<Invalid Character> @RaySir@octodon.social

switching from all the "curly brace" languages to Ruby is... disconcerting

Do not underestimate the value of a sandbox script on your development box, where you can run throw away proof of concept code in the actual environment and even session that you're developing in.

"What incompetent intern wrote this shit code?"
`git blame`
"oh, well, I guess I was rushed that day."

time for some #Skyrim

Just seen in my code base: a developer parameterized "now()" (rather than just use SQL's "getDate()") but not an untrusted variable

Well, the nuclear option's been deployed - God help this country.

FFS: Do security right the 1st time. That way you don't have some highly paid Sr. Dev going through your code pointing out all the places where you didn't parameterize your SQL or sanitize your inputs. Or worse, have that same vulnerability missed and caught by a black-hat.

OK, Devs: just because you CAN put a bunch of logic on one line, doesn't mean you should. You're not being "clever" you're writing unreadable, difficult to maintain code!

So, question to anybody listening: I'm new to this Mastodon thing, are there hashtags like Twitter? Is there any way to make toots more searchable?

The word as we know it is about to change: https://arstechnica.co.uk/gadgets/2017/04/mega-bots-kuratas-battle-august/