Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️the button I want most in my Typing English career: a "yes that's misspelled, correct it to the first suggestion" button.
having to switch to a mouse to click on the spellchecking for every minor word is so tedious
maybe if you hit it again after it applies a correction, it goes to the 2nd most likely suggestion
I'd have to pair this with a spellchecker that understands my personal english dialect of Later IRC English, though. Standard spellcheckers don't understand how I capitalize and think I misspelled words all the time, just because I didn't capitalize them.
one thing I'd really love to have is a better way to do text input, like have a single program I type into that interfaces with everywhere I type English*.
right now it's a bunch of website textboxes, chat apps, text boxes... a unified customizable & hackable frontend for typing would be perfect.
* as opposed to programming/shell/commandline stuff, not other Human languages. The only other language I know enough to ever type in is Latin, and that's fairly limited. I'm sure I can figure out "cinaedus sum" myself
a few replies mentioned IMEs: maybe I could implement this as an IME, which'd let me tie it into my operating system's keyboard support in a nice way?
my other option is just having it be an always running textbox app, that appears when I hit a hotkey. But crucially when it appears, it queries the running program and figures out where the cursor is, so when I finish typing into the floating textbox, it can paste it back into there.
having it as as a browser extension would also get me 90% of the way there since that's my main place I type, but the remaining 10% would be a pain.
and browser extensions are a pain, too
I have been programming in a lot of environments for a long time and I have long since learned to identify when you're developing for an environment that hates you personally and is always going to be an uphill nightmare of security, updates breaking things, and 3rd parties you have to wait on to approve anything
and those environments are never fun to code in. you should be getting paid to code for them, or they will rapidly burn you out.
(if you're getting paid, they'll slowly burn you out)
this is why I don't usually do mobile or minecraft development.
I've done both before, but those environments hate you too much, so I'll stick to programming where it can be fun and enjoyable
I've done both before, but those environments hate you too much, so I'll stick to programming where it can be fun and enjoyable
maybe I should compose an official list: Foone's Symptoms of A Programming Environment That Hates You
1. Factors completely outside your control break the code periodically. This is anything that's an add-on, usually. The browsers changed something, the sites changed something, the game changed something... It's a project that can never be finished, can never be put away. It will just break on some random day because some people in a different organization with different goals changed it
this doesn't include the time my website broke because a subcontractor unexpected renamed columns in the database on a saturday. that's just a massive fuck-up
but any environment where shit changes periodically and have to change your code to fix it? easy burn out. you're not feeling like dealing with that app you wrote 3-20 years ago, but that doesn't matter, it suddenly needs attention or it will just stop working
2. third-party authorization before code can run.
The more steps there are between you writing code and that code actually running where it needs to be ran, the less enjoyable it can be for my specific style of fast-iteration-loop ADHD-fueled programming, sure, but the worst is delays where you need to wait on other people, people outside your organization.
The more steps there are between you writing code and that code actually running where it needs to be ran, the less enjoyable it can be for my specific style of fast-iteration-loop ADHD-fueled programming, sure, but the worst is delays where you need to wait on other people, people outside your organization.
nothing kills my motivation to fix problems and add features like knowing that even if I spend all day hacking on this, no one can see my changes until Wednesday (if I'm lucky. it might be Friday...)
this is why my personal projects are all on platforms like the web (where I run my own hosting, or use very simple free hosting) or scripts/binaries I can just throw up on github or my own site, and people can download and run them on their own machines.
3. Environments where you can't do it "the simple way". This is usually a security thing, but it can be other problems (licensing, approved software lists, etc).
Basically any scenario where there's a simple and easy way to solve your problem, but that can't be done, and a much more complicated solution must be done.
"security" itself isn't a bad thing, but sometimes the way it interacts with programming is terrible, and results in there being two ways to do something:
1. the obvious simple way
2. the much more complicated, but secure way
1. the obvious simple way
2. the much more complicated, but secure way
and some environments enforce you doing #2, even if this is only a test that you're doing on a local machine
Luna Dragofelis ΘΔ🏳️⚧️🐱@foone like refusing self signed HTTPS certificates for localhost?