But it doesn’t have any built-in concept of users, write permissions, or authentication (except for commit signing)
Hosting an unauthenticated git repo would be the equivalent to an open ssh port with no password required
Not to mention collaborative things like issue tracking, PRs, forums, etc
Is this different from Shai Hulud 2?
Edit: the article was published November 24, so I’m pretty sure this is just Shai Hulud 2
I wonder if it’d be feasible to make a fediverse github
Once i have a solid implementation, I wanna morph it into a custom scripting language for generating diagrams (a la graphviz or mermaid js)
I literally just wrote this a few hours ago (line 55)
Never make things more “impressive”
Make them more comprehensible
Reduce the cognitive load required to understand and reason about a piece of code. Honestly, the more you can express complicated ideas simply, the more impressive you are
I did this once
I was generating a large fake dataset that had to make sense in certain ways. I created a neat thing in C# where you could index a hashmap by the type of model it stored, and it would give you the collection storing that data.
This made obtaining resources for generation trivial
However, it made figuring out the order i needed to generate things an effing nightmare
Of note, a lot of these resource “Pools” depended on other resource Pools, and often times, adding a new Pool dependency to a generator meant more time fiddling with the Pool standup code
Separate out those “concerns”, into their own object/interface, and pass them into the class / function at invocation (Dependency Injection)
public Value? Func(String arg) {
if (arg.IsEmpty()) {
return null;
}
if (this.Bar == null) {
return null;
}
// ...
return new Value();
/// instead of
if (!arg.IsEmpty) {
if (this.Bar != null) {
// ...
return new Value();
}
}
return null;
}
if it’s not in git / SVC, add it as is. Create a “refactor” branch, and liberally use commits
Treat it like a decompilation
Figure out what something does, and rename it (with a stupidly verbose name, if you have to). Use the IDE refactor tools to rename all instances of that identifier
Take a function, figure out what it does, and refactor it in a way that makes sense to you
Use the editor’s diff mode to compare duplicate code, extract out anything different into a variable or callback, and combine the code into a function call. Vscode’s “select for compare” and “compare with selected” are useful for this
Track what you’re doing / keep notes in something like Obsidian. You can use [[Wikilinks]] syntax to link between notes, which lets you build a graph structure using your notes as nodes
be cognizant of “Side Effects”
For example, a function or property, or class might be invoked using Reflection, via a string literal (or even worse, a constructed string). And renaming it can cause a reflective invocation somewhere else random to fail
Or function or operator overloading/overiding doing something bizarre
Or two tightly coupled objects that mutate each other, and expect certain unstated invariants to be held (like, foo() can only be called once, or thingyA.len() must equal thingyB.len()
You can use these to more thoroughly compare behavior between the original and a refactor
I use Hoppscotch
I did it once to pull out data from a spreadsheet into a database. Specifically, I needed "${DataType}${Month}" for each month for 3 different datatypes
Iirc, i used an sql pivot (or unpivot) in that query too
Usually, it’s situations like this where you’re parsing data from strings, and you need some glue code to interface between the input data, and the date library you’re using to actually resolve the datetime
Use SystemD timers, you animal
Imo, it’s nice to see tools written in a memory safe systems language
Especially if you use a lot of them. More utility, less attack surface
Think of it more like pre-canned build scripts. I can just write a script (DockerFile), which tells docker how to prepare the environment for my app. Usually, this is just pulling the pre-canned image for the app, maybe with some extra dependencies pulled in.
This builds an image (a non-running snapshot of your environment), which can be used to run a container (the actual running app)
Then, i can write a config file (docker-compose.yaml) which tells docker how to configure everything about how the container talks to the host.
The benefit of this, is that I don’t have to configure the host in any way to build / host the app (other than installing docker). Just push the project files and docker files, and docker takes care of everything else
This makes for a more reliable and dependable deploy
You can even develop the app locally without having any of the devtools installed on the host
As well, this makes your app platform agnostic. As long as it has docker, you don’t need to touch your build scripts to deploy to a new host, regardless of OS
A second benefit is process isolation. Should your app rely on an insecure library, or should your app get compromised, you have a buffer between the compromised process and the host (like a light weight VM)
In my obsidian notes folder, i have
.
For file navigation, i use links and references within the notes themselves, which creates a network of linked files that is far far easier to navigate than folders
Everything else is sorta all over the place, but in general
~/ is the user home directory
For pictures, i use a self hosted Immich instance
Apply directly to the forehead
At least python has a decent runtime typing system
JS’s type system feels like what you’d get by giving a monkey access to unlimited cocaine and a computer
Sorry, I’m too Rust-pilled for this OOP nonsense
pub fn new() -> Self {
Self::self().self.unwrap()
}
I like solving puzzles, and I have a knack for programming specifically