I looked at code I wrote about a year ago today. Yeah, there are things I would’ve done differently now, but I had no trouble following it. Some of the choices I made were company standards at the time as well which, thankfully, have improved.
tiredofsametab
Reddit -> Beehaw until I decided I didn’t like older versions of Lemmy (though it seems most things I didn’t like are better now) -> kbin.social (died) -> kbin.run (died) -> fedia.
Japan-based backend software dev and small-scale farmer.
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Programming@programming.dev•How useful are functional programming languages?
2·4 days agoI mostly work in Go, but I helped maintain one project written in Elixir for a while. It was rather interesting. It’s certainly a different way of thinking. It does reduce the risk of certain side effects but, as with everything, it has its own downsides.
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Privacy@programming.dev•Do You Suddenly Need To Stop Using WhatsApp On Your Phone?
1·5 days agoNo, I stopped using it suddenly years ago (my dad and spammers were the only ones contacting me and it was mostly the spammers).
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Programming@programming.dev•Back-end programmer for gig economy company describes how the sausage is made.
5·30 days ago(二二二二二)
/ Still not great I guess
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Programming@programming.dev•Developers remain willing but reluctant to use AI: The 2025 Developer Survey results are here
9·1 month agoWe have copilot as an automatic code reviews. It mostly catches my bad spelling, occasionally finds a real issue, and often is incorrect.
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Programming@programming.dev•What are some cool and obscure data structure you know of?
2·1 month agoYep. I can’t spell today
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Programming@programming.dev•What are some cool and obscure data structure you know of?
14·1 month agoNot necessarily obscure, but I don’t think Tries get enough love.
Edit: I can’t spell
I assumed it was a personal name, but I don’t know.
<CENTER><DIV>just as the founders intended</DIV></CENTER>/ If your language has 58 ways to accomplish something like that, you’re in for a bad time.
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•The Six Stages of Code Grief
2·3 months agoSuch hits as ‘a’, ‘b’, ‘x’, and ‘y’. I know the version of the language we were using didn’t have native utf-8 support, so I don’t think kanji varnames were possible. It even made comments in kana and kanji really wonky (I think the comments were shiftjis)
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•The Six Stages of Code Grief
20·3 months agoYou got 3 letters?! Luck!
I worked at a japanese company whose engineers we’re former NTT developers. Copypasta (i.e. not using functions), inefficient algos, single-letter var names, remote code execution from code as root, etc. good times!
We’re stuck on Mac at work and I hate it.
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Privacy@programming.dev•Stock Android users, are you considering switching your phone to another OS such as /e/os, GrapheneOS, LineageOS?
3·5 months agoI’d love to at some point but, last I heard, it breaks the felica and wallet integration which I need to do japanese government stuff (and use the train and such)
It’s bamboo common here in rural Japan. We have two types, one of which has edible shoots in the spring so there’s that at least. It does hold the ground together along the riverbank so I never plan on fully ripping it up; last thing I need is for a chunk of my property to slide off in the next big quake.
I’d rather some more of it be human food, but maybe that’s out back. I’m slowly turning areas around the house I just bought into native stuff and food. It is, however, a constant battle against kudzu strangling and bamboo encroaching. I generally avoid having anything that tall and unkept (as some areas look to be) due to venomous snakes that can bite when surprised :/
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Privacy@programming.dev•Harvard dropouts to launch 'always on' AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversation | TechCrunch
2·5 months agoNot necessarily. Maybe because I’m old, I don’t think being out in public and having that delivered to an audience way bigger and further outside that area without consent is right. If I’m walking by in a shot or something, I don’t mind at all. But if it’s someone sitting nearby when I’m at a restaurant or bar or something, that starts to get weird for me. I did also have a stalker once which definitely did shape my view on this more.
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Privacy@programming.dev•Harvard dropouts to launch 'always on' AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversation | TechCrunch
4·5 months agoI should have the right to not have my voice or likeness recorded and sent to some unknown, private company without my consent.
move things, breakfast
Ah, sorry. Stupid race conditions.
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•What do you call your production branch?
21·6 months agoBoring answer: older repos are master, newer ones are main. I’ve worked at companies that did other things such as having the prod branch be a branch called prod.

I was thinking of giving piefed a shot. Any further reading on this?
Edit: Why on earth is this so downvoted? I was thinking of switching from mbin to piefed, saw this, and asked for elaboration. FFS.