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Cake day: June 28th, 2023

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  • Sounds very theoretical, my experience working on some 40 year old software full of business logic, where customer A got some feature but customer B needs it to work slightly different. Aka something approaching spaghetti.

    Regarding old comments I have several times used ~15 year old comments by the original author, close to the actual code to piece together the use of that code, and if I can add my fix there.

    In this setting You write comments for yourself, when you in two years need to fix a bug in the new code caused by your old code. And for the next developer that will look at your code decades after you left the company.

    Sometimes you, against good practice, comment out a section, with a note why, because you know this will have to be re-enabled in a few months.

    Report from the frontlines…



  • I’m sure Arch and Manjaro are worth a try, back in the day I tried RedHat/SuSE/Slackware/Debian/Ubuntu and ended up with Mint Cinnamon.

    The closest to Arch I tried was using Debian Sid, but got annoyed when I one time had to battle with getting it up and running after a dist upgrade. I really hope Arch handles those upgrades better.

    The most annoying with that upgrade was that the UI changed to an early version of Gnome Shell, I think that prompted me to switch to Mint MATE






  • The Panalysts are worth the watch, the successor to Feed dump but as a panel show, and this time everything is made up so you don’t have to feel bad for Florida Man, and nobody smuggles anything in their pants.

    After LRR started streaming, you have to choose your favorite shows because watching everything is a full time job.