Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️

you know that saying about how a compiler made by N teams will contain N+1 passes?
like every big program contains a replica of the organizational structure that created it?

It's fun sometimes to see big programs made by one person, because they're a sort of inverse mold of their brain structure.

Jul 10, 2023 at 5:17pmWeb
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Jul 10, 2023
linus torvalds said something like "every project has to fit within one person's brain" but sometimes the opposite is true
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Jul 10, 2023
anyway the minor problem I'm having (this tool doesn't properly handle unicode filenames despite having unicode support) is looking to be so intractable that my options are either:
1. find and switch to a completely different tool that doesn't have this problem
2. find the programmer and eat their brain, gaining their knowledge of how their code works. then implement a fix
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Jul 10, 2023

arg. it seems this tool is so dominant in this space (because it does Basically Everything) that there is no real alternative.

so it's back to the cannibalism, I guess

Show threadPeter BindelsJul 10, 2023
@foone Which tool?
Show threadPeter BindelsJul 10, 2023
@foone That was not intentionally with two interpretations, but if you can tell us the tool that wrote that tool that'd be good too 😄
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Jul 10, 2023
@dascandy42 Wiimms ISO Tools.
Show threadPeter BindelsJul 10, 2023
@foone Looks to be completely on Github. Can't find any obviously wrong utf8 code. Perhaps you can find the problem in the code? https://github.com/Wiimm/wiimms-iso-tools
GitHub - Wiimm/wiimms-iso-tools: »Wiimms ISO Tools« is a set of command line tools to extract, modify and create Wii and GameCube ISO images and WBFS containers.

»Wiimms ISO Tools« is a set of command line tools to extract, modify and create Wii and GameCube ISO images and WBFS containers. - GitHub - Wiimm/wiimms-iso-tools: »Wiimms ISO Tools« is a set of co...

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Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Jul 10, 2023
@dascandy42 yeah, that's what I'm working on
Show threadSekoiaJul 10, 2023
@foone you could also bodge it to work well enough for your usecase (I think it was SHIFT-JIF not working right?). Bit of a pain but. Less to understand.

Edit: Welp, from the other thread that seems to be what you're gonna do so...
Show threaderazmus 🇨🇦Jul 10, 2023
@foone Why is this not a vote?
Show threadPseudo NymJul 10, 2023

@foone

Definitely #2.

I mean, that's just good science.

Show threadBrian KungJul 10, 2023
@foone have you tried any LLM tools to analyze the code base? I haven’t seen one that performs better than grep, but an “inverse mold of someone’s brain” might be an interesting test case.
Show threadThis account has movedJul 11, 2023

@foone Regarding option 2: MIND FLAYER! YAY!!!

(Just being silly...)

Show threadlizzy  Jul 11, 2023
@foone 🚀 rewrite 🚀it🚀in🚀Rust🚀
Show threaddemizeJul 10, 2023
@foone every… brain has to fit in one person’s project?
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Jul 10, 2023
@demize I meant more "every project has one person's brain in it" but sure. that too
Show threadRedstoneLP2Jul 10, 2023
@foone
"Every person's brain has to fit within one project" sounds too matrix-y for my taste
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Jul 10, 2023
@RedstoneLP2 get a load of this loser who still wants to be tethered to The Flesh
Show threadRedstoneLP2Jul 10, 2023
@foone who said anything about being tethered to The Flesh? i just don't want to share a repo with some people...
Show threadLP🔸Light up the nightJul 10, 2023
@foone @RedstoneLP2 "the project hit its MVP milestone and is shipping so we need to simplify your brain to match, we'll circle back and re-evaluate stretch goals" is the horror case there
Show threadlorddimwit is now @[email protected]Jul 10, 2023

@foone

I have been told that my code is “unusually focused on static lookup tables” which I guess says something about my brain. I do love big tables and small functions.

Show threadpatrislav ♾️ #RIPNatenomJul 10, 2023
@lorddimwit @foone I always prefer table driven code over N slightly modified repeated statements.
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Jul 10, 2023

@lorddimwit I love that Cake song!

I want a guy with a short function and a looooong (lookup) table!

Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Jul 10, 2023

@lorddimwit also, same. Although I tend to go with lookup dictionaries when I'm programming in Python, which is most of the time. But when I can't, it's lookup tables.

You can really see how I tried very hard to build a data-driven vector drawing language in a limited form of C++ here, and how much of a pain it ended up being:
https://github.com/foone/VGAPride/blob/main/flagdefs.cpp#L476

GitHub - foone/VGAPride: An MS-DOS application for showing Pride Flags

An MS-DOS application for showing Pride Flags. Contribute to foone/VGAPride development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Show threadLunaJul 10, 2023

@lorddimwit @foone oh, damn, now that I think of it... same!

My most recent project even has a whole file that's just a bunch of lookup tables.

It just seems much nicer than endless switches, especially when the same variants come up in several places. Keeps the actual code short and neat.

Show threadpatrislav ♾️ #RIPNatenomJul 11, 2023
@LucaRood @lorddimwit @foone more readable and less error-prone.
Show threadGabbo the wafrn dev guyJul 11, 2023

[mentionuserid="6c33d3d7-98d8-41d8-bad5-d2b2896a4052"] please take a look into my brain

It started as a tumblr clone and... well... here we are.

I think I might had spamed it before it had fediverse integration


#ap-was-hell#ap-is-still-hell
GitHub - gabboman/wafrn-backend

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Show threadMx. Aria StewartJul 11, 2023
@foone npm 1 was a case study in this. So was early nodejs
Show threadMiveyJul 11, 2023
@foone I think large part of this is just that understanding code is often really hard, even and often especially, if it's well optimised and efficient. Good documentation can help greatly here, but it's often missing and few projects really maintain a detailed one.