Yeah I don’t know much about it. I just know our company has an internal API and the project owner was telling me about all the shit they have to do beyond just sending emails. What a headache!
(don’t get me started on developing all that in-house. It’s “historic” code)

Funny thing about emails : it appears that the main difficulty isn’t sending them, rather it’s how to do it without being detected as spam.

Even using C#'s decimal type (128bit) would be an improvement! I count 22 characters per numbers here. So a minimum of 176bit.

I’m amazed at developers who don’t grasp that you don’t need to have absolutely everything under the sun in a human readable file format. This is such a textbook case…

Are you kidding? This is perfect! This is exactly the kind of voice I would expect an absolute nerd quoting a RFC verbatim at me would have.

Only thing more perfect coming to mind would be Sheldon Cooper or Maurice Moss’ voice doing the reading.

What did you learn from this?

My first result

Welcome to the wonderful world of reverse proxies!

Be aware that bytes exist for a start, I reckon.

Man, I can’t wait to try out generative AI to generate config files for mission critical stuff! Imagine paying all of us devops wankers when my idiot boss can just ask Chat GPT to sort all this legacy mess we’re juggling with on the daily!

It literally means “to apply”, funnily.
But of course the majority of Chinese people are not English speakers, so they see “app” but can’t know it’s the same meaning.

I might be biased from speaking with so many Chinese people. Who I can forgive not knowing the origin of the abbreviation. Still pisses me off to no end D:<

What I hate even more, is that the morons who can’t read more than two syllables decided to shorten “application” to “app”, but now I only ever hear people reading that as “ay pee pee”! What was the fucking point?

I’m told you absolutely can be president and still relax on your golf course while setting the world on fire through Shitter.
Fair play to him for taking the difficult route instead.

Oh hey! That’s me for the last two years! Again!

I wish I had some hippocratic style oath I could lean on to not release unsafe, unoptimised, barely tested, possibly maintainable code.
Alas all I have is good, verbose comments and an email here or there expressing my concerns.

Because they knew exactly what they were doing, obviously.

You’re right. That’s extremely hard to believe.

Oh dear, yes, SVGA! I had forgotten about that one, hahaha!

Oh man! This is some brilliant trickery, haha! I love those. Back in the day, though, there was scant few sources of info so most people would rediscover this sort of stuff on their own, unless part of some group like the demo scene. Wish I could have read this sort of article back then…