#version control and writing and git it's all the same thing

[sunbentshadows]

Just saw a post about naming things title_FINAL_FINAL_USETHISVERSION.doc and I would like all the writing girlies to consider the following:

ex: title_1.1.12.doc

You don't even have to keep it clean, you can just increment the numbers as high as you need [title_1.105] - it's STILL more organized than the above appending-words style. Neat!

[theallianceofcelestials]

I think you guys know what time it isssss…YAPP TIME‼️‼️‼️

I wanted to wait a bit longer than a week because it felt too soon but I also didn’t want to wait a whole month

-Sigma Anon

Dear Sigma Anon, you don't have to wait so long between Yapp Time ^^ It's okay to talk with us!

Anyway, I don't really know what to talk about, if I'm being honest, haha! But Moongleam made me a little wheel that helped me choose ≽^•⩊•^≼

So by the power of Spin The Wheel, I shall talk about another funky AU her and I have! It is also based off of an older Disney movie, like the Treasure Planet AU, What Waits For Me, but this AU is based off of Atlantis - The lost empire!

First of all, shame on Disney for not pushing its marketing more, and "being afraid" that because it's so much more different than their other movies, it's not good, or something, I dunno, I'm just rambling

So TSAMS Atlantis AU (Moongleam version, funnily enough) was chosen by the wheel, so, for those who haven't seen Atlantis - The lost empire yet, spoiler warnings and please go watch it

So, setting is the USA in 1914, and Eclipse and Solar work at a museum as a linguist and cartographer respectively. They want to get funds by the museum to go on an expedition to discover Atlantis, a mythical lost city, but fail miserably so. So, they do what anyone in their situation would do, and just say F U to everything. That night they meet eccentric millionare Golden Freddy, who is a great friend of their uncle, Ruin, and offers to fund the expedition, persuading the twins to join said expedition, and gives the two eclipse models a book called the Shepherd's Journal, which contains not only the history of, but a path to Atlantis. The twins obviously try to pretend to not be excited as they prepare for the expedition, which lead by Commander Sven Ivanov, or as he likes to be called, Commander The Creator, and includes the Commander's second-in-command Lieutenat Felix Sinclair (the last name is taken from the movie, it is not Trashcan Man/Felix's canonical last name), demolition expert and geologist Ruin, medical officer and mess cook Sun (who is the twin's older brother), with Solar taking the position of head mechanic, and Eclipse being the radio operator, which he's very enthusiastic about (lie)

Emergency Moongleam takeover, because Sunray got sick during the writing of this, and that's somewhat my fault. He'll either finish his yappin in the comments, or just edit this thing. Sunray both asks for, and sends all the virtual cat hugs if they don't survive /jk

So uhhh... This week was shit

I lost a bunch of sleep this week cuz of different scheduling, like I had a national competition on monday which if I succeed at getting at least 60% at, I'll pass one of my exams. So I obviously study for it yeah? As does everyone else. Problem is, all the questions were bullshit. Like we got asked something along the lines of (this is a translation): The maker of Git chose that word for it because of a british slang word that reflects his personality. Who was he and why did he make Git?

Now for those lucky people not studying anythin relatin to IT, you may wonder what the fuck is a Git. Well it is a version controller, which helps multiple people work on the same project without losing any of the previous versions.

Now you may wonder, what in the hell is this question doing in a software development related quiz thing? The answer should be nothing! But it was full of shit like that! With barely any software development relating stuff! We had more networking than software developing!

So I got over that, and I probs failed it, haha. After that, on Tuesday, which is usually online for me, we had to go in for a math test because the school wanted us to decide if we want to take the advance or the normal math exam at the end of it all, when everyone fucking knows what they want by this point. And whoever made that test woke up hating all of humanity, because they made one of the sneakiest, suckiest, pettiest and spiteful tests known to mankind. I already suck at math T_T

Wednsday went normally, aside from photos having to be made which I look absolutely hideous on, and this is with me not actually hating my appearance, and then Thursday came. Blasted, blasted Thursday.

I'm online during Thursdays too, which is perfectly fine by me. More sleep to me because I don't have to get up at the ass crack of dawn. Only, while I'm sitting in online classes, one of my girlies, who was also online, writes to me, asking me if I know about the bomb threats.

So uhh, schools were threatened with bombs in my country 👍 Everyone was sent home, and the suckers will have to make up for the day by going in on Saturday or something. I'm fine on that front, just a bit shooketh cuz nothin like that happened in my lifetime before. I don't actually know if anything has been found in any school though, ours is clear.

But on a lighter note, the reason why I had to take over for Sunray: So I bought a couple of those funky instant noodles from a newly opened asian store, cuz I'm a sucker for them and so is Sunray, and I made the first one back on Wednsday. It was fine, we did our usual ritual that we do with it by sharing.

I made the second one today, and let me tell you, that shit was foul. The seasoning was fine, nothin groundbreaking but the average for these kinds of stuff, but the pasta of it was weird.

You know how these things usually come in a rectangle shape and have a specific noodle for it? Well this one didn't! It looked like the love child of angel hairs and spaghetti! This was kinda funky at first, though it should have been the first sign.

Then when I was making it, It's stench just started permaneting in the air. Like that's all I could smell from it. Sunray could smell the spices, but I couldn't, and it did not get any better when I left the pasta to soften. That was the second strike.

So I start eating, and no matter how long I waited it did not soften fully, and we was in the middle of writing this when I proposed we eat dinner, so we wanted to get back to stuff. Well, I couldn't taste anything but the pasta.

I got about halfway when I couldn't take anymore of it, and passed the rest off to Sunray. Now I'm used to shitty digestion, because I don't treat my stomach well, but Sunray isn't. So he basically immediately had a visceral reaction to it, and almost threw up. Now he's sulking in the bed

But the worst part is! The worst part is I couldn't find the time, energy and motivation to write! :(

So now I need to put my wrist murdering tendencies to good use. Who cares about that anyway? /jk

I'm also feeling sick from the soup :D

[notsocheezy]

Brain Curd #322

Brain Curds are lightly edited daily writing - usually flash fiction and sometimes terrible on purpose.

Experiment in progress. Refer to case logs.

All was quiet when I awoke Monday morning. Well, everything but my alarm. Mondays made for the sort of morning where you wanted to smash the cruel device that woke you up, but wouldn’t because you couldn’t afford a replacement.

But yes, it was quiet. Quieter than I’d come to expect this past week.

“Celeste?” I called out. “Where’d you go?”

No response. I shrugged and made my way to the bathroom. Still no sign of her - which, honestly, I appreciate, now that I know she has a front-row seat for the broadcast that is my own eyes. What I do here is unpleasant enough as it is.

Speaking of unpleasant, I’d have to ask Serenity to Homecoming this morning. I was terrified. And as my brain continued to wake up, I also remembered that now, to cover up my stupid lie, I needed to audition for the school play after school. Without Celeste’s help, I was going to absolutely humiliate myself.

“Celeste?” I called out again as I exited the bathroom. Still nothing. I poured myself a bowl of cereal and went to the fridge for the milk.

“BOO!” She yelled, leaping out from the refrigerator.

I jumped back, nearly knocking over my frosted flakes. “Don’t do that!”

She giggled. “Oh, you should have seen the look on your face. Well, I should have seen the look on your face, really. But I saw mine instead. Which kind of ruins the fun, to be honest.”

I frowned and reached past her for the milk. “You’re still going to help me out after school, right?”

“Absolutely. I’ve got a fantastic monologue printed out right here.” She slapped a piece of paper. “But first, the girl.”

~

I got to school a little early, hoping I might run into Serenity. No, that’s not right. I hoped I didn’t. I was terrified.

“Don’t be scared of her, Trevor.” Celeste crunched on a granola bar. “You’ve known her your whole life, right?”

Yeah, I thought. But this is a totally different thing. It could screw up our friendship.

“It will not. And if it does, maybe you weren’t that great of friends.”

Shockingly, Celeste, that isn’t comforting. Hey, did the experiment go as you hoped?

“How dare you? I’ll have you know it was not a phase!”

I wore my bewilderment on my face as I ducked into a corner to whisper to her out loud. “What are you talking about? I asked for the result of your experiment.”

“Oops. The mind reading is imperfect…” She pulled out a worn-down version of the planner I kept in my backpack and flipped to a page. “Yep, it’s exactly as I expected. Before you went into deep sleep, this doodle of yours wasn’t here.”

“What does that mean?”

“Hm. Have you ever used the version control software, Git?”

“No?”

“Then you’re not going to understand my explanation anyway. Look, there she is!”

I saw Serenity at the same time Celeste did. Oh, oh shit. “Celeste, I just realized something.”

“What now?”

“I can’t ask her to a dance! She’s got crutches because of me! She’ll be offended for sure, so I’d better -”

“Shut the hell up, Trevor, and go ask her already.”

I gulped and approached.

“Hey, Serenity,” I asked, my voice cracking. “Um, how’s the ankle?”

“It’s fine,” she replied. “How’s your conscience?”

“Bruised. But I’m walking it off.”

“Good. You know, I feel like most guys around here don’t give a shit, but you? You’re different. You care too much.”

I could feel my nerve pinching in my neck. I had to get it over with before my brain was all pins and needles.

“Do you want to be my date to the Homecoming dance?” I blurted out. I felt sweat soak into the hair on my head.

It was probably only a couple seconds before she answered, but it felt like I spent minutes studying the minutiae of her facial movements. Was that disgust? Anger? Perplexment? Wait, no. No, that last thing was definitely a smirk.

“The sprain might make it hard to dance, but sure. If you don’t mind, I don’t mind.”

I laughed nervously. “I’m not a very good dancer anyway, heh!” I took a deep breath. “Well, anyway, see you in class!”

Ugh. I probably looked super weird walking away.

“Yeah,” Celeste said. “You look super weird walking away.”

Shut up.

Please comment, reblog, like, and follow if you enjoyed - I'd love to know what you think! See you again tomorrow.

[seriously-mike]

Gatekeep the AI!

I had the funniest thing happen to me lately. Actually, a couple of funny things. All involving local, open-source AI image generation algorithms. And pretty much like a lot of open-source software, they do a fine job of keeping the idiots out.

If you want to wring more than the absolutely basic basics out of those algorithms, you need to learn a whole fucking lot. Esoteric programming stuff, shit about Python, gits, pips, modules, dependencies, wheels, error messages that could as well be in Ancient Sumerian, and why that one thing keeps fucking up every time you fire it up and you have to reinstall it and reload the whole pile of mismatched plug-ins built by everyone from basement-dwelling nerds to corporate R&D labs every goddamn time you want to use it.

