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

A rotating code key - a lot of banks these days will give you a fob to enter a rotating proof of ownership off of along with your password.

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.

I have been hoping someone would eventually write a solid utility to use old tablets as touch screen displays for other machines but I think the apple ecosystem has prevented any good solutions from being banged out.