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  • What Git clients do you use?

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  • I'm a big fan of tig for visualizing the graph and looking over history (then I don't need to leave the terminal, and it's snappier, in my experience, than most full-GUI programs like Sourcetree), but for actual Git commands, I like the CLI

  • PNG is back!

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  • I'm glad it is now. I remember a decade or so ago, I wrote an APNG decoder, so I was deep in the world of APNG.

    And I remember reading various things that made me think MNG was the 'more official' flavour of "animated PNG", and it was absurd to me, because APNG seemed like a much more approachable spec. I'm glad the winds have turned...

  • How do I keep all the data I need in one single place for my website?

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  • If you aren't married to Hugo as your solution, I will recommend giving Eleventy.js a look.

    It's a static-site generator, but a good amount of flexibility is afforded by virtue of using pure JS to generate view data (which means that you can do any conversions needed, manually or with NPM packages if needed for more proprietary data formats), and it supports a bunch of templating engines too.

  • Firefox has moved onto Github

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  • I was about to reply with a "oh, really? Whoops, I maybe should I have looked a little deeper" and edited for the post title, but I'm not so sure, looking into the first link you posted.

    RE: phabricator...I don't know what that service is or is for, so I can't comment if there's any proof therein.

    But the "how to submit a patch" page linked has a section that seems to at least suggest that their Github repo is now first-class, per the first line of the section.

  • Programming @programming.dev
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    Firefox has moved onto Github

    github.com /mozilla-firefox/firefox
  • Programming @programming.dev
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    Dolphin Progress Report: Release 2503

    dolphin-emu.org /blog/2025/03/10/dolphin-progress-report-release-2503/
  • Lemmy.ca's Main Community @lemmy.ca
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    Which Lemmy web frontend is most popular?

  • What is the deal with Yarn in a nutshell?

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  • So, there are a lot of words in the post that I'm not familiar with (LoRA, Oobabooga, CivitAI). However, I think those are details about the actual library or package you're looking at, so I will not touch any of that.

    I can strict answer the question "what is Yarn?"

    Long story short, it's a direct "competitor" to NPM (Node Package Manager). In the earlier days of Node and NPM, Yarn was an attempt to improve certain weaknesses perceived in NPM (including speed and security). Yarn is still used in many codebases, but it's become less popular over the years as NPM has resolved many of the things that Yarn sought to fix. Also, Yarn version 2 made a major design change which some have viewed as too radical (though I'm unclear on the details as I've only dabbled in v2).

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarn_(package_manager)

  • Collection of insane and fun facts about SQLite

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  • You’re right, that’s a distinction I failed to make

  • Collection of insane and fun facts about SQLite

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  • I get it...I've never been the maintainer of a codebase that's deployed on trillions of devices, and backwards compatibility is something to be taken seriously and responsibly when you're that prolific. I do not begrudge SQLite or any large projects when they make decisions in service to that.

    However

    It always makes me feel oddly icky when known bugs (particularly of the footgun variety) become the new standard that the project intentionally upholds.

  • need advices

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  • So, I will start by saying "Yes, you can do it. It's not too late and programming is fun and fulfilling".

    However! One thing my experience has taught me in seeing people approach and bounce off programming is: programming is a fail-til-you-get-it type of endeavour. Your first several years will be littered with broken code, because there are a thousand little things you have to bump up against before you unlock one more puzzle piece.

    So! If you go for it, persevere! You aren't a bad programmer, or a slow learner, because you can't get your code to work. Every single one of us ran into the same issue, and we just had to push through, learn to Google, and try again until it sorta-kinda works. You in 10 years will be embarrassed by what you write in your first years

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    Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend

    programmingisterrible.com /post/139222674273/write-code-that-is-easy-to-delete-not-easy-to

  • Winamp source code is now on GitHub

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  • It...seems like there may be some issues with the repo...

  • The technology behind GitHub’s new code search

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  • That’s a fair point. I’ve always assumed it was a form of rate-limiting, but you’re right, that’ll be part of their analytics at least

  • The technology behind GitHub’s new code search

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  • Oh, whoops! I didn’t notice its timestamp when I read it 😅

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    The technology behind GitHub’s new code search

    github.blog /engineering/the-technology-behind-githubs-new-code-search/

  • Why YAML sucks?

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  • Leopards Ate My Face @lemm.ee
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    Gay Republican Leader shocked to find his fellow Conservatives calling him a pedophile

    www.lgbtqnation.com /2024/07/gay-republican-leader-shocked-to-find-his-fellow-conservatives-calling-him-a-pedophile/

  • Free-threaded CPython is ready to experiment with!

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  • Yes, testing infrastructure is being put in place and some low-hanging fruit bugs have already been squashed. This bodes well, but it's still early days, and I imagine not a lot of GIL-less production deployments are out there yet - where the real showstoppers will potentially live.

    I'm tenatively optimistic, but threading bugs are sometimes hard to catch

  • Free-threaded CPython is ready to experiment with!

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  • I'm curious to see how this whole thing shakes out. Like, will removing the GIL be an uphill battle that everyone regrets even suggesting?Will it be so easy, we wonder why we didn't do it years ago? Or, most likely, somewhere in the middle?

  • The (short) story of how the SSH port became 22.

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  • What a strange article. The reasoning for why 22 is interesting though very straightforward, and the rest of the article is essentially “I asked for port 22, and they gave it to me”. Little fanfare, little in way of storytelling conflict.

    Not an issue in and of itself, but strange with a title of the form “This is the story of…” That sort of titling usually begets intrigue and triumph over adversity, dunnit?