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Kitchen (done): upload for requests in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I really like this design. Well done!

How does the Subscribed feed actually work? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Looking at it on my desktop right now, I'm seeing everything I'd expect, for both local and federated communities. Most typically lately, I'm browsing on my phone, but that's just hitting my instance directly via mobile Firefox, not using an app, so I can't imagine that would have meaningfully different results.

Sounds most likely that this is just a perceptual thing where I'm not consciously realizing that communities Y and Z are posting way more frequently than community X, making me feel like I'm "missing" posts from X that are then trivially found when I go to X directly.

I'll keep an eye out for this a bit more consciously for the next little while and see if that's what's actually going on.

How does the Subscribed feed actually work? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'm sorting by New. My expectation was a linear chronological feed of posts across all subscribed instances. And yeah, I'm still missing some posts in that view.

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How does the Subscribed feed actually work? (programming.dev)
 

I've been using the Subscribed feed as my default view for a while. I understand that this is exclusively content from communities I've subscribed to, but it also seems to be be some subset of that content. If I go into an individual subscribed community, I almost always see a bunch of posts that I don't see on the Subscribed feed at all.

How does Subscribed choose which posts to show and how to order them?

Are there others like me? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, this is me. Coming up on two decades in game dev, and I've always cared way more about building things that are genuinely robust and also make sense to humans, but everyone just wants "fast and cheap", thinks documentation is a waste of time ("you can just talk to people"), doesn't understand "tech debt" as a concept at all, and refuses to prioritize tools work because "it's not player-facing".

All software is rushed software.

QOTD: If you could go back in time, what advice would you give your past self before you started making games? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do not, under any circumstances, attach your sense of self-worth to your games.

Never make game development your identity. Let it be a thing you do, not a thing you are.

Build a community outside of game development as soon as possible, even if you're an introvert. You won't understand why this is so important until the day you need it and don't have it.

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Do they know one second is slow? (registerspill.thorstenball.com)
 

Computers can create and destroy entire worlds in one second. One second is multiple billions – billions! – of executed instructions. One second is an eternity for a computer.

Yet I sometimes wonder whether one second is the smallest unit of time most programmers think in. Do they know that you can run entire test suites in 1s and not just a single test? Do they know that one second is slow?

Seeing how slow modern software can be, on modern hardware, just makes me sad sometimes. I really feel this person's pain, including the slow creeping insanity of "how is nobody else noticing/bothered by this". 😓

Why SQLite Does Not Use Git in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This is the first I've ever heard of Fossil, and it honestly seems really interesting! Having the executable be both the local CLI for working on the repo and the server for providing the whole GitHub-esque suite of services in a trivially self-hostable fashion is kind of galaxy brain.

Soon in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

omg the absolute ~v i b e s~ on that thing 🤩

Soon in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've been out of the loop for the last ~5 weeks. What's PV?

Git tip: switch to previous branch in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is amazing ♥️

Microsoft’s cloud ambitions for Windows could kill off desktop PCs – and sooner than we expected in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Could kill off desktop PCs

Linux has entered the chat.

Git tip: switch to previous branch in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (7 children)

You can do what 👀

YSK: Feel like you only see the same 2-day old content? At least on lemmy.world, you can change your homepage's default sorting type & scope to "Hot" and "All" in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I recently switched to sorting by New, which sounds insane coming from Reddit, but Lemmy is much smaller right now, and New is actually viable and interesting.

I'm sure with more growth that will change, but it's definitely kept my feed fresher and more interesting than either Active or Hot.

(This does of course assume that you're subscribed to a reasonable number of communities you're interested in.)

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Why do some login flows hide the password field until after you submit your username? (programming.dev)
 

I see this more and more lately: go to log in to some site, and they only show the username field. Enter username, click Submit, then a password field appears. Enter password, click Submit again, and then we're logged in.

This makes using a password manager super annoying, because I have to trigger the autofill twice.

Is there some security-related reason more sites are doing this? Is it an anti-bot thing? I'm just really curious, because it seems so pointless on its face, but it seems to be spreading.

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