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I hate exceptions. Here's why, and also some crazy ways how the most used library in the world abuses them just to draw loading spinners.
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Valentin Ignatev
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Valentin Ignatev
@valigo
programmer, speedrunner, father, immigrant
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- Computer Science is not science, and it's not about computers. Got reminded about this gem from MIT the other day
00:00 - FAANG companies will require 11 rounds of leetcode from you and at least 3 phds in CS, but then will still push React slop to their user as some 300k ARR fake YC startup. How does it happen every time?Meta has just replaced WhatsApp for Windows 11 with a web wrapper that consumes up to 2GB of RAM (or up to 1 GB when idle). New WhatsApp for Windows 11 is based on WebView2. WhatsApp has been testing its new web-based app for Windows 11 for some time now, and it's rolling out
- > Doesn't want to make custom editor for his game > Wants to use Blender instead > Blender's exporter is too slow (duh Python) > Literally hacks in C-based real-time exporter into Blender itself for sub 10 milliseconds response Inspiring AF. Real programmers just do thingsI think I've written the world's fastest Blender exporter. It exports full levels in 9 milliseconds. Check out this video where I show live editing of levels from blender, and it updates instantly in the game. For some context: Okay, since the beginning of development on this
00:00 - Big W Valve, huge fucking W. Lion does not concern himself with scalpers and gamblers
- >be TOML >Tom's Obvious, Minimal Language >not obvious >not minimal
- Year of Linux desktop will never happen as long as glibc is de-facto standard libc. As far as I know, this regression is wontfix, so many games just won't work anymore. Imagine being a game dev from 5 years ago and making a native Linux version of your game in a good faith,
- This guy ported DOOM to his own OS written from scratch, which is free and open source. These are people who keep me wanting to open my code editor and lock tf in.
- The answer to this is actually very simple - making production grade GUI applications for Linux is a soul crushing depressing agonizing dogshit experience. People just don't want to deal with it.What is the obsession with terminal based everything? Is it the desire for a keyboard-centric, uniform UI interaction model? Is it larp? I for once like beautiful things, I like well typeset texts, I like art Unix and itโs culture needs to die
- OOP people are crazy. They will take the most mundane thing in programming ever - passing arguments to a function, and call it DEPENDENCY INJECTION, and then will sell you books and courses about it.
- Hear me out: fast native gui programs that don't ship the browser engine
- Today I learned that NixOS has steering committee, elections, and a constitution. A FUCKING CONSTITUTION for a Linux distro. Year of Linux desktop will never happen when people larp the government instead of, I don't know, MAKING THE FUCKING SOFTWARE.
- $20/hour job: 5 interview stages, 4 take-home coding tasks and 6 months of talking to hrs of different levels 300k/year job: 10 minutes of vibe-check zoom call (or some back-n-forth in twitter dms), and you get an offer in an hour and all systems access by eod
