All this time I was wondering what black sorcery DST was performing to magically “add more sunlight” when it was simply the matter of setting the clock 1hr early.

I would rather go with having separate schedules for winter and summer for everything; even thinking about adopting DST is nauseating for me. I enjoy having a uniform time scale independent from external environmental factors.

Thank you very much for sharing this link.

Someone please ELI5 Daylight Savings for me? I simply can’t wrap my head around it no matter how many times I try to read any explanation about it. I don’t even know if my own region follows it (probably not given I would’ve understood it otherwise).

This isn’t related to the context of the post, but I recall giving a review in an earlier post regarding the blog site. Assuming you (positive-intentions) are the same person as the author of the previous post (xoron), It’s impressive how you came this far with your blog and apps since then.

Your blog post about bottom-up browser state management was particularly interesting because I was dealing with indexedDB before and ended up going with a wrapper while I personally wanted to work with a custom solution. The explanations for the code snippets are to-the-point, easy to follow and overall well written which I really appreciate as a person not experienced in reading blogs.

Also I enjoyed your in-house illustrations. Keep up the great work!

Easily the best website I’ve seen since 2024.

Hey, I know you! You’re the potash guy!

May I dare ask who you would be delivering this to?

For further context, the website is virtually completely local and could be self-hosted. Aside from hosting the project itself, there is no central server to manage any aspect of the users’ interaction with the site or allow communication with other users. There is no sensitive data stored barring the name of the user for which a pseudonym would be just as acceptable.

I think mentioning the ToS and privacy policy is pointless for creating an app like this. If it is possible, I would rather write them myself or omit them altogether.

I like to think that he forgets, keeps trying and then makes a new post about it

I would really like to get more about the ‘business megaformal’ option if I knew what it was called in real life

This is why […] better

Sorry, what’s the subject of that?

I was just referring to my original question i.e. how I should write comments in my code to explain its working if I have already done so in the code itself

Interesting to see your opinion on how commenting shouldn’t be mandatory. I specifically go the extra mile to ensure my code is readable for everyone, by naming my variables and functions to be as self-explanatory as possible and breaking down long expressions to store chunks in variables. This is why I was feeling confused as to what more I could add to explain my code better, though I must admit there are still considerable complex portions in some of my projects that would appreciate similar simplification.

I believe you confused the ‘how’ of commenting the ‘why’ with ‘why’ of commenting the ‘why’, if that makes sense.

I am already aware of and totally agree with the need to document your code in this fashion for the convenience of others and self. What I am troubled about is its implementation in real life. How does one write comment that explains the ‘why’ of the code? How would I know if I haven’t accidentally written something that explains the ‘what’ instead or anything that is simply redundant? It seems like this portion is left out ‘as an exercise for the reader’.

Asking as a newbie programmer: how do you suggest we write comments that explain the ‘why’ part of the code? I understand writing comments explaining the ‘what’ part makes them redundant, but I feel like writing it the former way isn’t adding much help either. I mean, if I created code for a clock, is writing “It helps tell what time it is” better than writing “It is a clock” ?

It would really help if someone could give a code snippet that clearly demonstrates how commenting the ‘correct’ way is clearly better than the way we are used to.

Thank you so much! I checked that he starred in the show ‘Severance’ which I just watched recently, which is why I could recognise his face.

Who’s the guy in the second panel? I swear I’ve seen this guy somewhere recently and it’s been seriously bugging me

BTW it’s cake day for what was supposed to be a throwaway account

By the looks of the image, you opened this post on your laptop, opened the camera app of your phone, took a screenshot of the app and took ANOTHER screenshot of the app along with the preview of the previously taken screenshot and finally posted it.

I guess it’s your first day too

A for effort

Oh…

Tbh I’ve kind of forgetten what little French I managed to learn earlier, so this wouldn’t work for me either