StealthyCoder

Making code ninjas out of everyone

I just wanted to find out if a directory was writable for the user, and it turns out it is quite difficult to get that information in Golang. How difficult could it be?

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I was going down an avenue of seeing if we could implement a better and easier caching for Docker registry utilizing Google Firestore.

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I was put in charge to write some extra tests in our framework covering our Docker registry endpoints. We created a framework around Locust.

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I have seen so many projects that say, just add one line of code and then you have all this magic stuff, or just x amount of lines of code that implemented this amazing feature. Most of the time they lie. So I just looked at one again, it said one line. Then the example shows three where one is basically the meat, so really it still boils down to two. One import and one calling the function for real. So it is not one line of code. Please stop advertising this type of deal, just make it more apt by saying something along the lines of, minimal code to have maximal benefit. Just something that grinds my gears.

I love watching this movie. It is in one on my list of movies that I can repeat watch endlessly. I recently figured out why that is. After watching it for the n-th time I suddenly realized something.

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I recently watched Mrs. Doubtfire again. I wanted to watch Swan Princess but that turned out to be a Sony Pictures animation rather than a Disney one, so it was not on Disney+. I will hardly name any spoilers here, rather something I came to realize as the end of the movie was coming near.

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Already for a long time the sentiment and opinion on so called “rockstar engineers” or “10x engineers” is that they are mythological and don't exist. Even those self proclaiming ones are wrong. They are not who they say they are, they are just fronting. I think the reasoning that brings forth saying it is a myth is dangerous to our field and society in general.

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I increasingly find myself not watching or reading some piece of content solely due to how the title is phrased. It mostly comes down to some line of either: “You would not believe this..” , “SHOCKED”, or just plain “x things you DO NOT KNOW”. I fail to understand why this form of clickbait is being used and why we let it get so far?

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What if I told you there was not just one type of decorator in Python, but two! First things first, what is a decorator? Then what two types are there? Without further ado, let us dive into the world of decorators.

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I recently installed EndeavourOS and it worked wonderful for roughly 5 months. Then it got me into a situation where there was no way forward nor backward.

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