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I am trying to find how tabular data is presented in Software Development. So far, I have found one question, How to pivot text?. The question presents tabular data using code blocks, dash to indic...
Recently, AI models like ChatGPT have shown themselves capable of generating content and even source code. Just like with human helpers, clear and precise communication is key (especially when aski...
I've been thinking about how the community might bring more contributors to software.codidact. One of the ways is to simply pitch codidact in questions, answers, and comments in stackoverflow. I'm ...
The question https://software.codidact.com/posts/281517 is currently voted at -3. I wrote several comments to explain why, so the author can hopefully ask better questions in the future. This morn...
As far as I can tell, there are no tags yet for the main Q&A. I suggest setting an initial group of tags which help organize questions. Two groups I think would be particularly helpful are lang...
I have recently posted this question on Web Application SE and I am wondering if such a question would be on-topic here. The questions deals with understanding a feature of Google Chrome Developer ...
There have now been two questions about Cypher, the Neo4j query language. Highlight.js doesn't support Cypher syntax highlighting out of the box, but they do offer a drop-in highlightjs-cypher modu...
The problem described below occurs in Windows 10 and Chrome 87.0.4280.66 (64 bits, JavaScript enabled). I could post this question only in mobile (Chrome/iOS 14.2), where the problem doesn't occur....
Edit: I have removed the tag. Thanks for the feedback. I am inclined to add a "do not use" request in fullstack tag's description because it is quite vague. What do you think about it?
Enable text-area for comments to be resized is a duplicate of Can comment input fields be vertically scalable?. I am trying to close it as a duplicate and provide the older question link, but I re...
After I wrote this answer, I could notice that, when there's inline code in the last line of a paragraph, sometimes the border-bottom of the inline code text is not displayed. One case is when the...
I just noticed that I'm not getting code formatting in the preview window when I write an answer or make an edit. This is very useful to have. Not sure if it's a bug so I'm posting this as a featu...
In this post, @r~~ mentioned me in comment but, I didn't get any notification. This may be a bug. Or, he didn't mention properly cause, he put a comma beside my name without space. I don't know wha...
I didn't find any guidance on On-Topic - Help Center about customer service-related questions. So, I am asking: Is it correct to ask customer service-related questions? Example of customer service...
I would like to ask a question about the pros/cons of using a library or more generally a way of assertion of complex data models. This is more related to testing than it is to actual coding, but ...
See this picture How do you answer in that thread? Hmm, there are two buttons. One says "show more". I click on that and the thread collapse. Is that "more"? Ok, so I click on the thread agai...
Many questions and answers on Software might involve a lot of code that typically require more width and/or height to be displayed in a way that is easy to read. Why simply not enforce resize: non...
On this answer I just reacted with “works for me” with comment, but then retracted it because of what finally turned out to be a mistake on my end, and deleted also the comment (and thus the commen...
I have found Can we migrate office suite related questions to the Power Users community?, apparently, with a score of +7, 3 answers, but it looks like no decision have made so far. Despite not hav...
I joined Codidact a few days ago. I have looked around to learn the platform features and how things are handled in some communities. I just found that excel is a child tag of openoffice-calc. I ...
I just noticed this question about data structures in the Q&A. Although algorithms and data structures are often (part of) a solution to a problem when writing software, this question is const...
Background This is inspired to some extent by https://software.codidact.com/posts/289597 . I'm trying to provide a large amount of content (gradually!) that novices (mainly to Python) will find u...
TL;DR If we allow answers to be tagged with technologies and version numbers, people can more easily check if an answer is applicable to their technology stack. A few days ago, I had a problem in ...
New LLMs like ChatGPT are now creating competition with Q&A sites like Codidact and StackOverflow. Moreover, this is parasitic: LLMs get "boosted" by Q&A sites because they can use them for...
The site is called "Software Development", and the subtitle on the homepage is "General Q&A about software development -- code, design, process, tools, testing, and more". Am I to understand, t...
Some new tag "software practices" just popped up, no wiki. What's the purpose of this tag and how is it useful? What exactly in software development is not "software practices"? Seems quite superfl...
Cross posted to Meta: https://meta.codidact.com/questions/278198 If I try to provide a parent to a tag, it crashes with 500. Error Id = 6bd06f30-539d-4b88-8743-eca32a8465cd Tag to edit = htt...
Having had the dubious honor of experiencing the closing process from the perspective of a question author, it seems to me that closing does not adequately communicate why the question was closed, ...
After removing two tags and adding another one for this question I have noticed that the tag list is not the same between view mode and edit: View mode: stack-memory + heap-memory + ram + memory-m...
My notification list includes the following entry: New answer to your question 'How many votes are required for special actions...' However, there is no answer for that question. I imagine that ...
Comments from this question reveal that there is some aggressive caching related to question tags (what tags are used for a question). Unfortunately, after changing tags for several questions I ha...
On this question https://software.codidact.com/questions/279097 there are two code blocks, but the color of the text is different. I directly copied and pasted the code so I don't see why some o...
Yesterday I answered this question. This morning, when I visited site, the question has disappeared, so my guess is that it was deleted. But now I saw that it was undeleted (I initially thought t...
I've tried to post a comment in this question, and when I clicked in "Post" button, I've got this error message: 500 Internal Server Error If you are the administrator of this website, then ple...
I edited the tags of my very first Codidact question: https://software.codidact.com/posts/281486 Someone proposed the "python" tag. Since I am working with C++, I removed the "multithreading" tag...
In this answer, I wrote those line using code system (```). But, in first line it bold sudo. But, in second line it didn't. Why one is highlighting another isn't? I am using Chrome. A relate...
From time to time, I am filling in some information for the Software Codidact tags and I realized that for some tags I filled the information twice. An example would be winforms which I almost cer...
Whenever I click on edit button it is redirecting me to that answer. This is happening for the answer. Here's a video
I've seen that recently two requests to add syntax highlight to some languages were deferred (this and this). According to the status-deferred tag description: "the requested feature will not be i...
EDIT: This discussion thread is mostly obsolete now that a new draft has been posted on the site. Please take further discussion & proposals to this meta post instead: Community feedback: What ...
During my review of the posts and tags, I have seen the tools tags. It is very generic and I am sure if it is helpful. What do you think?
Currently the tag [stl] is marked as a sub-tag of c++, implying a meaning of "standard-template-library". However I see both of the questions currently using the tag mean the 3D object description ...
I was reading the post. It said that we can react in post answer. I had answered on my question. But, I didn't get anyway to react on my answer. Why? In this post "reaction" had been suggested. I d...
I Just tried to post a comment to this answer: https://software.codidact.com/posts/281493#answer-281493 But it didn't work. I could click "Post" but no comment appeared. I tried different senten...
This question which is tagged with table tag. I am trying to find a better replacement for it since there are multiple types of tables such as HTML tables or data tables. The question seems to re...
Codidact's Software Development has multiple tags for spreadsheet formulas: excel-formula libreoffice-calc-formula openoffice-calc-formula sheets-formula It has formula with the tag usage ...
I was trying to ask a code review question but I have observed that it does not support the "Monospace font" for code excerpts properly. It is only considered partially and I see this particularly ...
How do I get IIS UrlRewrite to handle CSS-delivered woff files appropriately? is the only question currently using urlrewrite tag. However, for future questions I would like to have a more general ...
Hello all, I was taking a look at proposed communities and saw the discussion about code reviews that lead to the creation of the category. In the process I remembered of Software Recommendations ...
I have noticed that we have several questions tagged with GNU/Linux. I would like to rename this tag to gnu to reflect what seems to be the canonical name and also be consistent with tag naming (a...
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