Insomniac code gorilla. I help maintain lemmy-ui and, to a lesser extent, Lemmy’s backend.

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  • I’m currently working on a computer science masters degree while working full time. I’ve been taking one or two classes a semester each fall and spring for the past few years. I’m largely able to do it because I work a cushy WFH computer toucher job that also does tuition reimbursement, am going to a state university not far from me, and have all my classes scheduled at night. Even then, some semesters I got so overwhelmed that I needed to withdraw from some classes and take them again when I’m not drowning in stress.

    I would only recommend it if you are in a stable place both schedule-wise and financially.









  • Yeesh, I thought you were being hyperbolic, but it really is that bad! He even has this massive self report towards the end:

    And how do you avoid being punished? There are two ways. One that works; and one that doesn’t. The one that doesn’t work is to design everything up front before coding. The one that does avoid the punishment is to override all the safeties.

    And so you will declare all your classes and all your functions open. You will never use exceptions. And you will get used to using lots and lots of ! characters to override the null checks and allow NPEs to rampage through your systems.

    Uncle Bob must be the kind of guy who makes all of his types any when writing Typescript.







  • What I suspect is happening here is that it’s using a flexbox instead of a grid. I’m guessing it has a flex direction of row (horizontal left to right), uses flex wrap, and has each video thumbnail have a flex basis to keep them around the same size. It probably makes it easier to look good enough at most screen sizes without needing to have a bunch of media queries change the number of columns at different screen sizes, at the cost of things not always being perfectly aligned. Probably a good tradeoff compared to the alternative tbh.





  • Sheila Adele Greibach (born 6 October 1939 in New York City) is an American researcher in formal languages in computing, automata, compiler theory and computer science. She is an Emeritus Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles, and notable work include working with Seymour Ginsburg and Michael A. Harrison in context-sensitive parsing using the stack automaton model.

    You learn something neg every day. I take it this is one among many instances of a man taking all the credit for something a woman played a much bigger part in creating/discovering?