#humans make me sad.

#CURL is my lovely gem, a masterpiece they ever created, but what do I see on their documentation pages? This:

CURLcode res = ...
if(!res) {
...

That's how they check for success, meow.

On, no. Meow! Meow! Meow!

And this does not discourage humans to write such posts

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/09/27…

where they say common failures are:
1. Skipping the documentation!
2. Failure to check return codes

meow ((((

#programming

Common mistakes when using libcurl

I've been traveling this road for a while. Here's my collection of 15 of the most common mistakes and issues people will run into when writing applications and services that use libcurl.

^{daniel.haxx.se}

#slowember is coming

I will travel three weeks this month making me (much) slower than usual this period.

This affects my ability to do a quick patch release for #curl, so we might ship one on December 11 instead: curl.se/mail/lib-2024-11/0019.…

Wow, it is already *nine* years since I attempted to write an RFC titled "TCP Tuning for HTTP" (it was later abandoned)

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2015/11/08…

The last published draft is still around here: datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/…

TCP tuning for HTTP

I'm the author of a brand new internet-draft that I submitted just the other day. The title is TCP Tuning for HTTP,  and the intent is to gather a set of current best practices for HTTP implementers; to share and distribute knowledge we've gathered o…

^{daniel.haxx.se}

1/2
Prokletí při rekonstrukci. Voda. Ano, voda. Ale ono je to asi fuk, jestli jde o komín, elektřinu nebo třeba plyn. U nás je to voda.

Začalo to sprchovým koutem. Řemeslník se na sprcháč těšil, ukazoval nám fotky snad všech koupelen, co kdy dělal. Nechali jsme mu klíče od domu i od kůlny, kde byla krabice se sprchovým koutem, ať si ho, až bude potřebovat, vyndá.

Je to sprchový kout bez vaničky – přímo na podlaze. První, co nás mělo varovat, byl sklon podlahy. Na těch 80 cm činí sklon 6 cm. Inu co, nevyznáme se, asi to tak má být.

Když už byla koupelna hotová, telefon. Mám problém, povídá. Vzal totiž za bernou minci, že jsme řekli, že sprchový kout je 80 x 80 cm a blbec si to nezměřil podle reality, byť klíče i sprcháč měl. Podlahu tedy připravil na 80 x 80, ale sprcháč má reálně 77 x 77. Dveře nešly dovřít, mezi nimi fuka asi 7 cm.

Odepsali jsme sprcháč, snad se nám podaří ho někdy někomu prodat. Je prakticky nový, sice byl namontovaný, ale nepoužitý. Rozebral ho a vrátil do bedny.

Instalatéři pak o týdny později zjistili, že jim tenhle šikula při přidělávání toho sprcháče provrtal měděné trubky ve zdi s vodou k topení. Ty trubky, které pár dní před tím sám zaházel a obložil. No super. Takže rozebrat kus koupelny a opravit to.

Jedeme dál. Firma zapomněla objednat sprchovou baterii. Po urgenci jsme ještě týden čekali, aby přišla... vanová baterie. Na to už fakt sere pes, čekat znova, potřebujeme se aspoň trochu vykoupat. Tak máme vanovou baterii.

Došlo na první koupání. Ten sklopenej prostor pro sprcháč na podlaze se rychle zaplnil vodou, která se roztekla po celé koupelně. Ano, tušíte správně, odpad neodtékal.

Volal jsem tedy instalatéry a reklamoval práci. Přijeli druhý den a z trubek vytáhli ucpávku z malty a silikonu, která se do potrubí kdo ví jak dostala. No, tvl, to už snad stačí, ne?

Ne.

#CestaZMěsta

Want to learn about how to use and run accessibility testing with NVDA?

Our friends at @intopia have an upcoming Public Training Course which kicks off on Tuesday 12th November.

The course involves 3 x 2 hour sessions over 3 weeks.

The course is very hands-on with activities throughout each session. Learn how to quickly setup & use NVDA for #A11y Testing, navigation, exploring graphics, elements, forms & more!

Full info & registration: lnkd.in/g9rZCJvN

#Training #Accessibility

Sensitive content Click to open/close

Spotted while visiting numerous hardware stores in small city Aotearoa New Zealand:

A large man (60s?) in a 90s Ford Laser with an I Love Samoa bumper sticker, belting out the words to The Bangles song Eternal Flame. Expression euphoric. Chill incarnate.

A man (30s?) ambling with a young human (9?).
Young human: I thought Mum said you were supposed to go to the paint aisle not look at tools!
Dad replies wryly: I thought you were too sick for school.
Young human is sheepish: I am!
Dad: Well, the tool aisle's on the way to the paint aisle.

A very pregnant woman asks a nearby browsing woman (70s?) if she knows of any low maintenance houseplants. The other woman laughs. Says: Remembering what it was like after my kids came, I'd say fake ones! But if you want alive ones, let's see what there is.

A golden retriever trying to mind control the operators of a sausage stand in front of a hardware store. Meanwhile its human is happily chatting, impervious to all sausage related emergencies. The patient doggy martyrdom is everything.

A man stopping in his tracks in the garden section: 18 bucks for a tomato plant!
His wife keeps walking, says: Could you say it any louder?
He looks incredulous: Yeah. 18 BUCKS FOR A TOMATO PLANT!
She looks at him exasperated and then bursts into laughter at his sucked lemon expression.

Any typos spotted in this post are questing for an odd sized screw to fix a broken garden tool. This is tiring work, so if you spot them please offer them a hotdog.

the New York Times Tech Guild is on strike and asking you not to play NYT games or access the NYT cooking section in the meantime

however they have made a Frogger clone about getting strikers across 8th Ave to the picket line that you can play instead

nytimesguild.org/tech/guild-bu…

Sensitive content Click to open/close

One of my favorite facts about English linguistics is that there are two mechanisms of bringing foreign words into English, and the resulting words are called "loanwords" and "calques."

In a calque, the components of a foreign word or phrase are translated to make a compound word; a loanword is just used as is, as an English word.

The thing that makes this great is that "calque" is a loanword, and "loanword" is a calque.

NVDA has overtaken AAPL as the world's most valuable company by market cap:

NVDA: 3.42T
AAPL: 3.37T

Spread: 50B

#nvda #aapl

When RFK, Jr gets there... that will surely end.

CDC expands bird flu testing recommendation of dairy farm workers: t.co/GJ1xY7mhN6 #USA #DUMBFUCKISTAN

however, biting is a perfectly acceptable form of first aid that can be done without training

CC:
@Seirdy@pleroma.envs.net @EeveeEuphoria@social.translunar.academy

do not take first aid advice from social media at face value, especially when bad advice could kill.

please.

From a friend:

"Hey instead of slapping a blue friendship bracelet on to signal you're safe for marginalized folks, maybe try wearing a face mask? Instead of 'signaling' that you're safe, perhaps try taking an action that actually demonstrates it. I know it isn't fashionable anymore, but it's literally like the easiest, most effective way to communicate that you give a shit about other people."

Is there anyone else getting these emails from some researcher asking me to do work for them?

"We are conducting a research study on memory leaks in real-world applications and would like to recreate the memory leak issue you addressed in your pull request." ... "We would be grateful if you could share any test cases, additional context, and insights to help us accurately reproduce the memory leak you addressed in your PR." ...

I have received three of them so far.