Not knowing what I'm doing ended up in accidentally updating multiple Python modules way beyond the requirements, which in turn ended in the whole ComfyUI install coming the fuck apart into unrecoverable pile of tiny unidentifiable bits.

So I just downloaded a full fresh and updated install from Github. Which, much to my shock, was an entirely different thing than using the update batch scripts or even manually updating everything piece by piece using pip. Suddenly, the biggest pain in the ass that kept fucking up with uncanny consistency, Flux Dev in the form of separate models (as opposed to all-in-one builds for the other open-source frontend, Forge), started working. Including the lighter GGUF versions, leading me to come up with new and amazing ways of stuffing the entire 16 gigs of VRAM on my 4070 Super Ti full in order to create weird shit.

Halfway through that, I discovered something disturbing: that multiple plug-ins were so forked up it wasn't even funny. And half of them weren't in the catalog available in ComfyUI Manager, meaning that I had to install them manually. For example, there are two different versions of InfiniteYou, a face-swapper for Flux Dev that skips the entire overengineered insanity that is the latest implementation of my #Photobooth from Hell, and both are designed completely differently, with different inputs and controls... and both are named the same. Tencent did their own ComfyUI implementation in-house, and a Vietnamese developer called ZenAI did theirs separately. And both suffer from a couple of the same bugs, so if you're googling for solutions, sure as shit you'll be thrown between the Issues pages for both of them, and if you don't pay attention, you'll wind up completely confused. Like, how in the fuck the nodes in the documentation look completely different than what I have, where's the node that's shown in the documentation but missing from my install, and so on.

Also, InfiniteYou requires a teeny little Python module that hasn't been updated for the last eight years, and for which the pip install fucks up every goddamn time with no other solution than just downloading the whole package off the author's Github and hammering it into your Python install through brute force.

And much to my disappointment, InfiniteYou is not as great at gender-bending as the earlier algorithms, be it ZenID, InstantID or even IP Adapter. It gets the face shape correct, but refuses to add anything to it, which kinda misses the point. Even their own workflow shows that an attempt to add a big-ass wizard beard to a guy's photo works mostly around the edges of his face, and not on his face proper.

Not that the earlier algorithms don't have their own marvelous ways of fucking up, both recoverable through touch-ups in Photoshop, and completely writing off the output. For example, the combination of ADetailer and IP Adapter for SDXL doesn't work with Flux-generated input images. Anything you feed into it gets the brightness cranked up for no reason, so the result is an overly bright face slapped on the original image. Some plugins for automated face masking fuck up, so you're better off generating the components in separate files (Flux base image, the face mask detected in it and SDXL face replacement), then layering them in Photoshop. That way also lets you correct any mismatches in a much easier way than having to painstakingly select every fucked-up part by hand and trying to tweak that. And while IP Adapter Plus for SD1.5 coupled with an ADetailer for masking purposes is idiot-proof enough to provide fairly good results (and stick to the prompt) without the need to whack things with a Photoshop hammer tool most of the time, it's also kinda simplistic and can't achieve as much detail as anything newer.

Now compare that to the idiot-proof corporate product that is OpenAI's new implementation of DALL-E/Sora/ChatGPT, aimed at replicating the facial features of any schmuck that throws his photo at it. If you really want less idiot-prompted garbage online, limit the development of AI to open-source and have people learn something in the process of using it.

[nitinrajput2922]

Which are the Best 5 Essential Tools for Python Full Stack Developers?

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Introduction: Why Python Full Stack Developers Need Essential Tools

In today’s fast-paced tech world, being a Python full stack developer is like being a superhero with coding superpowers. From managing databases to designing responsive front-end interfaces, a full stack developer does it all. But even superheroes need their gadgets. In the same way, developers rely on essential tools to enhance productivity and streamline workflows. This is where the concept of Python Full Stack Syllabus comes into play, offering a roadmap to mastering everything from front-end frameworks to back-end servers.

The journey of a Python full stack developer is both challenging and rewarding. Whether you’re building robust e-commerce platforms or crafting sleek user interfaces, the right tools can make a world of difference. These tools not only save time but also help developers write cleaner, more efficient code. For those diving into this field, knowing what tools to use is almost as important as understanding the concepts in your Python Full Stack Syllabus.

If you’re just starting or looking to upgrade your developer toolbox, you’ve come to the right place. Let’s explore five essential tools that every Python full stack developer in India should know about. And yes, we’ll throw in a bit of humor along the way because coding should be fun, right?

Why Integrated Development Environments Are Critical For Developers?

1. The Role Of Ides In Making Coding More Efficient

When it comes to writing code, you need a comfortable and efficient space to work—just like an artist needs a well-lit studio. Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) provide developers with all the features they need, from debugging to syntax highlighting. Among the most popular IDEs for Python full stack developers is PyCharm, a powerhouse tool that streamlines coding workflows. A well-structured Python Full Stack Syllabus should include a section on the use of IDEs and their importance in the development process.

PyCharm serves as a great starting point for those studying the Python Course in Noida. It supports various frameworks like Django and Flask, making it versatile enough for full stack development. Plus, with features like code suggestions and error detection, it feels like having a coding mentor sitting right next to you.

While some developers argue that text editors like VS Code are sufficient, an IDE often wins the battle by providing a more cohesive experience. It’s like choosing between instant noodles and a home-cooked meal—sure, both fill you up, but one is far more satisfying.

How Version Control Systems Simplify Team Collaboration?

1. The Necessity Of Version Control In Modern Development

Picture this: you’ve been working on a project for weeks, and suddenly something breaks. You’re scrambling to find what went wrong, wishing you had a time machine to go back to when everything worked fine. That’s where version control systems like Git come in.

Git, combined with platforms like GitHub, is a must-have tool for Python full stack developers. It allows you to track changes, collaborate with teams, and roll back to previous versions when things go awry. The Python Course in Noida often includes lessons on using Git, ensuring developers are prepared for real-world challenges.

Even if you’re working solo, Git is invaluable. Think of it as a safety net that catches you before you fall into the abyss of lost code. And let’s not forget the joy of merging branches without conflicts—well, most of the time!

Why Frameworks Are The Backbone Of Full Stack Development?

1. The Importance Of Using Frameworks For Structured Development

Frameworks are to developers what skeletons are to humans—they provide structure and support. For Python full stack development, Django and Flask are two of the most widely used frameworks. They simplify the development process, enabling you to focus on writing application logic rather than reinventing the wheel.

For students following a Python Course in Noida, learning these frameworks is essential. Django, often dubbed the “web framework for perfectionists with deadlines,” comes with built-in features for user authentication, database management, and more. On the other hand, Flask offers more flexibility, allowing developers to build applications their way.

Choosing between Django and Flask depends on your project requirements. While Django is great for large-scale applications, Flask shines in smaller, more agile projects. Either way, both frameworks equip developers with the tools needed to create efficient and scalable web applications.

How do Task Automation Tools Improve Developer Productivity?

1. The Benefits Of Automating Repetitive Tasks

Let’s be honest—no one likes repetitive tasks. As a developer, your time is better spent solving complex problems than manually deploying code or running tests. That’s where task automation tools like Ansible and Jenkins come into play.

These tools are often included in advanced Python Training Institute modules, as they’re integral to modern development practices. Ansible helps automate server configurations, while Jenkins streamlines continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) processes. Together, they make life easier for developers, freeing up time to focus on what truly matters—writing great code.

Think of task automation as having a personal assistant for your development needs. It handles the mundane stuff, so you can concentrate on the exciting parts of your project. Plus, fewer manual tasks mean fewer errors, making automation a win-win for everyone involved.

Why Database Management Tools Are Indispensable For Developers?

1. The Significance Of Efficient Database Management

Data is the lifeblood of any application, and managing it effectively is crucial for success. Tools like MySQL Workbench and MongoDB Compass provide developers with intuitive interfaces for managing databases, making them indispensable for full stack development.

For those diving into the Python Training Institute, understanding database management tools is a key milestone. These tools simplify tasks like querying, indexing, and analyzing data, ensuring your application runs smoothly.

Whether you’re working with relational databases like PostgreSQL or NoSQL databases like MongoDB, the right tool can make all the difference. It’s like choosing the perfect knife for a chef—precision and efficiency go hand in hand.

Conclusion: Building a Strong Toolkit for Success

As a Python full stack developer, your tools are your greatest allies. From IDEs and version control systems to frameworks and automation tools, each plays a vital role in shaping your coding journey. But remember, tools alone don’t make a great developer; a solid foundation in the Python Training Institute is equally important.

Investing time in learning these tools not only boosts productivity but also opens doors to exciting career opportunities. Whether you’re working on personal projects or collaborating with teams, the right toolkit ensures you’re always prepared to tackle challenges head-on.

In the ever-evolving world of technology, staying updated is key. So keep exploring, keep experimenting, and most importantly, keep coding. Because at the end of the day, it’s your passion and dedication that truly set you apart.

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What is the Future of Python Full Stack Development?

[cloudi5technologies]

5 Essential Tools Every Web Developer Needs in Their Toolbox

Being a web developer means having the right tools at your fingertips. But with so many options out there, it's hard to know where to start. In this blog, we'll break down five essential tools every web developer needs, plus some extras to take your work to the next level.

Code Editor/IDE:

Visual Studio Code (VS Code): It's like a super-powered notebook for coding. You can customize it however you like and it helps you write code faster.

Sublime Text: A simple and fast editor that works on any computer. It's great for writing code quickly without any distractions.

WebStorm: This is like a Swiss Army knife for web developers. It helps you write better code, find bugs, and work with different parts of your project all in one place.

Version Control System (VCS):

Git: Think of Git like a time machine for your code. It helps you keep track of changes, work with other people, and fix mistakes without losing your work.

Mercurial (Hg): This is another time machine, but it works a little differently. It's good for people who like to do things their own way.

Browser Developer Tools:

Chrome DevTools: These are like a magnifying glass for websites. They help you find and fix problems with your code, so your website works perfectly for everyone.

Firefox Developer Tools: Similar to Chrome DevTools, they help you make sure your website looks and works great in Firefox.

Task Runner/Build Tool:

Gulp: Gulp is like a robot that helps you do boring tasks automatically, like making your code smaller or checking for mistakes.

Grunt: Another robot that does similar things to Gulp, but in a slightly different way.

Package Manager:

npm (Node Package Manager): npm is like a magic box full of useful tools and pieces of code that you can use in your projects. It helps you find, install, and update these tools easily.

yarn: Yarn is npm's cool cousin. It does the same things as npm but faster and more reliably.

