cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/3758187

It's not the 1st time a language/tool will be lost to the annals of the job market, eg VB6 or FoxPro. Though previously all such cases used to happen gradually, giving most people enough time to adapt to the changes.

I wonder what's it going to be like this time now that the machine, w/ the help of humans of course, can accomplish an otherwise multi-month risky corporate project much faster? What happens to all those COBOL developer jobs?

Pray share your thoughts, esp if you're a COBOL professional and have more context around the implication of this announcement 🙏

Do you prefer to use UI frameworks which make a distinction between UI files and application code (e.g. Qt, GTK, Angular) or do you prefer to define the UI in the application code (e.g. Flutter, Jetpack Compose, React)?

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/1941692

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/1941671

Details in the link of the headline.

cross-posted from: https://radiation.party/post/72021

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If you are a dev looking to crush some bugs and make some money or an OSS project that needs some dev help, hop on in! !bugbounties@lemmy.ml

For open source software, I can easily use a widely-used open source license (e.g. MIT, Apache, GPLv3, MPLv2, etc.). However, source-available licenses are less easy to find.

Are there any source-available licenses that I can readily copy to apply to my software? I am hesitant to copy the source-available licenses listed on Wikipedia because license texts are copyrighted by default and should not be copied without permission from the author of the license text.

Specifically, I am looking for a source-available license that has conditions similar to the GitLab Enterprise Edition (EE) license that I can use for my software.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/2650558

Highlights:

• More work on C2X features.

• The strlcpy and strlcat functions have been added. They are derived from OpenBSD, and are expected to be added to a future POSIX version.

• Support for x86_64 running on Hurd has been added.

• CVE-2023-25139: When the printf family of functions is called with a format specifier that uses an (enable grouping) and a minimum width specifier, the resulting output could be larger than reasonably expected by a caller that computed a tight bound on the buffer size. The resulting larger than expected output could result in a buffer overflow in the printf family of functions.

The goal is to have my screen rotate to normal and start Barrier (keyboard and mouse share software) on boot up.

So, i have a laptop laying on top of my desktop monitor that i use kinda like a second monitor. But it boots up with the display sideways and i have to login to be able to use mouse and keyboard from my desktop.

I have tried everything to get a systemd service to handle those problems. But no luck, i think the service isnt running properly on boot. Please help me out.

Let me know if there is a better community to post to or if additional info is needed. Thanks.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/2611168

Available at your local GNU mirror and, depending on your OS, perhaps soon your favorite package manager repository. A full list of features and changes can be found in the NEWS file.

i'm going to design and build a "programmer's numpad", because I'm sick of awkward hand movements for writing brackets with numbers and commas and spaces etc. here's the first draft. make your modifications here: http://www.keyboard-layout-editor.com/#/ i'm thinking of adding another column, putting something between the numbers and the plus/minus.

Hey all, I have 2 questions. I am an experienced iOS/macOS engineer. And have only recently started to open-source my work and future work.

Initially I was getting some traction on my first public repo, but the rest are getting close to none as if my profile was pushed by Github's algorithm and then forgotten maybe.

Although I have been consistent for the past month in updates and changes to many of my repos.

Question 1: Is there a possibility I am not appearing in searches for some reason? Or is it simply that my work is not of a quality standard to see the expected traffic, which is great to know in itself.

Question 2: Does anyone have advice on sourcing feedback on their public projects, mostly consisting of SDKs/Tooling? I literally do not have friends/relatives/mentors in my field/expertise that I can talk too and it's quite difficult to survive simply on YouTube videos/podcasts/articles/other repos/online anecdotes and/or professional work experience to understand if my approach/mentality is on the right path for many of my projects. Most of my current experience comes from working professionally, but to scale independently is quite difficult. I specifically am talking about design patterns or building tooling using libraries such as Metal.

An informal newsletter in which Thorsten Ball, of Writing an Interpreter in Go and Writing a Compiler in Go fame, shares his thoughts about software engineering.

Hey everyone first time fullstack noob here, novice python, JS and CSS/HTML dev in the middle of development for a Fullstack Django React Native app, the thing is I made a mess out of my modules and nodes trying to compile with 95 no module found error on the expo CLI, I started with npm and the tried yarn since it was recommended and I ended up with a sorry mess. So since the Django backend API is already running on the messy project I’m going for the new project copy paste old code approach, the front end also has components and screens that may need a few touches but the bulk is already there. I not sure about the proper order and want to make extra sure I have the appropriate folder/project creation order so the compiling and installation is as streamlined as possible as well as the creation of the venv; on the last project I had two that had hardcoded the paths for the django folder and the frontend one since I had some issues with my project finding the appropriate folder, so that’s the right approach? at which time during the creation of the projects should the venv creation happen or more precisely which project should be created first with its corresponding venv, Django or React Native Expo, since as far as I understand there’s an ideal order that will create and setup some specs automatically. Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks

I have to say that since starting I’ve had a lot less support than I was expecting and I’ll be given something to do but very sparse direction. I’ll go away and do my best and usually be told that based on the little guidance I have done good but maybe we could do it this way or that way, which is great as that’s how we learn right?

Also, preface saying that I’m working on a Typescript React app alone as the others have other projects.

So queue today. I’ve got a todo list of questions about my implementation and things I could do better, which they like my diligence of keeping track. Well I was working on a component and like an idiot I hard coded a lot of the data that is subject to change if say they add a new let’s say PetType. So the SE comes over, tears my code to shreds and like a wizard makes it work even better with only dynamic use of data.

I don’t mind the tearing my code to shreds as again it’s a learning experience but my self esteem has dropped off a cliff.