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I generally like ORMs but recognize that they have a lot of problems. The most common problem that I've seen is when an ORM makes it easy to select records in a way that looks effi…

I think the last time I emailed a stranger when I had no business reason to do so was to thank someone for creating an excellent set of instructions for running OpenBSD on the exac…

I read Persepolis in French, and I don't speak French as a native language, so I worry that I missed some of the art and the nuance of it. But, even so, I thought it was beautiful.…

This is what the internet is for. I only remember playing this game once or twice on a friend's N64, so I don't have any nostalgia for it, but the idea that someone chose this as t…

I build ukuleles and guitars from scratch. That's not as niche as what a lot of people do -- it's just woodworking -- but I do software for a living and enjoy making durable, physi…

I've used React on projects and understand its usefulness, but also React has killed my love of frontend development. And now that everyone is using it to build huge, clunky SPAs i…

What are the consequences of simply disregarding the UK ruling? Does Wikipedia have British employees, offices, or financial assets?

I wish I had thought of this.

But if you don't trust Apple, how to you get the key into the Secure Enclave to begin with? Doesn't Apple control the software on your device that provides the interface into the S…

I love the game, but I know a lot of people who don't, for a variety of reasons. They were very opinionated about what kind of game they were trying to make, so you'd expect it to …

Honestly, my .zshrc file started out as a .kshrc file that was passed down to me by an older developer about 20 years ago, when I was still in university. I've added and removed a …

Your kid is awesome and, even with help from adults, this is an impressive accomplishment.

I made a RNN for a college project because I was interested in obsolete historical technology and I thought I needed to seize the opportunity while it lasted, because once I was ou…

> Will there be additional parts that cover how to create GROUP BY queries in the ORM? I find even seasoned Django developers struggle with these. The last time I needed to do that…

I used Doctrine for a few years, and I remember thinking that it was about 50% awesome and 50% terrible. I wonder what I would think if I came back to it today.

I used Django a lot from about 2007 to 2010 and, then, went for several years without using it at all. When I came back to it, I was delighted to find that everything still worked …

Aren't we all?

I don't develop offline, but I've developed the habit of making lots of tiny commits, then rebasing them into a single commit before pushing. To me, a commit is for something I mig…

I think that, in 2024, a lot of these problems aren't as bad as they once were, but when this article was written in 2016, SPAs really were a mess. Since then, people have mostly s…

Variation on a theme: https://hardsafety.ytmnd.com/

https://lukecompany.ytmnd.com/ Edit: Two more personal favorites from back in the day: https://vaderholidayspecial.ytmnd.com/ https://bondfreaksout.ytmnd.com/

Not necessarily worse, but different. I think that's what makes this newsworthy.

One thing I learned -- I think it was from The Pragmatic Programmer -- that helps me when I feel forced into making a quick decision is this three-part answer: 1. I don't know, 2. …

I've had a similar experience. I've been using Firefox since it was Phoenix and I can count on my fingers the times when the browser actually crashed.

He explained this once, but it's been years and years and I don't have a source link. His argument for using the large fonts hinges on the fact that you keep your desktop monitor f…