Good point! And both also work (mostly) with a Commodore 64.

The Genesis pairs well with anything.

Have a look at RobotFramework with the Selenium library. Anything you can manage manually, you can automate repetitively with Robot.

Also, have a look at the F12 Network tab, in case the real images are stored in a predictably named manner.

As a Codium user trying to choose more open tools, I really appreciate your write up, here.

Thank you.

I’ll check it out.

I find this outcome delightful for all the compliance mandated organizations that are leaching with no intention to contribute back.

It could be really helpful for developers at pure leech organizations to make a case for being ready to contribute in an agile manner.

Now they’re all stuck waiting on either a good Samaritan, or their lawyers to get out of the way of progress.

I have little doubt that the fix has been committed to private forks dozens of times already, of course.

I don’t have an answer. This issue is why I left Proton mail. I’m waiting for a built in (or reasonably automatic) solution before migrating my email back to Proton.

Thank you for asking here. I’ll be reading along in case someone has something that’s not too burdensome.

The approach I’ve seen most is using semantic versioning for releases, and having a continuously upward counting (not bothering to reset) build number for everything in between.

Yeah. I’ve had mentors regail me of other tools they used alongside ‘Ed’, but I wasn’t listening very attentively. Hopefully that’s something that can be dug out of the history of the Internet.

I would definitely choose the old reliable stuff over something new and fancy, if I had this use case.

Delightful!

“Of course, on the system I administrate, vi is symlinked to ed. Emacs has been replaced by a shell script which 1) Generates a syslog message at level LOG_EMERG; 2) reduces the user’s disk quota by 100K; and 3) RUNS ED!!!”

Gave me a giggle. That 100k loss has got to hurt for a user who still tries to run ‘vi’ on a classic system, I imagine.

Edit:

Another gem:

“Ed is generous enough to flag errors, yet prudent enough not to overwhelm the novice with verbosity.”

The ‘ed’ editor was designed for high latency networks. I would pull on that thread. That is, in your shoes, I would read up on ‘ed’ and related tools.

If we’re stretching the joke further (and by all means we should, this is a delight), there’s also always “Final Fantasy TicTacs: Advance”

We’re in a “fuck around” cycle where they pretend that the problem was we didn’t have “copilot”, and not that all of our development managers are wildly unqualified.

The “find out” part comes next.

Which is fucking impossible to fathom, because my fucking grocery store’s app can’t even implement search reliably, today.

I’m not sure how they’re going to manage to make things worse.

Actually, I’ll make a guess. My guess is we will go under the critical skill level needed for building safe hospital equipment, and we will get a rash of that stuff killing people due to lack of programmer skills.

I hope the asshole CEOs are the ones that die, but there’s not enough karma in the world for that.

“extra fingers, too many fingers, not toasted, bad anatomy,” got me. It’s perfect.

Also, your username is perfect for this moment.

I love this.

I like to build open source tribute games to my favorite forgotten games of the past.

This is a day one purchase for me, if they somehow don’t encumber it with DRM bullshit…

“The Punisher” arcade game is a criminally under-discovered gem. And Children of the Atom doesn’t get re-released often enough for how stupidly fun it is.

This is super old news, but I’m happy to see these get more attention. These released last October.

These devices are delight. It makes a great gift for a casual retro game enthusiast - particularly if gifted with an Evercade cartridge matched to their interests.

Both built-in game line-ups are fantastic, and the Evercade library is a delight.

The big caviat of the whole Evercade set is that the cartridges are really just SD cards inside. So they’re not probably going to last terribly well.

“No border, no nation, no gods, no masters, never gonna…” got me good. As bad as other things are, this is a delightful moment in the Fediverse, and you’re all a delight to share it with.

An LLM pointed at various (local) public sources of data, that can answer (local) voter questions, could be pretty cool.

I.e: "Summarize X candidate’s voting record on tax increases/education/walkable cities/unionization/etc…

Holy shit!

Just a bit more perspective for you:

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#technology-most-popular-technologies

More than half of professional developers use at least some JavaScript, and almost half of us also use Python.

So both of those are likely to be worth the effort to learn.

That said, as a diehard Python programmer, if I was forced to pick a single language to focus on, it would be JavaScript. JavaScript runs almost everywhere, and it specifically is the only decent option in a few places, such as Web app browser code.

But also, while I’m fluent in a couple dozen languages, my preferred go-to language is still Python.