Daily Shaarli

All links of one day in a single page.

October 28, 2020

The Era of Visual Studio Code

About the history of Text editors and IDE, then the rise of VSCode. Why VSCode is the main IDE and will be for a long time.

The most important thing I look for when choosing which tools to use is longevity. Learning software is an investment, and if you have to switch to another application later, you lose some of that investment.

Firefox usage is down 85% despite Mozilla's top exec pay going up 400%

The real problem is that Mozilla didn't use that money to achieve financial independence and instead just spent it each year, doing the organisational equivalent of living hand-to-mouth.

Legit.

And the rest is legit too :

  • dependancy to Google searches
  • as private NGO, heads of Mozilla are paid in millions and its administration cost 30%, way to much compared to other NGO.
  • why prividing a VPN as it is not the best way to provide privacy, the browser still be identified by a fingerprint; though some informations are blocked
  • ineffective side projects, which divide resources; at least there are trials
Principles for Better Design

Principles :

  • Incremental improvement
  • Reuse what exists (Don't reinvent the wheel principle)
  • Five Whys
  • Keep it simple stupid (KISS principle)
  • Perfect is the enemy of good enough (or make it works, make it right, make it fast)
  • Postpone complexity : "premature optimization is the root of all evil" - Donald E. Knuth
My Favorite Rust Function Signature | Brandon's Website
fn tokenize<'a>(code: &'a str) -> impl Iterator<Item=&'a str> {
  ...
}
Histoire des systèmes d’extensions de Firefox - LinuxFr.org
The Database is on Fire — Acko.net

Because Firebase (Firebase Real-Time Database) and Firestore (Firebase Cloud Firestore) might be useful for some cases; but are garbage most of the time.

Un projet perso n'est pas une corvée - Je suis un dev

TL,DR
Make fun with personal project. Even if the project already exists, make what you like. It can be of any size, smaller or bigger as wanted. Because you can. And it always be useful.

The Magic of Python Context Managers | by Martin Heinz | Oct, 2020 | Towards Data Science

A guide to use and understand the context managers from the ground

Le Brésil durcit sa réglementation sur l’avortement en cas de viol

J'ai la haine contre ce genre de comportement, et contre ces lois décadentes.

Cela reforce mon opinion qu'une religion (toute) puissante est néfaste pour la société.

Eh oui... On ne négocie pas avec un virus - Libération

On ne négocie pas avec un virus, on ne berne pas un virus, on ne triangule pas un virus, on ne temporise pas face à un virus, on ne calcule pas en fonction d’une stratégie électorale avec un virus.

Blog Stéphane Bortzmeyer: RFC 8890: The Internet is for End Users

Internet est pour les humains, le commun ❤️

In case of conflict, consider users over authors over implementors over specifiers over theoretical purity.

avec un article de Mark Nottingham: RFC8890: The Internet is for End Users

Obtenir gratuitement des informations sur les entreprises

Pour trouver des informations sur les entreprises, on peut retenir deux services:

The open source paradox - <antirez>

"The best code is written when you are supposed to do something else" - Melinda Varian

Open source is different, it’s an artifact, it’s a transposition in code of what you really want to do, of what you feel software should be, or just of all your fun and joy, or even anger you are feeling while coding. And you want it to rock, to be perfect, and you can’t sleep at night if there is a fucking heisenbug.

The real right you have, and often don’t exploit, is that you are the only one that can decide about the design of your software.

Difference between Emoji and Emoticon | Difference Between

TL;DR

Emojis represent an idea or a concept more than emotions
Emoticons, on the other hand, are a typographic representation of facial expressions that are used to convey a message in a text-based medium.

Boules carrées — Wikipédia

La pétanque avec des boules carrées :D