Canadian software engineer living in Europe.

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Cake day: June 7th, 2023

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  • As someone else said here, programmers are not a monolith. However, I’ve seen it multiple times on the job and in social media where programmers are using these tools to write code voluntarily. The code produced is often garbage, and I have to reject it at review time, but there are a lot of programmers using these things willingly.





  • I don’t think there’s an official “way”, but here’s mine (which I love):

    On start-up I open all the apps I usually use, one per designated workspace:

    1. Slack/Teams/Mattermost, whatever my work requires.
    2. Thunderbird
    3. Kitty
    4. PyCharm/RustRover, whatever the job requires
    5. Firefox

    Workspaces 6-9 are left empty, ready for whatever app I need in the moment, but only ever one app per workspace.

    With this setup, I’ve mapped Ctrl+Fx to each workspace, so Ctrl+F4 takes me to PyCharm where I write the code, and Ctrl+F5 followed by another F5 takes me to Firefox and reloads the page. Ctrl+F3 is always the terminal, etc., so you quickly start building these shortcuts to mean Fwhatever is $APP_NAME.

    I almost never use the mouse, unless what I’m doing is necessarily mouse-driven: browsing or drawing charts etc. Everything else is keyboard-driven.






  • Daniel Quinn@lemmy.catoCanada@lemmy.caCanadian Games Sale
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    24 days ago

    It’s pretty good, but my problem is that if a game doesn’t run I assume it’s because I screwed something up. For example, Synergy, has a platinum rating and it installs just fine, but once started is just do slow for even drawing the starting menu while my CPU goes crazy. Clearly there’s a problem with it not using my GPU, but fucked if I know what package I didn’t install/configure properly.


  • Daniel Quinn@lemmy.catoCanada@lemmy.caCanadian Games Sale
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    25 days ago

    Me too! I’ve been using Steam on Linux for a while, but thanks to American fuckery, I’ve had to experiment with leveraging Proton in Heroic to play GOG games. It’s pretty smooth though. I installed Disco Elysium this morning and it Just Worked™. I then went ahead and bought a bunch of indie games: Dorfromantik, Frostpunk, and Terraformers in GOG’s own Sumner sale. Not Canadian games mind you, but also not American ;-)


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    25 days ago

    I’ve found that GOG generally has around 40% of the games I like on Steam, so I use lists like this to find interesting ones and then check GOG if it’s there so I can avoid paying Americans anything.

    It doesn’t always work. Steam’s library is huge, but I’m doing my part for the whole #ElbowsUp thing, and for me, that means sending as little money their way as possible.

    …and honestly, targeted sales like this make me think the boycott is properly hurting them.