@pharmafemboy wow holy shit. I don’t know how anyone would put up with messages like this from a fucking language learning app. that is absolutely wild

@pharmafemboy wait is this a real notification?

@shijikori gunicorn was a great recommendation! I got myself a VPS instead of messing with Python Anywhere any further, and I was able to get gunicorn set up incredibly quickly and easily. I still need to configure NGINX as its proxy (I guess because it provides security features that gunicorn doesn’t on its own?) but everything else is working perfectly

Somehow landed on the NetBSD manpage of sleep(1) and they seem to have a rather unique take on what is considered a bug.

#netbsd

I remember this!
This is how you do a bug bounty.

@shijikori actually nevermind about the multithreaded thing. I’m pretty sure that PythonAnywhere doesn’t have any support for that. thanks so much for the info though!

@shijikori omg thank you! you clearly know a lot more about WSGI than I do and you saved me a ton of trouble looking in the wrong direction (some kind of reddit API issue)

I have some authentication tokens from reddit that I’ve been using to make the API requests (otherwise I can’t see anything NSFW which is the whole point of my webapp lol) and I think I can change stuff around so that it will be safe to give all of that to the client (it will only get permissions to view posts but won’t be able to touch anything). unfortunately that means I’d have to learn how to do clientside rendering though :/ but I know I can figure it out eventually!

also multithreading sounds like an interesting option! I might look into that. although right now I’m using server-side caching of requests, so the threads would have to share that state somehow. do you know if that’s possible and what that would look like?

I really didn’t want to make a post like this because it makes me feel pathetic, but like. Honestly, if anyone here knows someone/somewhere that might want to hire an entry-level programmer with HTML, CSS, JS, React, and some amount of Java and C++, who generally has an easy time learning languages and that sort of thing, I would really appreciate being sent their info.

And I don’t mean “Here’s a job listing I found” because I’m doing plenty of that, I just don’t have connections and apparently those are absolutely vital. Entry level people just are not getting hired right now especially in tech and it’s rotting me inside that I’ve spent 2 years searching and gotten nothing.

I’ve never been formally employed but I have a bachelors from a pretty solid school and have done some paid workshops to improve my skills a bit. I’m an incredibly fast typist, I have pretty good communication skills, I’m generally pretty solid with problem-solving, etc. I legitimately feel like if I got something I’d be able to do well in any role I’m trained in, I just can’t get my foot in the door.

unfortunately I might have to make a post asking for help on r/redditdev and get condescended to by a bunch of highly intelligent redditors

hmm okay so I almost have everything that I need in order to host #GAGSProject for everyone to use… except for one problem that I just can not figure out

for some reason if I try to use async #PRAW on PythonAnywhere, it fails with an error saying that it can’t connect to #reddit. but if I use regular PRAW, it works completely fine

on my own computer, both async PRAW and regular PRAW work and so does all of my GAGS code. so I have no idea what’s different about PythonAnywhere that’s causing this problem

unfortunately I basically have to use async PRAW in my code because the alternative would be that every single search would freeze my entire webapp for like 1-2 seconds, which would make it an unresponsive mess if more than one user was searching at a time

okay I think I finally found a sane way to structure my CSS so that it lines up with the abstractions that I’m using in my HTML generation code, and it is now significantly more comfortable for me to use. it’s still pretty awful a lot of the time, but at least I can tell at a glance which CSS rules are for which components of the actual webpage

also I’m still waiting for reddit to approve my API key request (I haven’t heard anything from them at all) and at this point I’m thinking of just using a workaround that is probably against ToS instead

@yassie_j the entire concept of “intelligence” as an objective scale of how well your brain works is absurd and I think this a fantastic illustration of why. because there are people who are brilliant at some things but literally can’t spell or read social cues or whatever else. also whoever you’re talking about sounds like a pretentious ass if they’re calling themselves that

omg someone made an officially-endorsed short film adaptation of Papers, Please

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFHHGETsxkE

CWs: gun violence, bombing, totalitarian Soviet vibes

Finally finished my Minecraft bridge!! It's 3094 blocks long (3km, longer than the world's longest suspension bridge!!), easily the biggest single structure I've ever built, though a lot of it was built using the /fill and /clone commands to make it faster.

I got this new game idea. basically it’s a hero shooter where- aaand it’s dead

someone needs to make a mod for Minecraft that turns it into a Zachtronics game where you build redstone machines to solve puzzles. that would be fucking amazing

because like, redstone looks pretty fun to learn how to use, but there’s nothing that you can do with it that appeals to me? sure you can make a jank laggy farm or a combination lock for a door but I don’t really want either of those things idk

I have the same problem with ComputerCraft. like it’s so powerful but there’s nothing that I want to accomplish with it