The OFFICIAL programming thread

@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

But I don’t really look at it as much anymore, especially since 90% of the posts are that recommended shit to try to get me engaged. I am less engaged because of that shit because I can’t find the posts from my friends that I want to see.

So much this. It used to be worth wading through the relatives who post a dozen times a day to find the post by someone I hadn’t heard from in a long while. Now it’s just as likely the algorithm has decided to never show me that post no matter how many of their unrequested videos and memes I have to scroll through.

Gators1

@Hog and what’s worse is they are ruining this place too when all the unrequested memes get moved here by Tazz and Jam!

Tazz

@Gators1 the world is a meme

Gators1

@Tazz said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

@Gators1 the world is a meme

At least pick the good memes.

Tazz

@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

@Tazz said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

@Gators1 the world is a meme

At least pick the good memes.

Like this?

Ate up with it

Tazz

@Zeppelin said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

Ate up with it

You lol’d

At your obsession, yes

Gators1

Not showing for me. Saved by Imgur!!!

Lob12

I use messenger a lot still because I prefer to write to my friends using a keyboard instead of texting them, but I rarely post on FB nowadays.

Recently the federal govt passed a law forcing the big tech companies like Meta and Google to negotiate advertising revenue sharing deals with traditional media. They, Meta at least, retaliated by removing all canadians news media from their content (I think you can still find some by looking for specific pages but it won’t show in your feed).

Fuck Meta and facebook.

Gators1

@Lob12 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

I use messenger a lot still because I prefer to write to my friends using a keyboard instead of texting them, but I rarely post on FB nowadays.

Recently the federal govt passed a law forcing the big tech companies like Meta and Google to negotiate advertising revenue sharing deals with traditional media. They, Meta at least, retaliated by removing all canadians news media from their content (I think you can still find some by looking for specific pages but it won’t show in your feed).

Fuck Meta and facebook.

Was going to say that traditional media should benefit from FB driving traffic to their sites where their advertising is. But like you all, I guess a lot of people don’t read past the headline before posting a reply so I guess that doesn’t work. Honestly I am getting annoyed by the amount of advertising on sites. Seems like half the sites I go to you have some shit ad after every two paragraphs that you have to scroll past. And I just click off the ones that are like top 10 something and each one is a different page.

tigger

Most platforms have stagnating user numbers and ads have dropping ctr. So in order to not decline they need to increase the number of ads. A lot of stuff that you used to have was paid by the vision of future profits. Now the future profits look bleak across the board.

Pakoon

@Lob12 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

I use messenger a lot still because I prefer to write to my friends using a keyboard instead of texting them, but I rarely post on FB nowadays.

Recently the federal govt passed a law forcing the big tech companies like Meta and Google to negotiate advertising revenue sharing deals with traditional media. They, Meta at least, retaliated by removing all canadians news media from their content (I think you can still find some by looking for specific pages but it won’t show in your feed).

Fuck Meta and facebook.

I use whatsapp and signal mobile apps only when I’m AFK. Otherwise, I prefer using a keyboard on my comp to write messages, even SMSs.

I despise messenger. I can’t opt out of being open to receiving messages, sometimes calls, from 500 people I don’t really know and definitely don’t want to talk to. My wife uses it though to call me and share stuff she likes which is the only reason it’s on my phone.

Kilemall

@Tazz said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

@Lob12 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

Since we went to WFH, I can watch porn all day on my personal computer while pretending to work on my work computer!

Laptop class rules! Suck it Musky!

45% price drop! Makes me wonder what’s wrong with it.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/asus-rog-zephyrus-14-fhd-144hz-gaming-laptop-amd-ryzen-7-16gb-ddr4-memory-nvidia-geforce-rtx-3060-512gb-pcie-ssd-moonlight-white/6494633.p?skuId=6494633&extStoreId=167&ref=212&loc=1&gclsrc=ds&gclsrc=ds

I can tell you- DDR4 and 3060 card. VRAM starved and last gen. Way overpowered for normal work, shit for future proofing for games/streamer content.

@Kilemall probably good for going back and playing your back log of steam games from five years ago that used to require a desktop PC to play though.

Kilemall

@Lob12 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

@Hog said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

I keep coming back to a combination of mithril.js and tailwind css. I don’t think it’s possible to build modern web apps with less code. I haven’t worked out a lightweight state solution (vuex, redux etc) and I usually get away without one for small projects anyway.

Gaaah, pretty clear I thought.

Kilemall

@Hog said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

@Kilemall probably good for going back and playing your back log of steam games from five years ago that used to require a desktop PC to play though.

Oh ya, probably good for most titles right now actually.

It’s time to replace my gaming desktop that’s something like 11 years old, I’d like to play Star Citizen and I figure something is gonna go screwy with China and Taiwan so better to buy while it’s a semi normalized supply chain.

The thing that’s balking me are these video cards priced for the crypto boom that are just incremental money grabs.

I’ve been studying them heavily. I’m never the type to go for the 1100+ card, more the 4070 card level, but that’s 600 (fast dropping to 550), but one of the reasons my machines last so long is putting emphasis on cooling and reasonable power draw.

So I was thinking of going AMD 6700 which is a cut below 4070 but is good enough for now, putting the money into CPU and memory and cooling/power, and just planning to upgrade the video card in 3-4 years where I will end up with something more powerful anyway.

I could guess wrong though and video cards spike cause AI boom.

Kilemall

@Zeppelin said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

@Hog said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

@Gators1

the much dreaded Facebook blackout

Seriously?

Maybe it’s just my friends but Facebook seems dead these days.

It is. I think the only thing it’s used for is interest groups and marketplace

That shittification article practically proved it would become painful and garish, like the main road through town that was shiny and new when built but turns into shitty neon and used car lots and druggies laid out by the garbage bins.

I’ve been supporting and enhancing a bunch of apps that were written a couple of years before my time at the client. We’re currently doing a system upgrade and using the opportunity to implement a bunch of new features into these apps. For one app, the project manager complained about the UX and wanted to change it from a wizard to a different layout.

So while doing that, I thought, great, since it’s now become a change management issue and the users will need retraining (or at least a guide) I can unfuck a bunch of other things I hated about that app at the same time.

I put this in a presentation I’m creating to justify the changes in a section titled “Old / Problems” with a screen shot of the old app layout:

Too many blue buttons:
- In <redacted> Design language, these are “emphasized” and are supposed to draw the user’s eyes.
- If every button is emphasized, it is both confusing and meaningless.
- Plus, it looks like a bomb went off in a Smurf factory.

Ah, I crack myself up sometimes.