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It’s great when it works, yeah.

Yep. Hooray for self hosting!

Someone thought of you folks when doing this.

At first I thought you were annoyed at how misaligned they are.

Unfortunately, for companies like this, that would be just another business expense to keep things running.

Any half-decent editor/IDE/command line tool will scream at you about this; plus there’s version control which should help you spot it as well.

That’s still a high bar to clear.

Still trying to figure out why Germany is listed separately from the EU.

Left around the API drama times. I still visit, but haven’t posted anything for two years.

My only regret is that I still haven’t defaced my profile over there - I’m looking for ways to save my data and somehow link it to the original posts/comments, because besides the shitposting, I’ve posted some things that could be useful to myself too.

I think I’ve never flown with that airline and this here makes it very likely that I never will.

Plot twist: they used a script to generate that code.

Julyuary

Version control should take care of it either way, but I’m talking about principles.

Notice how it’s suggested to cut instead of to copy the file.

Imagine you’re writing a front end and that the backend that will be serving the data is not ready yet, or it’s down for whatever reason, but you know how the data will look like. In that case you can write a test with hardcoded data as if it’s coming from the actual backend, and test several possible cases of the front end logic.

Another example is this: say you have some functionality that’s behind some UI that you have to click through; you make a change, the page refreshes and you have to click a bunch of stuff again - until the next change when the page refreshes again. If you have to do this over and over again, things get inefficient. Instead, you can write a test to make sure the functionality handles the data properly and only then go through the UI to maybe test this or that edge case.

Plenty of other examples, but yeah, depending on what you’re doing, you might not need tests at all.

That’s overly broad.

Don’t feed the trolls.

OnePlus probably.

Why is the headline in quotes?

You’re doing your part, but someone else isn’t. Everyone should learn as part of their upbringing that wasting food is bad - just like littering and thousands of other things. Unfortunately we live in a world where someone has to be fined for them to realise they’re doing something wrong.