#Developer Tools

[disease]

OMG... far too excited seeing this dev'd

"Brainfuck is an esoteric programming language created in 1993 by Swiss student Urban Müller. Designed to be extremely minimalistic, the language consists of only eight simple commands, a data pointer and an instruction pointer."

[biglisbonnews]

How to Use the Browser Developer Tools Console The browser developer tools console is one of the most powerful tools available to you when it comes to debugging your front-end web applications. The console has an API that provides several methods that make debugging easier. It’s not uncommon... The post How to Use the Browser Developer Tools Console appeared first on Treehouse Blog. https://blog.teamtreehouse.com/mastering-developer-tools-console

[tradermade]

Revamped developer resources to supercharge your workflow! Dive deeper: https://tradermade.com/blog/new-and-improved-resources-for-developers. Explore improved data docs, code examples, Query Generator for faster API calls, new tutorials, stellar tech support for seamless data integration & more.

[httpdss]

🚀 Introducing STRUCT: Automated Project Structure Generator!

Organize your projects effortlessly with Struct. From CI/CD pipelines to Docker setups, Struct ensures your repo follows best practices.

🔗 Check it out on GitHub and start contributing today! No one needs to know this, but it was build from ground up with ChatGPT-4o

[understanding-react-native]

Must-Know React Native Trends Shaping App Development in 2024

Discover the cutting-edge trends and updates in React Native app development for 2024, including enhanced performance, new architecture, advanced UI components, and more!

[webdevelopments-ava]

Is GPT-4o Better Than GPT-4? Exploring OpenAI’s Latest Innovation

Discover GPT-4o: its features, performance, safety, and availability for users and developers. Is it an improvement over GPT-4? Learn more here.

[physalian]

How To Make Your Writing Less Stiff 5

Movement

Dredging this back up from way back.

Make sure your characters move, but not too much during heavy dialogue scenes. E.g. two characters sitting and talking—do humans just stare at each other with their arms lifeless and bodies utterly motionless during conversation? No? Then neither should your characters. Make them…

Gesture

Wave

Frown

Laugh

Cross their legs/their arms

Shift around to get comfortable

Pound the table

Roll their eyes

Point

Shrug

Touch their face/their hair

Wring their hands

Pick at their nails

Yawn

Stretch

Sniff/sniffle

Tap their fingers/drum

Bounce their feet

Doodle

Fiddle with buttons or jewelry

Scratch an itch

Touch their weapons/gadgets/phones

Check the time

Get up and sit back down

Move from chair to tabletop

The list goes on.

Bonus points if these are tics that serve to develop your character, like a nervous fiddler, or if one moves a lot and the other doesn’t—what does that say about the both of them? This is where “show don’t tell” really comes into play.

As in, you could say “he’s nervous” or you could show, “He fidgets, constantly glancing at the clock as sweat beads at his temples.”

This site is full of discourse on telling vs showing so I’ll leave it at that.

Epithets

In the Sci-fi WIP that shall never see the light of day, I had a flashback arc for one male character and his relationship with another male character. On top of that, the flashback character was a nameless narrator for Reasons.

Enter the problem: How would you keep track of two male characters, one who you can't name, and the other who does have a name, but you can’t oversaturate the narrative with it? I did a few things.

Nameless Narrator (written in 3rd person limited POV) was the only narrator for the flashback arc. I never switched to the boyfriend’s POV.

Boyfriend had only a couple epithets that could only apply to him, and halfway through their relationship, NN went from describing him as “the other prisoner” to “his cellmate” to “his partner” (which was also a double entendre). NN also switched from using BF’s full name to a nickname both in narration and dialogue.

BF had a title for NN that he used exclusively in dialogue, since BF couldn’t use his given name and NN hadn’t picked a new one for himself.

Every time the subject of the narrative switched, I started a new paragraph so “he” never described either character ambiguously mid-paragraph.

Is this an extreme example? Absolutely, but I pulled it off according to my betas.

The point of all this is this: Epithets shouldn’t just exist to substitute an overused name. Epithets de-personalize the subject if you use them incorrectly. If your narrator is thinking of their lover and describing that person without their name, then the trait they pick to focus on should be something equally important to them. In contrast, if you want to drive home how little a narrator thinks of somebody, using depersonalizing epithets helps sell that disrespect.

Fanfic tends to be the most egregious with soulless epithets like "the black-haired boy" that tell the reader absolutely nothing about how the narrator feels about that black-haired boy, espeically if they're doing so during a highly-emotional moment.

As in, NN and BF had one implied sex scene. Had I said “the other prisoner” that would have completely ruined the mood. He’s so much more than “the other prisoner” at that point in the story. “His partner,” since they were both a combat team and romantically involved, encompassed their entire relationship.

The epithet also changed depending on what mood or how hopeless NN saw their situation. He’d wax and wane over how close he believed them to be for Reasons. NN was a very reserved character who kept BF at a distance, afraid to go “all in” because he knew there was a high chance of BF not surviving this campaign. So NN never used “his lover”.

