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Welcome to Software Development on Codidact!

Will you help us build our independent community of developers helping developers? We're small and trying to grow. We welcome questions about all aspects of software development, from design to code to QA and more. Got questions? Got answers? Got code you'd like someone to review? Please join us.

Activity for Monica Cellio‭

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Comment Post #288238 Fixed now -- sorry for the inconvenience!
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over 1 year ago
Edit Post #288238 Post edited:
over 1 year 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...
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over 1 year ago
Edit Post #288238 Post edited:
PR merged, awaiting deploy.
over 1 year ago
Comment Post #288238 Thanks for the report. We're looking into it.
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over 1 year ago
Comment Post #288198 Thanks Lundin -- didn't see your comment until after I wrote something there, but covered now.
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over 1 year ago
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Edit Post #288198 Initial revision over 1 year ago
Answer A: Should we allow answers generated by ChatGPT?
I want to let you know that today we (Codidact team) posted our default Gen-AI policy. As far as this community is concerned I think it's consistent with what you're already doing and nothing surprising, but I want to make sure folks are aware. What we posted is not a deviation from what we were ...
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over 1 year 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 ...
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over 1 year 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...
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over 1 year 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...
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over 1 year ago
Edit Post #287826 Question closed almost 2 years ago
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Edit Post #287597 Initial revision almost 2 years ago
Answer A: Closed Question Too Generic, Reason Unhelpful
This response is about closure in general, not any specific question. (A moderator has already addressed the specific case.) The close notice also includes the following text (emphasis mine): > Users with the reopen privilege may vote to reopen this question if it has been improved or closed i...
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almost 2 years ago
Edit Post #287478 Initial revision about 2 years ago
Question Are questions about language design on-topic?
I was chatting with somebody who's involved with a proposal on SE for a site about language design and who is interested in other options too. Some sample questions: - What are the tradeoffs between explicit line-end syntax (like semicolons) versus newlines? - How could a parser implement cus...
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about 2 years 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...
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about 2 years ago
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Edit Post #287454 Initial revision about 2 years ago
Answer A: The size of the code format window is much too small.
I apologize for the long delay in getting such a small change made and deployed. Someday I would like the blocks to be resizable, but in the meantime, a code block now shows 40 lines before the scrollbar kicks in: ```text 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 2...
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about 2 years ago
Edit Post #287317 Initial revision about 2 years ago
Answer A: Should asking about book recommendations directly connected to software development be on-topic?
Are we talking about questions asking for book recommendations, or for a way to share/compile book recommendations? A question doesn't have to be the vehicle for the latter. A question like "what are the best C++ books?" is likely to yield results that are haphazard and hard to manage. It would ...
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about 2 years 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...
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Edit Post #286994 Initial revision over 2 years ago
Answer A: "Review suggested edit" page doesn't display Markdown source correctly
While reviewing older bug reports we discovered that the first problem is now working; the code fences show up in the diff. The second one still shows as one line without a clear diff, but I don't think we've seen a recent case so it's possible that's a one-off data error of some sort. I'm going to...
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over 2 years 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.
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over 2 years 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).
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Edit Post #286948 Initial revision over 2 years ago
Answer A: Asking and answering FAQ style questions
As other answers have said, we have some of these, they're helpful, and they can be hard to write. On Codidact there's another option, should the community want to enable it: articles. An article is another type of top-level post. They're being used in a few different ways around the network: lo...
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over 2 years 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?
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over 2 years 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...
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over 2 years ago
Edit Post #286685 Initial revision over 2 years ago
Answer A: Reaction comment doesn't appear if previous comment for retracted reaction was deleted
I wrote this in a comment on the GitHub issue and would be interested in input: > I can think of two fixes, both in the reaction-handling code: > > 1. Check for an existing thread (as it does now) and then, if it's deleted, undelete it. Problem: this can resurrect something that a moderator deci...
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over 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.)
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over 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.
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almost 3 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,...
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Edit Post #285999 Initial revision almost 3 years ago
Answer A: Should I post a link to the Github repo for code reviews?
Welcome! It's best if the code being reviewed is here on the site, for ease of reference and defense against link rot. That sounds like a sizable program; are there key parts you'd like review on, as opposed to the whole thing? You could include the GitHub link for anybody who wants to run it as...
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Edit Post #278625 Post edited:
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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...
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almost 3 years ago
Edit Post #285829 Initial revision almost 3 years ago
Answer A: Should we allow questions about software quality assurance?
My personal opinion (I am not speaking for Codidact) is that we named the community "Software Development", not "Programming". Testing, both unit testing done by the developer and functional/performance/integration testing done (usually) by testers, is part of the software-development process writ l...
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almost 3 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.
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almost 3 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...
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almost 3 years ago
Comment Post #285485 Nice! Also, today I learned about `-ip` -- that sounds really useful.
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almost 3 years ago
Edit Post #285455 Initial revision almost 3 years ago