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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • I’ve been slowly starting to get used to Helix, doing a tutorial in either that or VIM (since it has similar keybinds, but a lot better interactive practice tools, like VimHero or VimAdventures) whenever I have time and feel like it, to get used to the motions and navigations. I still can’t imagine using it to actually code when I need something done, but I did notice gradual improvement in my efficiency. It’s more of a marathon, though.

    In the last few years, enshitification was the final motivation that pushed me towards better habits, like self-hosting, discovering Fedi, stop watching YT, de-google, switch to Linux as a daily driver, etc. I’m kinda looking forward to finally being forced out of IDEs into Helix.


  • It shouldn’t be hard to modify. I haven’t looked into it, but I assume that it looks for ID/class of HTML elements, so if you replace .post-listing with a class you find by using RightClick - Inspect on the feed/post listing in your UI, it should work.

    Here is what you are looking for, I found it by Right Clicking the post listing, and clicking on Inspect.

    So, for example, if I wanted to filter comments, the rule would be (the . is there because it’s a class, I assume?) programming.dev##.comment-content:has-text(Musk)

    I haven’t tested it, but from my vague CSS knowledge, it could work like that.


  • Thank you, I’ve found the post in YSK, and eventually used this filter instead:

    programming.dev##article.row:has-text(/Trump|Elon|Musk/i)

    With the post-listing, if I opened an article by a link, it would also hide the post text - which has funnily enough happened when I opened the YSK post, and by that point I’m kind of interested in what it has to say. By using the rule above, it only seems to hide it from the feed. I haven’t tested how robust it is, just posting it here in case someone else is interested.



  • I see a few people who don’t want to switch due to the hassle it would take with changing email addresses, presumably because they use one of the @proton.me email domains. Get your own email domain! It’s super cheap (if you choose one of the new TLDs, it can be as low as few dollars a year), the setup isn’t really hard - you just change a few DNS values, and that’s basically it - you can use whatever email you want that ends with your domain. It might take a while to slowly replace all your @proton.me emails with your domain one, but if you’re not in a hurry and change any old mail you see during your day-to-day activities, you’ll eventually be done with it, and you can set up mail forwarding to your domain for mail that arrives to your old @proton.me address.

    And if you ever need to move to a different provider, you just change the DNS records again to a new provider, and your email will start coming to the new one immediately.





  • Hold conferences when there is more critical work to be done.

    Insist on doing everything through ‘channels.’ Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions.

    “Make ‘speeches.’ Talk as frequently as possible and at great length. Illustrate your ‘points’ by long anecdotes and accounts of personal experiences. Never hesitate to make a few appropriate ‘patriotic’ comments.”

    That reminds me of something. Standup, Kaban, Retrospective! It’s Agile!


  • If you want a headstart, I’d recommend looking into other kinds of languages, such as lisp, assembly, smalltalk and prolog. You will probably have classes on those in college (at least I did have mandatory ones), and it can take a while to wrap your head over such different programming styles.

    And it also helps wonders to make you into a versatile programmer - since you would be vaguely familar with most of the different styles of languages there are, picking up a any new language will be a lot faster, since it will probably be similar to one of the above mentioned.










  • Yeah, that’s my experience as well. In addition to being lazy with updating, so if some kind of supply chain attack happens, I usually sorts itself out before I get to updating :D

    But I did limit my browser extensions, after I a cause with Nano Defender taught me a lesson - it was a mildly popular anit-anti-adblock killer that worked where other adblocks were detected, but the developer sold the extension to a company that turned it into a info-stealer malware and pushed an update through chrome store, which got accepted and propagated, and some of my social network sessions got compromised. So, I just stick to more popular projects where something like this shouldn’t happen, and don’t use random extensions.