#TodayILearned #TIL ... that you can use combining accents on the # of a #hashtag! For example #̧Cedilla. Why? Because someone, in a heroic feat of #DefensiveProgramming, thought "I bet some #weirdos will do that, I'd better deal with it sensibly". Why would weirdos like me do that? Because we're weirdos!
Also, you can pile them on top of each other! Therefore the official hashtag of #Zalgo is not #Zalgo, it is #̶̧̼͖̖̦͍͉̝̗͐̈́̏͜Zalgo.
Patterns for Defensive Programming in Rust
https://corrode.dev/blog/defensive-programming/
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I have a hobby. Whenever I see the comment // this should never happen in code, I try to find out the exact conditions under which it could happen. And in 90% of cases, I find a way to do just that. More often than not…
Working at #InternetArchive is helping my #DefensiveProgramming a lot. Situations like poweroutages, hard-drive failures, network congestion errors, etc that are once in a lifetime in other environments are encountered regularly for our code.
In that regard, the code reviews at the Core Infrastructure Engineering are highlighting the depth of problems that need to be tackled in our environment.
Il mio collega del team di security ma soprattutto amico Paolo Perego ha scritto un bel post 💚
Programmazione Difensiva: Chiudere la Finestra su una Race Condition Critica
La programmazione difensiva è una filosofia di sviluppo che si basa su un principio semplice ma fondamentale: scrivere codice che sia robusto e sicuro anche quando opera in condizioni impreviste o in un ambiente potenzialmente ostile. Invece di fidarsi che tutto sia configurato perfettamente, il codice prende la responsabilità della propria sicurezza.
"I’ve used coding tests myself to separate the best candidates from the … well, not so best. Why does it bother me so much, when I’m asked to take one myself?"
https://frickingruvin.medium.com/5-reasons-i-distrust-coding-tests-038714f1d47f
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Weekly Dev Chat 2024-10-22: Winterizing Your Codebase: Preparing for Stormy Weather
https://weeklydevchat.com/2024-10-22-winterizing-your-codebase-preparing-for-stormy-weather/
Everyone and anyone is welcome to join as long as you are kind, supportive, and respectful of others.
Write More Robust Code: Sub-ranges in Object Pascal
Want to write better, bug-free Object Pascal code? Dive into defensive programming with sub-range types to make your code stronger and less prone to errors. We'll break down how to set up sub-ranges, explain why they're awesome, and give you real-world examples to improve your code.
References -
https://wiki.freepascal.org/subrange_types
I set up my Python code to make sure that (a) we're in a clean git state and (b) we haven't already run an experiment with the same ID number.
This has saved my bacon more than once, preventing either wasting days of computation or overwriting hard-won data.
Defensive driving on American highways is when you assume that everyone wizzing past you at 30 above posted is out to do you in, so you use more-than-warranted caution.
Likewise, in #IT, #DefensiveProgramming is when you assume that every piece code—functions your team wrote, libraries and frameworks that were foisted upon you, all of them—are out to get you.
And like defensive driving, defensive programming turns a freeing, joyous activity, namely programming, into a paranoid schizophrenic #disorder.
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