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What do you think is the best documentation format?
I personally prefer HTML for documents. At worst, it's no worse than plaintext, but it has very big potential for improvement. For example, it can have hyperlinks like many advanced formats do (which ...
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Web Scraping Ethics, Legality, and Tools like Scrapfly, Playwright & CapMonster
Hi everyone, I'm diving into the world of web scraping and wanted to start a thoughtful discussion around some tools and practices. Lately, I've been experimenting with: Scrapfly – for managing ...
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Best practices for managing secrets securely in CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments
In modern CI/CD workflows, managing secrets like API keys, database credentials, and access tokens securely is critical — especially when deploying to multiple environments (dev, staging, production, ...
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What are your unpopular opinions about programming?
I certainly have some unpopular opinions about programming, such as that for objects meant to be data containers, public data members are better than getters and setters. What are some of your ...
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Pros and cons of exposing data through APIs vs Database
Please consider the following theoretical scenario. You are working for a company which has an application that works with a high volume of valuable data. The company is moving fast and introducing ...
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Athena Snowflake Dataview
Does anyone know if it is possible create a working linked server with Athena Snowflake? I was crated one but the views that Athena offers don't show up. I have admin access and followed the ...
What makes C++ an unsafe language in 2025 if we avoid raw pointers and arrays?
In this podcast episode of "Tech over Tea" (starting from 01:24:08), the founder of SerenityOS and lead developer of the Ladybird browser mentions that they are currently looking to switch ...
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What problems in the Django framework still have no direct solution?
Good day, everyone. I am planning to create an extension or a Django app specifically aimed at providing solutions to recurring problems that affect the development process—particularly those that ...
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An AI agent to automatically resolve simple code review suggestions (on GitHub/GitLab)
Scenario: I create a PR on GitHub or GitLab Someone suggests a minor improvement I check the suggestion using the ChatGPT app I apply the improvement to the code I believe there���s great potential to ...
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Which R is the "best": base, Tidyverse or data.table?
As the R ecosystem continues to evolve, a question that keeps being asked is "Should I use base R, Tidyverse, or data.table?" There may be some aspects in which one approach may be ...
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Automation tool ideas
Hello everyone, I am currently working in a large cloud company as a system administrator, and I want to develop tools and scripts that will automate processes / make them more efficient for the ...
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Ceating tables in Dyanodb - Credentials
When I run as per above I am getting following error bishta2@MNM-NX9647WYYQ bookmyenvironment % docker run -d -p 8000:8000 amazon/dynamodb-local ...
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How to securely expose a locally-hosted Shiny app to the internet for remote access?
I have a computationally expensive Shiny app (written in R) running on my local machine (each run takes 6-8 hours). Since renting a cloud server for this workload is cost-prohibitive, I'd like to ...
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C++ namespace or static class
I am developing a library of functions in C++. These functions will be used extensively and repeatedly by me as well as others in the future. Let us say my functions are: double SphBesselJn(const ...
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How to enable chrome os support in android app and what changes are required in playstore ?
I have a flutter app which is already available on playstore. I want to enable it for chromeOS. I dont know what changes are required to make it compatible for chromeOS and what changes I have to do ...
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