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Ethics in AI: Is this a thing? If not, how do we make it one? Incorporate it from the start, of course!

11 Oct 2023 17 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark

They terk err jerbs! "It might sound like an overstatement, but if your product is not going to incorporate AI in some shape or form, there’s a good chance that you will become obsolete. All of the tools that we love and already use have some AI fe...

Textual User Interfaces (TUIs): The Intermediary between Command-Line Interfaces (CLIs) and Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs)

13 Sep 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark

Once again, trying to get anything done on Windows 10 is irritating the living fuck out of me. It freezes, hangs and is generally unresponsive to anything other than my using the CLI (through Cmdr, which is pretty useful). Firefox is more like Firesl...

Today in Being Wrong on the Internet: I Know The First Programmer

4 Aug 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Rorschach's Journal

Perhaps, if you didn't commit grammatical/syntactic and social errors, life would go easier for you ... #JustSaying Some Schmuck, commenting on what is clearly an electromechanical (or later) device: Oh, Ada Lovelace! I know her. Me: The woman in qu...

Thread.Join()?: No, I will not be joining Threads (nor the Metaverse nor InstaHarm, on which it is built)

12 Jul 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark

To be honest, when I first heard of/saw mention of Threads, I was confused. That's because I immediately thought of multi-threading in programming, particularly Java. However, I quickly learned that it's supposedly "the next Twatter-killer that's goi...

I already regret my decision to go multi-lingual in internationalising my software (and I haven't even ported it yet).

4 Jul 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark

A while ago (on the scale of years), I created a word-finder/unscrambler utility app for myself that proved quite useful. This was before Wordle was a popular time-wasting thing that it is now. (As far as I know, there's no payout for playing or reac...

Build a Login Form using React and Typescript

29 May 2023 3 minute read 0 comments programmer22

  Build a Login Form using React and Typescript skill level: beginner Introduction React is a popular open-source JavaScript library for building different kinds of user interfaces for different purposes. It is widely used in web development due to i...

An Overview of AI, for Humans (Continued)

2 May 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark

It's been a while since my last post on this particular topic. I got distracted by the state of my financies and trying to improve it (all the while forgetting that learning AI was motivated by learning skills to alleviate that). In this post, I'm go...

A Crash Course in C Programming: Lesson 1 (Getting Set up and Running "Hello World")

25 Apr 2023 7 minute read 1 comment Great White Snark

This text is based on the book of the same name by Elwin, Lynch and Marchuk of Northwestern University (2015). While their book focuses on programming the Microchip PIC32, I've attempted to abstract away details specific to the MIPS architecture in o...

Software Tester jobs are slowly reducing

4 Apr 2023 2 minute read 1 comment Bala

In the corporate world, modern development is moving in a direction where Software testing is no longer becoming a necessity. I understand that testing is very important for any software but the strategy is slowly changing. In my company, there are s...

Notes on Design Patterns (Part 1: An Introduction to Patterns)

26 Jan 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark

Design patterns are one of the areas of programming knowledge that I really should know, apparently. Throughout my career as a developer, numerous people have told me this much. I have attempted, perhaps as many times, to learn them from various sour...