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Activity for Monica Cellio
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Comment | Post #290885 |
That's a subscription for new posts, I think specifically new top-level posts, but it won't tell you about new responses you've received (comments, I think answers, suggested edits). (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290379 |
Oops! Thank you, and I apologize -- we should have tested that scenario. (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289928 |
Oh, I see -- sorry for misunderstanding! Looks good to me. (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289928 |
Did you mean to add a footnote? I see `[1]` but no referent. Maybe you meant to add something about how to use `git log` to find the right commit? (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288660 |
Thanks for posting what you learned in an answer. I've filed an issue to add tables to the formatting help. (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289737 |
Yikes. Would it be worth sharing what you learned in an answer? Or is it really specific to that particular query? (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289737 |
Would running the query on a new table -- same DDL but with, say, 10 rows copied into it from the real table -- complete? Would analyzing *that* tell you anything? (The answer probably depends on what that query is doing; if it's some complicated aggregation that only works at all if you've got tho... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #285894 |
Hello! A while back somebody got most of the way to "expand in page" working, ran into some problems, and never got back to it. We still want this, but I think at this point we need to start again and break the work into smaller pieces. We tried to do too much all at once. I'm checking with our d... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #285399 |
Did you write something as a result of this post? With the new attention we're currently getting, I'd like to point people to it if so. (I can of course point people to this post, but if there's something better, let's use that.) (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288330 |
Or we might be able to use (multiple) specific troubleshooting questions to feed into a general troubleshooting article or canonical question or something, and then point all the specific cases to that. Either approach works; we just want to make sure things are findable. Specific questions might h... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288330 |
If we end up with clusters of highly-related questions -- different symptoms, same root cause, none yet has that kind of great comprehensive answer -- then another option is to create a trouble-shooting topic that tackles those commonalities. Codidact supports articles alongside Q&A and also support... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288238 |
Fixed now -- sorry for the inconvenience! (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288282 |
Welcome! I understand that starting over on a new site is frustrating when you've built up a body of work elsewhere. A few mitigations:
1. Reputation on Codidact is actually just a number; it doesn't gate access to abilities like editing. A track record of successful suggested edits leads to ed... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288238 |
Thanks for the report. We're looking into it. (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288198 |
Thanks Lundin -- didn't see your comment until after I wrote something there, but covered now. (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #285035 |
Welcome @#60490 ! We are much smaller than SO, even early SO which had the benefit of Joel's and Jeff's blogs for jump-starting, so the questions won't come as quickly. But that does mean new questions don't disappear off the front page in 1.7 seconds, so there's that silver lining. I hope you'll ... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288091 |
Someone on Mastodon posted a [comment](https://mindly.social/@cazabon/110313032082496670) there that I'm relaying here as a starting point:
> It's not a bad approach at all. But I would say back up a step, and don't necessarily reinvent the wheel. There are packages that already do everything de... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287970 |
I shared a link to this request and got back the following [response](https://fosstodon.org/@benjaminhollon/110091855044747438):
> Not a full answer, I know (I haven't looked closely), but does the [CSS `transition` property](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Transitions/Using_C... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287454 |
It was a comedy of errors. At the root of it, it just required changing one number in some CSS. But the design framework (co-design) is a separate piece from the main code, so we had to make the change there and then update the external reference from the main repo (qpixel). But there was, uh, som... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #286994 |
The strikethrough on 'd'? Yeah, that's hard to see, though fortunately, the diff highlights the line that changed so it's not as bad as when the highlighting didn't show up and you had to scan the whole diff. Do you have thoughts on a better way to show one-character differences? How could we make... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #286984 |
As Mithical said, the community definitely has a voice; we don't want to push you around. If you (plural) think you're approaching the point where we should turn this off, please raise it on meta and we'll work out the logistics with the mods. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #286948 |
Right, articles are intended for jumping straight to "I have information to share", for cases where it doesn't work as well to use an answer (question doesn't exist, question would be too broad, whatever). (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #286863 |
I don't know enough to have an opinion on the specific cases you raise, but are tag hierarchies helpful for any of this? (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #286768 |
Thank you! That "click again to dismiss the pop-up" thing you mentioned with reactions applies to all the other cases of that, too -- inbox, flag dialogue, search, etc. That's been a little confusing for people used to sites where those elements are more transient, so it's great to hear that it wor... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286411 |
@#53629 would the question benefit from a tag that captures the CAD aspect? If so, could you suggest one? (I don't know this space so I wouldn't want to guess.) (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278868 |
