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If you enjoy generative art then check out the Reddit group r/generative for daily posts from generative artists on the Internet. There's lots of good stuff there, and much of it i…

Partially, but I think it's moreso the W3C spec being so thorough and the wealth of samples online. I found that during code review both Codex and Claude would refer back to the sp…

In the last 7 days I implemented a complete XPath 1.0 parser & evaluation system from scratch in C++20. Right now I'm adding support for XPath 2.0. Codex in the cloud has been leve…

Same experience here. In the last week I've successfully managed to build a complete C++20 XPath 1.0 parser with Codex, and am now onto supporting XPath 2.0. Codex has been nailing…

I've been using MinGW and MSYS for Windows development since the early 2000's, mainly to keep the build process consistent with Linux. A couple of years ago I gave Visual Studio / …

In the UK it is very easy to find scented roses from specialist growers. David Austin for instance has a 'Best for Fragrance' category on their website. They even go into some deta…

I work on a project that builds an SVG compliant vector scene graph and allows for detailed interaction via its API. Writing client code that can plug into the rendering pipeline o…

It's right at the front near your knee. The level of discomfort would vary between people, but I find it to be very noticeable once the padding's worn out.

I've had my Aeron for 15 years (second hand, so it's probably 20 years old by now!). It's still as good as the day I bought it. The gas lift is going strong too, but I've had to re…

It's only the size and age of them that makes one fly distinguishable from another. When they're all being born at the same time there's absolutely nothing that makes them distinct…

This reminds me of the time I found two flies in my house despite the windows being closed. I vacuumed them up (more fun that way) and the next day there were two identical looking…

Come on... make is a perfectly good choice (and for me, preferable) for any project that is small to medium sized. However if you get to a stage where you have to compile for 3 or …

I think that's reasonable, but is syntactic sugar really going to help you modify a path when the vector points will look more like this in reality: (path (M 368.296, 1.514) (c -0.…

Let's imagine for a moment that path instructions could be mapped out with more verbose instructions. Would this really get enough practical use to be worthy of standardisation? Fo…

> Oh. You can almost hear the designer saying "well fuck it, we'll just jam it all into a string. I'll throw in my 2 cents here because the responses aren't addressing why the path…

You say that like someone that is yet to experience the absolute hell that is OpenSSL 'documentation'.