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Monthly Archives: November 2021
Stop using noargsconstructors and setters (and builders)
This via r/programming today: Stop using noargsconstructors and setters (and builders).
100+ Internet Statistics And Facts For 2021
Ran into this: 100+ Internet Statistics And Facts For 2021.
Big Ball of Mud
Reading about the Big Ball of Mud design pattern. Favourite quote:
There are good reasons that good programmers build BIG BALLS OF MUD. It may well be that the economics of the software world are such that the market moves so fast that long term architectural ambitions are foolhardy, and that expedient, slash-and-burn, disposable programming is, in fact, a state-of-the-art strategy. The success of these approaches, in any case, is undeniable, and seals their pattern-hood. People build BIG BALLS OF MUD because they work. In many domains, they are the only things that have been shown to work. Indeed, they work where loftier approaches have yet to demonstrate that they can compete.
cgi-bin example
------------------- Sun Nov 21 14:08:26 [bash:5.0.17 jobs:0 error:0] root@tact:/usr/lib/cgi-bin # cat test.sh #!/bin/bash echo 'Content-Type: text/plain' echo '' echo 'test' -------------------
Renesas Enters FPGA Market
Via HN today: Renesas Enters FPGA Market with the First Ultra-Low-Power, Low-Cost Family Addressing Low-Density, High-Volume Applications. It says they will sell for around 50c, so that’s awesome and definitely something I need to look into in the future.
Quote from John Stuart Mill
I happened upon this one today:
He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion… Nor is it enough that he should hear the opinions of adversaries from his own teachers, presented as they state them, and accompanied by what they offer as refutations. He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them…he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.
The relevance of PHP
Seen today: Yes, PHP is Worth Learning/Using in $CURRENT_YEAR. There’s some good discussion on some of the more recent PHP language features and other notes about what’s available in the broader ecosystem.
Kenichi Asai’s Home Page
Ben Eater
So I discovered this guy Ben Eater after watching his video How do hardware timers work?. It looks like he has some cool stuff.