std::string str ("Nobody cares about development...");

[Essence Lumin]

I just ran across Nerdle. It uses numbers and +-*/= only. It is a lot harder than wordle at least for me. Here's someone's example.

And my result for today.

nerdlegame 23 4/6

🟪🟪🟪
🟪🟪🟪🟩
🟪🟪🟩🟩🟩🟪
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Nerdle - the daily numbers game #nerdle

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

My statistics came back.

Unicode pastes work for me here (other than not being lined up well)

Wordle 237 5/6

🟨🟨
🟨🟩
🟨🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

That's the kind of thing I saw when I said Unicode paste wasn't working. It's replacing the colored squares with stars. When it's working, it looks like this: (on twitter)

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Aha, here's why: the codes for the colored squares are too large for 16 bit unicode, and the black and white squares aren't. So I guess VV1 is using software that's 16-bit clean but not 32-bit clean.

🟨	U+1F7E8	LARGE YELLOW SQUARE
🟩	U+1F7E9	LARGE GREEN SQUARE

	U+2B1B	BLACK LARGE SQUARE
	U+2B1C	WHITE LARGE SQUARE

 

[Essence Lumin]

I don't see anything that looks like "stars". Here is a screenshot of my laptop.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

 

[Soen Eber]

Can anyone recommend some decent tutorials on Sass and especially Parcel? I know there's probably better bundlers and pre-processors out there, but these are what I'm facing at the moment, and the concepts will probably transfer over anyways when I get to the better packages. I've been working through the w3c website, Kevin Powell & Web Dev Simplified videos, etc for some months now.

Thanks.

 

[Free]

They're apparently already effn with the formula.

The New York Times has changed Wordle’s solutions

If you got a different Wordle solution today, here’s why

www.theverge.com

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Well, I guess I can run the original locally.

(adds bookmark to file:///Users/argent/Desktop/Wordle%20-%20A%20daily%20word%20game.html)

Also, try octordle.com (results too long for VV1 to post)

 

[bubblesort]

Can anyone recommend some decent tutorials on Sass and especially Parcel? I know there's probably better bundlers and pre-processors out there, but these are what I'm facing at the moment, and the concepts will probably transfer over anyways when I get to the better packages. I've been working through the w3c website, Kevin Powell & Web Dev Simplified videos, etc for some months now.

Thanks.

Oh yeah, the Kevin Powell stuff is awesome! Love his YouTube vids, but I haven't bought any of his courses, because I'm working through the gargantuan Colt Steele web dev bootcamp. I do subscribe to Powell's discord. It's the best group I've found for front end and design theory advice. I don't know much about Sass or Parcel, but if I wanted to track down information about it, I'd go to Kevin Powell's discord and ask around there.

 

[Soen Eber]

Next question: what's a good way to set up a web dev environment based on HTML5, CSS, Sass, JavaScript, and GIT? I mean, how would you set up the directory structure, assuming you're working on a number of different projects so you'd want to encapsulate your source in one directory structure but still have access to tools which might be located other places? I'll check on Kevin Powell's discord later this evening after my mind has melted and I can't focus anymore

I've been going through all the W3C tutorials (so far HTML and CSS are behind me, starting on JavaScript now) but a lot of stuff is buried behind the scenes so it's hard to figure out an optimal way to start working on projects.

ETA: Never mind, the magic words I was looking for was "web development environment" Got plenty enough search hits off of that.

 

[bubblesort]

Next question: what's a good way to set up a web dev environment based on HTML5, CSS, Sass, JavaScript, and GIT? I mean, how would you set up the directory structure, assuming you're working on a number of different projects so you'd want to encapsulate your source in one directory structure but still have access to tools which might be located other places? I'll check on Kevin Powell's discord later this evening after my mind has melted and I can't focus anymore

I've been going through all the W3C tutorials (so far HTML and CSS are behind me, starting on JavaScript now) but a lot of stuff is buried behind the scenes so it's hard to figure out an optimal way to start working on projects.

ETA: Never mind, the magic words I was looking for was "web development environment" Got plenty enough search hits off of that.

Back end environments are tricky. I don't know much about them yet, myself, but I think the directory structure you want to set up depends on the server you're using. I can set up what you are talking about on an express server, but I have no idea how it would work on Apache or Microsoft products. You probably need to specify a server when you go looking up how to set up your environment.

Also, just a general observation... W3C is horrible. I know, it's sad, because I learned CSS from W3C years ago, but it's really fallen behind. Every single educator, student, forum, and course I've seen for the last ten years says to stay far, far away from W3C. Most people in the web dev education world treat W3C like most people treat Internet Explorer. It's just not updated enough to be useful. Use MDN instead. They have tutorials on MDN, as well as pages about individual commands.

