« The problem with grabbing small snippets of code is a lot of context is lost.» does not mean that a lot of additional code is required to understand the context, additionally, simple code may require you to read a bit of code to understand it.

Simplicity does not mean small scale, nor that it must be understood at a glance.

Rich Hickey got a great presentation where he discuss simplicity vs complexity. It’s worth a watch if you want to better understand the concepts.

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy/

Simple != few lines of code, nothing incompatible about those two statements

I got a bot on lemmy that scrapes espn for sports/football updates using regex to retrieve the JSON that is embedded in the html file, it works perfectly so far 🤷‍♂️

Though to be fair, I think the study would yield similar results to pretty much every country.

https://programming.dev/post/38467491

MongoDB handles web scale. You turn it on and it scales right up

How can it be profitable? Surely the energy cost would surpass that value of a single search?

How is Go safer?

What big advantages does pathlib provide? os.path works just fine

First paragraphs in the article

Writing a package manager is not one of the most common programming tasks. After all, there are many out-of-the-box ones available. Yet, somehow I’ve found myself in exactly this situation.

How so?

I’m a big fan of SQLite and its extensions. Given the large number of such extensions in the wild, I wanted a structured approach to managing them. Which usually involves, well, a package manager. Except there is none for SQLite. So I decided to build one!

/ isn’t a valid char in filenames, yyyy-mm-dd is better

That’s for images though, not text content.

Sweden and Denmark are very similar. You don’t need oil/gas to make it possible

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made a racist conservative

Half of TES lore is about racism, oblivion even got a racism table for all the playable races.

Huh, I missed that when skimming through the post and source code

I am considering implementing my own ActivityPub server to remove the dependency on a Lemmy server to get votes,

I saw that part and misunderstood it as if he didn’t run an instance.
Thanks for pointing it out!

Honestly surprised you’re able to get lemmy votes without an admin account, I thought that data was restricted to instance admins.

I think they limit it to upvotes for normal users

University students get free pro licenses for jetbrains IDEs I think