Operator overloads are excellent for readable code when used well - I object to their inclusion on this list.

I believe the venue ended up being double booked by data scientists and white supremacists.

If you’re opening up the dev tools you can also paste your string directly into <input value="" /> unless something weird is going on.

As a super secret dev hack may I introduce you to shift + insert a fair few sites specifically block ctrl + v instead of properly disabling the clipboard action and, of course, if you read this and then submit a Jira ticket to block shift + insert… well… h8u

It’s fucking insane that an internet banking portal has such a low cap on max characters and such shitty rule enforcement.

That’s fair enough.

C is an extremely expressive language. There’s a reason it won’t die and, while we all love to shit on it for the memes, you can write perfectly safe software in it.

Are your platters misbalanced because I’m really getting vibes from you.

… BeanAbstractBeanFactory

They may be obvious to the reader but they may be impossible to see if tabs and spaces are mixed together.

Closing tokens are always clearer.

Sorry, what’s confusing the fact that "Hi my name is {$this->name}" works and "Hi my name is {self::name}" is unintelligible gibberish! /s

Yes it would - look at optional braces for short if expressions in C family languages and why it’s so discouraged in large projects. Terminating characters are absolutely worth the cost of an extra LoC

For those highly complex situations is Lua still viewed as the ideal solution? Lua is sort of legendary for game configuration and seems to strike a good expressiveness/accessibility balance for modders and the casually technical.

So Poe’s Law and all that… I really hope you’re being sarcastic because having non-technical people hand edit JSON is a nightmare. It’s also quite annoying to read without a lot of extra whitespace which most editors that’d help less technical folks omit… and comments to help highlight what different things mean are hacky, hard to read, and actually read as data.

Because people over use it. YAML is pretty good for short config files that need to be human readable but it falls apart with complex multi line strings and escaping.

I think there are much better clearly delimited for machine reading purposes formats out there that you should prefer if you’re writing a really heavy config file and, tbh, I think for everything else .ini is probably “good enough”.

If you have the bandwidth… it is absolutely worth it to invest in a maintenance mode for your system, just check some flat file on disk for a flag before loading up a router or anything and then, if it’s engaged, just send back a static html file with ye olde “under construction” picture.

Initializing VPC…

Configuring VPC…

Constructing VPC…

Planning VPC…

VPC Configuration…

Step (31/12)…

Spooling up VPC…

VPC Configuration Finished…

Beginning Declaration of VPC…

Declaring Configuration of VPC…

Submitting Paperwork for VPC Registration with IANA…

Redefining Port 22 for official use as our private VPC…

Recompiling OpenSSH to use Port 125…

Resetting all open SSH connections…

Your VPC declaration has been configured!

Initializing Declared VPC…

Of course we don’t - Jared is why some workplaces don’t suck. Having a dev with enough seniority to force management to do logical things is an incredible asset.

The real estate requirements are real and if you don’t have the space it simply won’t work - but they are absolutely fine for text legibility. An important thing to remember is that, because you’re viewing the reflection of the image instead of having a backlit screen, (outside of matte e-ink options) I’ve found it a lot less fatiguing on my vision than a traditional monitor. So, while I still prefer dark mode out of habit, even bright sections of the image for extended periods of time doesn’t make my eyes sore in the same way. Lastly, as someone who wanders and dances while they work - it’s much easier to keep focus on the screen as I migrate.

I’m sure it’s not for everyone but it’s an extremely comfortable way for me to code.

Honestly… just get a fucking projector.