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Sometimes, the most difficult part of writing a test is knowing what the expected result should be.

I made a circular color picker for the @codepen.io challenge. It uses range inputs that have been modified to be circular. codepen.io/chooking/pen...

I took my time to write a lengthy explanation and a bot replied accusing me of copying and pasting from Stack Overflow. That is seriously annoying and disincentivizes taking my time to give free help.

The @darklang.com website doesn't have a dark mode. This is a serious missed opportunity.

It is surprising how many programming students trying to build a calculator don't seem to know how real calculators behave.

Dark mode was the original way. Early applications were all console based and the console had a black background.

If you maintain documentation for a project and you regularly read questions on SO, Reddit, Discord, etc. about this project, consider repeat questions on a topic as a sign that docs on that topic are inadequate.

I showed someone how to fix their code and they still got it wrong when doing a copy/paste because they copied my comment which showed where the error was located instead of copying my corrections that came after.

The most difficult bugs to fix are the ones that don't exist.

The first time I saw "Gen AI", I thought it referred to a generation of kids who are growing up with AI. That is still my first thought when I see it despite knowing that it means "Generative AI". #genai

Some libraries and frameworks are like cults with a common rule that you cannot point out how bad it is until the new version comes out. At that point, you can praise the new one for fixing the flaws of the previous version that you never spoke about before.

A commonly held assumption among beginning programmers is that the number of errors in the code is equal to the number of error messages. If you get a new error message after fixing the first problem, that means it wasn't fixed.