Eager Eagle

@ eager_eagle @lemmy.world

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1mo ago

The #1 Programmer Excuse for Legitimately Slacking Off (2026 Edition)
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Eager Eagle @lemmy.world 1mo ago
git itself is really not far from a blockhain. Blockchain is fine, it only has a bad rep because of ponzi schemes that use it to create crypto, but the technology and trustless consensus mechanisms are interesting.

1mo ago

Matthew McConaughey trademarks "Alright, alright, alright"

you'll need to record it

a man saying ‘ALRIGHT ALRIGHT ALRIGHT’, wherein the first syllable of the first two words is at a lower pitch than the second syllable, and the first syllable of the last word is at a higher pitch than the second syllable.

If you say it in front of the mirror at exactly 3am, a court official will spawn at your location to serve you the papers.

1mo ago

The #1 Programmer Excuse for Legitimately Slacking Off (2026 Edition)

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Eager Eagle @lemmy.world 1mo ago

but seriously, we need project management features that are decentralized: issue tracking, kanban, code reviews w/ comments, and ways to extend functionality without relying on a git forge.

1mo ago

Why I use minimal syntax highlighting (2019)

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Eager Eagle @lemmy.world 1mo ago

it's fine to prefer less colors, but man, that (2025) blog post is all over the place...

Sometimes it gets so bad one can’t see the base text color: everything is highlighted. What’s the base text color here?

why does the base color matter at all? What is "base" anyway when every word has a syntactic meaning?

Here’s a quick test. Try to find the function definition here:

It's funny to see how this test backfired depending on the person in hacker news, lobster, and lemmy threads. Clearly a personal preference phrased as absolute truth.

But the crux of why the post doesn't make sense is assuming this would matter at all:

Here’s another test. Close your eyes (not yet! Finish this sentence first) and try to remember what color your color theme uses for class names?
Can you?
If the answer for both questions is “no”, then your color theme is not functional.

No, it doesn't. And it boggles my mind why someone would think that failing to recall colors-to-syntax pairs would mean the theme has failed you. Visualizing colors, more often than not, is not even a conscious effort. Colors are a subtle aid to guide your attention to the parts that matter.

Can you see it? I misspelled return for retunr and its color switched from red to purple.

This would/should be better caught by a static checker anyway.

But the best part is that the post contradicts itself: the suggested minimal theme doesn't even address that typo use case mentioned above, because it doesn't feature a distinct color for special keywords. So if one were to follow the post's advice, return and retunr would look exactly the same, making it worse than the colorful theme it criticizes.

1mo ago

CES 2026: Meet Tiiny AI, a pocket-sized AI supercomputer

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Eager Eagle @lemmy.world 1mo ago

it's larger than one, also likely larger than nvidia Jetson and some firewalls out there. The record is for the smallest PC capable of running a 100B model LLM locally.

The specs are impressive tbh, but the record is a bit... specific

1mo ago

Nametag: An open source personal relationships manager

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Eager Eagle @lemmy.world 1mo ago

no problem. I can see that, at the same time, the directory of the place I work at has 20x that number and finding someone is never an issue, so I also don't bother cleaning up my local list.