a wild poll appears! which choice are you voting for?

Code complexity metrics are widely used in industry & research as proxy for program comprehension. But are they linked to what's actually going on in a programmer's brain? We investigated this question with an #fMRI study! Read our ICSE paper: tu-chemnitz.de/informatik/ST/… 1/14

twitter please let me flex for a moment because I HAVE SOME CODE ON MARS

What’s the best approach to escaping characters in strings you’ve seen?

IT IS DONE!!!!! Ok still need to do a graphics check, address MEAP comments, write a preface etc..., but still, this is such a milestone!

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As a hobby, I've been having a go at game development for the past year or so. The result is a top-down driving game, and I've just released it on Steam. Purchases and/or RTs appreciated!

Epistemic trespassing is my favorite new word.

This is a bad take of epic proportions. It's also a perennial mental pothole that people have been falling into forever, and relevant beyond mathematics, so it might be useful digging (no pun intended) a little further...

So how many people are already doing (academic) research on the Twitch code? Would that be legal?

That was me after living in the US for 5.5 years. Trouble speaking my native language and I had an American accent. Thankfully that mostly went away after 2 weeks or so being back. I still struggle sometimes, though

What would a language designed entirely around teaching beginner programmers look like? Here are four examples: 1. Scratch: designed for teaching children. Instead of coding in text, people snap together "blocks" of code like jigsaw puzzles. scratch.mit.edu/about

Hey, just a heads-up. Turns out the upcoming Disney Plus series “Andor” isn’t about logic gates at all. It’s just some Star Wars thing.

I read this first out of context and immediately thought it’s a sarcastic tweet about the reality of work culture because that is what a lot of people‘s days are actually like. Actually make that 6-8 hour long meetings.

Are you interested in doing a PhD, but can't figure out if you want to do linguistics or programming languages? Or you'd ideally do some combination thereof? Maybe you should come with me at their intersection:

Introducing the GP2040-CE infinity controller chain. You only have to stop when you run out of power! Through our new USB controller host add-on you can connect a 2nd, 3rd, 57th supported controller through an EXT port for infinite fun! This is not an April Fools joke :)