‘Tis the seasonto not visit websites

Here’s an interesting tidbit from the life of a web developer.

Jy sou dink dat mense sal gaan op die internet met daardie blink nuwe selfoon / tablet / broodrooster hulle het vir die vakansie seisoen.

Blykbaar, niemand doen wat. Hier is 'n blik op my jongste treffers (nie die band tipe, Ek bedoel die aantal besoekers aan hathix.com):

hathix visitors graph
As die feestelike gees styg, besoeke aan webwerwe gaan sit.

Van wat ek gesien het, Dit blyk die geval te wees met pretty much elke webwerf en app: besoeke of downloads skerp afname gedurende die vakansie seisoen. Vir wat dit werd is, things return right back to normal once the new year begins.

Why it’s awesome being a developer

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Blykbaar, these are a bunch of computer programmers.

Ninjas.

That’s what computer programmers are calling themselves nowadays. The profession (if you can even call it that) goes by a litany of none-too-glamorous names, such as developer, programmer, engineer, technician, and more stuff that doesn’t quite make you the most popular guy in the room. Hence, a lot of, er, programmers (for lack of a better word) go by ninja or such. Which I find slightly annoyingyou’re writing code, not killing enemies of the emperor. But I digress.

'N Bietjie radikale voorstel vir skole

Ek het al dikwels die vraag gevra “As jy die koning van die wêreld kan wees vir 'n dag, wat sou jy doen?” Eerste van alles, Ek wil myself koning permanent, maar dit is nie die punt. Hier is my effens radikale voorstel wat die tweede ding wat ek wil doen as ek koning vir 'n dag was nie.

Ek is deel van 'n klub wat neem uit die herwinning in ons skool in die oggend. Laat ek jou vertel, ons versamel 'n baie papier: As ek versamel die vraestel van miskien 15 kamers wat nie het hulle papier wat ingesamel is in 'n paar dae, Ek kan vul 'n hele asblik. Nie die klein vuilnisemmer jy in jou huis, Ek bedoel mense so groot soos faktotums gebruik. Dit is 'n baie.

Yet another rant about Bcc:s

I just got an email addressed to no less than 78 mense, and all 78 people’s email addresses were in the To field. You’d think the sender would put all our emails in the Bcc field since, goed, the recipients don’t really need to know the emails of the other 77 people who got the email. (In its defense, putting all the emails in the To field makes stalking easier, but isn’t that what Facebook’s for?)

I can understand why Cc isn’t that popular: it does the same thing as To, except it carries a different semantic meaning. Most teenagers (and a bunch of adults too) couldn’t care less about the fancy schmancy semantic meaning, so they just use To.