Tag: programming

Sometimes I’m astounded at what people expect Tumblr’s algorithms to be able to do for them.

Tumblr is going to recommend blogs related to key words you interact with whether you like it or not.

Tumblr’s tag following algorithm is going to show you posts with that tag or keyword. It’s not necessarily going to be related to what you want to see, and you can’t expect it.

Come on, guys. I get that it’s more than a little annoying sometimes, but it’s an A L G O R I T H M, not posts or blogs personally curated just for you by a human person.

what people think coding is: type some stuff, the stuff does other stuff, you go to the next thing
what it actually is: i was trying to make a box expand and collapse for nearly and hour and it turns out i’d forgotten to type 1 (one) symbol and now im crying at midnight clicking a box over and over again because it finally works

This isn’t exactly hard knowledge to acquire but I think it’s really cool that “bugs” and “patching” in programming came from LITERAL bugs and patches. Actual bugs in computers, actual tape patches on punch paper tape.

That last “things programmers shout” that showed up on my blog because of queues.. more like this doesn’t work completely let’s just hope nobody notices because I don’t have a damn clue what’s wrong