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I recently created a static site with technical documentation using Antora. Antora uses asciidoc source that it pulls from git repositories. It has a lunr extension for search. It …

A good course will teach you everything on a topic in a structured way. Personally I believe there is a lot more value in well-structured material than in a bunch of responses on r…

Email is one of the few protocols that was designed out of the box to be decentralized, that in the mean time is implemented by a lot of big tech players and that has stayed compat…

A lot of big words in the summary (reimagine, crafting tools, transformative functionality, smoother workflow, push beyond typical CI/CD boundaries, empower developers, ...) and st…

> There's something that seems very satisfying about loading software from tape, too. Uhhh.. as someone who used to load software from tape on a CPC 464 ages ago, I can tell you th…

As a software engineer, I insist on giving developers high-end laptops. The reason is very simple: a lot of development environments are very heavy to run, and developers should no…

Ok, I agree, if there is enough (ad-hoc) communication within the team, you don’t need those meetings every day.

I think one should not use advanced language features just because, but I also think one should not avoid using advanced language features where it is useful. Why would the code ba…

I don’t understand your comment: if you develop software as a team, it seems important to communicate and to know what the others in your team are working on? Also, I really don’t …

> Because all the code I write is high quality… That is a big claim to make… I do follow you on the complexity of code and that good code should avoid unnecessary complexity (‘unne…

When I read about people using AI to write code, it always seems to me that it would be a lot faster and less hassle if they would write the code themselves, without even consideri…

> Sounds kinda cursed, but running something like Debian sid sucks because there's not many other people doing that. I am not sure that is correct. I think it is very common for (e…

I really like to work with snapshot isolation and rarely have any problems with it, but you do have to be aware what guarantees it gives and does not give. In the example given in …

Well… if you know the data is real, then knowing everything about that someone can seriously limit the number of people it could actually be, which makes that someone identifiable.…

For a lot of projects, I have 2 worktrees, where one is for my own work on the project, and the other one is for reviewing other people's code. That means that I can easily do a re…

I am trying to create an account (using a gmail address as email address), but I do not receive a code through email. I already tried multiple times. Any idea what is going on?

Clear, thanks! I did not test it yet, but it looks like something that would be very useful for me. So, I will definitely try it. I will add that me too, I have some concerns regar…

I still consider semver better. When it is used correctly, the version number gives a clear indication of what kind of changes to expect when upgrading. Obviously this is done to t…

Not the original poster, but still not clear to me. Say I mark a page that contains really usable information. For some reason, 2 months later that page goes offline because the do…

I think forum/mailinglist and Slack/Discord/IRC are different kinds of communication: the first is rather asynchronous/offline while the second is rather synchronous/online. I beli…

I agree, I think forums and things like Slack/Discord/IRC is used for different kinds of communication. Forums are rather asynchronous, while the others are rather synchronous. Whe…

I find the following article from some time ago more informative. It contains a very good explanation of isolation levels and how they are implemented in postgresql. https://news.y…

I am a .NET developer. I recently read "Concurrency in C# cookbook, 2nd ed" and found that one very interesting and clear. I mainly wanted a decent explanation on async-await, and …

That one is on my to-read list. Only hear good things about that book. And I see that C# 12 in a nutshell is just released.

I see that the iX magazines are also from Heise. Have seen these before in supermarkets in Germany and it seemed like those magazines have interesting and technical articles. Sadly…