From As a Software Engineer, Here Are 7 Books You Should Always Have at Your Desk. The subtitle says “Ditch (or pause at least) all those courses and start reading books”. The Pragmatic Programmer Head First Design Pattern Code Simplicity: The Fundamentals of Software The Self-Taught Programmer: The Definitive Guide to Programming Professionally Clean Code:…
Author: Paolo Redaelli
Ethics, Mood
I do not love…
“I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.” Source: Quote by J.R.R. Tolkien: “I do not love the bright sword for its sharpnes…” | Goodreads The character speaking this is Faramir io non amo…
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The end of the nice GTK button
A look into my favorite Adwaita button and why I’m not happy it’s going away Source: The end of the nice GTK button
Comparisons, Hardware
Mac Studio: 4x more efficient but 4x more costly
“Mac Studio is 4x more efficient than my new AMD PC” wrote Jeff Geerling Ok, but the Mac Studio “is only slightly more expensive”. “Only” more than four times the cost. With the money I save I could run the “hot and inefficient” AMD machine for more than four years at full steam. The cheapest…
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SQL Fiddle
Application for testing and sharing SQL queries.
Fun
Passano le generazioni, ma certi pezzi sono immortali. Piaceva a me. Piace a mia figlia. Sia da bambina che ora che è adolescente….
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Bootstrappable builds
Source: Bootstrappable builds Do you know how to make yoghurt? The first step is to add yoghurt to milk! How can you build a compiler like GCC? The first step is to get a compiler that can compile the compiler.
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Why Vim is better than VSCode.
di’ —delete inside the ‘single quotes’. da” — delete around the “double quotes”. dit — delete inside the html tags. ci[ — change inside the [square brackets]. From: Why Vim is better than VSCode. After Github was bought by Microsoft it… | by Sean | Feb, 2022 | Medium Of course Sean is right. Master,…
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On laziness
Larry Wall had it right when he said that laziness is one of the virtues of a good programmer. But he was talking about in the sense of using existing code and not creating the wheel over and over. Laziness can apply just to a clean programming style. I visit old projects after several years…