cssengineer
he/himComplaining on Tumblr is a good alternative to punching my computer screen, right?
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Big things are happening, people. Teammates are frequently coming to me for help on their projects.
Do I always know the answers to their questions? Absolutely not. But they THINK I know the answers. Which actually means more, if you don’t think about it.
Update: I never even gazed at the pond. And I do not intend to.
It’s high time I dip my toes into Rust
Me, offering my teammate the bug fix story that will certainly drive them to insanity
I watched a youtube video about GraphQL last night and it is not at all what I thought it was. And then it made me realize that SQL, too, isn’t what I thought it was. And now I feel rather silly.
Hi Tumblr, I’m back. I hope you’ve all been well.
CSS art terrifies me to the point that I don’t even have the courage to try it. Tremendous respect to people who can make it.
I don’t want to come off negative… but you know how these things go.
Still waiting for the sword person x pikachu person collab
The blade is imbued with great power. I can feel it course through my hands as I unsheathe it. I do not know if I can sate its hunger. Read more on my blog.
For those new to code culture, I encourage you to revisit the original post’s comment section numerous times over the coming weeks.
Because the battle over that choice for H is going to age like fine wine. Sure, sure, there’s a definitively right answer. But what power does definition hold in the face of emotion?
Maybe we can make a scavenger hunt out of it. Point values for potential phrases below:
{
“Describes” : 1, “Instructions” : 2, “Markup Language” : 3, “Haskell” : 5, “Turing Complete” : 8
}
The only statement I’ll go on record saying is that whichever side you take, I respect you and you’re safe here.
Learn alphabet with programming languages
A lot of computer science algorithms are just means to describe activities humans do naturally.
Sorting a list? Humans do it no problem; heck, in a vacuum one might adhere exactly to a quicksort + insertionsort hybrid (a speedy combo on many datasets) without even knowing it.
Bigger example: graph theory. The foundation of modern databases, neural networks, and gps routing came from the contemplation of the people of Königsberg. Euler just harnessed raw thought into a concrete set of rules and instructions that further our innate abilities.
Tragic news like half the ways people talk about magic in fiction could irl be applied to maths
It’s an honor and a privilege to be a part of codeblr
Hiya! I've compiled a list of some of the currently active Tumblr blogs that are dedicated to all things coding and programming - this includes frontend dev, backend dev, web dev, game dev, etc. These are blogs I also follow (I try to follow as many as I can) and I like what they post, and I just wanted to share it with more people!
I will keep updating this post whenever a new blogger pops up or if some blogs deactivate - some of my fav blogs deactivated which is super sad since I loved seeing their coding posts on my dashboard! Anyways, onto the blogs!
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@code-es ☆ @web-dev-with-bea ☆ @mileotero ☆ @sunlearnscoding ☆ @anndcodes ☆ @kirjh ☆ @zoeythebee ☆ @psychoticdesigns ☆ @yyshenblog ☆ @shivanitanwarsblog ☆ @cloudylogs ☆ @aleksey-kivaiko ☆ @simplywebstuff ☆ @codingflicks ☆ @checks ☆ @podokonnik ☆ @adventuresincodeandcoffee ☆ @knitjumpergames ☆ @pizzatriestostudy ☆ @codeparttime ☆ @programmerhumour ☆ @avkera ☆ @datavids ☆ @womaneng ☆ @shahednasser ☆ @cssengineer ☆ @soybananamilkcodes ☆ @frithams
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Again, if there are more out there, let me know so I can update the list! If you want your @ taken off the list, let me know too! Thank you and I hope more people follow these super cool blogs and enjoy their posts the way I have! 💻💗💗
I do hope I’m not the only one who takes 8 hours to decide on a font stack. And it still never feels exactly right.
C is a shot of American Rye (100 proof, bottled-in-bond)
Python is a Ramos Gin Fizz
Javascript is a bone-dry, dirty, vodka martini
React a Cosmopolitan
Angular an Appletini
Express an Espressotini (yea I say that instead of “espresso martini” because I find it more fun this way)
C# is a Sazerac with equal parts cognac and whiskey, and the person making it will HAVE to tell you how “a lot of people say it’s the first cocktail, but that’s not really true”
if i were a drink i’d be cherry vanilla coke
Submitting a PR without unit tests is like having a manhattan without a cherry
Sure, it’s easier, but exceedingly less satisfying
Well of course. Mina is an ELITE data wrangler.