Bonus Tools:

Content Management System (CMS): If you want to make websites with lots of pages or content, a CMS like WordPress can save you a lot of time.

Responsive Design Frameworks: These are like blueprints for building websites that work on phones, tablets, and computers without any extra work.

Testing Frameworks: These tools help you make sure your code works the way it should before you show it to the world.

Choosing the Right Tools: Try out different tools to see which ones you like best. The tools you choose should fit the way you like to work and help you get things done faster and better.

Conclusion:

Having the right tools can make a big difference in how you work as a web developer. By using these essential tools, you'll be better equipped to tackle any project that comes your way.

If you're looking for a team of skilled professionals to bring your web vision to life, consider checking out Cloudi5 Technologies, a leading web development company in Coimbatore, India. We specialize in crafting innovative and user-friendly solutions, powered by the latest technologies and a collaborative approach. Visit our website to learn more and see how we can help you achieve your web goals!

[snetzweb]

Web Development Roadmap

To start a career in the web development field, you need to choose either front-end web development or back-end web development and if you want to be a full-stack developer you can choose both. Here we will discuss both paths. First, we will talk about what things you should learn and use to go on either path.

Here are some core technologies and tools you need to learn for both frontend and backend roadmap tasks.

Git -

One of the most popular version control systems. It's not possible to live without Git anymore. Git is a software for tracking changes in any set of files, usually used for coordinating work among programmers. It’s goals include speed, data integrity and non-linear workflows.

SSH -

SSH stands for Secure Shell. It is a Cryptographic Network Protocol for operating network services securely over an unsecured network. Typically applications include Remote Command Line, Login and Remote Command Execution. Every network service can be secured with SSH.

It is a popular networking concept every web developer should know.

HTTP/HTTPS -

HTTP stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol and HTTPS stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure.

Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure is an Extension of Hypertext Transfer Protocol. It is widely used over the Internet. For Secure Communication over a computer network, HTTPS is a good way to communicate. HTTP Protocol is the Backbone of the web, and to be a Web Developer you should have good knowledge of both HTTP and HTTPS.

Linux Command - Basic Terminal Uses -

Linux command is the utility of the Linux Operating System. All basic and advanced tasks can be done by executing commands. The commands are executed on the Linux Terminal. The terminal is a Command Line Interface. It is used to interact with the system, it is similar to Command Prompt in Windows.

Not just a Web Developer but for any Programmer, Command Line is a very important factor.

Data Structures & Algorithms -

A Data Structure is a named location which can be used to store and organize data. An Algorithm is a collection of steps which help you to solve a problem. Learning Data Structure and Algorithms allows us to write efficient and optimized computer programs

These are the building blocks for every program and better knowledge of data structure and algorithm. It is vital for your next job or doing well at your current job..

Character Encoding -

If you are creating global applications that show information in multiple languages, across the world then you should have a good knowledge of character encoding.

Character Encoding is used in Computing, Data Storage and Data Transmission to represent a collection of characters by some kind of encoding system. This technique assigns a number to each character for digital representation.

Github -

There is no doubt that every developer or programmer uses Github and Git for getting code information and give some mock tests to check the performance in coding.

Both Git and Github are the standard terms in code repositories.

Github is a provider of internet hosting for software development and version control using Git. It offers the Distributed Version Control and Source Code management functionality.

Now we will discuss both the roadmaps, step by step.

Frontend Developer Roadmap -

If you want to become a Frontend Developer then you should have knowledge in some coding technologies.

In the starting phase, you should have knowledge about some basics of HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

In HTML you should know about the basics of html, semantic html, basic seo and accessibility.

In CSS you should know about the basics of css, making layout, media queries and also CSS3. You should know roots, positioning, display, box model, css grid and flex box.

In JavaScript, you should have a knowledge about syntax and basic constructs, learn dom manipulation, learn fetch api, ajax, ecmascript 6 and modular javascript.

Then you need to start learning about Package Managers, in this you can learn npm and yarn. npm is the latest technology, but still behind yarn in some features. You can select one of them.

Then you have to learn about CSS Preprocessors, which should be SASS and PostCSS.

You can learn about CSS Frameworks, in this you should know about Bootstrap 4.

You can start learning about CSS Architecture, with modern frontend frameworks, there is more push towards CSS in JS methodologies.

Now you can build tools, Task Runners, Module Bundlers, Linters and Formatters. In task runners, you can use npm scripts. In module bundlers, you can use webpack and rollers.

After completing all these steps you need to choose a Framework, it should be Reactjs, Angular and Vue.js. Then use CSS in JS and then test your apps.

Web Development Basics -

It's pretty apparent that if you want to become a web developer, then you should know the basics of the internet, web applications, protocols like http. In general you have knowledge about web development.

HTML and CSS -

HTML and CSS are the backbones of any website, html provides the structure and css provides the style and helps them to look better. If you want to become a serious frontend developer then you must master these two.

JavaScript -

Just like the four pillars of object oriented programming, encapsulation, abstraction, polymorphism and inheritance. Web Development has three pillars, which are HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

HTML and CSS provide structure and style but Javascript makes them alive by adding Interactiveness.

TypeScript -

Just like in programming, we should know about C and C++, the same as TypeScript, which is considered as JavaScript++.

TypeScript is also a programming language developed by Microsoft and also maintained by Microsoft. It is a superset of JavaScript. It is designed for the development of large applications.

Angular -

Angular is a web application framework. It is a typescript based free and open source framework. It is developed by the Angular Team of Google. Angular is an enhanced form of AngularJS, it is completely rewrite.

In the starting phase you should have knowledge about HTML, CSS and JavaScript. But these days, most of them work on Angular, Vue.js, Reactjs and Typescript.

They provide short and simple code which consumes low storage.

Reactjs -

Like Angular, Reactjs is also a very popular library to develop web applications. Reactjs is developed and maintained by Facebook Team. Most people work on reactjs instead of php and other programming languages.

Reactjs is an enhanced form of PHP and we can also include HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

Backend Web Developer Roadmap -

To become a backend web developer, you need to know about some languages.

So the first step is to pick a language.

It should be Functional Language and Scripting Language.

In functional language you need to learn about Java and .Net and in Scripting language you need to learn about Python, Ruby, PHP, Node.js and Typescript.

After learning all these languages, you need to start doing practice, as a beginner you need to do the practice.

Implement those commands you have learned. Learn about the Package manager and start implementing this. Learn about Testing and Bug Fixing.

Start knowing about Relational Database and Framework. You can learn MongoDB Database, it is enough to know about databases and uses of databases. Then start gaining knowledge of Web Server like Apache.

Node.js -

Same as reactjs, node.js is mostly used by maximum web developers. Like reactjs, node.js allows you to make complete web applications using a single language which is Node.js.

Java -

Mostly in the starting phase, people start learning about java. And almost all made their first application using java. Java is a very old language but its popularity is not gone till now like C. Java provides 99% features of object-oriented programming.

Python -

Python is a trending Language, you should have a focus on python. You can make your career bright by learning Python. If you want to develop the back-end code using python then you can use Django. It is a Full Stack Web Development Framework for Python Programmers.

[contentgreenearth]

TRUE TYPES POST #19: CARMEN-LUZ

DISC: Primary C profile; result: C (D) (S), slot 15* (this is the most typical version of Primary C)

SOJT type: fully differentiated Ni-t (D>A dominant serves as dominant)

MBTI type most resonant: INTP* (this is the most typical version of INTP)

What were  you  like  in high school? 

I was a tomboy, I was a student athlete, and I was highly intellectual. I rocked in math and science, but was never good at writing papers. I was not part of the "in" crowd

What is your  greatest  fear? What do you  do to address it? 

My greatest fear? I think I've addressed my fears, and overcome them all.

Was  there a time in your life where you felt you hit  rock bottom? What was the  situation  behind  it? 

I think it was when I got into a bad marriage. It was hard for me to go through a divorce. But I did, and since I'm a quality control technician, and had a much better job than my husband, I got main custody of the kids. They spend the summers with Dad

Where  would  you  put yourself  on the social spectrum, and why? 

I'm definitely an introvert. There's nothing extroverted here.

What are some things that really bother you? 

I don't like my parents' dishonesty for one. I wish they would be more truthful about everything. Also, the challenges of raising my children as a single parent are kind of bothersome, but they'll be worth it in the end

What,  would you say, are your biggest strengths? 

I'm very intellectual and smart. I also am good at taking in others' ideas, and figuring out which are good, bad, worth trying, etc.

What,  would you say,  are your  biggest  weaknesses? 

I'm not very expressive, and come across to people as cold. I also don't like sharing my feelings with others anyway. I am disgusted by my feelings and emotions

When  you  switch  your  attitude between  introverted  and  extroverted,  or vise versa,  what are  you  like?

When I'm extroverted, I'm much more aggressive in going after things, and I will talk a lot more

What was the hardest  thing  you  ever had  to  do? Why was  it  so  hard? 

It was going through the divorce. I think that would be hard for anyone

What are you  like  when  you're  sad? 

I don't know if I've ever been sad. I really can't remember a time....

How masculine/feminine  do  you  feel  in relation  to others  of your  gender? 

I'm much more masculine than most women. I am quite unemotional, and I'm in a job that's both a skilled trade and scientific at the same time, and there are very few women in my line of work. So yes, I would say masculine

Here's  4 focuses  you can have in  life: tasks, people,  objects and ideas.  Which one would  be  your  primary focus and why? Which one  would be your  secondary  focus  and why? 

My first focus is definitely ideas. I'm dealing with them all the time. Second, I would say tasks

What do you  do to have fun? 

I don't have fun. I've git to learn how to have fun

What was  the  nicest thing you ever  did  for  someone,  and why did  you  do  it? 

I don't really interact with people enough to do nice things for them. And I also am not very social, so I don't know how they would perceive anything I would do for them

Thanks, Carmen-Luz , for sharing with us

Additional typologies I've been able to do since:

Big 5: high on O, low on C, E, A, N (RCUEI)

Enneagram: 5w6, sp/sx, 513

Attitudinal Psyche: LVFE

Greek Temperament Blend: Melancholy/Phlegmatic

Psychosohpy: LVFE

[dramioneficrecommendations]

Hiii I accidentally jumped in dramione fandom, and I'm looking for good stuff for this weekend. Could pls tell me your 5 (or more)favorite dramione fics ever? Thanks!

I hope you like it here and stay with us… forever. LOL (Honestly, we have the best fics and authors in the entire HP fandom.)

