#Firefox is fine. The people running it are not
#TheRegister article: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/08/firefox_isnt_dead/

"#Mozilla's management is a #bug, not a #feature"
"#Dominance does not equal #importance, nor is dominance the same as #relevance. The #snag at Mozilla is a #management layer that doesn't appear to understand what works for its #product nor which parts of it matter most to users."
"Don't #blame the #app, and don't even blame the #programmers. That is, the ones who still have #jobs, after years of #engineer #layoffs. Don't even blame the whole #organization – blame the #management. Steven himself has pointed this out before, early in 2024. So have I. In 2023, I said that Mozilla was asleep at the wheel."

My wife has a samsung phone. A new update changed the function of the side button into a gemini button. We had to search the internet in order to find out how to restore the function of this side button as she was not able to shut down her telephone. In the end we found the solution. It happens often, that programmers think they are clever enough to decide what is good for users. Let people decide for themselves. So utterlyannoying!
#google #gemini #stupid #programmers

Falsehoods #programmers believe about #aviation:

https://flightaware.engineering/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-aviation/

My favorite one:

"Nobody will ever set their flight identification to weird things like NULL"

(thanks @ascherbaum)

A happy programmer is a productive programmer. That's why we optimize for happiness and you should too. Don't just pick tools and practices based on industry standards or performance metrics. Look at the intangibles: Is there passion, pride, and craftmanship here? Would you truly be happy working in this environment eight hours a day?

— 37Signals

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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

— Robert A. Heinlein

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

— Robert A. Heinlein

To all you beautiful nerds, this episode of Hyperfixed #podcast reaches all of you:
#typedesigners #musicians #programmers #circuitbenders #researchers #engineers
and it even comes with a #FreeFont download!

https://www.hyperfixedpod.com/listen/hyperfixed/little-by-little

#Programming #Coding #Programmer #Programmers #ProgrammerLife #Dev #Bug #Bugs #CodingStruggles #SoftwareDeveloper #SoftwareDevelopment #Git.

A programmer does not primarily write code; rather, he primarily writes to another programmer about his problem solution. The understanding of this fact is the final step in his maturation as technician.

— anonymous

Theory is when you know something, but it doesn't work. Practice is when something works, but you don't know why. Programmers combine theory and practice: Nothing works and they don't know why.

— anonymous

If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime.

— anonymous

One of the big lessons of a big project is you don't want people that aren't really programmers programming, you'll suffer for it!

— John Carmack

Linus Torvalds built #Git in 10 days - and never imagined it would last 20 years https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-built-git-in-10-days-and-never-imagined-it-would-last-20-years/ by @sjvn

Today, many developers can't imagine a world without Git. When it first appeared, most #programmers hated it. Oh, how things have changed!

#Smalltalk #Units

My Phellow Pharo #Programmers who write scientific #software, do have a look at the Units package, which can safely perform mixed-unit computations like the following to obtain the correct result \(63.21 ft\):

\(\texttt{14foot + 15m.}\)

The NASA-Lockheed Mars Climate Orbiter catastrophe could have been avoided, had the probe control software been implemented in Smalltalk.

https://github.com/zweidenker/Units

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter#:~:text=The%20spacecraft%20encountered%20Mars%20on,by%20spacecraft%20builder%20Lockheed%20Martin.

Hey coders, don’t hide behind job titles!
Agile teams thrive when everyone is willing to step outside their role when needed. A little flexibility can go a long way in getting things done!

#ThePurge has begun! #MachineLearning #AI #LLMs will #EliminateKnowledgeWorkers #Programmers #Coders much the way #Combines and #FarmMachinery wrought destruction on #Agriculture. #Banking #Medicine #Law #YouPrivilegedFuckersAreNext #Zuckerberg #Meta #WelcomeToTheTrumpMuskyFuture

#German #programmers: if you are writing a #Java program with variable names in German, do you capitalize the first letter (even though that goes against convention)? z.B.

double Gewicht; // oder
double gewicht;

[Edit: a bit later, having downloaded a set of solutions for a Java programming book (https://www.grundkurs-java.de/index.php), it appears they follow convention and use lower case for first letter of variables and upper case for names of Java classes.]

#TechTuesday
This #Lemmy post https://programming.dev/post/22672085 links to the recording of the talk I gave earlier in the year, about how #dotNet #dotNetMAUI and other #programmers #developers can get the most out of #Mastodon and the #Fediverse in general. Show to people you want to come here, or watch yourself if you feel like you could learn more about it.

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