This is a fantastic write-up, thanks for sharing!

I use Jenkins for work, unfortunately, so I have plenty of experience

FYI, Jenkins has an endpoint to validate the pipeline without running it, and there’s a VSCode extension to do this without leaving the editor: https://www.jenkins.io/blog/2018/11/07/Validate-Jenkinsfile/

FYI you can (sorta) redirect searches from the start menu: https://www.windowscentral.com/how-let-google-handle-cortana-web-search-results-windows-10

Mine all go to DDG in FF

I feel the same way. Designing good, opinionated APIs is HARD, but it also provides the best experience for both the author and the consumer.

• Prettier is the undisputed king of JS formatters because it has no options by design. You set and forget.
• One of the reasons iOS is so successful is because they lock down their APIs and put strict standards on apps, making it hard to write something that doesn’t at least look good and slot into the OS well.

Among other examples.

In a world where your IDE and maybe also compiler should warn you about using unicode literals in source code, that’s not much of a concern.

VSCode (and I’m sure other modern IDEs, but haven’t tested) will call out if you’re using a Unicode char that could be confused with a source code symbol (e.g. i and ℹ️, which renders in some fonts as a styled lowercase i without color). I’m sure it does the same on the long equals sign.

Any compiler will complain (usually these days with a decent error message) if someone somehow accidentally inserts an invalid Unicode character instead of typing ==.

I have questions. Is this something in use today? Who is manufacturing them? Is this something you’re personally familiar with or just aware of?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium#Debate_over_millennium_celebrations

Actually I’m guessing this is a localization failure

1 horizontal/1 vertical + laptop.

Horizontal is directly in front of me, used for whatever I’m currently focusing on - usually IDE or browser.

Vertical is to the side, used for anything auxiliary to my current task - browser, bug report, notes, chat, git gui, etc.

Laptop monitor is for anything I want to monitor, but don’t need to look at constantly - logs, news, incoming bug reports, etc.

I also make use of virtual desktops, so I have one for chat/email/general browsing, one for code editing with browser, git gui, IDE, and one for notes/zoom. Laptop screen doesn’t shift with virtual desktops so I always keep the monitoring open.

I read the book but I never watched the show - is it worth?

Not exactly what you’re asking for, but GhostText might be useful. It lets you use your preferred text editor to write in any browser text field.

Whoa, just looked them up. That’s an unimaginable size difference. She must be like a doll to him…

That’s not true! Getting an answer to something doesn’t necessarily mean the thing you’re asking about is possible. You could ask me how to split myself in half and become two people, and I’d say (within my knowledge) it’s impossible. But if you ask me how computers can show a pixel on the screen, I can give you a detailed answer. Either way, I’m answering your question, just perhaps not satisfyingly.

Answer: “you can’t.” And you just wasted your question!

That’s cool! I’ve never heard of a contronym before.

However the difference is that most of those have different usages - e.g. if you say “I’m going to clip the hedges” vs “I’m going to clip something to the hedges”, you have to use the word differently. With “dust”, it’s different based on the context, because you need to be talking about some sort of powder to be talking about putting something on. If I said “I’m going to dust the furniture”, you would assume I meant clean, but if I said “dust the furniture with cleaning powder”, you’d probably understand the difference. Different locations and activities also help here (e.g. skiing, cake decorating, cleaning, etc).

Nonplussed on the other hand likely derives its alternate meaning from an incorrect understanding of the original meaning, and so it’s used in the exact same manner and context to mean the exact inverse. If I say the sentence “he was nonplussed at the news”, which meaning am I referring to?

“Table” is another contronym that’s ACTUALLY confusing (learned that one from this post as well).

I have never heard it used as general acceptance. That really drives me nuts! What good is a word that’s self contradictory 😨

Great explainer on the subject: https://youtu.be/lLCDca6dYpA?si=gUJlQJgfDxi-n_Y6

And a follow up on how calculators actually implement this inconsistently: https://youtu.be/4x-BcYCiKCk?si=g5pqwXvBqSS8Q5fX

Since I saw !rpgmemes@ttrpg.network, just wanted to let you know about my own !dndmemes@sh.itjust.works (4k subs, but not too many posts lately).

I’d like to point out, the value add of Rust isn’t speed, it’s safety in a low-level language. C is also just as fast, it’s just that Rust guarantees safety in a wide class of potential catastrophic bugs with little to no runtime overhead, by using the design of the language and compiler.