Here are some of my all-time favourite Dramione fics (you can also check out my fic rec tag):

Revert by SUPRNTRAL LVR: Six months post-war, Malfoy is in serious trouble. He’s on the run from the Ministry, Death Eaters, and a deadly curse which is eating him alive. When he hits rock bottom, a change in fortune lands him in 12 Grimmauld Place under the Ministry’s custody - and forces Hermione to remember the secrets they’ve both kept for years. Dramione, Sick!Draco, flashbacks to Hogwarts, hurt. Rated: M - Chapters: 24 - Words: 260,266

Manacled by SenLinYu: Harry Potter is dead. In the aftermath of the war, in order to strengthen the might of the magical world, Voldemort enacts a repopulation effort. Hermione Granger has an Order secret locked away in her mind. She is sent as an enslaved surrogate to the High Reeve, to be bred and monitored until it can be accessed. COMPLETE. Rated: M - Chapters: 77 - Words: 384,000

Isolation by Bex-chan: He can’t leave the room. Her room. And it’s all the Order’s fault. Confined to a small space with only the Mudblood for company, something’s going to give. Maybe his sanity. Maybe not. “There,” she spat. “Now your Blood’s filthy too!” DM/HG. PostHBP. Now complete with epilogue. Rated: M - Chapters: 49 - Words: 284,050

Five Days by RavieSnake: No one knows that they are missing. No one knows where they are. No one knows that they are trapped. No one knows that they are dying. Dramione. WINNER for Best Drama/Angst and Best Tragedy in the Winter 2017 Dramione Fanfiction Awards! Rated: M - Chapters: 14 - Words: 32,001

Aurelian by BittyBlueEyes: Two years after the war, a young stranger pays a visit to the burrow. His arrival alone is baffling, but the news he brings of an upcoming war turns the world upside down. Hermione’s quiet, post-war life will never be the same. Rated: T - Chapters: 43 - Words: 270,571

The Politician’s Wife by pir8fancier: Hermione hates Draco in the springtime, Hermione hates Draco in the fall, Hermione hates Draco 247. Rated: M - Chapters: 14 - Words: 68,629

The Revenant by atalanta84: Sometimes fate brings us far from home, and sometimes it brings us back again. When a friend’s mysterious death causes Draco Malfoy to return to Britain, he is finally forced to face his past, and the love he left behind. A story about second chances. Rated: M - Chapters: 10 - Words: 67,866

The Fool, the Emperor, and the Hanged Man by ianthewaiting: Ten years after the fall of the Dark Lord, Hermione Granger leads of life of self-imposed obscurity, that is, until the day Headmistress Minerva McGonagall is murdered and a certain ‘hero’ is responsible. DM/HG, written originally in 2007-2008, and finally making its debut here! AU, DH-EWE, non-canon elements, time travel, character death, etc. Rated: M - Chapters: 28 - Words: 229,334

The Dragon’s Bride by Rizzle: 7th year. Draco & Hermione awaken in a Muggle hotel room, naked, hung-over and tattooed. They also happen to be married. Thus begin a desperate search for a solution to their sticky situation. Rated: M - Chapters: 61 - Words: 225,164

The Eagle’s Nest by HeartOfAspen: COMPLETE: Hermione’s eighth year at Hogwarts is already going to be difficult in the aftermath of the war, but it is further thrown into upheaval when Headmistress McGonagall orders a re-sorting of all students to promote inter-house unity. But when the Sorting Hat sends Hermione to Ravenclaw with Draco - and without Harry or Ron, how will she cope? [AU/Dramione] Prevalent alchemy. Rated: M - Chapters: 70 - Words: 306,322

Thirteenth Night by Nelpher: When Hermione is assigned to keep tabs on a memory-charmed Draco, she is faced with a decision that could change her life forever. Rated: M - Words: 77,997 Chapters: 23

Ordinary People by inadaze22: “Let me be clear about something tonight, Granger. You’re the only woman I’ve ever wanted. It’s always been you.” Draco steps in the fireplace, drops the Floo powder, and disappears in a burst of green flames. Rated: M - Chapters: 18 - Words: 133,759

This, Too, Is Sacred by HeartOfAspen: COMPLETE: An ancient power has required generations of purebloods to pledge their lives to the blood pact. Draco has long known he was born to uphold this tradition… but Hermione’s parents have secrets, hidden details about her heritage, and soon it will be her turn to cast in with fate. [Dramione AU] Fantastic cover art by Witches-Britches. Rated: M - Chapters: 23 - Words: 90,994

Gravity by luckei1: It’s about arranging stacks of books, wall colours, and jumping off a cliff. Draco/Hermione Rated: T - Chapters: 10 - Words: 87,155

Dystopia (new version) by Rizzle: Kidnapped and expecting to be abandoned to his fate, Draco Malfoy writes a personal account of recent life, love and loss after the end of the Second Wizarding War. His story encompasses two unforgivable acts, a wedding, a divorce, a kidnapping and maybe, just maybe…a rescue. Rated: M - Chapters: 15 - Words: 19,885 

A Slow Cruel Descent by SenLinYu: The war grinds on and Hermione Granger is captured. Unable to crack her through interrogation without risking her mind, Voldemort conceives a cruel method of breaking her that involves Draco Malfoy. “He stared at her in disgust. She looked— broken. The fire she’d still had when she was dragged in was now extinguished. Her eyes were locked on his face like she were memorizing him.” Rated: M - Chapters: 2 - Words: 8,687 (Sequel: A Fragile Ascent)

Heavy Lies the Crown by luckei1: For seven years, Draco has carried the weight of the world on his shoulders, and just when he thinks he’ll be released, something happens that will make him seek help from the last person he could have imagined. Rated: M - Chapters: 36 - Words: 289,967

To Wear a Dragon’s Skin by creativelymundane: When Bellatrix Lestrange takes control of the wizarding world after the demise of Voldemort, the remnants of the Order keep fighting. Seven years later, Draco brings Hermione a piece of magic that might be the key to finally ending the war. Together they will destroy Bellatrix Lestrange or die trying. Violence, Implicit Rape, Sexual Situations. Rated: M - Chapters: 26 - Words: 137,484

A Pound of Flesh by PennilynNovus: One night at a strip club, Hermione is faced with someone from her past, and an opportunity too good to pass up. What starts as revenge quickly grows into something else, and she may find it to be more than she can handle. Limes, Lemons, M. Rated: NC-17 - Chapters: 33

A Wonderful Caricature of Intimacy by Countess of Abe: Draco loves his son more than anything in the world. So, when his ex-wife plans to take his son away, Draco asks the most unlikely person for help. Hermione must decide whether changing her entire life is worth helping the man she hates unconditionally. Rated: M - Chapters: 25 - Words: 136,998

Apple Pies and Other Amends by ToEatAPeach: “It’s a veritable PTSD tour. With pastries. And hand-skimmed clotted cream. And Hermione has no idea why she’s doing it, but it’s becoming very apparent that she is.” Sometimes you’re sad. Sometimes you need dessert. And sometimes, it’s a little of both. [COMPLETE, DRAMIONE] Rated: M - Chapters: 30 - Words: 80,226

Fairy Stone by Colubrina: Draco is sentenced to one year in Azkaban, release contingent upon someone willing to vouch for his good behavior. Hermione does. “Oh, I want you,” he said. “You, just you, always you. You forever and you for always and you until the bloody sun explodes.” Dramione. COMPLETE. Rated: M - Chapters: 4 - Words: 13,827

The Mountain and The Sea by Alexis.Danaan: Hermione Granger was perfectly happy with her life, her job as a Healer Trainee, her ugly cat and her cute little house in the countryside. And then Draco Malfoy had to go and mess that all up, typical git. Post-Hogwarts, EWE, OOC, creature!fic. 18 Rated: M - Chapters: 12 - Words: 43,464

Celestial Navigation by phlox: Lost, without direction, unable to find your way home? Coming soon, a new Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes Ekeltronic to guide you on your journey! *Your mileage may vary.*Rated: T - Chapters: 3 - Words: 13,640

Waiting Room by Nelpher: A series of encounters with Draco Malfoy in the waiting room at St. Mungo’s teaches Hermione about love, friendship, and the intersection thereof. Rated: T - English Words: 61,418 Chapters: 14

Voices by Kyonomiko: Hermione has long accepted she might not make it through the war alive, but after years on the battlefield, she never expected to be at the mercy of Draco Malfoy. Not untouched by his own experiences, his manic behavior leaves her living in constant fear of the unknown, suffering both affections and afflictions at his hands. Rated: M - Chapters: 3 - Words: 19,724

Friend Number Three by riptey: COMPLETE - How do you deal with the Pureblood aristocracy, Ministry corruption, Muggle culture invasions, and constant questions about your love life while juggling more than two friends and not being a total jerk? Don’t ask Draco: he doesn’t know. D/Hr Rated: T - Chapters: 26 - Words: 138,388

Seven Days In April by inadaze22: They were still the same people with the same problems on either side of a bathroom door. Rated: T - Chapters: 7 - Words: 40,097 

Everything Changes by inadaze22: “Thank you for cheating on me, Ron. It’s the best thing you could’ve done. Thank you for stopping me from making the worst mistake of my life.” My first Dramione story. Rated M for strong language and sexual content. Rated: M - Chapters: 17 - Words: 76,191 

Out of the Silent Planet by ianthe_waiting: Post-Hogwarts - Hermione Granger fulfills Severus Snape’s final wish, to journey to Japan to ‘retrieve’ something of importance. Set eleven years after HBP. Rated: NC-17 - Chapters: 39 - Words: 229,710

Ardent Bonds by Musyc: Maybe it was wrong to think about this, maybe it was horrible to even consider, but if Draco Malfoy liked to dominate, she couldn’t stop herself from picturing it. Picturing him. Rated: E - Words: 16,741 - Chapters: 1

Seven Times by kerriclifford240879: Seven times can mean a lifetime of change. Rated: M - Chapters: 7 - Words: 16,526

[psychicanchortimemachine]

12 Terminal Commands

Every Web Developer Should Know

The terminal is one of the foremost vital productivity tools in a developer's arsenal. Mastering it will have an awfully positive impact on your work flow, as several everyday tasks get reduced to writing a straightforward command and striking Enter. In this article we've ready for you a set of UNIX system commands that may assist you get the foremost out of your terminal. a number of them square measure inbuilt, others square measure free tools that square measure reliable and may be put in but a moment.

