vborovikov

7 ms·

1.
by vborovikov 1y ago
It's called bottom up processing and time slowing down is a side effect of that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_recognition_(psycholog...
2.
by vborovikov 1y ago
Source generators hide too many details from the user. I prefer to have the generated code to be the part of the code repo. That's why I use code templates instead of source generators. But a properly constructed ID type has a non-triv
3.
by vborovikov 1y ago
I recently discovered an open source project which I believe was completely vibe coded. 90k lines of code, 135 commits starting from an empty project. I cloned the repo and tried to run the examples. Nothing worked. The problem was many dat
4.
by vborovikov 1y ago
also known as Agile™ approach
5.
by vborovikov 1y ago
But I don't want to configure WordPress. I like to write and debug code. If it's not required for the business, I'm not interested in working there at all.
6.
by vborovikov 2y ago
You can decompile any modern .NET assembly to C# 1.0 in ILSpy. It can be quite useful when learning the language new syntax.
7.
by vborovikov 2y ago
Thanks for the extension. By the way it only started working after I switched the X display language to English.
8.
by vborovikov 2y ago
I wrote my own from scratch including the HTML/XML parsers. If you can't pick a reader the next best option is to write it yourself. There are countless projects on GitHub in any language. Probably not really usable for anyone exc
9.
by vborovikov 2y ago
I keep reminding myself when working on my projects - don't wait until you feel like doing something and - half-ass it
10.
by vborovikov 2y ago
an online store item price watcher - saved me some money while shopping online a feed reader - I was never satisfied with other feed readers so I've built my own small utilities I use from time to time All these apps were in active dev
11.
by vborovikov 2y ago
amusingly the older versions are still available on Adobe FTP ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/
12.
by vborovikov 4y ago
The workaround was using a collection wrapper inherited from CollectionView class, usually ListCollectionView or CollectionViewSource. So you could create a collection view, bind it to the list control's ItemsSource property and that w
13.
by vborovikov 4y ago
What is the author suggesting? To write software using infinite loops changing global state? Makes sense for video games but not for the custom enterprise software where clean code practices are usually applied. The enterprise code must be
14.
by vborovikov 4y ago
Malapropism - not the phenomenon itself, but its name which I finally remembered from watching the movie Glass Onion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malapropism
15.
by vborovikov 4y ago
this list is really helpful https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter
16.
by vborovikov 4y ago
I check the copied password for whitespace and usually that's the reason for the password not working
17.
by vborovikov 4y ago
Usually nothing changes for me as a developer if shareholders get bigger returns on their investments. So I don't really care. What I care about is the code quality because good code makes my job easier. I inherited the code, not the b
18.
by vborovikov 4y ago
But these guys develop their programs in isolation and they deploy to users only the final result or a limited number of beta versions. They almost never evolve their code bases to a second version. They work on video games. If I work in is
19.
by vborovikov 4y ago
For me, it is a gentle stop to the internal monologue by transferring attention to my own breathing. What is the end goal? Less thoughts, more stable the emotions.
20.
by vborovikov 4y ago
the original post (in Russian) tries to be entertaining, so these are hyperbole.
21.
by vborovikov 5y ago
WPF isn't dead, it's done.
22.
by vborovikov 5y ago
I'm trying to imagine an ideal day at work for myself and then during the interview process I ask questions to understand how far it's going to be from that ideal day working in this company. I ask about meetings and their duratio
23.
by vborovikov 5y ago
How about [@raw organic cane sugar, @honey]{3%tbsp} Here square brackets indicate that the ingredient will have variations separated by commas.
24.
by vborovikov 5y ago
The programmer's job is to produce code that works and is ready to change. So these real developers did only a half of the job.
25.
by vborovikov 5y ago
I've installed Spotify only to discover that podcasts are not available in Russia at all.
26.
by vborovikov 5y ago
There is a fix for apps that are blurry on the non-primary low-res display. Go to the app properties and on the Compatibility tab click the button 'Change high DPI setting' and check 'Override high DPI scaling behavior'
27.
by vborovikov 5y ago
I discovered a fridge in a supermarket with a very pleasant humming tone. I went there often just to hear it and even tried to record the sound with a shitty mp3-player but it was unsuccessful. But it was just one genre, music by an artist
28.
by vborovikov 5y ago
Yep, when I'm really sleepy and is about to fall asleep I hear cacophony, familiar people's voices saying single words or short phrases. I even can hear my own voice saying something short. It's very consistent and I use it a
29.
by vborovikov 5y ago
Also, if you have to deal with the character encoding in this scenario it's great to use something like https://github.com/AArnott/Nerdbank.Streams/blob/main/src/Ne...
30.
by vborovikov 5y ago
It's possible but along with an .exe you'll get a couple of .dlls. Exe size will be 60+ Mb.

More ›