The Daily WTF

MAY 19, 2024

Good method names are one of the primary ways to write self-documenting code. The challenge there, is that documentation often becomes out of date. Take this delectable PHP nugget, from Nathaniel P , who has previously been tortured by bad date handling. function deleteTenDays ( ) { //This delects everything from the table minus 3 days $thedel = $this ->db-> query ( 'Delete FROM ClientReportsRelationship where DateEntered db->query('Delete FROM ClientReportsRelationship where Cu

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Crafty CTO

MAY 19, 2024

Since last week’s Spring Update event from OpenAI, I’ve been wanting to test the new Omni model (GPT-4o) in my Vision-based recipe ingestor project. This Python script processes a directory of recipe images, and using GPT-4’s Vision capabilities, as well as JSON Mode, produces a structured JSON recipe that I can post directly to my Paprika Recipes app.

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James Shore

MAY 19, 2024

I’m talking about “Testing Without Mocks” at the Craft Conference in Budapest, Hungary on May 30th and 31st: Automated tests are important. Without them, programmers waste a huge amount of time manually checking and fixing their code. Unfortunately, many automated test suites also waste a huge amount of time. They’re slow, fail randomly, and make refactoring difficult.

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