@LainTrain That would be @soatok@furry.engineer. The blog itself is also federated at @soatok@soatok.blog

[tagging @vzq @programming for Mastodon->Lemmy federation]

It’s the other way around. The YAML schema supports JSON because YAML was designed as a superset of JSON.

@Lynxtickler @canpolat

Oh absolutely. I can think of several situations where that wouldn’t work well or at all, for example, a switch statement that sets up variables to be used in the rest of the function.

@zib @UnRelatedBurner @programming

Also, good luck using switch without any breaks, but I’m guessing that’s not quite what your teacher had in mind.

The teacher, probably: “You must always put a switch in its own function! Then use return at the end of each case.”

@zib @UnRelatedBurner @programming

@btaf45 tagging @programming so that this federates properly from Mastodon to Lemmy

@nous That’s a good way of putting it!

@btaf45 in my case, we as a team could have done that, because we didn’t have management dictating how we did anything. It was our choice to do what worked for us, and it was a valuable tool for dealing with whatever got thrown at us.

Now I’m working in a different place that dictates Agile and Scrum to be done Their Way, on top of a project that’s largely waterfall-like to begin with, and I’m starting to see why people say it doesn’t work.

It works, BUT, only when you’re using it as the right tool for the right job and not when management decide to misapply it as a hot new planning methodology.

@btaf45 @mspencer712 The whole point of Scrum is to use the retrospective to stop doing what doesn’t work and start doing what does.

At one point, when my team’s workload changed to less-timeboxable work, we threw out the entire concept of sprints and just used kanban instead, and stayed like that for a year. We still did retrospectives on the old sprint cadence though.

@Andy @BeanCounter Given how many of these start with “Lemmy” you could simplify this to:

https://(lemmy\\.(?:run|(?:fmhy\\.)?ml|dbzer0\\.com|world|kde\\.social|ca)|lemmygrad\\.ml|lemdro\\.id|beehaw\\.org|sh\\.itjust\\.works|(?:sopuli|mander)\\.xyz|zerobytes\\.monster)/c/(.\*)

Or just assume that anything matching https://(lemmy\\.[^/]+)/c/(.\*) is a Lemmy server, which will probably be correct.

Edit: some kind of interaction between Mastodon and Lemmy has doubled all my backslashes. That is not intentional.

@sbstp @bouh I can just see people giving fecetious answers to this question.

@nthcdr this assumes that people write sensible and thorough commit messages, instead of brief five-word ones or, say, song lyrics. Both of which I’ve seen.

I at least try, except maybe for the other day where my commit message consisted entirely of an exasperated “why”, followed by a revert.

That being said, every commit message where I work is required to contain a ticket number (and the server will reject the push if you don’t) so at least there’s that for context.

@257m @programming

Python has had syntax support for type annotations for a while now. The Python runtime doesn’t enforce the typing at all, but it can be enforced by a linter or by your IDE. And I believe you can introspect the type annotations at runtime, because they are actually part of the syntax.

There’s even an alternative way of doing type annotations through specially formatted comments, just in case you might still need to write code that is backwards compatible with Python 2.

@escapesamsara @navi @programming

If your code files don’t contain more lines of comments than lines of actual code, then you’re doing it wrong. (For Python, docstrings count as comments)

And your comments shouldn’t say what each line of code is doing. If you can code, then you can already tell what each line is doing by just reading the code. The comments should explain WHY it’s being done this way, or HOW it’s being done, or highlight some pitfalls that might snare a future developer, and generally just give some higher level context to a line or block of code.

@257m @programming

@JackbyDev oh damn wish I’d thought of that

@LaggyKar I’ve never used it

(tagging @programming for Mastodon→Lemmy federation – ignore this comment)

@wth I have worked with GTK3 myself, and once I got used to its quirks, actually found it quite nice to work with. I was writing my code in Python too, which added some extra challenge, but the GObject introspection took a lot of the pain out of interoperating with what’s basically a C library.

However, I’m aware that GTK has a bit of a reputation. The look and feel is great on Linux desktops that use it natively, but I do remember it looking pretty ugly cross-platform.

@wth @Spyros We need one universal graphical tool kit that works everywhere!

GTK: Hi, I heard you’re looking fo—
Me: NOT YOU

@snowe It’s got its quirks. For example, if I am replying to someone who’s not on programming.dev then I have to make sure to tag @programming (or another account on the instance) in order for my post to still federate to your server, otherwise only the person I’m replying to would see my reply and it wouldn’t show in comments.

I did discover that adding the tag as a trailing reply to a missing comment thread will cause the entire reply chain to federate, so that’s neat.

@snowe a very common reason with Google products, I’ve found; up to and including not wanting to provide that product anymore.