How does “foo” mean “get”? Half the battle of writing correct code is writing code that’s easy to interpret. Do you always look at the guts of every function you’re about to use?

Don’t know but copyright holders have demonstrated a few cases where they got AI to blatantly rip off copyrighted pictures or music.

branching ≠ if ≠ conditional

They’re all related but can’t just be used interchangeably. “if” is a reserved keyword to indicate a specific syntax is expected. It’s not the semantics the author was trying to change, it’s the syntax, and the overall point is that you aren’t always required to use the specific “if” syntax to write code just like you’re not required to use “while” to achieve looping.

What’s the purpose of foo? Why an ambiguous single character variable? What if the property was there but the value was null? Why not use (assuming JS) optional chaining?

I’d approach it more like this:

function getWhatevrProp(userData) (
  const default = { whatevr: "n/a" };

  return { ...default, ...userData }.whatevr;
}

Sorry, read too fast the first time. It’s more likely Python. I also don’t know Python well enough to give recommendations on that.

Always love seeing the trope:

*writes awful code*

See! This is why this language sucks!

Usually it doesn’t solve my problems but it gives me a few places to start looking. I know some models are capable of this but to get a perfectly accurate and useful response would probably require it to recall a specific piece of input it was given and not just an “average” of the inputs.

To each their own. Some won’t like the repeating code and some won’t like the distributed logic (i.e. you have to read every if and if-else statement to know when the else takes effect). I think the use of booleans like isDriverClose makes the repeated logic less messy and reduces inefficiency (if the compiler didn’t optimize for you).

It has conditionals not but actual if statements. Not really different in functionality but a more consistent style.

Hehe. COBOL doesn’t look too bad. Reads a bit like a person that’s never talked to another human being before.

If it’s closed source then it’s a losing battle to try and document code. I mean, do it when you feel it’s 100% necessary (e.g. complex code that you really can’t dumb down, “magic numbers” with a complicated backstory, test cases – it feels like that’s a different part of your brain so the transition is hard). Otherwise write code that almost reads like a sentence and don’t add complexity until you need it.

I’d agree with this recommendation. I believe there were multiple occasions where my router assigned a dynamic IP the same as some other reserved IP. Hard as hell to diagnose. Key indicator was that roughly half the packets were being lost.

Actually makes me feel a bit better. Of all the issues this could be the easiest to tackle. Most other issues are completely above your pay grade, unless your boss/PO is adamant about always producing new features and tweaking old code is a waste of time.

Clearly the rest of the world are communists! It’s not us, it’s you! I’m not crying you’re crying! 😭😭😭

ISO 216 paper sizes work like this: https://www.printed.com/blog/paper-size-guide/

It’s so fucking neat and intuitive! How is it not used more???

Good enough in most cases. Too much info and it might as well give step by step instructions on how to hack you.

1, 3, 4 are good but out of laziness I’d personally use the first.

That really is unholy and I also couldn’t work there long if they thought that was OK (pun intended).

I would actually encourage error responses be in JSON if your 200 responses are JSON. Some clients are apt to always convert the body to JSON so it could avoid an exception on the client side not to throw a curveball.

To your point it’s most important that the content and Content-Type header match.

Don’t remember the tool, maybe someone here does, but there’s some web service out there that boasts a “no storage” approach. You provide some URI and some other value (maybe username) and it makes a password for you, but it’s always the same for a given combination. Basically it’s a purely functional generator.

Downside would be forgetting a minor detail (Did it end with a slash or not? What was the username?) or the site going down. You can achieve the same thing yourself with a hash calculator but those passwords are a bitch to type in.

tl;dr just use KeePass

Never tried Authelia or Authentik but I’ve heard good things about them. I’m sure one of them will integrate with a reverse proxy.