Justin Wernick @jworthe@fosstodon.org

https://luzkan.github.io/smells/ is a catalog of code smells (symptoms that some code might be problematic and should maybe be refactored).

I've written up a blog article showing how you can self-host Git. No fancy frontends (even though those are nice), just Git on a server with SSH access. https://www.worthe-it.co.za/blog/2022-06-10-how-to-train-your-git-server.html

This comic may be about writing distributed systems in Rust https://poorlydrawnlines.com/comic/more-than-a-crab/

Are there any TDD gurus here? How do you handle testing when the platform you're on seems to have given very little thought to enabling testability?

I'm trying to make sure that an MV3 web browser extension handles its service worker being suspended gracefully. Except there seems to be no way to trigger that suspension in an automated test. My first instinct is to write a test, but since I can't make the service worker stop on demand I can't show what will break when it does.

Why did nobody tell me that Crash Twinsanity has such an amazing soundtrack?

Sometimes I wonder how businesses can be so bad at things I consider fundamental and still be in business.

Me (writing email): Hi! I'm interested in attending your classes. What is your address?
Them: Thank you for your enquiry! Here's 13 screenshots from our website that tell you all about us! (none of these screenshots have an address)

I used to use Google Analytics on my blog because I wanted to know how much traffic I was getting. I ended up switching to Awstats since it doesn't send data off to third parties (it uses server logs), and it struck me at the time how Awstats showed many more Firefox users than Google Analytics did. I think it's that Firefox users looking at my blog were more likely to block Google Analytics scripts. I don't know if that generalizes outside of my blog.

Most statistics seem to show that Chrome is the most widely used web browser. But at the same time, if you dig deeper, most of those statistics seem to depend on third party scripts in web pages capturing browser data, which browsers with better privacy controls are more likely to block. Chrome of course it the browser that's happiest to follow all the trackers. Does anyone know of any browser statistics that compensate for this?

Bad program idea: you can select text anywhere and "copy" it. Then, you can put your cursor somewhere else and "paste" it. The secret sauce is that, before pasting, you spend a few seconds watching an AI spinner that magically washes away the original copyright and protects you from plagiarism.