When I was learning to program in the 1990s, at university, it was easy to get good advice and learning from the printed word: both in books and on websites. I think if I had to start learning all over again, and not be in a good school, it would be very hard for me to do as well.

Today there is too much advice, too many influencers who recently learned whatever they are peddling, too much AI, too many fields of tech.

I think the best way to learn now is how many of us learned decades earlier; use a list of books that are vetted by many ( can find lists here and there, saw one in GitHub last year). And while reading the books read the documentation even if they are gaps in one’s knowledge and the docs are badly written.

I don’t think one needs recent books for many concepts and basics. The wheel has been reinvented many times in the hundreds of tech stacks in use today. And the same concepts will be easy enough to learn in newer docs once a technology and programming set of tools is invested into by the learner.

As for new software engineering ideas and architecture concepts: usually these are reiterated from earlier ideas and often marketed for profit. So older architecture books, refined by several editions, are still best.

Undersecretary for auction integrity

There are many cool terms and phrases just waiting to be spoken and written again. But yes

Also apparently this particular op phrase lives on in some areas, going by that uk comment

Yea, I see it as a world wide trend in many languages: the dialects are going away

I like quality content, even if I can’t understand sometimes

All posts are filtered, organized and sometimes made by AI, or non AI programs, which will decide which users get shown which posts?

Interesting

That’s great news, am optimistic now

Watched this, it was a silly but nice movie. It’s meant to be a comedy but I understand a lot of the stuff, other than the journalist’s story, really happened.

Which makes it more fun.

A lot of the bugs were after a copy paste, and error detection. I had been using it for years on the same projects, and it worked pretty good. But the new issues were seen first this year.

I went over to their youtrack, read other people’s comments and many had rolled back their version to the last release last year. So I did it too.

Then, after the second version this year someone said some of the new issues were still not fixed.

I’ll probably try it again today.

Apparently there was a run of stage productions in the uk about silverlocks ( changed from gold color) in the mid 1800s.

I do wonder about the color wars and why gold was the winner!

Or it threw up over the ledge; a lot of animals puke over the edge of something

I’m not familiar with the site, but perhaps this issue could have been solved by only allowing friends to book other friends.

Then friend lists are built by mutual consent only?