You can kinda see this in things like modding communities or anything piracy related too. Users just want easy solutions even if it’s at the expense of creators, and creators are doing it more and more for money rather than any personal drive or satisfaction. I can’t believe we’ve reached a point where even mods are being locked behind paywalls, need to be commissioned or sometimes have entire teams funded by patreon to work on them, it’s just another business nowadays.

Git Fork is amazing

The most common usecase is generating data models based on the database, mostly using t4 files so far. We have a non-standard way of defining some parts of it so the default MS tools don’t quite cut it (like ef dbcontext scaffold). I’ve been looking into roslyn but it seems like it might be more trouble than its worth, but default t4 doesn’t even have a proper editor and syntax highlighting so its a low bar atm.

If our content gets federated to threads then it just means that google results will point to it first rather than to us, they will probably have better indexing and search features than the fediverse. People will also probably think the content originated on threads too (since that’s where they see it and threads could easily obfuscate info like that) instead of who actually made it.

It could increase the short term engagement but in the long run, it will just serve to make threads better.

I was really hoping there was something like hamachi/xfire/garena from the old days but modernized and more stable 😅 I just assumed it’d be a solved problem by now.

I’m not giving up on tailscale yet, I’ll try the funnel feature but yeah… seems a bit troublesome for sure

Thanks for linking that, seems like a great resource! Seems like there’s a few that support UDP although I’m not sure if they will work with a CGNAT setup, also their setup seems a bit more complicated and technical than expected but I need to look more into it tomorrow. If everyone else needs to have this installed then that might be an issue

🤷‍♂️ Downvotes are meaningless, I’d rather see them give an actual counterargument if they have one but im used to it from reddit

That’s not really a good solution although it is a temporary workaround.

• Many users won’t know this is a feature they can use, or how to set it up
• Some users use alternative instances that federate with lemmy which might not have this feature
• Content still gets copied and hosted on this instance which might not be desireable

Besides, at the end of the day, shouldn’t the admins and mods here curate the content according to the community’s guidelines and spirit? If someone started spamming undesired content on a forum you’re administrating, the answer wouldn’t be “all the users can just block it if it’s an issue”. I don’t think it should be the answer here either

If you find or run into that article later please share it, I’d definitely like to read it!

I only have half as much experience as you, and none with Go specifically, so I can’t give you any good answers but I can say I empathize - the company I work at is also stuck with a legacy monolith that’s still on .net framework and everything is so coupled that it’s impossible to even unit test, less alone deploy the projects separately. Some people aren’t bothered even with the basic principles of code writing and the senior people are just overworked and can’t keep tabs on it even if they wanted to.

The worst part is that the company is mostly either juniors just doing what they are told or older seniors that are stuck in their ways and are afraid of anything new - although as I got older I started to see why that might be the correct approach, not everyone wants to learn and adapt to new tech and it’s a big ask of the upper management to risk it on that. Basically we’re just repeating the same mistakes and wasting time fixing known errors that keep happening and any actual improvement or proper removal of tech debt never happens.

So yeah… I’m starting to believe that “clean good code” only happens either in hobby projects or new startups. Any larger, “stable” codebase of a larger company is going to be an inefficient mess however 🤷‍♂️

I agree completely. The discussion was what we replace English with however.

I’m not in favor of replacing English, I’m just saying if we want an alterantive I don’t want it to be a nation-specific language again, so to speak.

It’s a neutral, easily accessible language. Having it in programming could incentivize more people to learn it as well.

I’m not disagreeing outright but… Why do we need more non English programming languages? Is there a specific practical reason?

The only language translation I’d maybe consider to accept in programming is Esperanto. Anything else just sounds like a terrible idea.

Thanks, I’ll give it a try! I’m really surprised this is the only suggestion here that’s free / open source (at least the community edition), basically everything else is subscription based.

I use the CLI for simple commands, especially if helping someone on another PC and I don’t have access to my preferred tool, but I honestly don’t get people who use it religiously and never even try tools with GUIs. The convenience of being able to easily see the commit history, scroll through it, have a right click context menu or ability to just click it and see file changes (and then right click those files for additional options), is just something I can’t abandon. Nowadays even the aliasing can be replicated in those tools if they support creation of custom commands so even that is a moot point - with some setup you can be as fast as with a CLI.

Hmm, having googled very superficially about django and flask, it seems to me like the state (at least today) is the opposite - flask is lightweight and django is more heavy duty, having a built in ORM layer, authentication service, admin interface, db migration framework, etc.

To be fair the article also says Django is known for its performance but when I googled that the other day, it looked like it was often near the bottom of the chart rather than top… I guess it really comes down to personal preference in the end 🤷‍♂️

Was there a noticeable performance improvement on flask or what kind of features did you need that django didn’t provide? I’ve always used bigger enterprise frameworks for webapps and only recently started looking into Django for smaller personal ones so I’m wondering what are the differences

Thanks for the book recommendation, I’ll definitely check it out! The course sounds really helpful as well, I imagine there are many remote classes like that nowdays or as part of learning sites like pluralsight so that might be worth checking out. If there’s one conclusion I got out of this thread so far is that it is pretty much something you have to learn and practice in advance and then hope to use appropriately, there’s no sure-way or easy way of finding a pattern once you’re already faced with a problem.

Seems like on one hand, programmers (online at least) are really against being questioned during interviews about whether they “live the code” and spend their free time on contributing to other projects or developing their own, but if this is really the only way to learn stuff like that then maybe they have a point. I was hoping there’s a better way but I guess it’s the same as always - work enough and hope the stuff you learn ends up being useful one day…

Maybe I’m using the word pattern wrong but I meant like builder, factory or visitor pattern, but on a more wide scale also stuff like dependency injection / IoC - basically “techniques” that are not bound to a specific language but rather provide a design by which some things can be accomplished better. Afaik those are not related to specific languages