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MajorHavoc

@ MajorHavoc @programming.dev

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  • What do you use for writing HTML by hand?

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  • Yeah. Pandoc can get the job done as well, if I recall.

    Edit: I lately like to use a go utility for the Markdown to HTML, and then I use pandoc to convert HTML to any other document format I need, such as PDF.

  • What do you use for writing HTML by hand?

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  • What do you use for writing HTML by hand?

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  • I use Vim, but I don't really write pure HTML. I write Markdown and convert it into HTML as needed.

    Markdown covers 95% of my HTML use cases, and I embed pure HTML into the Markdown for the last 5%.

    My Markdown tools (mostly command line utilities such as Pandoc) handle HTML inside Markdown quite nicely. A few need a special "hey, there's HTML in here, pass it through unchanged" command line flag, if I recall correctly.

    In a few advanced cases I'll use a variant of Jinja2 template syntax, and convert that into HTML - often with some converted Markdown mixed into it at build time.

  • Why do you hate Teams/Why is Teams despised?

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  • Reactions are notifications.

    This alone is why Teams needs to burn.

  • What kind of music do you listen to?

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  • Anything without lyrics. Same as others have said: synthwave and similar are great. Game soundtracks. Orchestra albums. Some metal.

    Movie soundtracks are a another great resource for lyric-free music that haven't been mentioned much yet.

  • Devils Panties 1/27/2025

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  • God wants us to hit children. That's why he made them smaller than us. (This is sarcasm.)

    Some people underestimate how strong a few minutes of boredom works as a deterent to bad behavior in kids. And there's always the nuclear option - a long rambling academic lecture, with the only escape being through demonstrating (age appropriate) active listening skill practice.

    I think my kids sometimes wish I used corporal punishment...heh.

  • What app is so useless, you can't believe it costs money?

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  • Yep! My best guess is that maybe 1 in 10 organizations currently has any in-house orchestration skills on staff at all.

    (I'm just annecdotaly guessing based on my professional network, which is actually heavily biased towards organizations that have orchestration skills, but also based on job offers that my peers with orchestration skills are seeing.)

    And the ones that have it get to charge a premium for shitty cloud services to the ones that do not.

  • How the next 4 years are going to be...

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  • And more capable of empathy. And more proficient in hand to hand combat.

    Edit: and liked and respected by a living engineer!

  • Mycology is a complicated field

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  • it's not that difficult if you get a primer from someone seasoned at it.

    Random thought - this is a rare case where survivorship bias works in my favor. The best mushroom mentors really are the ones that haven't died.

    Or at the very least, the very worst mushroom mentors aren't around to teach me...

  • Mycology is a complicated field

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  • I took a class in Geology, but I failed the final exam...I took everything I had been taught for granite.

  • Seasoned Pros

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  • Lol! Yep!

    We try not to say that part out loud in front of the customer, though.

  • What's your least favorite instance?

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  • Well the instance is getting archived soon, so there won't be anything from there for much longer.

    Huh. Any idea why?

    I've always been proud of the Fediverse that it has a home for the furry community. I think it speaks to the flexibility of the platform and the live and let live vibe of the folks we have attracted.

    Their thing isn't my thing, but folks seemed nice, and seemed to be enjoying themselves.

    They didn't strike me as particularly vulnerable to community drama.

  • History Lesson

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  • Yeah. I don't remember licensing my life story to this comic...

  • What app is so useless, you can't believe it costs money?

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  • Oof. Yes!

    The proprietary cloud crap usually has worse or non-existent documentation, fewer features, and a terrible or non-existent API.

    But it comes with a salesperson. So there's that.

    But people with cloud server orchestration skills are terrifyingly expensive right now, so self-hosting a better product can be a very hard sell.

  • When AI Promises Speed but Delivers Debugging Hell

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  • ”My attempt to deploy Codescribble came from a prompt that was essentially “build me a docker deployment configuration”. I figured this would a simple task (putting aside the above problems), but it turned into a debacle."

    Lol. I knew this was coming but I still enjoyed reading about it.

    • Getting a pragmatic working prototype is 90% of the work.
    • Getting that prototype deployed is the second 90%.
    • Figuring out what the hell the user base actually wanted and might pay for is the third 90%.
    • Keeping the product servers from melting into a puddle of breached data slag is the 4th 90%.
    • Building a vibrant community to help adoption is the 5th 90%.

    AI can absolutely help with this stuff, as long as we're able to train it on the work of a couple billion expert humans.

    What's that? We don't have billions of experts on some of these topics? Ooh. That's rough. Bummer.

  • Is there a way to have a less depressing Lemmy experience?

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  • Great advice. I'll add a Pro tip: users who post in ways that get around filters - such as pure image posts of text without alternative text - tend to be the same few users. I find that blocking just a few users completely cleaned my feed. They're a minority of users, but they tend to post a lot.

  • Is there a way to have a less depressing Lemmy experience?

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  • Same. I try to always block at least 3 new sports team channels before breakfast, so that the sport ball updates don't completely overwhelm my brief trips into all.

    I love that this is a great place for local sports, but it's not my thing.

  • Lemmy, is there a community documenting the collapse of the US?

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  • It's more subtle than that though. The Federal government can only call out the army in very targeted ways, and states already only obey federal laws that come with funding.

    The official union won't disolve easily, but many of the practical benefits of the union may erode quickly.

    The supreme court probably won't stop being the highest in the land, but executive orders and federal laws not backed by military action could quickly lose their current influence.

  • Elon Musk email to X staff: ‘we’re barely breaking even’

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  • Heck, I'll even do that for a company I like!