When you unwittingly leave yourself a code timebomb

No joke, I literally know a sysadmin who has a similarly “generic” English name, talks with the same sort of cadence, and even looks similar. I actually clipped that quote from the episode and set it as my notification when he texts me lol.

This is where another one of your pied piper boxes would go

Filing cabinets or oil paints? Which is better?

I use it regularly (web dev). A lot of complaints and mockery stems from using it badly. None of the programming languages that are regularly the butt of everyone’s jokes force you to use them badly, they just allow you to. If you follow good practices, you’ll be just fine.

I really doubt they’d do that either.

That may be technically true, but both TLDs are ubiquitous and it’s extraordinarily unlikely that the US will suddenly start confiscating millions of .com and .net domain names operated by non-Americans.

lmao, sure, the ear wax cops are gonna show up at your door to raid your garbage cans for waxy cotton swabs

That works, too. I’m on lemmy.ca. Buying a .ca domain requires confirmation of citizenship or other qualification before you can even use it.

The difference being that Unilever won’t confiscate your Q-Tips for cleaning out your earwax.

The official and authorized use for the TLD is an association with Mali. It doesn’t matter what hip new meaning us internet dweebs want to assign to it.

My thoughts exactly. You should not be choosing TLDs that are volatile to upsets like this. Stick with the tried and true .com or .net, or one of the new TLDs that are not bound to a nation (unless you can comply with the stipulations) or particular type of organization.

Kiwi browser on Android. Kiwi is a Chrome shell browser with upgrades.

Voyager is okay and has a nice UI, but PWA’s are always less than optimal because the browser abstraction layer is just slow.

Check Thunder for Lemmy. It’s the best native app I’ve tried yet.

Python programmers, brace yourself for this…

Oh wait.

In my experience (Javascript and PHP, which both have plenty of footguns), these pitfalls can be avoided by using good practices.

Just because they are dynamically typed doesn’t mean you have to use dynamic typing. Don’t type switch your variables.

Just because you don’t have to use brackets in a certain scenario doesn’t mean you can’t. Use them as needed for clarity.

That kind of thing.

Doesn’t work for me

Edit: oh, it’s a swipe gesture. I wish I could edit directly from my comment history, though.

Okay, I just tried Thunder. This is the best one yet. Clean UI, everything’s fast. How do I edit a comment, though?

Voyager definitely needs to add some loading/activity indicators and implement better separation between interface and data fetching. But it’s definitely the cleanest UI I’ve tried so far.

I encountered a weird bug with connect, where I’m logged in, but I can’t access my profile or inbox. Some parts of the app think I’m logged in, others do not.