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  • gornius@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlWhy do you use the terminal?
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    11 months ago

    If you know how to use git, you will know how to use docker (provided you know what you want to do). They are completely different programs, yet you can quickly grasp the other instinctively.

    Now, Photoshop and Blender - they are also different programs, but if you know Photoshop, you still need to relearn Blender’s interface completely.

    This is why I prefer terminal programs in general. Unless it’s more convenient to use GUi, i.e. Drag&Drop file manager, some git tools etc.




  • gornius@lemmy.worldtoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.ml***
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    1 year ago

    Framework has multiple config files, allowing you to customize almost every aspect of it.

    Nooo, this is too much config files, they take up too much space in my project tree.

    Framework is a monolith with a single file to configure it.

    Nooo, the file is unreadable and developing extensions for it is annoying.

    Framework is minimal

    Nooo, it doesn’t have any useful built-in features.

    Framework is a complete solution without too many things to configure.

    Nooo, it doesn’t allow me to do what I want.






  • gornius@lemmy.worldtoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.mlPHP is dead?
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    1 year ago

    The language itself is not that bad. Especially the newest releases are really great, thought out DX improvements. What stinks are its legacy parts and how it needs to be run.

    My biggest pain is that for it to actually behave like it should it requires some sort of an actual web server like apache or nginx.

    Also, servers written in are actually request handlers - every time a request comes, the whole app is reinitialized, because it just can’t hold its state in memory. In many apps every request means reinitializing connection with database. If you want to keep some state, you have to use some caching mechanism like redis or memcached.

    Also had one time when Symfony app was crashing, because someone forgot to close class braces, and everything was “working” until some part of code didn’t like it and was just dying without any error.

    And one time when someone put two endlines after php closing tag at the end of the file, confusing the entire php interpreter into skipping some lines of code - also without warning, and only in specific php version.


  • Why do you need Windows VM for developing GUI apps? Last time I used Visual Studio to make GUI app I almost gave up programming, because of how code-generation dependent it was.

    For C# you have AvaloniaUI. For cpp you have countless multi-platform GUI toolkits, same for rust, Java has its own toolkits (multi-platform), and finally you can make an Electron/Tauri app.


  • The way for your desktop to communicate with the hardware.

    It used to be X11 - A server-client architecture, which meant your desktop was effectively just a client that told the server what to do. The server was the one doing the drawing

    Wayland is just a protocol, defining how programs and desktop should communicate with each other - without a middleman that was X11 server. The desktop does the actual drawing here.


  • The main argument to use password managers to prevent password leaks to all of your services (that you use with the same login/email). You can’t trust any service to store your password securely, therefore you should use different ones everywhere.

    Using a password manager gives you the convenience of using one, strong password that’s being used very securely, and mitigating risk of password leaks spreading further.

    If you abstract it that way, it by no means eliminates the risk of someone breaking into your database, but makes it harder and from a single entry point, instead of any service that uses your password.

    Plus many of those password managers give you an option to use YubiKey for additional security.

    Oh and also you won’t ever need to press “forgot password” ever again due to the arbitrary requirements that your password doesn’t pass, so you modify it slightly so it would.




  • Lockfile contains exact state of the npm-managed code, making it reproducible exactly the same every time.

    For example without lockfile in your package.json you can have version 5.2.x. In your working directory, you use 5.2.1, however on repo, 5.2.2 has appeared, matching your criteria. Now let’s say a new bug appeared in 5.2.2.

    Now you have mismatched vendor code, that can make your code behave differently on your machine, and your coworker’s machine, making you hunt for bug that wasn’t even on your side.

    Lockfile prevents that by saving an actual state of vendor code.