All to say, epithets carried the subtext of that flashback arc, when I had a character who would not talk about his feelings. I could show you the progression of their relationship through how the epithets changed.

I could show you whenever NN was being a big fat liar about his feelings when he said he's not in love, but his narration gave him away. I could show you the exact moment their relationship shifted from comrades to something more when NN switched mid-paragraph from "his cellmate" to "his partner" and when he took up BF's nickame exclusively in the same scene.

I do the same thing in Eternal Night when Elias, my protagonist, stops referring to Dorian as "it" and "the vampire" instead of his name the moment they collide with a much more dangerous vampire, so jarringly that Elias notices in his own narration—the point of it being so explicit is that this degredation isn't automatic, it's something he has to conciously do, when everyone else in his clan wouldn't think twice about dehumanizing them.

—

Any literary device should be used with intent if you want those layers in your work. The curtains are rarely just blue. Whether it’s a simile with a deliberate comparison or an epithet with deliberate connotations, your readers will pick up on the subtext, I promise.

[infydots]

How to Use Developer Tools to Boost Your Web Development Skills

Understanding the Basics of Developer Tools

Developer tools are a group of functions that web browsers have that give access to developers so they may examine, test, and modify the content and designs of online sites. Simply choosing "Inspect" from the context menu when you right-click any element on a web page will give you access to it, as would pressing F12. They give a more complete picture of the underlying code. Let's first examine what developer tools are and how they operate before delving into their nuances.

Analysing and Modifying HTML

The HTML structure of a webpage serves as its foundation. With developer tools, you can effortlessly examine HTML elements and their attributes. By inspecting the code, you gain valuable insights into how the page is constructed and understand the hierarchy of elements. Moreover, you can experiment with making changes in real-time to observe their impact on the page's layout and content. This hands-on approach enhances your understanding of HTML and helps you master its manipulation.

Enhancing CSS Skills

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are in charge of how web pages look visually. Developer tools provide an excellent environment to experiment with different styles and layout modifications. You can live-edit CSS properties, see the changes instantly, and fine-tune the design until it meets your expectations. This iterative process strengthens your CSS skills and allows you to create stunning and responsive designs.

[smestreet]

Google Cloud and Polygon Labs Join Forces to Provide Developer Tools

#GoogleCloud and #PolygonLabs Join Forces to Provide #Developer Tools #Cloud #Google #DevOps

Today at Consensus 2023, Google Cloud and Polygon Labs announced a multi-year strategic alliance to accelerate adoption of core Polygon protocols, including Polygon PoS, Polygon Supernets, and Polygon zkEVM, with Google Cloud infrastructure and developer tools. Together, they are embarking on engineering and go-to-market initiatives to make it easier for developers to build, launch, and grow…

[bloggersmap]

Whenever you acknowledge another development job, things are incredible initially. In any case, as your career progresses, you might see that your collaborators are less able to help you and are reluctant to request your assistance. Your manager endures you, however, it seems like he’s sitting tight for the opportunity to supplant you. It’s indirect, yet you can’t shake the feeling.

[thecomfywriter]

List of Fidgets / Mannerisms

For all the fidgety characters or characters with specific tells, quirks, or body language. You can use this list as creatively as you please! Sometimes, people have little body language tells when they’re lying, or they’re nervous, or flirty, or sometimes just speaking in general. Also, if you’d like to support me on ko-fi, you can click the link in my pinned post, or click here to directly visit my ko-fi page :) Anyway— without further ado… the list:

┗━•❃°•°❀°•°❃•━┛

Biting inner cheek

Biting lip

Biting tongue

Bouncing a leg up and down

Clicking a pen repeatedly

Collarbone thrumming

Combing through hair

Cracking knuckles or other joints

Drumming fingers on a surface

Fiddling with clothes (buttons, zippers, jackets, pockets, long sleeves, even the corners of clothing)

Fiddling with hair (twirling, pulling, running fingers through it)

Finger flicking

Finger fluttering

Finger tapping / thrumming against a surface

Humming or making soft noises

Jittering extremities (fingers, hands, legs, feet)

Kissing teeth (when your tongue runs along your teeth, sometimes making a slight squealing noise)

Licking lips

Moving tongue around mouth

Nail biting

Pen tricks (around the finger, tapping, thrumming, tossing)

Picking at nails or skin

Playing with jewellery (pulling on chains / necklaces, pushing up brackets, twirling rings around fingers, removing and putting them back on, etc.)

Popping gum

Puffing out cheeks

Pulling face down with hands

Resting tongue under teeth (I personally do this one— I prefer resting my tongue in the grooves under my canines whenever I’m thinking)

Rocking back and forth

Rolling out ankles

Rolling out neck (like a little 360 of the head around the neck; a head rotation)

Rotating wrists

Rubbing chin / jaw

Rubbing collarbones

Rubbing hands / arms

Rubbing neck / nape of the neck

Rubbing temples

Scratching (head, arms, etc.)

