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Your Contribution Graph Means Absolutely Nothing

By dragoncoder047

For the past few months I haven’t been as active on GitHub as I usually am. Why? I’m not sure. There certainly wasn’t any shortage of things for me to work on and I did work on them every so often.

I could blame the college classes …


In Defense Of Eval

By dragoncoder047

Your honor, this programmer has obvious disregard for the rules of Sane Programming. We can agree that it is common knowledge that there are certain features of programming languages that are available, but are not to be used. Anyone who does use them is deserving of shame. I present to …


The God Language

By dragoncoder047

I did a lot. In the two months since I last shared something I’ve worked on no less than four different projects, all while trying to slip them in between an avalance of schoolwork and college applications. Oh, and I also spent a week sick with COVID-19. (It’s …


School Chromebooks

By dragoncoder047

I am a high school student, and so while I am at school I have to use the school-provided computers. The school district chose to give us Chromebooks. And anyone who needs to do some serious coding (like me) knows that Chromebooks are utterly useless.

Thankfully I have access to …


Why I Prefer Python

By dragoncoder047

In developing Phoo today I was unpleasantly presented with yet another reason why I prefer Python. It was when I was working on the new Importer API for loading external modules into Phoo that I accidentally did this:

class Importer { /* stub class */ }
class FetchImporter extends Importer {
    constructor(basePath, fetchOptions = {}) {
        /* no …