It’s because the same people who wrote the code usually write the docs, and people who are really good at writing code usually aren’t good at writing docs. It’s two different skill sets that usually don’t coincide.

Case in point: my own documentation for https://nymph.io

I know it’s bad, but I don’t know how to make it good. The code, however, is pretty good. It runs my email service.

Open source projects also aren’t very good at attracting people who both want to volunteer their time writing technical documentation and can.

I feel like a lot of the issue is that software engineers used to be subsidized by both investors propping up unsustainable business models and extremely invasive targeted advertising, and both of those things are either phasing out or being legislated away. A lot of the tracking and advertising practices that kept services like Facebook and Gmail free are illegal now (rightfully so), and investors are starting to realize that not everything is going to become profitable just by having an app.

I think the solution is probably two fold. First, I think the government should invest more into open source software. A lot of the work that keeps the internet running is done by unpaid volunteers. And second, I think we need to go back to paying for services. Giving away services for free because you use them to spy on your users is just an unethical business model. It’s profitable, but so is child labor.

One to many: my primary key is other table’s foreign keys.

Many to one: other table’s primary key is my foreign keys.

Many to many: my primary key and other table’s primary key are all foreign keys that connect each other in some other table.

So yeah, you’ve got it right. :)

No worries. I’ve wasted more time on lesser mistakes than this. I also once made everyone an admin by forgetting a single ampersand. That was a fun eight hours.

You don’t, really. And even a trustworthy open source project can be infiltrated or sabotaged. Basically, you just have to rely on the reputation of the organization or developers behind it.

They elected Reagan, Bush, Bush, and Trump. They are the vast majority of Fox News viewers. They held onto power in the Senate and House for way longer than is reasonable, and destroyed the progressive tax system. They went from breaking up AT&T to cheering on the biggest mergers in history. Yes, a lot of them are good and relatively progressive (compared to previous generations), but way too many of them suck.

Yep. The boomers are a trash generation. They destroyed the system that built them up, and they’re throwing the second biggest tantrum in American history on the way out.

You put in that first “here” thinking it’ll be the only one.

This article was written using voice to text, huh?

Console:

here
here 2
here 3
here 4
here 4a
here 4b

Me:

Haha! I got you!

Moral of the story: fascists hate other people living their lives.

Inject them all straight into my veins. I’m addicted and I’m never going to stop.

I don’t really like this. If my project has one dependency that is one year behind, that’s the same measure as if I have 52 dependencies that are all only one week behind.

As a general indicator, this might be interesting, but it is not useful in determining anything about a piece of software.

You also might want to remain behind, if you support old versions of a runtime, and you shouldn’t be penalized for that. As long as you haven’t missed any security updates, you’re fine.

That’s my secret, I’m always deploying to prod.

Continuous Deployment Man away!

AI won’t replace bad programmers. It will replace grunt work programming.

Yep. Reading the spec gave me the impression that the authors wanted to create something that can do literally everything, not realizing that that makes it impossible to “fully” implement the spec.

Does your application correctly render when I dislike the fact that a user removed a file from a group? That’s something you can represent in ActivityPub.

Most programmers I know have a SO and make bank. What is this?

It wouldn’t really matter until you get to the brain. Very little of your body’s “processing” happens outside of your brain. Basically all of your consciousness is in there. There are some quick nerve paths that loop through your spine for things like moving your hand away when you touch a hot object, but that’s not really consciousness.

True, but webcams still just deliver raw frames (or compressed frames in the case of MJPEG).

451: “The law says get lost.”