Want to go on record and say that the owner of this blog did, in fact, read dracula daily. Time and time again I tried to think of fun ways to relate it to programming. Yet time and time again I couldn’t bring myself to do it.
Not because there weren’t ways I could shoehorn in a weird analogy, but because I admired the characters too much to force one. Idk it just felt disrespectful to bring code into this.
Will happily disrespect Dracula, though. Got some real cobol energy from that dinosaur. Particularly the way he drains the life out of a lot of happy, wonderful people.
Want to go on record and say that the owner of this blog did, in fact, read dracula daily. Time and time again I tried to think of fun ways to relate it to programming. Yet time and time again I couldn’t bring myself to do it.
Not because there weren’t ways I could shoehorn in a weird analogy, but because I admired the characters too much to force one. Idk it just felt disrespectful to bring code into this.
Will happily disrespect Dracula, though. Got some real cobol energy from that dinosaur. Particularly the way he drains the life out of a lot of happy, wonderful people.
TIL the Go mascot is a gopher. Which makes sense. And I feel silly.
Does anyone read programming books? Like actually?
Keeping them on a shelf having skimmed the table of contents doesn’t count.
Hey! Computer Science B.S. passing by. CS, like the last reply mentioned, is a science. A lot of schools will lump it in with the college of engineering (e.g. the one I went to), which isn’t necessarily wrong, but ultimately the discipline is a natural science.
In fact one could argue that hardware computers aren’t even necessary to perform the activities of pure computer science: people like Leonhard Euler were discovering its principles long before the first transistor had been made. Heck, even if your laundry-sorting process is rigid enough you could call it computer science.
I think of computer science as the study of the ways to move and store data. The best way to accomplish those activities happens to be with computers, so we concern ourselves with applications on the creations of our computer engineering friends.
hey! could you help me with the difference between computer science and computer engineering?
hi! my background is experimental physics, so you might be better off asking someone who is actually from one of those disciplines. but my understanding is that computer science focuses on software (eg data structures, coming up with algorithms) while computer engineering is a marriage of cs and electrical engineering, which involves more work on the electronics/hardware side of things. because of this, you'd need to learn a lot more physics for a computer engineering degree.
You can change your font and you can change your float
You can set margins, that’s just the style you wrote
You can { display: none; } and you can overflow
But you’ll always google how to center a <div>.
I like that a Razor pages app (and really ASP at large) makes organization effortless, but I do not like how complicated a simple project becomes because of that organization.
Yes yes I know that it’s not made for small projects and it exists for large, enterprise endeavors, but still. Just let me pass data to my pages without 3 hours of configuration.
Update: While fun and neat, I still have yet to find a suitable hobbyist use case for Go.
Happy Pride!
Alan Turing, one of the best computer scientists and programmers ever, was gay. The world lost him at a young age because he wasn’t treated with the kindness every human deserves.
Be nice to your fellow person. Be they a mathematical prodigy or an innominate stranger, everyone deserves to love and be loved.
Some articles about Turing:
https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/alan-turing-a-prodigy-whose-life-was-curtailed-for-being-homosexual-5bd5e686c1c0
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/12/24/alan-turing-was-a-war-hero-prosecuted-for-being-gay-he-finally-got-a-pardon/
An epistle on an “oh duh” moment I just had while pondering switch functionality in Python.
Every couple of months when I get back into some hobbyist Python development I find myself DuckDuckGo-ing “switch in Python” and am subsequently always reminded that that’s not explicitly a thing. You, of course, get that functionality from dictionaries.
I’ve always thought that was dumb, but today I was considering it and realized that it’s all because of the interpreted nature of the language. Switch statements have the wicked performance improvements over if ladders in compiled languages because the switch tells the compiler to put a bunch of branches in the intermediate assembly so a lot of unnecessary condition checks are skipped.
Without in-depth knowledge of how the interpreter works, it now becomes clear why you have to use the dictionary. It’s not the Python lords being pretentious and imposing their pythonic ways; you have to be more explicit to the interpreter about where to look for the logic to run because the interpreter doesn’t craft intermediate assembly, it just plows straight through. So a switch in Python would ultimately perform no better than an if ladder.
That doesn’t mean a switch wouldn’t make me happy, mind you.
Now that I have a degree in computer science, I will insist that I am a scientist and must wear a lab coat and goggles while I work as a software developer.
Reblog if you’re a student actively ignoring an assignment
I was today years old, unfortunately
My mind is still quite firmly blown