Curl

Curl may be a program line tool for creating requests over HTTP(s), FTP and dozens of different protocols you will haven't detected concerning. It will transfer files, check response headers, and freely access remote information.

In net development curl is usually used for testing connections and dealing with RESTful APIs.

# Fetch the headers of a URL. curl -I http://google.com HTTP/1.1 302 Found Cache-Control: private Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Referrer-Policy: no-referrer Location: http://www.google.com/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=0fCKWe6HCZTd8AfCoIWYBQ Content-Length: 258 Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2017 11:24:01 GMT   # Make a GET request to a remote API. curl http://numbersapi.com/random/trivia 29 is the number of days it takes Saturn to orbit the Sun.

Curl commands can get much more complicated than this. There are tons of options for controlling headers, cookies, authentication,and more.

Tree

Tree may be a little instruction utility that shows you a visible illustration of the files during a directory. It works recursively, going over every level of nesting and drawing a formatted tree of all the contents. this fashion you'll quickly skim and notice the files you're trying to find.

tree . ├── css │   ├── bootstrap.css │   ├── bootstrap.min.css ├── fonts │   ├── glyphicons-halflings-regular.eot │   ├── glyphicons-halflings-regular.svg │   ├── glyphicons-halflings-regular.ttf │   ├── glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff │   └── glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff2 └── js ├── bootstrap.js └── bootstrap.min.js

There is also the option to filter the results using a simple regEx-like pattern:

tree -P '*.min.*' . ├── css │   ├── bootstrap.min.css ├── fonts └── js └── bootstrap.min.js

Tmux

According to its Wiki, Tmux may be a terminal electronic device, that translated in human language would mean that it is a tool for connecting multiple terminals to one terminal session.

It helps you to switch between programs in one terminal, add split screen panes, and connect multiple terminals to a similar session, keeping them in adjust. Tmux is particularly helpful once functioning on a far off server, because it helps you to produce new tabs while not having to log in once more.

Disk usage - du

The du command generates reports on the area usage of files and directories. it's terribly straightforward to use and may work recursively, rummaging every directory and returning the individual size of each file.  A common use case for du is once one in every of your drives is running out of area and you do not understand why. Victimization this command you'll be able to quickly see what proportion storage every folder is taking, therefore finding the most important memory saver.

# Running this will show the space usage of each folder in the current directory. # The -h option makes the report easier to read. # -s prevents recursiveness and shows the total size of a folder. # The star wildcard (*) will run du on each file/folder in current directory. du -sh * 1.2G Desktop 4.0K Documents 40G Downloads 4.0K Music 4.9M Pictures 844K Public 4.0K Templates 6.9M Videos

There is also a similar command called

df

(Disk Free) which returns various information about the available disk space (the opposite of du).

Git

Git is far and away the foremost standard version system immediately. It’s one among the shaping tools of contemporary internet dev and that we simply could not leave it out of our list. There area unit many third-party apps and tools on the market however most of the people choose to access unpleasant person natively although the terminal. The unpleasant person CLI is basically powerful and might handle even the foremost tangled project history.

Tar

Tar is the default Unix tool for working with file archives. It allows you to quickly bundle multiple files into one package, making it easier to store and move them later on.

tar -cf archive.tar file1 file2 file3

Using the -x option it can also extract existing .tar archives.

tar -xf archive.tar

Note that almost all alternative formats like .zip and .rar can't be opened by tar and need alternative command utilities like unfasten.

Many trendy operating system systems run associate expanded version of tar (GNU tar) that may additionally perform file size compression:

# Create compressed gzip archive. tar -czf file.tar.gz inputfile1 inputfile2 # Extract .gz archive. tar -xzf file.tar.gz

If your OS doesn't have that version of tar, you can use

gzip

,

zcat

or

compress

to reduce the size of file archives.

md5sum

Unix has many inbuilt hashing commands together with

md5sum

,

sha1sum

and others. These program line tools have varied applications in programming, however most significantly they'll be used for checking the integrity of files. For example, if you've got downloaded associate degree .iso file from associate degree untrusted supply, there's some likelihood that the file contains harmful scripts. To form positive the .iso is safe, you'll generate associate degree md5 or alternative hash from it.

md5sum ubuntu-16.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso 0d9fe8e1ea408a5895cbbe3431989295 ubuntu-16.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso

You can then compare the generated string to the one provided from the first author (e.g. UbuntuHashes).

Htop

Htop could be a a lot of powerful different to the intrinsic prime task manager. It provides a complicated interface with several choices for observation and dominant system processes.

Although it runs within the terminal, htop has excellent support for mouse controls. This makes it a lot of easier to navigate the menus, choose processes, and organize the tasks thought sorting and filtering.

Ln

Links in UNIX operating system square measure the same as shortcuts in Windows, permitting you to urge fast access to bound files. Links square measure created via the ln command and might be 2 types: arduous or symbolic. Every kind has totally different properties and is employed for various things (read more).

Here is associate example of 1 of the various ways that you'll be able to use links. as an instance we've a directory on our desktop referred to as Scripts. It contains showing neatness organized bash scripts that we have a tendency to ordinarily use. on every occasion we wish to decision one in every of our scripts we'd need to do this:

~/Desktop/Scripts/git-scripts/git-cleanup

Obviously, this is isn't very convinient as we have to write the absolute path every time. Instead we can create a symlink from our Scripts folder to /usr/local/bin, which will make the scripts executable from all directories.

sudo ln -s ~/Desktop/Scripts/git-scripts/git-cleanup /usr/local/bin/

With the created symlink we can now call our script by simply writing its name in any opened terminal.

git-cleanup

SSH

With the ssh command users will quickly hook up with a foreign host and log into its UNIX operating system shell. This makes it doable to handily issue commands on the server directly from your native machine's terminal.

To establish a association you just got to specify the proper science address or URL. The primary time you hook up with a replacement server there'll be some style of authentication.

ssh username@remote_host

If you want to quickly execute a command on the server without logging in, you can simply add a command after the url. The command will run on the server and the result from it will be returned.

ssh username@remote_host ls /var/www some-website.com some-other-website.com

There is a lot you can do with SSH like creating proxies and tunnels, securing your connection with private keys, transferring files and more.

Grep

Grep is the standard Unix utility for finding strings inside text. It takes an input in the form of a file or direct stream, runs its content through a regular expression, and returns all the matching lines.

This command comes in handy once operating with massive files that require to be filtered. Below we tend to use grep together with the date command to look through an oversized log file and generate a brand new file containing solely errors from nowadays.

// Search for today's date (in format yyyy-mm-dd) and write the results to a new file. grep "$(date +"%Y-%m-%d")" all-errors-ever.log > today-errors.log

Another nice command for operating with strings is

sed

. It’s additional powerful (and additional complicated) than grep and may perform nearly any string-related task together with adding, removing or replacement strings.

Alias

Many OS commands, together with some featured during this article, tend to urge pretty long when you add all the choices to them. to create them easier to recollect, you'll produce short aliases with the alias bash inbuilt command:

# Create an alias for starting a local web server. alias server="python -m SimpleHTTPServer 9000" # Instead of typing the whole command simply use the alias. server Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 9000 ...

The alias are offered as long as you retain that terminal open. to create it permanent you'll add the alias command to your .bashrc file. We will be happy to answer your questions on designing, developing, and deploying comprehensive enterprise web, mobile apps and customized software solutions that best fit your organization needs.

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[mewhenhorrormovies]

You swine. You vulgar little maggot. You worthless bag of filth. As we

say in Texas, you couldn't pour water out of a boot with instructions

printed on the heel. You are a canker, an open wound. I would rather

kiss a lawyer than be seen with you. You took your last vacation in

the Islets of Langerhans.

You're a putrescent mass, a walking vomit. You are a spineless little

worm deserving nothing but the profoundest contempt. You are a jerk, a

cad, and a weasel. I take that back; you are a festering pustule on a

weasel's rump. Your life is a monument to stupidity. You are a stench,

a revulsion, a big suck on a sour lemon.

I will never get over the embarrassment of belonging to the same

species as you. You are a monster, an ogre, a malformity. I barf at

the very thought of you. You have all the appeal of a paper cut.

Lepers avoid you. You are vile, worthless, less than nothing. You are

a weed, a fungus, the dregs of this earth. You are a technicolor yawn.

And did I mention that you smell?

You are a squeaking rat, a mistake of nature and a heavy-metal bagpipe

player. You were not born. You were hatched into an unwilling world

that rejects the likes of you. You didn't crawl out of a normal egg,

either, but rather a mutant maggot egg rejected by an evil scientist

as being below his low standards. Your alleged parents abandoned you

at birth and then died of shame in recognition of what they had done

to an unsuspecting world. They were a bit late.

Try to edit your responses of unnecessary material before attempting

to impress us with your insight. The evidence that you are a

nincompoop will still be available to readers, but they will be able

to access it ever so much more rapidly. If cluelessness were crude

oil, your scalp would be crawling with caribou.

You are a thick-headed trog. I have seen skeet with more sense than

you have. You are a few bricks short of a full load, a few cards short

of a full deck, a few bytes short of a full core dump, and a few

chromosomes short of a full human. Worse than that, you top-post. God

created houseflies, cockroaches, maggots, mosquitos, fleas, ticks,

slugs, leeches, and intestinal parasites, then he lowered his

standards and made you. I take it back; God didn't make you. You are

Satan's spawn. You are Evil beyond comprehension, half-living in the

slough of despair. You are the entropy which will claim us all. You

are a green-nostriled, crossed eyed, hairy-livered inbred

trout-defiler. You make Ebola look good.

You are weary, stale, flat and unprofitable. You are grimy, squalid,

nasty and profane. You are foul and disgusting. You're a fool, an

ignoramus. Monkeys look down on you. Even sheep won't have sex with

you. You are unreservedly pathetic, starved for attention, and lost in

a land that reality forgot. You are not ANSI compliant and your markup

doesn't validate. You have a couple of address lines shorted together.

You should be promoted to Engineering Manager.

Do you really expect your delusional and incoherent ramblings to be

read? Everyone plonked you long ago. Do you fantasize that your

tantrums and conniption fits could possibly be worth the $0.000000001

worth of electricity used to send them? Your life is one big

W.O.M.B.A.T. and your future doesn't look promising either. We need to

trace your bloodline and terminate all siblings and cousins in order

to cleanse humanity of your polluted genes. The good news is that no

normal human would ever mate with you, so we won't have to go into the

sewers in search of your git.

