Creativity is either exploited by AI or capitalized for growth. It just depends on the game you play, and how you play it.

How does AI influence our creativity in our work?

The answer is that it depends.

In this post, I explore that question through the lens of chess vs. programming and how AI thrives in clarity but struggles in ambiguity.

Let me know what you think!

(Note: This is a link to my own blog)

Hey folks!

I'm looking for some good resources, either video or written, to learn React.

As for background, I'm a relatively new programmer and I only used C & C++ and recently Python to build a Django application.

Any tips or pointers (unintentional pun) will be greatly appreciated! 👏

Thanks in advance!

A bit different from the audiobook request 2 years ago, as I'm not looking for audiobooks (so it does not have to be nice to listen to, I can see code examples) but regular books you read. Let me know which books helped you out the most, or that you just found fun to read!

EDIT: Thank you to everyone for helping me inflate my reading list! I was wondering what question I should ask to get answers including books on databases, cybersecurity, basically any topic that might fall under "computer science" and not just programming. In hindsight I maybe should have posted somewhere other than Programming and said something other than "Programming book recommendations" if I wanted that, but since I am also interested in programming and software engineering all these books will definitely be eaten soon. Thank you!

Oh, and !books@programming.dev for programming books exists but is sadly not getting much attention.

There's a big caveat to Tailwind: It generates styles at build time.

So if you try styling your elements with dynamic classes like bg-${color}, it just won't work, you need to write out the full class name for Tailwind to pick it up.

That's fine for a lot of apps, but it becomes a real challenge when you're building things like visual editors, customizable dashboards, or anything that needs dynamic, interactive styling.

The good news is that you can still make it work if you understand how Tailwind works under the hood.

That's why I wrote this blog post, where I show how to:

• Understand how Tailwind generates styles
• Mix inline styles with utility classes
• Use safelisting in v4.0
• Apply all this for visual editors like Puck

I work at Red Hat on GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection. I spent most of the past year working on how GCC emits diagnostics (errors and warnings) in the hope of making it easier to use. Let's take a look at 6 improvements to look forward to in the upcoming GCC 15.

1. Prettier execution paths
2. A new look for C++ template errors
3. Machine-readable diagnostics
4. An easier transition to C23
5. A revamped color scheme
6. libgdiagnostics

Twenty years ago, Linus Torvalds created the basis for Git in just 10 days, forever changing how developers collaborate on code. In this candid interview, Linus Torvalds discusses Git's unexpected journey from a Linux kernel management tool to the foundation of modern software development. Learn about the technical decisions, community contributions, and evolving philosophy behind the version control system that powers millions of projects.

Edit: I did not notice that a post about this topic already existed. The official GitHub blog post/interview transcript can be found here and discussion about it can be found here.

This first push resulted in NuGet Restore times being cut in half, which was a reasonable stopping point for our work. However, along the way, we realized that a more extensive rewrite could improve performance by a factor of 5x or more.

Written from the perspective of several team members, this entry provides a deep dive into the internals of NuGet, as well as strategies to identify and address performance issues.

Does anyone know if theres a way to customize VSCode more than what is available? I really hate the flat design and blocky layout. Would like to see more customizability. Does VSCodium allow this?

Edit 2025-04-09 16:42Z - article was updated with a tenth package (Prettier - Code)

A set of ten VSCode extensions on Microsoft's Visual Studio Code Marketplace pose as legitimate development tools while infecting users with the XMRig cryptominer for Monero.

ExtensionTotal researcher Yuval Ronen has uncovered ten VSCode extensions published on Microsoft's portal on April 4, 2025.

The package names are:

1. Prettier - Code for VSCode (by prettier) - 486K installs
2. Discord Rich Presence for VS Code (by Mark H) - 189K installs
3. Rojo – Roblox Studio Sync (by evaera) - 117K installs
4. Solidity Compiler (by VSCode Developer) - 1.3K installs
5. Claude AI (by Mark H)
6. Golang Compiler (by Mark H)
7. ChatGPT Agent for VSCode (by Mark H)
8. HTML Obfuscator (by Mark H)
9. Python Obfuscator for VSCode (by Mark H)
10. Rust Compiler for VSCode (by Mark H)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/28250905

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/28250870

Hello everyone !

I'm seeding/cross-post this in 3 communities because I think I will get better answers in each respective one (Hardware, coding, electronics).

