Factory patterns are horrible, because they mix config into program code, maximizing uncertainty when debugging

I’ve always hated factory patterns because I find them unintuitive, but I couldn’t articulate why I find them that way or even organize the reasons why in my head. I just recognized them as a frequent source of annoying debug sessions. I envy your ability to concisely convey something like this.

regex101.com has a convenient searchable cheat sheet for all the somewhat odd but powerful functions like negative lookbehind/lookahead with a brief explanation of each, a regex pattern input with checkable boxes that helps you get down single replacements vs global replacements, a large input that lets you dump text to test against the pattern, an explanation on the right of what each symbol is trying to match, and the left side lets you switch between the different flavors to see some of the variants between languages/standards. I still have a lot to learn before I’ll consider it mastered, but I have enough common stuff memorized now that it works great for me!

Oddly having several variants rather than a standard despite “regular” being in the name: everyone I work with eschews regex but after finally taking the time to learn more than just the basics of it a few years ago I find it so incredibly useful almost daily.

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This is ultimately what made me try out Betterbird. It has regex searching which imo every search box of every app should have as a basic feature. Plus it still has all the features Thunderbird has and even some that Thunderbird has removed in recent releases.

Np, I’d be interested to hear about other people’s experiences with it, good or bad.

It’s Thunderbird but with bugfixes and additional features. Bugfixes I like are being able to sort by attachment and minimize to my tray. Features I like are regex searching/filtering (including encrypted messages), opening to the same folder every time, being able to change message headers, being able to directly open links in messages I’m writing, maybe a few more I’m forgetting. Regex searching is the top used additional feature for me.

Since BB isn’t a hard fork of TB, it stays up to date with bugfixes and features that new TB versions include, and they often restore existing features that new TB releases break or remove (at least 4 in the last major release v115), and are open about breaking features in new versions (like IMAP folder corruption in both TB and BB v128.0 that they say they hope will be fixed in v128.3.0).

I’ve been using Betterbird for a good 6 months and it’s the best email client I’ve used, it’s what Thunderbird should be out of the box. With the Proton bridge app running in the background it integrates very well.

And they’re delivering a terrible product.

Laying people off instead of offering to move them to the now-more-important projects has to be one of the dumbest management moves that tech companies repeatedly do. These are people already trained on all the policies and procedures and tooling and “culture” specific to your company.

It’s going to be more expensive to hire and train new people when the dumdums in upper management finally figure out the mistakes they made that got them to a point where they decided they need to cut jobs and projects, and the ramp-up time before you actually start seeing progress on those priorities is going to be seriously lengthened. Of course they won’t acknowledge it was their fault in the first place, and again the heads roll on the wrong end of the corporate ladder.

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You run an Android device older than 12 years that is running Android 11? That’s pretty good, what device? I didn’t think they were designed with 8 years of OS forward compatibility (Android 11 released in 2020 and you mentioned it as the version you’re having issues with playing a game on).

I think it’s a good first language to learn. Because it’s a lower level language than most of the popular ones these days, you will learn a lot of interesting concepts and problems you wouldn’t otherwise get or even need for higher level stuff - like memory management, allocation, garbage collection and cleanup, and pointer references - but which give you a better understanding and appreciation for what’s in the black box.

But you also learn a lot of transferable concepts like typing, mutability, objects and object oriented design, polymorphism, etc. And there are still a ton of jobs where C++ knowledge is required or at least useful.

I have barely touched it over the years since first using it, but patterns and approaches I learned in C++ have come in handy for me a lot when troubleshooting and when reading other people’s code, and being able to recognize who is going to be a helpful person to talk to when I run into problems I can’t quickly figure out.

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If they set up their career openings page to support multiple languages, they’d likely get a lot more applicants.

Also, palworld.com is an insane website.

Oh that’s an interesting concept, I’ve been using username+label@gmail in a similar way for years, and missed it when I switched to proton

Are you the developer for SMUI? Small world to see a username I recognized from another site. Nice-looking components! 👍

DSP is great. After I finished my first sphere, I wanted to see if the universe had a border, so I picked an outer system star as a reference point and flew directly away from it and all the other stars…for hours before finding the edge wall.