The box to enter my current password is permanently disabled.

I have to second this. It's quite irritating to be logged out periodically and have to click through to log back in, although I guess that cloudfare protection probably contributes to the issue.

And I couldn't be happier about it.

The post was titled "codeproject.com is no more =("

and it was removed as outdated.

the internet rejoices

@Sander-Rossel You got this in my head "Sycophants is on the prowl so I don't need to do laundry
I'll dry myself with paper towels"

It's from a song called Syrup by Aesop Rock, and it's basically about agoraphobia.

Caching is always great to deal with when it comes to debugging. Always so helpful it is, serving out valid, stale requests that don't reflect what is actually happening on the ground.

@Sander-Rossel I've got whole new coding horrors for you. like my extension method .ToLazyList() that works off an IEnumerable<T> and is every bit as horrible as it appears. XD

all of the reputation points transfers are being delayed due to the migration layer being entirely implemented as excel sheet macros. =)

She sleeps like she pays rent.

When she's not sleeping, she's doing her level best to be on the ceiling, whether it's hitching a ride on my shoulders to get to the top of the refrigerator or whatever. Or meowing at me incessantly about being on the ground, as though I'm supposed to somehow fix that.

It's almost tragic because she's so small, and yet wants to be so big.

Sometimes I pick her up and hold her up to the ceiling so she can paw at it. At first I thought maybe she'd realize there's nothing up there and lose interest. No such luck. It just makes her want up there more.

We'll be installing "cat shelves" in the bedroom in short order. Spoiled thing.

And then there's my coffee. Every time I pour a cup she's all over me to see what's in there. Every time, same old coffee - black. She doesn't need any. Terrorist. Murder muffin.

@Sander-Rossel It's good to finally hear from you, especially since you've been scolding me in my head about my code off and on in absentia since codeproject went dark. XD

@pkfox Good to see you!

I don't trust ChatGPT's model, but then the last one i tried was 4. Everyone I talked to about it said try Claude Sonnet 4 so I did, and in some ways it really impressed me. Of course immediately after it would do something pants-on-head stupid. XD

I've been buried in some research on finite automata, nerding out on some techniques for converting lazy expressions into deterministic greedy expressions over the past couple of weeks.

In that time I've developed an elaborate R&D framework to both explore finite automata theory, and test hypotheses around it pretty easily, primarily using tools like LINQ.

It's fun stuff, and I'm excited about it, or was. Then it got hot. It's getting into the late summer sweaty unproductive time before fall kicks in, and I've never liked this time of year.

It's the old gym socks of weather. It's hard to be excited about anything when it's so nasty and muggy out.

Creativity for me, is kind of delicate. I need a proper environment for it to really manifest. This isn't it. Now I'm bored, and it's not because I don't have anything to do.

The machine is not a liar, it's a bullshitter. The intent is different, but the result is often the same.
There's a notes section anthropic has which it will use to seed all your prompts i guess. Mine says "the right question is more important than the right answer. don't be afraid to say I don't know. "
Not sure how effective it is in practice.

It's not great at imperative development, but it's a set monster. Give it a functional problem vs an imperative one, and it will absolutely go to town on it.

I used it for research, because I don't have a math background, and I was exploring some new frontiers in Chomsky type 3 discrete deterministic finite automata, a subject I know a lot about fundamentally, but I am taxed when it comes to expanding the algorithms, because my grasp of them isn't always complete, especially in the extents, and the math fails me. Well. Claude was able to explore some techniques with me from "The Dragon Book" (not its actual title but if you know what this is you know what this is) and implement them with little to no guidance from me, which allowed me to learn the things I didn't understand, and come to a whole new class of understandings about the way FSMs work, which furthered my research goals.

It's not a substitute for knowledge. You have to know enough about the subject to know if it's bullshitting you. Claude would have led me down counterproductive rabbit holes a lot more often than it did if I wasn't vigilant and aware enough of the subject matter to say "hey, wait a minute! what's that about?!" Even with knowledge i ended up being glad i saved work in progress copies of my code before making major changes it suggested.

And unit test unit test unit test. The thing doesn't like handling edge cases. So you better test for them especially. Also, I've tried getting it to write unit tests for me and in the end it's questionable whether that saved me any time. It wrote a bunch of bad tests, and i had to review all of them anyway.

I was able to change my account settings but it was awkward. it yelled at me for not preshrinking my image before uploading. I guess it gives MS paint justification for existing in 2025, but i kind of expect sites to do that on my behalf these days. 256KB upload requirement means anything coming from a real world source has to be precropped.

That's not a showstopper, but when I tried to upload anyway - breaking the validation, it cleared my ENTIRE FORM. That's no bueno. I had to enter my bday and all that again because i had to cancel the image upload.

Your form validation is either fragile or relying on some outdated tech, or both. Sorry, I hate to be that person. Just grateful to be here ultimately, but I felt that this issue should be made known.

woot!