 

[Noodles]

Next question: what's a good way to set up a web dev environment based on HTML5, CSS, Sass, JavaScript, and GIT?

I have never used GIT really with web projects but for just projects and practice, I have a Raspberry Pi with Apache, PHPnand MySQL.

For directories, basically if its a sort of "larger" project, I will give it its own folder. If its smaller, I have a folder just called "projects".

Sometimes I will stick a basic index php file in the root with links to the different projects.

As far as editing, I either map the web folder on a network share, then use Notepad++, or I SSH to the machine and use PICO on the CLI.

For other code, I have a One Drive folder called "Code" and its sorted by language.

I only sort of use GIT because I still have not quite figure out HOW to use it properly/meaningfully despite several attempts. Usually if I have a project I want to put in Github, I just upload it with the browser.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

I just ran across Nerdle. It uses numbers and +-*/= only. It is a lot harder than wordle at least for me. Here's someone's example.

And my result for today.

nerdlegame 23 4/6

🟪🟪🟪
🟪🟪🟪🟩
🟪🟪🟩🟩🟩🟪
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Nerdle - the daily numbers game #nerdle

I was just introduced to this myself! haha.

 

[Soen Eber]

Back end environments are tricky.

>snip<

Also, just a general observation... W3C is horrible

Actually I'm trying to figure out the front end dev environment. Don't know enough to do the backend stuff yet.

Yeah, W3C does look horribly out of date, but I've at least been able to knock out the HTML5 and CSS tutorials and I've recorded everything in a searchable hierarchical mind map I can keep adding stuff to. Fortunately this is all just prep work for a paid 12 week boot camp I'll be applying to - I almost got in last time but this leadup to the next training session has already put me far ahead of where I was last time. I'll be able to add notes from the boot camp, MDN, and the YouTube vids I've been monitoring to it.

W3C is still helpful just for the fundamentals I'm laying down, and other sources are guiding me pretty well so it's a cumulative process. Sometimes I have to watch a couple YouTube vids to work out what W3C is trying to teach me but not a big deal so far.

Not too worried on the JavaScript - already had a class on it, and as a once and future developer it's still just ... yet another language. Some new concepts mixed in that I'm looking forward to learning

 

[Soen Eber]

I only sort of use GIT because I still have not quite figure out HOW to use it properly/meaningfully despite several attempts. Usually if I have a project I want to put in Github, I just upload it with the browser.

Send me an IM with a reachable email and I'll touch back with an 8 page "visual cheat sheet" I made in PowerPoint while working through it. Still a bit newbish myself, but when I need to use GIT it's been very helpful. Also covers a couple other useful things as well.

 

[bubblesort]

From the MDN blog: Both Chrome and Firefox are going to version 100 in a couple of months, and that's going to screw with text parsers all across the internet when they go to parse User-Agent, because all previous versions were two digits, and 100 is a three digit number.

To prepare for this, you can test it with a browser that presents a User-Agent with version 100, even though it's not actually version 100 yet. In Firfox, there's a setting to do this in the nightly version. To do this with Chrome, enable chrome://flags/#force-major-version-to-100

Version 100 in Chrome and Firefox – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog

Chrome and Firefox will reach version 100 in a couple of months. Let's work together on fixing User Agent detection issues.

hacks.mozilla.org

 

[Noodles]

Y2K, that Linux 32 Bit Time Bug, that deal with Microsoft recently where Databases rolled over dates, this Browser version thing.

WHEN WILL PROGRAMMERS LEARN TO JUST MAKE THINGS HUGE????

Seriously, i get that you can save like 2 bits or something and .0004ms by using Small Int or some thing, but is it REALLY worth bothering with in the long run?

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

I'm doing a lot of work in SQLite lately, and it doesn't let you use less than an 8 byte integer. It accepts smaller data type declarations for compatibility with other implementations of SQL, but it doesn't pay any attention to them.

Also, when time_t was set to 32 bits, that was the largest type that the compiler could handle: int was 16 bits, long was 32, and that's as far as it went. They WERE being generous.

 

[Essence Lumin]

Y2K, that Linux 32 Bit Time Bug, that deal with Microsoft recently where Databases rolled over dates, this Browser version thing.

WHEN WILL PROGRAMMERS LEARN TO JUST MAKE THINGS HUGE????

Seriously, i get that you can save like 2 bits or something and .0004ms by using Small Int or some thing, but is it REALLY worth bothering with in the long run?

It probably has more to do with doing a text comparison rather than a numeric one. That's really crappy programming. Presumably any important sites will fix that quickly once it breaks if they haven't before.

 

[Free]