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What are you working on this week? (Sep. 29, 2024) by webbureaucrat in c/rust@programming.dev

[-] webbureaucrat@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago

I am a YAML hater. The biggest thing about YAML that keeps biting me recently is this:

script:
    - echo "a key: a value"

throws parse errors because of the colon, even though it is inside a quoted string.

But there are lots of reasons to hate YAML.

Honestly, an underrated one to me is I just hate significant whitespace. I don't want to use any language that supports it.

What are you working on this week? (Sep. 29, 2024) by webbureaucrat in c/rust@programming.dev

[-] webbureaucrat@programming.dev 6 points 1 month ago

I'm working on a fault-tolerant JSON5 parsing library in the service of a JSON5-to-JSON and JSON5-to-YAML transpiler.

My goal is to never write any more YAML ever again.

Which protocol or open standard do you like or wish was more popular? by webbureaucrat in c/programming@programming.dev

[-] webbureaucrat@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

I'd think they'd get it back by not having to share their ad rev with Google. There's something to be said for the economies of scale Google benefits from but with cloud services that's not as relevant as it was.

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Any advice on picking a Python language server for emacs? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 month ago by webbureaucrat@programming.dev to c/python@programming.dev

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Hi, folks!

I'd like to set up my emacs with lsp-mode and lsp-ui, but I am finding myself in some analysis paralysis. Ruling out the Palantir language server because it's deprecated and because it's Palantir, that still leaves me with five language server recommendations from lsp-mode.

Anybody have any opinions they'd like to share? Any really bad experiences I should avoid? How do I configure your favorite? (Feel free to assume I know very little about configuring emacs.)

If it makes a difference, I am a poetry user and a religious mypy --strict user.

Thanks in advance!

Favorite FOSS Android Apps for a De-Googled Phone by webbureaucrat in c/opensource@programming.dev

[-] webbureaucrat@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

I live on Termux. I love being able to write software in my own custom emacs configuration from my phone.

Which protocol or open standard do you like or wish was more popular? by webbureaucrat in c/programming@programming.dev

[-] webbureaucrat@programming.dev 23 points 1 month ago

I'll give my usual contribution to RSS feed discourse, which is that, news flash! RSS feeds support video!

It drives me crazy when podcasters are like, "thanks for listening to our audio podcasts. We also have a video feed for our YouTube subscribers." Just let me have the video in PocketCasts please!