You are a waste of flesh. You have no rhythm. You are ridiculous and

obnoxious. You are the moral equivalent of a leech. You are a living

emptiness, a meaningless void. You are sour and senile. You are a

loathsome disease, a drooling inbred cross-eyed toesucker. You make

Quakers shout and strike Pentecostals silent. You have a version 1.0

mind in a version 6.12 world. Your mother had to tie a pork chop

around your neck just to get your dog to play with you. You think

that HTTP://WWW.GUYMACON.COM/FUN/INSULT/INDEX.HTM is the name of a

rock band. You believe that P.D.Q. Bach is the greatest composer who

ever lived. You prefer L. Ron Hubbard to Larry Niven and Jerry

Pournelle. Hee-Haw is too deep for you. You would watch test patterns

all day if the other inmates would let you.

On a good day you're a half-wit. You remind me of drool. You are

deficient in all that lends character. You have the personality of

wallpaper. You are dank and filthy. You are asinine and benighted.

Spammers look down on you. Phone sex operators hang up on you.

Telemarketers refuse to be seen in public with you. You are the source

of all unpleasantness. You spread misery and sorrow wherever you go.

May you choke on your own foolish opinions. You are a Pusillanimous

galactophage and you wear your sister's training bra. Don't bother

opening the door when you leave - you should be able to slime your

way out underneath. I hope that when you get home your mother runs

out from under the porch and bites you.

You smarmy lagerlout git. You bloody woofter sod. Bugger off, pillock.

You grotty wanking oik artless base-court apple-john. You clouted

boggish foot-licking half-twit. You dankish clack-dish plonker. You

gormless crook-pated tosser. You bloody churlish boil-brained clotpole

ponce. You craven dewberry pisshead cockup pratting naff. You cockered

bum-bailey poofter. You gob-kissing gleeking flap-mouthed coxcomb. You

dread-bolted fobbing beef-witted clapper-clawed flirt-gill. May your

spouse be blessed with many bastards.

You are so clueless that if you dressed in a clue skin, doused yourself

in clue musk, and did the clue dance in the middle of a field of horny

clues at the height of clue mating season, you still would not have a

clue. If you were a movie you would be a double feature;

_Battlefield_Earth_ and _Moron_Movies_II_. You would be out of focus.

You are a fiend and a sniveling coward, and you have bad breath. You

are the unholy spawn of a bandy-legged hobo and a syphilitic camel.

You wear strangely mismatched clothing with oddly placed stains. You

are degenerate, noxious and depraved. I feel debased just knowing that

you exist. I despise everything about you, and I wish you would go

away. You are jetsam who dreams of becoming flotsam. You won't make

it. I beg for sweet death to come and remove me from a world which

became unbearable when you crawled out of a harpy's lair.

It is hard to believe how incredibly stupid you are. Stupid as a stone

that the other stones make fun of. So stupid that you have traveled

far beyond stupid as we know it and into a new dimension of stupid.

Meta-stupid. Stupid cubed. Trans-stupid stupid. Stupid collapsed to

a singularity where even the stupons have collapsed into stuponium.

Stupid so dense that no intelligence can escape. Singularity stupid.

Blazing hot summer day on Mercury stupid. You emit more stupid in one

minute than our entire galaxy emits in a year. Quasar stupid. It cannot

be possible that anything in our universe can really be this stupid.

This is a primordial fragment from the original big stupid bang. A pure

extract of stupid with absolute stupid purity. Stupid beyond the laws

of nature. I must apologize. I can't go on. This is my epiphany of

stupid. After this experience, you may not hear from me for a while.

I don't think that I can summon the strength left to mock your moronic

opinions and malformed comments about boring trivia or your other

drivel. Duh.

The only thing worse than your logic is your manners. I have snipped

away most of your of what you wrote, because, well ... it didn't

really say anything. Your attempt at constructing a creative flame was

pitiful. I mean, really, stringing together a bunch of insults among a

load of babbling was hardly effective... Maybe later in life, after

you have learned to read, write, spell, and count, you will have more

success. True, these are rudimentary skills that many of us "normal"

people take for granted that everyone has an easy time of mastering.

But we sometimes forget that there are "challenged" persons in this

world who find these things to be difficult. If I had known that this

was true in your case then I would have never have exposed myself to

what you wrote. It just wouldn't have been "right." Sort of like

parking in a handicap space. I wish you the best of luck in the

emotional, and social struggles that seem to be placing such a

demand on you.

P.S.: You are hypocritical, greedy, violent, malevolent, vengeful,

cowardly, deadly, mendacious, meretricious, loathsome, despicable,

belligerent, opportunistic, barratrous, contemptible, criminal,

fascistic, bigoted, racist, sexist, avaricious, tasteless, idiotic,

brain-damaged, imbecilic, insane, arrogant, deceitful, demented, lame,

self-righteous, byzantine, conspiratorial, fraudulent,

libelous, bilious, splenetic, spastic, ignorant, clueless, EDLINoid,

illegitimate, harmful, destructive, dumb, evasive, double-talking,

devious, revisionist, narrow, manipulative, paternalistic,

fundamentalist, dogmatic, idolatrous, unethical, cultic, diseased,

suppressive, controlling, restrictive, malignant, deceptive, dim,

crazy, weird, dyspeptic, stifling, uncaring, plantigrade, grim,

unsympathetic, jargon-spouting, censorious, secretive, aggressive,

mind-numbing, arassive, poisonous, flagrant, self-destructive,

abusive, socially-retarded, puerile, and Generally Not Good.

[gizmotron]

Contributing code through discussion

Humans are social animals. The biggest and best projects that we have built are collaborative efforts, where borders and differences between us are ignored. In fact, the differing skills and knowledge of each member of a team are embraced and, in fact, diversity in skills and personal experience is important. 

The same is true for coding projects. Documentation is incredibly important for projects, as it allows us all to be on the same page and understand what’s going on, regardless of skills or knowledge. But writing documentation can be boring and tedious, so here’s a method (or a few) that AC0/RD is in the middle of developing and implementing to encourage collaboration, documentation, bug fixing and code creation.

When doing projects with multiple people, collaboration is key. It’s how we get in contact with people who will work with us, but it’s also how we keep track of what’s going on. For example, the current project that I’m working on - the AWS JPL challenge - I’m working on with 3 other people, each with different roles and available software & hardware. 

Since we all have different roles, unless we’re needing help with a specific job we can be pretty much left to our own devices most of the time while we’re developing the rl-agent. However, each job that we do depends on another job, which I’m not working on but I need it to be completed for me to be able to do my job.

Due to the complexity and vastness of the project, having unrecorded & unordered messages and phone calls simply won’t cut it. Neither will be using a piece of paper as a to-do list. Everyone needs to have access to everyone’s work. 

Project Management

Project Management tools, also called CASE tools for system development/systems analysis, are incredibly important for any project. Popular examples, like Monday.com, Trello, & Zenhub are used by millions of groups around the world to track tasks, issues, pull/merge requests, etc. They’re incredibly useful for developers because they integrate well with version control software (aka Git), meaning that tasks only have to be ticked off once.

Issues created on github boards can automatically be added to these tools, and the same with pull requests; this reduces a significant amount of time when documenting and reporting on the project (and as we all know, documenting code is one of the most important parts of the project - right?).

Image credit: http://techcrunch.com

Project management software can be used in conjunction with the other types of software, that I, and AC0/RD cannot live without.

Discussion & Collaborative Teamwork

Whenever I make a commitment to the challenge repo, I create a Thread on the repository explaining what I did and how I did it. Similarly, the other members of the team do the same. We create threads in Slack, boards on Trello and we tag each other in our commitments. The goal of this is to keep everyone on the same page as to what is going on, as well as to allow everyone to keep track of the latest changes & tasks so we know what to do for our own tasks.

A tool that I’ve found very useful for this purpose is Utteranc.es. What Utterances does is it allows you to embed github issues on the front-end of another website. It was designed for use by bloggers, where a github issue would be created for each new blog post on a site. Users can log into Github and then comment on blog posts. However, at AC0/RD we’re taking it to another level.

Image credit: http://utteranc.es

We use Disqus for blog comments, as well as JointComments (both are useful for documentation purposes, however, and on the “issue” pages on our network we also embed Disqus & JointComments). What we use Utterances for is to work collaboratively from the front end of the site. While right now it’s just on the Stellarios documentation site, when we get the Dashboard up and running we’ll be able to post, code, edit and collaborate from anywhere, on any device. Since Utterances uses Git, we can easily get the messages posted in Utterances to be sent into our Git repos. The great thing is that we’ll be able to use Utteranc.es anywhere, on any tool we use (definitely check out our post about Integrations on the Stellarios docs).

Liam Arbuckle <3

[andonewillbringhisfall]

Alexa, this is so sad.

Return of the meme-inspired fics! I’m sorry lol (side note: I NEED THERE TO BE MEME SPELLS IN WAYWARD SON)

This is the song in the fic

SIMON

‘This is so sad. Alexa, play Despacito,’ I say, for the fifth time. I’m still not sure where to point my wand while I say it. This time, I try the ceiling, but nothing happens.

‘It’s not working because you’re not sad enough,’ Penelope says.

I groan and drop my head on my desk. ‘I am sad. Sad that I can’t get this stupid spell to work.’

‘No, you’re not. You’re frustrated and annoyed,’ she says, not looking up from the notes she’s writing in her book.

‘Who needs a spell to play Despacito anyway?’ Agatha grumbles. ‘That’s the most useless spell I’ve ever heard of.’

Across the room, the song suddenly starts blaring, loudly. The entire class looks around to see who’s managed to cast the spell, and of course it’s Baz. It’s always Baz, brilliant git that he is.

‘Seriously,’ says Agatha, ‘this is ridiculous. What’s the point of a spell like that?’

Across the room, the song cuts off. Baz puts his wand down on his desk and leans back in his chair, looking bored, probably because he wants us to think that using memes as spells is beneath him. If he’s so good at it he must know more about them than he lets on, though.

‘This is so sad,’ says Agatha, but she’s not even holding her wand. She’s looking around at the whole class waving wands and rings around (and Gareth, the only one standing up), trying to get Despacito to play. I guess it is kind of a waste of magic, but Miss Possibelf says it’s a learning experience. She thinks memes are a magickal phenomenon because of how quickly they spread throughout the Normal world. She says they’re vital to our understanding of how words are given power.

Most of the class has managed to cast the spell by now. Despacito is playing at different times all over the classroom, and Rhys and Gareth are singing along every time one of the versions hits the part they know. Agatha’s face is all pinched, and Penny’s chewing the end of her pen and staring into space, which means she’s brainstorming something. Baz is saying something to Niall. He catches me looking at him and raises an eyebrow. I know he’s noticed that I haven’t managed to cast the spell. I look away from him and clench my jaw, raising my wand to try again.

