Programming

Since the Material 3 Expressiv update, the Material color utility library uses a 'ColorSpec', with two predefined specs: ColorSpec2021 and ColorSpec2025.

How do I create a custom color spec using a new spec name not defined there (they have SPEC_2021 and SPEC_2025) and using a Variant name not present in the original spec? Does this require e.g. modifying files like color_spec.ts, and material_dynamic_colors.ts.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/45059519

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We're seeking a senior Android engineer to take ownership of the default app suite:

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Code standard is high, vibe coders need not apply.

You may have noticed that activity on the public Log4cxx, Log4j, and Log4net repositories has slowed since December 2025. I want to reassure you that the projects are still being actively monitored...

Companies are replacing entry-level coding positions with AI tools, creating a dangerous gap in the talent pipeline. If no one trains the next generation of developers, who will maintain and build the systems of the future?

TL;DR: The big tech AI company LLMs have gobbled up all of our data, but the damage they have done to open source and free culture communities are particularly insidious. By taking advantage of those who share freely, they destroy the bargain that made free software spread like wildfire.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/45839000

When publishing a package for use by programmers, automated changelog generation is very beneficial. In this blog post, I explore how to do it in a simple way that works everywhere.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/52108691

Hi, this is a post for you to rant on your sore points on technology

See I am trying to think of a good project idea one that people actually want solved, is there an app you wished existed, a site u wanted, put it down here and hey what do you know you may just see an ad in some while that now it exists

What are some general recommendations to maintain a set of patches on top of a library distributed as a source tarball? Until now I've been adding the versions to a git repository by deleting previous files and adding the new files in a "upstream" branch, then merging that branch into the main branch which contains my patches. This turned into more work than I expected because they started moving files around and renaming in new releases.

I should probably be rebasing instead of merging, but are there any other recommendations for this type of situation?

cross-posted from: https://leminal.space/post/24911246

I'll be self-hosting a service with user submissions soon, so I'm worried about the https://howto.geoblockthe.uk/ situation.

Based on this I've wondered, are there any community maintained geo block lists that might be useful? All database options I found are either 1. an on-demand online service which seems questionable for privacy reasons, or 2. IPv4 only, or 3. have weird terms of use with a gag clause regarding the entire company making it and other weird stuff.

I'm not a fan of geo blocking in general, but the situation is what it is.

PS: Please don't discuss the Online Safety Act itself too much in the comments, or whether somebody should be using a geo ip to handle this. While I might appreciate useful input on that, I'm hoping this post can remain a resource for those who are looking for such a database for other reasons as well.

I have no clue on how to get visible on fiverr and currently can't land a job it would really help out a ton if anyone could help me out with my fiverr gig

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TypeScript does not throw an error at compile time for accessing an out-of-bounds index. Instead, it assumes that the value could be one of the types defined in the array (in this case, 1 or 2) or undefined.

TypeScript automatically infers the type of a value accessed from an array, even if that access is out of bounds. It assumes that the value could be one of the defined types or undefined, which can lead to confusion if you expect stricter enforcement of valid indices.

I just spent the last 2 hours trying to understand why I was getting a valid type from something that shouldn't have been valid.

I think that the hate that JavaScript receives is well deserved, at least coming from Rust this is an absolute nightmare.

After a while since I left JS, I decided to learn Typescript, React and to give it a go again.. It's all fun, until you have to hunt down bugs..

I'm working with an headless CMS, so you have like 4 layers of stuff: JS, TS, React, CMS.

My opinion is that debugging works for SIMPLE stuff, like if I have a static website generator, debugging and hunting the errors by hand to find what's wrong it's okay. But when you have to do really complex stuff, interact with APIs, working with promises, async requests and all, I do think that hunting bugs like that is the recipe for a disaster.

My project runs into a bug: I get 27 different errors messages from different tools, some of them are easy to misunderstand and not really pointing out the right problem. And I don't want to imagine what's like working with a big fullstack app where you have to manage backend as well, not just its APIs..

Once things starts to get complex the language MUST have a good compiler, MUST have a very good package manager, an included linter which is the SAME one for everyone, and API/libraries documentation tool which looks everywhere the same, and most importantly a carefully crafted error handling system. Once a language is very complex it needs to goes straight to the point and tells you where the issue is, what you are doing wrong, and it's okay to have layers but you cannot use 5 different error detection mechanisms for one project.

I have heard about Elninki's and Harvard's programs, can I join them now or is there a specific date?

Consider I only know apis are structured data that can be called or modified from within a program, and have no real further knowledge in real use cases nor in networking.

Where should I start from? Should I study backend?

I prefer docs rather than videos.

Need a quick comment

Recently just developed a tool/utility for windows, are there many free publishing sites?, I know about softpedia and apparently despite the age old UI its quite active!

Anyways just please take a moment and comment active software sites where I could publish

Here is my softpedia page if you have any specific advice regarding my particular project: https://www.softpedia.com/get/Security/Password-Managers-Generators/Wifi-Password-Finder.shtml