I have a joke about piping to /dev/null, but you wouldn’t get it.
Hobbyist developer, Linux enthusiast, and Arch Linux user.
“The only things constant in this world are death and taxes, I’ve got both!” — Skeleton Merchant, Terraria
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AstroLightz@lemmy.worldto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Do you think that these CBS employees should unionize and go on strike?
2·5 days agoDo you think
that these CBS employees should unionize and go on strike?Yes
AstroLightz@lemmy.worldto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are some of your favourite developer tools?
1·6 days agoA shell script to create shell scripts.
Basically, it takes a file name, then creates a .sh file, and puts the shebang
into it.Very simple, yet it saves me from having to manually do it every time.
I’ve had it for as long as I can remember, so I’m pretty used to it. However, sometimes it gets really bad for a bit and it’s annoying.
I’m not too bummed about not experiencing true silence as I listen to music most of the time anyway.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are some of your favourite developer tools?
12·7 days agoShell scripts. The power of automation is amazing.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Say you have some downtime with no obligations today. What are you going to spend your free time doing?
5·8 days agoProgramming and playing games
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•let's get controversial with the holiday question's.
2·8 days ago“Any object or objects that is “sandwiched” (i.e. surrounded in the middle) by another object or objects can be classified as a sandwich.”
Tacos, hotdogs, burritos, hell even sushi, are all sandwiches.
Write code and play games. I’m currently hyper fixating on Satisfactory right now, and it’s fun.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What do you use for your personal photos/videos backups? Cloud service? Local external drive? Etc
3·9 days agoI don’t have photos or videos worth keeping, so I don’t back them up. If the data gets lost, oh well. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
One of my main projects (
framed_text) is pretty much complete and now has entered maintenance mode, where I’ll mainly fix bugs and only add something if I need it.However, I’ve started work on a Logging Python package that allows for full customization of the log text (How its structured), whether to log it to the console, a file, or both. Plus a timer for timing code execution (TBD).
Mainly making it for my sake, but I’ll upload it anyway in case someone else wants to use it. (That’s basically my programming philosophy)
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•You're immortal and sent back to Dec 1945. How do you survive until modern day?
31·15 days agoHide in a cave for an eternity then. If no one knows I exist, then I live forever.
Chilling after a long day of programming. Piano music helps to destress from the work.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's something interesting (to you) you'd like to share about your current hyperfixation/obsession? (Infodump safespace for both neurotypicals and neurodivergents)
36·18 days agoWhen writing BASH scripts:
- The
.shextension isn’t necessary. - Using
/usr/bin/env bashis better than/bin/bashas not everyone has their bash located in bin. - Try to use local variables when you can. If you use global variables that won’t be used anywhere else, unset them at the end of your script.
- Don’t use
set -euo pipefail. It will only cause more issues down the road. - Functions are your friend. If your repeating code, put it in a function.
These are some of the tips I learned while learning bash.
- The
AstroLightz@lemmy.worldto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is your favorite type of visual art?
4·18 days agoFractals, or any type of recursion.
The results can be beautiful. My favorite part is knowing some type of formula makes up the image.
I just spell every acronym, so “lmao” becomes “l-m-a-o”.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•You have 3 movies or TV shows to use to craft a world you would love to live in. What are they?
2·22 days agoAll anime, but:
- Frieren: The world itself
- To your eternity: Fushi’s powers
- ODDTAXI: Animals replace all humans and human-like species
ODDTAXI spoiler, relevant to above point
(ODDTAXI animals, but not just a mental condition)
I think it would be an interesting world for exploration and adventuring
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Pi day is behind us, but I don't care. What is your favorite pie, sweet or savory?
4·24 days agoThe Programmer’s Pie. It’s a lot like Shepherd’s Pie, but for programmers.

(My other valid answer: Lemon Meringue Pie)
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is a big internal debate within a fandom or hobby you are a part of that outsiders probably wouldn't care about?
44·24 days agoProgramming and Linux. Oh boy, what to pick…
Terminal text editors: VIM vs Emacs is the main debate there. (There are others but these are ones people argue the most about)
Linux Distros: Arch, Debian, Mint, CachyOS, …
Init Systems: Systemd vs OpenRC. Honestly, probably the most toxic debate on this list.
Programming Languages: Python, Shell, but the heated one is C vs Rust
A non-exhaustive list of ones I couldn’t think of a category for:
- Tiling vs Floating Window Managers
- Chromium vs Gecko-based browsers
- Bash vs Zsh vs Fish
I love computers and Linux, but man, the amount of toxic in-fighting and gatekeeping is a real turnoff. Just use what you want. At the end of the day, we are all nerds doing what we love.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is a big internal debate within a fandom or hobby you are a part of that outsiders probably wouldn't care about?
4·24 days agoI’ve only played Sims 3 and 4. 4 has way better mods, while 3 has better gameplay.

I want to code, but I don’t know what to make that I would actually use.