‘Silence!’

Everyone quiets down – we don’t really have a choice – as all the music cuts off at once. Miss Possibelf paces back to the front of the classroom.

‘Excellent work,’ she says. ‘Would anyone like to discuss the spell?’

Keris raises her hand. ‘It only works if you’re sad,’ she says. ‘And I’m not sad.’

‘I disagree,’ says Rhys. ‘People don’t usually use the meme when they’re actually sad. Magic derives from context and intention.’

‘And the meme has been quoted with other songs, often when the sadness is sarcastic,’ Miss Possibelf says. ‘So how do you think that might have affected its use?’

I tune out of the conversation, watching Baz out of the corner of my eye.

I shouldn’t watch him like this, but I do it anyway. I’ve never really been able to help it, have I? It’s different now though, since Agatha and I broke up. Or since she told me she wasn’t interested in him, but that didn’t stop me from getting upset every time he so much as looked at her. I finally figured out that it’s because I want him to look at me.

He does, eventually. He usually does. I think I stare hard enough that he’d feel it even if we were oceans apart. Sometimes it feels like I think of him hard enough that he should be able to feel it. But the look he gives me now is venomous, so I look away.

‘I have an idea,’ Penny is saying, so I try to pay attention. ‘The person using the meme is often not feeling sad; they’re feeling whatever mood is portrayed by the song they choose, even if they preface it by saying they’re sad. So I was thinking the spell could be used almost like a musical mood ring.’

‘Very good,’ says Miss Possibelf. ‘Let’s take a few minutes to experiment with Penelope’s idea and see if you can find a combination of words that will make it work the way she described it. Remember, the key to casting magic is in the intention behind your words.’

The classroom dissolves into chatter. Penny turns halfway in her seat.

‘Which one of you am I spelling?’ she asks, sounding way too eager.

Agatha rolls her eyes. ‘Spell me.’

It’s probably for the best. Penny already thinks I talk about Baz too much; she probably doesn’t need to see what goes on inside my head.

‘Alexa, this is so sad,’ Penny casts. A soft, slow song starts playing. It sounds like it’s coming from somewhere just above Agatha’s head. I don’t recognise it, but it’s a woman’s voice, something about feeling lost and lonely. I didn’t know Agatha felt that way.

I try casting the spell on Penny, but now Despacito decides to start playing. Two seats across from me, Baz is watching, smirking. Typical, he mouths. Fuck you, I mouth back.

I’m too worked up now to concentrate, glancing at him every few seconds, and he’s not looking at me but I know he knows I’m doing it. The spell plays Despacito every time. At least now it’s doing something. Then, finally, I forget about Baz and focus on Penny and it actually works, playing some upbeat confidence anthem, which I guess makes sense since she just invented a spell that the whole class is now using. Grinning, I turn my head to find Baz – I wish the first thing I thought of wasn’t whether or not he saw me cast the spell, but he’s always the first thing I think of – but he’s not even watching. I deflate.

Miss Possibelf calls the class back to order. ‘Let’s have a demonstration in front of the class that we can all discuss. Penelope? Basilton?’

I sigh. Of course she chooses Baz. Penny better show him up.

He walks to the front of the classroom like he owns the place, which he probably thinks he does. Reminding me, again, that he’s an arrogant prick and probably evil, and I ask myself if I was out of my mind thinking about him the way I have been. Not for the first time, not for the fiftieth.

Then he meets my eyes, and I’m captivated all over again.  

He has to stop doing that. Looking for me in a crowd, even if it’s only for a second. Lifting his chin in my direction every time he does something impressive in class, like he’s showing off for me the way I try to for him. Even though I know he just does it to drive home the fact that he’s better than me.

Penny and Baz stand at the front of the room, almost like they’re facing off. He lifts his wand and she points her ring at him.

‘Alexa, this is so sad,’ Baz casts, his voice steady, confident. The opposite of mine. The same song that played before plays again, so at least I know I did it right. It’s just typical that he wasn’t paying attention the one time I didn’t fuck up.

Then it’s Penny’s turn. ‘Alexa, this is so sad,’ she says.

A pop song fills the room, which is the last thing I expected. It’s not dark or edgy at all. In fact, I’m pretty sure it’s Taylor Swift.

You’ve ruined my life by not being mine, she sings.

Baz starts, glancing around him quickly, wand at the ready. I sit up straighter in my chair.

I’m so furious at you for making me feel this way.

The class has started whispering. The song is so unlike Baz. And it’s clearly about unrequited love.

He does his best to sneer at Penelope, but even from here I can see he’s shaken. ‘That’s enough, Bunce,’ he says. She lowers her ring, but the music doesn’t stop.

Ocean blue eyes looking in mine, I feel like I might sink and drown and die.

Impossibly, his cheeks are tinged pink. Baz never blushes, even when he’s furious with me.

He lifts his wand. ‘Silence!’ The classroom goes silent, except for a few giggles. I might be staring at him open-mouthed, but I’m too shocked to care.

He fancies someone. I don’t know why that’s so hard to imagine, especially because imagining it is all I seem to do these days, but it is. He just seems so cold, so in control, like there’s nobody who could shake him like that.

‘Since when do you -’ Dev starts.

‘It’s Mordelia,’ Baz snaps. ‘She’s been listening to it on repeat.’

He doesn’t take his eyes off Penny, glaring at her like he’s trying to burn a telepathic message into her brain. Death threats, probably.

She’s looking at him like he’s a problem she’s just figured out. ‘Blue eyes, huh?’ she says slowly.

‘It’s just a song.’

‘A song that describes your emotions,’ says Penny.

I’m staring at him, but now it’s allowed, because the whole class is. Everyone else probably can’t feel their magic burning the back of their throat, though.

‘There are cats in this song. I don’t even have a cat,’ Baz says, crossing his arms.

‘Ha! I knew you listened to it.’

‘Once. In passing. By accident.’

‘Admit it. You like it because you relate to it.’

‘Or your spell was defective,’ Baz counters. I want him to look at me. I think hard about it, as if the force of my thoughts could make it happen, as if the magic leaking out of me could make it happen. I want him to look at me, because it would mean he was thinking of me and slipped up and gave it away.

‘My spells are never defective,’ Penny huffs. She’s right.

‘There’s a reason why I’m top of the class and not you, Bunce.’ He still doesn’t look at me.

‘Yes, because I’m too busy being dread companion to a certain blue-eyed someone.’

Crowley. Does Penny know how I feel? Why would she say that?

He shakes his head, mutters something under his breath, and stalks back to his seat.

 PENNY

‘His eyes aren’t ocean blue.’ I think that’s what he said. ‘They’re just blue.’

 SIMON

I Google the song as soon as I get a chance.

There’s nothing I hate more than what I can’t have.

Yeah. Yeah, I know what that’s like.

He flirts with Agatha after dinner. It makes me mad. I wonder if the song is about her. Nothing I hate more than what I can’t have. Does he know we broke up? But he doesn’t hate her. He hates –

Oh.

No.

I won’t do that to myself. I won’t even finish that thought.

But then I start noticing things I never noticed before. Like how he watches me almost as much as I watch him, only he’s so careful about it that I almost never catch him until I start trying. And how he never looks at Aggie unless she’s with me. I spend a whole day not looking at him and I notice that he’s in a foul mood after, picking on me for stupid things like my desk being messy. The more I ignore him, the meaner he gets. Or when Agatha and I go out to the Wood for spell practice – it’s easier to do stuff like that now that we’re not together, there’s less pressure – and he sees us walk back together, and then after dinner I find that he’s spelled my shoes together by their laces.

‘What the fuck did you do that for? We’re not twelve,’ I say.

‘I felt like it,’ he snarls.

(I walk down to breakfast in my socks the next morning and ask Penny to undo the spell for me. Better not to risk setting the shoes on fire.)

I bump into him in the hallway later and instinctively grab his arm. His whole body tenses, and I’m positive I wouldn’t have noticed if I wasn’t looking so closely.

‘Sorry,’ I say. I hold on just a second too long – just to be close to him – and wait for him to pull away. He doesn’t. I let him go.

‘Watch where you’re going, you absolute numpty,’ he snarls.

I’m sure I’m just making this up. Reading into things that aren’t there, seeing what I want to see. I can’t help it.

‘You’re annoyingly optimistic,’ Baz told me once, in sixth year. ‘Though I suppose it’ll make it easier for me to catch you unguarded when I finally decide to get rid of you.’

He was right. It’s completely idiotic for me to even be entertaining the thought that he might not hate me, let alone feel what I feel.

Still. I buy the song. I listen to it every night. I hate you so much, she sings. I hate you so much, Baz tells me, with his eyes, every time he looks at me.

I’m not… I’m not anything. I can’t be the guy in the song. Especially not to him.

But he is. To me. It’s always been him.

 BAZ

Snow has started singing that infernal pop song.

In the shower. While he’s getting dressed. Humming while he’s doing homework.

You’re so gorgeous, I can’t say anything to your face…

Fuck him. Seriously, fuck him.

I’m not sure if he’s taking the piss or if he just really likes the song and can’t get it out of his head. (Alright, fine; it’s catchy. I did listen to it a few times.) He’s probably taking the piss. But there’s no way he’s figured out that he’s the one I’m in love with, because he’s far too thick. And because if he had, he would have done something about it by now. And not the kind of something that I wish he’d do.

Then he starts doing it when he passes me on the way to class, singing under his breath so only I hear him, so I know he’s taking the piss. Once I walk behind him in the morning when he’s fixing his hair in the mirror – since when does Snow fix his hair? – and he makes eye contact through the mirror and sings the line about ocean blue eyes. All the blood I drank last night goes to my cheeks.

‘Snow,’ I say, ‘you sound like a dying hyena.’ Though I can think of some ways to shut him up.

‘Who are you in love with?’ is his response.

I huff and don’t respond, stalking out of the room. Then I want to march back in there and give a proper retort, because he never catches me without a proper retort, and now he’ll know that he’s gotten to me.

In Politickal Science, I feel him trying to catch my eye the entire lesson. I refuse to give him the satisfaction, staring straight ahead or at my notes the entire time, but his stare burns almost as much as his magic and I can only stand it for so long. Finally, I give in and look over at him.

What? I mouth.

You are so gorgeous, it makes me so mad, he mouths back, exaggerating all the vowels to make sure I catch it. I nearly choke.

