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In my experience, it was an attempt to prune the stuff in old API that wasn’t useful. A successful attempt, since the backend working on it was in the same room as me and I could yell at him.

So you just gave him an excuse to go have a coffee break and wondered why he didn’t care? :P

Good question. Probably MEGA, at this point? Dropbox is also still a thing but I have no clue about how much storage you get for free any more.

Don’t use Discord as a CDN, their links expire.

I remember seeing one or two stations like this when I was a kid. The hoses lowered down after you paid, so you don’t need to be tall to use it.

I keep wishing that one day I’ll find a place to taste baklava made with pistachios. It’s always peanuts instead.

You can make it mutable really easy, too, if you need to for some reason. Most stuff you need is available off flathub, but some applications you may want have to be installed the old-fashioned way.

This is kinda my experience. If there’s an extension keeping track of schema and linting, it’s alright.

If you’re doing it by hand, well, good luck.

My personal favourite way to make configs is lua. But that’s neither here nor there.

Man, the variable scoping thing is insidious. It will never not be weird to me that ifs and loops don’t actually create a new scope.

And then you try to do a closure and it tells you you didn’t import anything yet.

Personally, I prefer duplicate keys to be eaten by the parser but I can see how it’d be beneficial to prevent them.

Wait, let is to introduce locals but local is to introduce variables available in the whole file?

…so local creates global variables? What?

…and local creates constant values?

It’s inconsistent and annoying. Expressive, yes. Gets it’s job done, yes. Absolute nightmare of a spec, YES.

The fact that JSON is a subset of YAML should tell you everything about how bloated the spec is. And of course there’s the “no” funny things.

Personally, my favourite way to write configs was using lua (because it was already part of the project so why not), but JSON does fine.

Genuinely, why? Personally, I’m happy to eat basically same meals for a few days before they get boring, and you can vary your sandwiches a lot of you so desire.

I used to use FTP for file transfer, nowadays I just start up a HTTPS server on the source machine and grab stuff from there.

Well, it was a spur-of-the-moment sort of thing when I went and looked at their site and it just had a bunch of names with no numbers there under the book art.

Went and checked now and site looks entirely different, and I can clearly see the issue numbers. I don’t know, maybe I hallucinated it.

Yeah. I tried getting into comics once and got a multi-gigabyte archive of deadpool stuff.

…couldn’t make heads or tails of it.

Actually couldn’t get into IDW sonic/transformers for the same reason. WHERE DO I START!?

Yeah, it’s pretty difficult to find energy for personal programming stuff when your dayjob is programming stuff.

Gotta get up from the PC for a bit.

“speak-singing” is a thing some people do to work around language issues, apparently it’s an entirely different part of the brain.

Anything an API returns should just look like 1720533944.963659 .

There’s no reason to store dates as anything other than UTC. User-side, sure, timezones are useful. Server doesn’t have to know.

…I was gonna say it took until it was shrunk down to the thumbnail to see red, but nope, it actually has red in it in the thumbnail.

Guess this is specific to how often you see cans of coca-cola?

Here, I put the image through a ditherer (only available colours are black, cyan, white). I don’t see any red at all now.

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Actually, that “red” is mostly just gray so I played myself here. Still, the luminosity must be closer to red before I detect it as red, white doesn’t do it.