As the title say I'm want to learn to build from the ground up those cheap solar led/optic fiber lightning, here some images to get what I mean:

They come in bundles but after awhile they just die out without repair ability which kinda sucks and because they are cheap my mum keeps buying them... So, I would like to build ones I'm able to repair and customize :). However I have absolutely NO idea where to begin and what exactly I'm searching for... I'm lacking the skills and knowledge on the 3 fronts !

• What hardware I'm looking for ?
• What kind of electronics ?
• What programming language to glue everything together?
• .... ?

I'm not afraid to get my hands dirty and learn how to micro-solder, learn some coding skills to get everything neatly glued together software wise, learn the necessary hardware or other important and necessary stuff to achieve this goal ! I'm looking for every good and reliable advice to get me started !

One thing though, If i have to learn some hardware/low level coding skills I would prefer a language that would be useful for other stuff in the long run.

Thank you in advance and I'm already sorry if I'm very slow to respond, I'm not native and the flood amount of information I will probably get, will surpass my ability to respond to everyone right away.

Also every other directions are welcome, like:

• how to repair the old ones? Do I need to flash their proprietary software/hardware?

Thank you !

Hi everyone! I’m a student currently working on a research activity for our Software Engineering class, and I’d really appreciate your insights. 😊

I’m looking to gather input from software developers, project managers, or engineers about the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) paradigms you've used in your past or current projects.

If you have a few minutes to spare, I’d love to hear your answers to these quick questions:

1. What type of software did you develop? (e.g., mobile app, enterprise system, game, etc.)

2. Which software development paradigm did your team follow? (eg. Prototyping Model, Spiral Model, Fourth Generation Techniques (4GT), Waterfall Model Agile Model, V-Shaped Model, Incremental Model, RAD (Rapid Application Development), Feature Driven Development (FDD), Big Bang Model, Scrum, etc)

3. Why did you choose that particular paradigm? (e.g., client requirement, team familiarity, project scale, etc.)

Your input will be used for academic purposes only, and it would really help me complete this task with real-world insights. Thank you so much in advance!

The Push Notification Hub (PNH) service recently went through significant modernization. We migrated from legacy components like .NET Framework 4.7.2 and custom HTTP server called “RestServer”, to .NET 8 and ASP.NET Core 8. Moreover, for handling outgoing requests, we moved from custom HTTP client/handler called “HttpPooler”, to Polly v8 and SocketsHttpHandler. This article describes the journey thus far and its impact on PNH performance.

Sections: Intro (what is PNH), expectations, measurement, migration phases (concrete tech and measurements), closing thoughts, next steps.

PNH is deriving great benefits from .NET 8. Overall performance improved, as evidenced by the Q-Factor metric, by about 70%. Performance is a major factor for a service like this and will reflect positively in basically all flows on Teams platform that got to do with messaging. The results actually exceeded our expectations by significant margin.

The Linux foundation announced "neonophos", but Eurostack has been around for a while. Why do these two exist separately and not together?

I'm doing some Galois Field / Cyclic Redundancy Check research for fun and I've come across an intriguing pattern that I need a data structure for.

Across the 64-bit (or even 128-bit or larger) spaces, I've discovered an interesting pattern relating to hamming distances that I'd like a data structure to represent.

I'm going to need something on the order of ~billions of intervals each having somewhere between 1 item to ~1 billion per interval. And I'd like to quickly (O(1) or O(lg(n))) determine if other intervals intersect.

For 32-bit space I can simply make a 512MB Bitmask lol and then AND/OR the two Bitmask. Easy

But for 64-bit space I'm stuck and a bit ignorant to various data structures. I'm wondering if someone out there has a good data structure for me to use?

I've read over Interval Trees on Wikipedia. I'm also considering binary decision diagram over the 64-bits actually. Finally I'm thinking of some kind of 1-dimension octtree like datastructure (is that just a binary tree?? Lol. But BVH trees in 3d space seems similar to my problem it's just I need it optimized down to 1 dimension rather than 3.) Anyone else have any other ideas or cool data structures that might work?

I've read multiple times that CUDA dominates, mostly because NVIDIA dominates. Rocm is the AMD equivalent, but OpenCL also exists. From my understanding, these are technologies used to program graphics cards - always thought that shaders were used for that.

There is a huge gap in my knowledge and understanding about this, so I'd appreciate somebody laying this out for me. I could ask an LLM and be misguided, but I'd rather not 🤣

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