I’m going to kill him. I really am. I’ll throw him into the moat and make sure the merwolves tear him limb from limb. Or I’ll wait until he pulls his sword on me and then I’ll slit his throat with it. Or I’ll kiss him until he can’t breathe.

One morning I’m woken up by the song suddenly blaring in my ear. I bolt upright and Snow’s not even in the room, though he’s probably on the other side of the door fleeing down the stairs. (He should be fleeing.) His laptop’s set up on the nightstand between our beds, the volume turned all the way up. Apparently rudely awakening me like this was worth leaving his computer in my hands, unprotected. I take the laptop, go to his email, and send a dumb and mildly insulting meme to the Mage. It’s a stupid prank, but I’m too rattled to think of anything better.

The day is halfway over before I remember that the Mage probably doesn’t even check his emails. He prefers to communicate through more magickal channels, like birds, which is ridiculous, but that’s the Mage. So Snow will probably never even know that I executed any kind of revenge plot, even as pathetic as it was.

He spends the rest of the day with a smug look on his face that I’d like to wipe right off it. It’s idiotic for him to be this proud of himself, and I’m completely smitten.

I should pull something awful to pay him back, but I can’t even seem to think around Snow anymore. For once in his life, he has the upper hand and he knows it. He sings the song in my direction, and I go mute. It’s like he’s finally figured out how to disarm me, and he hasn’t even worked out my real secret yet.

The more I react, the more he does it. If I stumble over my words after he smirks at me, he makes sure to do it again. Frequently. If I lose focus in class when he stares at me, he settles into his chair with his chin in his hand and doesn’t take his eyes off me for the entire lesson. And, Crowley, when he sees me tense up after he touches my hand, I know I’m done for.

‘Baz,’ he says then, his voice softer than it has any right to be, eyes crinkling at the corners.

‘Snow, stop flirting with me,’ I say. He should start spluttering and protesting and blushing, horrified at the suggestion, but he just sends a maddening grin over his shoulder and keeps walking.

I have no idea what in Merlin’s name any of this means. Snow isn’t capable of plotting. But he’s also not capable of… this. Whatever this is.

About a week later, I walk down to the Catacombs in the evening like I usually do to hunt, and I hear something, too faint to make out what it is, not far from the entrance. I follow the sound with my wand pulled out and I’m almost at the source when it dawns on me; it’s the fucking song again. When I find his laptop, it’s just sitting there on the ground with very little remaining battery life, the song queued up to play on repeat. He must have set this up and had it waiting for me hours ago.

It’s too much. All the staring and lingering touches, teasing me like this is all a joke to him.

I hunt quickly, then pick up the computer and march back up to our room. He’s asleep, not even waiting up to see my reaction to his little prank, and it’s utterly moronic for me to be disappointed by it, but I am. I slam the door behind me then flick on the light just in case that wasn’t enough to wake him. He bolts upright, his gaze going straight to my empty bed before he finds me in the doorway. I march over to the window, which he’s left open, of course, and hold the laptop up in front of it.

‘Give me one good reason not to chuck this into the moat,’ I say.

Snow squints at me, and it’s criminal for him to look so endearing while he does it. ‘Did you have to turn the light on for that? What time is it?’

‘Give me one reason, Snow.’

He groans and falls back onto his bed. ‘You won’t do it.’

I arch one eyebrow. ‘Don’t test me, Snow. You know I will.’

‘You won’t.’

‘Why not?’

‘Because you like me too much?’ he tries.

I push the window open further and slide the laptop onto the ledge. He scrambles out of bed and walks over to me.

‘Come on, Baz,’ he says, holding his hands out in front of him like I’m an animal that might spook. ‘Look. I know that the song was for me.’

Fuck. He does know.

‘Last chance,’ I say, giving the laptop a nudge.

‘I’m the one that you hate,’ he says. ‘It wasn’t that hard to figure it out.’

I fight not to let my panic show on my face. He knows everything. After seven years of hiding it, tormenting him, letting him torment me. He hates me. I know he does. He looks so fucking thrilled.

I take a deep breath and pull my face into a sneer. ‘Really, Snow? You think I have romantic feelings for you?’

I want him to back down, or blush, but he does neither. ‘Do you?’

I laugh incredulously. ‘Crowley, you do think highly of yourself, don’t you?’

He just shrugs. ‘Not as highly as you, apparently.’

I swallow. At least I manage to hold his gaze. Thank snakes for those three inches I have on him so I can at least pretend I’m still okay, that I’m not bracing myself for him to punch me in the gut, whether physically or figuratively.

‘You’re the one who’s been serenading me with that fucking song,’ I say. It’s a weak retort and we both know it. I should kiss him just to make him back off. At the very least I should toss his laptop into the moat, just to show him I would.

He shrugs again. ‘Well, yeah,’ is all he says.

‘What’s that supposed to mean?’

He looks at me like I’m being slow. Which is my fucking job.

‘It means I fancy you,’ he says, with a massive roll of his eyes. ‘Hadn’t you figured that out yet?’

‘You what?’ This is not happening.

‘I,’ he says, and swallows. His eyes drop to my lips. (This is definitely not happening.) ‘I like you.’

I shake my head and step back. ‘No,’ I say. ‘You’re fucking with me.’

He stares at me, looking affronted. ‘I’m not fucking with you.’

‘No, this –’ I say, waving my hand in the general of direction of his face, his moles that I’d kiss, his mouth that’s saying these ridiculous things – ‘isn’t real. You hate me.’

Snow steps forward and grabs my hand. ‘I don’t hate you. Baz, you can have me.’

I don’t pull away. I should, but I don’t. It feels so nice, having him hold my hand, and Crowley, I’m pathetic.

‘Awfully bold of you to assume that I want you,’ I mutter, but there’s no bite behind it, because he’s brushing his thumb over the back of my hand and leaning in and I’m practically swooning.

And then he kisses me.

 SIMON

I can’t believe he’s actually letting me do this.

I’m kissing Baz. And he’s kissing me back. And he’s tangling his hand in my hair, the other hand still holding tightly onto mine.

‘Simon,’ he keeps whispering, between kisses. I can’t believe he thought I was just messing with him. I can’t believe he thought I wouldn’t want this.

‘Baz,’ I say, pulling him closer.

It’s even better than I hoped it would be.

[explainprogrammerhumor]

(Version) Control

Git is version control software: it lets you track all the changes made to some files, including changes you make yourself and, of other people are working on the same files, changes they make too. (This shouldn't be confused with GitHub, which is a website that uses this software, similar to GitLab, Bitbucket, and several others.)

gitignore is a setting that tells Git to not track certain files. This is useful when there are files in a project that aren't important, or that computers put there automatically, or that you don't want/need other programmers to see. For example:

I sometimes keep a little "scratchpad" file in my coding projects where I can copy and paste snippets of code or write notes. The stuff in that file isn't really important, so there's no point in cluttering things up by tracking its changes.

If you have a Mac, sometimes it automatically sticks a file called .DS_Store into different folders on your computer, which helps it keep things organized under-the-hood. A .DS_Store file only works on the computer that made it, you have no control over it, and you can't read it, so there's no point in telling Git to track it.

The Google results for git ignore include many files that are commonly ignored, or that people aren't sure should be ignored, which explains why they're using Google to look them up.

The joke is how different the results of the two Google searches look, even though the text of the searches is pretty similar. It also implies that programmers aren't interested in relationships, and are much more interested in writing code. The man in the pictures is Linus Torvalds, a famous programmer who created Git as well as the Linux operating system.

[visgreys]

Github desktop version

GITHUB DESKTOP VERSION SOFTWARE

GITHUB DESKTOP VERSION CODE

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You can create private as well public repositories with GitHub without any cost with some conditions. The best thing about GitHub is that it is completely free.

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In simple terms, GitHub is the single largest cloud-based hosting service for managing git repositories which offer a wide range of functionality for source code management and version control as well as its own features. If you want to go in-depth about Git, please check the link below. It outclasses SCM tools like Subversion, CVS, Perforce, and ClearCase with features like cheap local branching, convenient staging areas, and multiple workflows. Git is easy to learn and has a tiny footprint with lightning-fast performance.

GITHUB DESKTOP VERSION FREE

Git is a free and open-source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

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Basically, it is a software to track the changes of files mostly used for coders to work collaboratively and source code management during the software development. Git is a version control system for managing the source code which keeps the track of it with many options. Furthermore, I will be doing hands-on by creating a git repository using the GUI GitHub desktop. In this article, I will explain Git, GitHub, and GitHub desktop.

Add an existing project to the repository.

The below points will be covered in the next article.

Installation and Authentication of GitHub desktop.

In this article, I will cover the following points.

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In this article, I will elaborate on GitHub, one of the most used, cloud based open-source communities to manage your source code plus extensive features with git repositories. There are several tools and platforms available for source code management with exclusive features. Source code management is not only just storing the code safely but also tracking the changes, resolving the conflicts, and merging from multiple contributors. When it comes to writing code, source code management is another important factor to consider. Another issue is rollback which is not possible without using any version control tools. Tracking changes and merging those codes are hassle and time-consuming without any proper tools or platforms. In the real scenario, multiple developers work on the same project and write code on a daily basis. Managing code becomes complex with time and multiple contributors. If you want to learn git, then use git directly as much as possible and find resources dedicated to understanding and learning git, as its the best tool because really its the only tool underpinning all of these technologies.Software development is all about writing code and developing solutions following requirements and processes. If you just want to get going and focus more on code, while still using Github to show off/back-up your code, then yes use Github Desktop, it will get you going faster. Github Desktop can help leverage both of those technologies, but will also keep you from learning and fully* understanding how git by itself works. Github by extension takes knowing git and adds in the wrinkle that you now are using git with an external remote (Github) and github’s own services that are unrelated to git (issues/projects/pull-requests/etc). However the underlying tool is always git, which is why it is recommended to learn that tool, rather than an abstraction like Github Desktop.Īs git by itself can get confusing and takes some time to understand the core basics. There are other tools you can use instead of directly using git, Github Desktop, is just one option that is dedicated to interacting with Github. Its overall goal is primarily to handle core use-cases when using git and Github, It also integrates with Github’s services, such as pull requests. Github Desktop is a tool created by Github to help work with git on your system. Github is the company that provides services that integrate with git, allowing you to host repisotiries, manage your projects via issues, and do other things directly or indirectly related to git. You can use it by itself without using github, nor is it directly related to github. Git is the version control software used to keep track of changes within a codebase. One of the easiest mistakes to make when starting out is to get confused between what is git and what is github.