You posted this a long time ago and I thought we were tracking it on GitHub, but if so I can't find it. I conclude that I failed to create the ticket, for which I apologize. I've done so now here: https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/issues/777. (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285999 |
I guess it depends what the 400 lines contain. :-) I would personally skip boilerplate stuff to help readers focus on the important parts, but that might be a matter of formatting. It sounds like the asker might have run into an overall limit on post size; I'm not sure what that is, but I think 30,... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285894 |
Thanks for this feedback, and I'm sorry for the confusion with the buttons. I guess them being outside the bounding box for the thread isn't clear enough because they're also pretty close to that box. We are planning to make improvements to comments, including being able to fully expand a thread in... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285035 |
@#54648 sorry, we haven't gotten self-serve deletion in place yet. There's a "contact us" link at the bottom of the page; could you send us a request that way, either the support portal or email, and we'll route it to the right person? Thanks, and sorry to see you go. (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285035 |
The primary challenge with any new community is attracting people. We're not trying to clone SO; rather, we're trying to learn from our experiences there and elsewhere as we build something new -- new both in terms of software and in terms of the community mindset. We have the opportunity to do thi... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285485 |
Nice! Also, today I learned about `-ip` -- that sounds really useful. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285399 |
You could mention categories as a way of separating related content and, in particular, that Software Dev has one for code reviews. Software Dev isn't currently using other post types (like a blog with articles), so that's probably not something to bring up for promoting this community.
Maybe men... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285398 |
Also, the foundation account is happy to post or share stuff, so please let us know if you do post things on LinkedIn that we can amplify. Thanks! (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285368 |
I wonder if a pre-commit hook can test whether a file is already in the repo. If so, then you could write one to block new additions -- at the cost of some hassle when you actually do want to add a new PDF image to your source. Hmm. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285368 |
@#36377 actually, on further thought, a git commit hook doesn't seem right. Those files shouldn't be in your repo to begin with (that's your goal), so is something auto-adding them to the commit? If you never say `git add unwanted.pdf` then it shouldn't get there, but some git clients (like Tortois... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285368 |
I agree that last option is not great. It's fragile and will bloat .gitignore over time, since the script can never safely *remove* things, only *add* them. Segregated build output is best; git hook to prevent committing unwanted PDFs would be second-best I think. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285366 |
Do you have to build the LaTeX output into the source directory? Or can you segregate it and then ignore the build directory? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281229 |
Good catch, thanks. Status-overcome-by-events, I guess. :-) (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284872 |
That's a good point; we should have a way of letting mods know that we've modified base help topics, so they can review and apply changes if they like. We do this so rarely that I never think of it. :-) (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284872 |
In case this helps with findability (or linkability) in the future:
As a moderator you should be able to edit the "how to ask a great question" topic in the help. The cost of editing is that if we update the central copy in the future you won't get the updates (we do not attempt merges), but tha... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283861 |
Thanks @#53078. If things change in the future please do let us know. And either way, I appreciate your participation here. Your answers have helped me and, I assume, many others. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283667 |
@#53196 I don't think +0/-0 and +3/-3 have the same score. Well, they're not supposed to; I just checked that post and they all say 0.5. **Edit:** I was wrong; according to our help +N/-N is a score of 0.5. I thought the controversy had an impact. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283667 |
[This post on Meta](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/279573) has, at this writing, a +3/-3 sandwiched between two +0/-0s, but they're not in age order either. Hmm. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283198 |
We think this is fixed now. Can you try again? Sorry for the inconvenience. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283001 |
This is a tangent I know, but why `.dup` on the second case (the char[])? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282841 |
I defer to the community's moderators on whether the thread should be deleted (I'm a Codidact admin, not a Software Dev mod). (For some reason I can't edit this in right now, so adding this comment.) (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282807 |
When we make code changes that affect the database (like adding/updating tables), we run DB upgrades as part of the deployment. I assume, but have not personally verified (and wouldn't know what to look for), that this is something that's baked into the code in the public repository somehow, either ... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282752 |
Thanks. We usually do backports by cherry-picking the commit to master (so, merge feature-x to master, then cherry-pick that commit to release-foo). That wouldn't work in this case because feature-A isn't coming to master in its own commit, but we could cherry-pick the last commit on that branch in... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282752 |
Thank you! That explanation is very helpful, and I think you've answered my other question. In the future I might need to merge feature-A, without feature-B, into a previous release's branch, so I was looking for a solution that wouldn't pollute that. I think in that case I'd just merge feature-A ... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282752 |
Correct. I was going to massage that output to match the feature names in the question, but I didn't want to accidentally remove something important. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |