feel like you're missing the forest for the trees here. Two things can be true. Yes, if you give AI a prompt that implies it should lie, you shouldn't be surprised when it lies. You're not wrong. Nobody is saying you're wrong. It's also true that LLMs don't really have "goals" because they're trained by examples. Their goal is, at the end of the day, mimicry. This is what the commenter was getting at.

  • ISO 8601

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  • So xkcd got a detail wrong? I'm cancelling my subscription!

  • ISO 8601

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  • I bet you could make a one liner to rename files with YYYY-MM-DD to 0YYYY-MM-DD fairly easily. Not a problem.

  • ISO 8601

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  • How do you write the number thirteen? 13 or 31? 🤔

  • ISO 8601

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  • I feel like YYYYMMDD (without dashes) might be a format in ISO 8601, but I'm fully expecting to be corrected soon. But I didn't say think, I said feel. YYYYMMDD has a similar vibe to YYYY-MM-DD, ya feel me?

  • You are the badass hero. You are about to detonate a bomb that will kill you, destroy the enemy and save humanity. What is your last badass quote?

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  • Flint and steel!

  • Modern Font Requirements

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  • How'd you do it?

  • Modern Font Requirements

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  • I got Fira Code, which tracks, I've used it before. I use Comic Code though. (A monospace comic sans type font.)

  • Modern Font Requirements

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  • Name them

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  • You think anyone does crime to support their dream of being a shop keeper with good deals?

  • Linus Torvalds Expresses His Hatred For Case-Insensitive File-Systems

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  • Trying to rename a file to use the correct capitalization in a git repository on my Windows laptop for work was tricky. Or maybe it was subversion. Actually I think it was subversion. Either way it was a weird little puzzle for the day.

  • Linus Torvalds Expresses His Hatred For Case-Insensitive File-Systems

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  • It's so funny to me that humans use numbers that are big to small, but some people are that dates should be small to big. Maybe other languages do it differently. But UK folks saying day month year is better while writing the individual number big to small is so wacky to me. Today is 2025-04-27. If they said it like "7 and 20, April, 5 and 20 two thousand" it might make more sense, but no, it's "27 April 2025".