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@worldsendless@social.cleverlibre.org
Full Stack Clojure web app engineer
Joined Jul 2021
RT @threadreaderapp
@Endless_WebDev Hello, you can read it here: ⚡ Every Web Developer should know and use WebP images The WebP image… https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1435908800989601792.html See you soon. 🤖
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@alcinnz
My memory suggested that context-sensitive grammars don't quite require the full powers of a Turing machine, so I thought I'd check your claim that they require a "full computer".
I was right: context-sensitive grammars require only a linear bounded automaton, which has only a finite tape, in contrast to a Turing machine's infinite tape.
But you were right, too! As Wikipedia points out, real-world computers do, in fact, have finite memory, so a linear bounded automaton is a better model of a real computer than a Turing machine is!
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"Localhost is where the heart is"
submitted by thelastfolksinger
RT @michaelketzer
⚡ Every Web Developer should know and use WebP images
The WebP image format is considered a next-gen image format and reduces the file size for images by 25-35%.
This is crucial for modern SEO and web performance.
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RT @Anita_ihuman
Random person: if you are not paid for contributing to open Source, why do you keep doing it.
Me:
- the experience is life changing
- the network I have built is long lasting
- Self satisfaction of being a part of something big 😌
#opensource #community #FOSS
RT @DThompsonDev
Reasons why I like Python:
- Really great syntax
- used in frontend, backend, Data science, etc
- it gives a strong base that can be used to learn other languages
- TONS of resources for learning
- Incredible amount of job opportunities in multiple fields
- Strong community
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There's multiple tiers with which to classify how much computational power is required to parse a given language/format/protocol. Whether it's binary or textual doesn't make a significant difference.
A "regular" grammar can be expressed as a state machine (a "finite automaton"), where parsing involves treating the input text as a path though the labelled graph.
A "pushdown automaton" adds a callstack.
Context-dependant grammers require a full computer.
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As a software engineer I frequently encounter things that make me say, "Nice! I can tell a lot of work went in to that." Or other times, "what a clever use of that technique!" But on occasion there is something that just works like magic and I am left with no clue how that was even possible.
For me this includes
- exwm
- git diff
- email
- web sockets
How about you? What is some Magic Tech software in your book?
RT @jasonbosco
Even more content:
@iantien from @Mattermost
@MarkoSaric @ukutaht from @plausible
@sebastienlorber from @docusaurus
@kohsukekawa from @jenkinsci
@saturn4me from @cap_rover
@nicolas_hrd from @QuestDb
@sqs from @sourcegraph
RT @johannordin
Thank you @snowded for taking the time and effort to write this blog post and linking to where I can learn and discover more. Highly recommended.
Just figured out that using the phone camera in #html 5 is as easy as all the places say; it is testing it that was a pain. Next stop: how to handle the actual upload, especially barcode reading.
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<input type="file" accept="image/*" capture>
```
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> VLC can play youtube if you queue the url as a network stream
woa
woa
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@icedquinn ooh! I didn't expect you to speak my language.
It's probably too much of a rabbit hole to actually recommend to someone, but with exwm and buffler I don't think I have this problem of irrelevant clutter getting in the way of my navigation.
eg,
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Perhaps Windows doesn't deserve unreserved criticism these days. By all accounts they are friends to Linux and much open-source stuff. Then why is it that I have a gag-reflex at the idea of replacing my linux systems with it?
- I don't like the fundamental premise that they are locking users into something in the name of ease, complete with closed-source software, ad models, and data mining, and too much "trying to help" users with no clear way to tell the system "just trust me."
- Call me immature, but I chafe at the setup with one entity watching, controlling, spoon feeding, profiting, and punishing. Which is what Windows and/or Microsoft (and, to similar degree, Apple) feels like to me.
- I just plain old don't like windows (lower-case) -- as in, the entire approach to a gui based on a squishy analogy to physical space.
Before I stew this up into a blog post, I'd love to hear more takes on this.
RT @samueljforrest
Doctor of computer science: Hi, I'm John Doe, Bsc, Msc, PhD.
Me: Hi, I'm Sam Forrest, HTML, CSS, ES6.
RT @DavidKPiano
TypeScript has really good garbage collection
It just marked half of my code as garbage
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@worldsendless CNAME cloaking is a fancy term for what's basically just falsifying DNS records. You still serve ads and tracking cookies from 3rd parties (i.e. doubleclick.net), but you use a CNAME record to make it look like it's coming from the 1st party domain (i.e. google.com). It makes browser add-ons or network level adblockers like pi-hole or adguard home ineffective because everything looks like it's coming from the actual site you're browsing.
RT @anatolyivanov
@flaviocopes Overall — JS inconsistency and incompleteness (half-bakedness), especially the OOP implementation (everything is an object in JS, even arrays and functions and yet, no private properties or methods).
Pre-ES6 — type coercion.
Post-ES6 — single-threaded event loop architecture.
Full Stack Clojure web app engineer
Joined Jul 2021
