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Cake day: June 4th, 2023

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  • Once again, the format doesn’t work for me when the main topic is about a fad that nobody talks about anymore.

    It worked in South Park for a long time because they had a relevant episode a week or two after it happened. In Futurama, not so much.

    The Bender story was pretty neat though. They could have left out all of the NFT stuff and focused just on the Bender plot and it would have been a significantly better episode.






  • We don’t have many unit tests that test against live APIs, most use mock APIs for testing.

    The only use for this header would be if somebody sees it during development, at which point it would already be in the documentation or if you explicitly add a feature to look if the header is present. Which I don’t see happening any time soon since we get mailed about deprecations as well.


  • My dad has an old Makita cordless drill from 1995 which he used for everything from assembling Ikea furniture to drilling holes in cement walls. Complete metal innards, full metal case, battery that’s big and heavy enough to bludgeon somebody to death with.

    Until one day I bought a fancy new Bosch cordless screwdriver with Li-ion battery, brushless motor and 1/4 the size and weight of the Makita.

    At first he laughed at me for buying a toy, then he tried it. He ordered one as well the week after and uses it pretty much exclusively since then.

    Still keeps the Makita box and drill around purely for the retro look but even with fresh batteries the amount of torque they put out is not even in the same league.

    Obviously that is the exception rather than the rule and most technological advances went into making companies more profits instead of building better products, but there are some advancements that made power tools better. Li-ion batteries and brushless motors being two of the big ones.


  • I don’t really get the purpose of a header like this, who is supposed to check it? It’s not like developers casually check the headers returned by an API every week.

    Write them a mail if you see deprecated functions being used by a certain API key, probably much more likely to reach somebody that way.

    Also, TIL that the IETF deprecated the X- prefix more than 10 years ago. Seems like that one didn’t pan out.