Yup, that “what can I start in 10min” question really ruins a lot of productivity.

My problem is that I do red, blue, green then can’t think of any more clearly visible colours.

You could go columns for the content, but I think my ideal layout would still have the main content in a single column. I would put all of the chrome horizontally through. For example no header before and footer afterwards, put everything in different columns. Maybe even throw some extra navigation on the screen.

You don’t need to use every pixel, just avoid putting things offscreen unnecessarily.

I would definitely go for Irish sheep farmer. You get to live in a cute little house in a green pasture by the seaside and the sheep feed themselves. What do you need to do? Sheer them every once and a while? I’d take that over Terraform any day of the week.

Yeah, a lot of these were lessened because the task was easy without any knowledge. I like the iPod one because the UX would be unfamiliar to someone who didn’t use it. But things like “Type {phrase} into the search box” are really just a lame way to make a reference.

I’m a millennial and didn’t know who that is. But I don’t know any actors so unsurprising. I did end up just figuring out which face was the most popular and selecting that.

But the rest were fairly easy. I still don’t know what a Skibidi toilet is though.

Even if the code isn’t reused adding names to sub-expressions can be very valuable. Often times I introduce new functions or variables even if they are only used once so that I can give them a descriptive name which helps the reader more quickly understand what is happening.

To be fair having a name can make things easier to read. I get that i % 2 == 0 is a common pattern and most programmers will quickly recognize what is happening. But isEven(i) is just that much easier to grok and leaves that brainpower to work on something else.

But I would never import a package for it. I would just create a local helper for something this trivial.

To be fair, this is actually reasonable. But it does look stupid on the face of it.

No one cares about graceful degradation anymore. But you can sell management on SEO. Page performance is a key aspect of search engine rankings and server-side rendered pages will almost always have a much faster initial load than client-side rendered.

1. Is available to be used in website scripting.
2. Not quite as full of footguns as PHP (although it is close).

…with 19 bugs 9 of which are exploitable.

And -z. tar -xf foo.tar.{gz,xz,zstd,...} will work perfectly fine.

I know this is a meme, but I actually find tar fairly easy to remember.

tar -xf $archive is extract file

tar -czf $archive dir/ is create zipped (compressed) file and the positional arguments are the files to add to the archive.

And this is 99% of my usage. You can skip -f $archive to use stdin/stdout or use -C to change directory (weird name but logically tar always extracts to the current directory). There is also a flag to list which I always forget and lookup each time, but I list much less often. -v is useful for verbose.

Overall there are much harder commands to remember. find always gets me if I go beyond -name. ps, tree and ls (beyond -Al) always get me to open the man page.

Reminds me of birthday fields with manual drop downs. It is always faster to just type, especially for the month number which in the custom dropdowns often can’t be typed with the keyboard.

Plus there are native HTML date pickers now. Please!

This speaks to me. I always have some sort of vague dream about writing a program to do something that is just a physical problem, or like decides how other people think. Writing it down is very confusing because it very clearly made absolutely no sense. But in my dream I felt like a genius and wizard.

The prophets have foretold it: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death-of-javascript

Simple, load up the PC speaker driver and play some sound through it.