Scrunching nose

Shaking a leg while sitting

Smiling / smirking a lot (while speaking, resting face, etc.)

Spinning objects (like a fidget spinner)

Sticking out tongue

Stretching arms upwards (can be a general stretch or a clasp around the wrist and then stretch)

Stroking hair, a beard or mustache

Swaying

Talking with only one side of the mouth (character might have an asymmetrical face if they do this, fyi)

Tapping feet

Toe tapping

Tossing, turning, or fiddling in hand (keys, paper, bags/purses, bottles, etc. I’ve picked up leaves off the ground to fiddle with them sometimes)

Twirling hair

Twisting fingers or hands together

Typing or tapping on a phone or other device

Unconsciously doodling on paper

Whistling

Wiggling eyebrows

Winking (🥲 apparently I wink a lot when I speak. It gives off the wrong message a lot of the time WHOOPS but yeah, pro tip if you have an accidentally flirty character. Speaking from experience 😔)

Wringing hands

Yawning or stretching excessively

┗━•❃°•°❀°•°❃•━┛

Hopefully that helps when writing fidgety characters! It’s the way I do a good 80% of the things on this list lmao. Okay anyways— cheers! Happy Writing!

[dammjamboy]

BETTER CALL SAUL!

[tradermade]

Revamped developer resources to supercharge your workflow! Dive deeper: https://tradermade.com/blog/new-and-improved-resources-for-developers. Explore improved data docs, code examples, Query Generator for faster API calls, new tutorials, stellar tech support for seamless data integration & more.

[buginacup]

Unity's behavior is embarrassingly greedy. Clearly trying to brute force their way into skimming revenue from every mobile game on the market -> pushing their adware onto every piece of software. It's been really disheartening to see every game development software company demand exponentially more profit the past few years. Especially since it comes at the expense of scaring away blossoming developers...

If you haven't learned to make games, but plan to - use something open source like GODOT, or at least an old version of RPG maker with a one-time purchase of a license.

If the owner of the IDE you're using would be legally within their rights to do what Unity is doing now you should assume that they will do it eventually too.

[fumifooms]

What if we were both magic prodigies and it otherized us in different ways and we devoted ourselves to protecting a family member who has general other goals & priorities. What if we both did self-sacrifical devotion in opposite ways.

What if we were dark mirrors of each other and where I've grown overcontrolling you've grown complacent. What if, bought as a servant into a pretty loving home, ownership and control is what love looks like to me, and to you neglected and lonely growing up, love is gratefully taking any scraps of it you’re lent.

By belonging to someone, even if she comes back injured or fails at finding Delgal, she feels like she belongs and is cherished, by owning someone he feels safe in them not leaving him.

She’s what’s tethering him do you see… And he’s the only thing giving her direction and purpose in her state. She needs a compass and he needs a support.

They’re both so out of it 😭 It’s the weirdly intense and unearned mutual trust and reliance on each other?? They’re each other’s weird little comfort codependent teddy bear. Or at least they were headed towards that before SHE DIED THEN HE DIED THEN THEY BOTH FORGOT ABOUT EACH OTHER AND NEVER MET EVER AGAIN. Though she’s also the guard attack hound keeping him safe… And vice versa he heals her and can rewrite her very being with just one wave of his hand. They’re both so so mentally and physically vulnerable both but they cling onto each other. They can’t perceive things accurately but despite it all someway somehow they stumble into something closer to resembling companionship just before they both die. Falin is just that kind and Thistle is just that lonely. Overworked. We both haven’t lived for ourselves in a very long time, haven’t we.

They both have a similar devotion to the people they love but again the difference is that Thistle starts overtsepping while Falin is self-effacing. The other difference between them is that people care about Falin <3 People have given up on Thistle long ago, and he has given people reasons to, while people refuse to give up on Falin. Yaad has a mini arc about it dw about it it’s ok he’s not all alone in the end 😭😭 He reached out for Marcille’s hand but they already all wanted to help him, they just had to be given the chance to, Yaad just had to be given the chance to, it’s okay I’m okay

Hey what if we learned to get in touch with our own identity and the world around us and living in the present again through being in the worst codependent situationship ever.

Falin and Thistle sitting in a tree, sucking on flowers together because they’re h-u-n-g-r-y 💕💕💕

I bet he’s only ever thought of flowers as useless ornaments. Weak weeds. But she shows him they’re tasty and useful and good and pretty in their own right too and deserve existing without proving their worth and waaa <33 Thistles…... Did you know thistles taste sweet if you remove the thorns and eat them?

"Even as a chimera, her kind nature remains" you can’t suppress her in the way that matters. You can’t soothe him in the way that matters. It’s doomed. You’re doomed. It’s all doomed. Save me.