Python calculations run in the Microsoft Cloud, with the results returned into an Excel worksheet.

Weird choice, so it has to be due to wanting to Paywall it (they mention that at the bottom of the article). Otherwise I’d rather have the option to install python locally and speed up my queries when working on large data sets

Probably the hardest part of React, for me, was getting used to the callbacks. Passing data up to the parent component using a function. It’s a little difficult to get used to if you haven’t encountered it already

Definitely would second Plex. Previously I just had an external hard drive with my library on it but that isn’t as accessible.

With Plex, you can easily get started just installing it on a personal computer and let it grow over time. I had mine on my personal computer for years before recently upgrading to a NAS and it’s top tier. Makes streaming to any device effortless and helps you organize your library

Pragmatic Programmer is OK, there’s not any code that I can remember and it’s just general purpose, helpful ideas for programmers to follow

Awesome list. I was already using most of these but the DNS is new to me, so I’ll give it a spin. I was already using AdAway on my phone but that was already handling the DNS traffic, so I had to disable it. I like the Mullvad DNS better because AdAway was working as a psuedo-VPN which wasn’t ideal

You do it for the trees 🌳

Not unless you disable your Ad blocker on Ecosia

You made it political, not me? I’m responding to you not using Brave at least in part due to the founder’s political beliefs

Thank you for pointing that fact out! It sounds like it was decided by Mozilla about a year ago to institute that change and I hadn’t noticed the lack of ads until today. At one point it did have issues, but I was able to get around that by changing some settings. But from the sounds of it that may no longer be possible

Source

That’s a shame! I still contribute at work at least, since I use Edge there

I mentioned this in the article the other person posted, but I wanted to let the OP be the one to gather the source because then we’re on the same page. If I had gone out and found an article from the opposite end of the spectrum we’d be coming to the conversation from diametrically opposed viewpoints

I realize it sounds lazy, and perhaps there’s some truth to that. But any time I make a claim on Lemmy I do my best to provide a source as well

I read about that in the article the other commenter posted! The article also mentioned that, once he was removed as CEO, some right-wing websites, namely something called “RedState”, just outright blocked FireFox users in a counter-protest.

“We wanted to remind people that the totalitarian impulse of the Mozilla corporation is real,” said right-wing site RedState on April 8 after blocking access by Firefox users.

Thank you for the link! I realize it’s very much a LMGTFY situation, but I prefer to have the person making the claim provide the source because it puts us on equal ground of having the same source of information. From the article it’s clear that I could have looked up any right-wing article and found information to the contrary and we’d be in different contexts.

Now, that being said, for anyone else coming to the thread, I recommend you read the whole article. But the TL;DR is that Eich was made CEO of Mozilla in 2014, which caused increased optics on his $1,000 contribution to Proposition 8, a California initiative to ban gay marriage in the state. Because of this, and because of his failure to diffuse the situation, he was removed as CEO shortly after. He was offered a high-ranking position at the company but declined.

So, I would say he definitely has (had?) some close-minded views on gay marriage, however, he never publicly stated anything, but instead made a public donation that was “found out” by investigation, not because he outwardly publicized it. In fact, the article (and apparently Eich and his employees) makes it clear that he never let the viewpoint affect him professionally. But, it did make many of his co-workers uncomfortable and feel unwelcome in the Mozilla community, especially having someone hold those opinions so high up in the corporate chain.

I just wanted to make sure the context was all straight here. I don’t agree with his close-minded views, I’m glad he was removed as CEO, and it’s another reason that I don’t want to use the Brave browser (assuming his views haven’t changed). But, I just want to make sure I had the whole picture

Also FF has great loading times. Never noticed a problem with speed or Ram in the last decade

Do you have a source for the founder claims? I’m no fan of Brave but that’s an intense back story if true

I don’t generally use that feature, even as a programmer, but I use Google at work just because my privacy is already pretty exposed at work and I’m not looking up anything wild on a corporate network. I also enjoy the targeting in this particular instance because then my search results are developer focused

You should also check out Tab for a Cause as well! A new tab screen that uses ad revenue to donate to charities. You can select your cause and every new tab you open contributes to it

I can get you a referral link the next time I’m on my desktop, it you’d like

I agree with this distrust. Something about the browser just feels off to me.

I stick with Firefox for browsing, Ecosia for searching, and Mozilla VPN

I think you have a point with the moving target, but also I believe that development should pretty much always be a moving target. You should be refactoring your domain based on new experiences and new knowledge all the time. So, personally, I find integration tests much more useful, because they test the input and output of a system, rather than how it’s implemented. I can change my domain without having to modify my tests and that makes changes to the domain much simpler.

That being said, I also definitely recognize the advantages of TDD, I just don’t think it’s a silver bullet; there’s good projects for it and bad ones

Source for the homies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr5dCRHAgb0

The Markdown will be passed in the ActivityPub messages in plaintext, so it’s up to the app developer how to interpret the Markdown. Looks like someone already created a ticket on GitHub so I’d recommend either adding a thumbs up to increase visibility or make the change yourself if you’re able!