> If you work in technology, you are part of this force, whether you like it or not.

Disappointing to see you downvoted. I agree with this partially, but only because I think it applies more broadly.

I work in tech (although not in Big Tech/Mag 7/FAANG/whatever they're called now), and I feel quite acutely that anyone in the field is culpable in part for the enabling the absolutely massive dump that the capital-adjacent class is taking on the world to have their power play fantasies play out.

To the extent that I've started apologising on behalf of the field/profession to non-technical folks when they complain about yet another dark pattern/"growth hack" designed to steal their attention and money.

"This person sent goodwill to one group of people so obviously wants other groups to die in a fire" is not really devil's advocate...

We're not using Github Actions, but CircleCI is also failing git operations on Github (it doesn't recognise our SSH keys).

It's so obvious from even just the vague screenshots that are hidden somewhere on the site that it's a VSCode fork, that I suppose I can see why they've tried to obfuscate that as much as possible.

He's done plenty (https://ukandeu.ac.uk/the-coming-collapse-in-immigration/), following on from the changes Sunak made, which are already showing up in the early numbers this year.

But of course it's never going to be enough for the noisily anti-immigration lot.

As someone who's been through that dance twice, it's 5 years from the time (well, day) you press "Submit" if you're applying online, or $RANDOM days of Royal Mail nonsense if you choose to apply by post.

I agree though, the Home Office doesn't have a way of knowing where you were fore sure 5 years ago unless they got someone to go through your "days in and out of the UK" list and vetted/cross-referenced it. And even then it'd likely be incomplete and they'd have to guess.

My surmise is that they look at the level of effort you've put in to filling out that detail, and if the total days in/out isn't particularly a borderline case, then they just wave that bit through.

CSV/Delimited file format management, for sure. (Reading, writing, choice of field/record delimiters, escaping, working with Excel's CSV quirks, etc.)

In a wider scope, I’ve always thought there is an entire area on data processing and manipulation that is missing in CS (and CI) curricula. Not just CSV files, but XML, JSON, maybe some HL7, Pivot Tables, today Excel dynamic array formula, SQL and some functional style processing like data structure LINQ. Plus tools for doing processing like RE, grep, sed, maybe even AWK.

Could someone please post what this disappeared bit is supposed to look like? Looks legible to me when I screenshot and open in Preview on MacOS 15.6.1 (Firefox).

You are probably browsing with zoom, that seems to screw up the up rendering and makes the background and text look different. It should be just black&white random pixel noise for both background and foreground, without motion the text becomes invisible, as it blends with the background.

Totally OT, but thanks so much for DataTables! I used it for a tiny personal project a few years back and it's been quietly chugging away with barely any maintenance required. It was so easy to get up and running with the documentation, implement and customise to my heart's content -- truly an excellent piece of open source!

That's awesome to hear - thank you :-).

Funnily enough, the blog post itself has a counterexample in their singular noun example: the table^Wrelation name is `user` which is highlighted by the syntax highlighter as being a keyword. I'd wager the same thing would happen for a table named, say, `transaction`.

Some DB engines won't let you use a keyword as identifiers for anything unless it's quoted, and then you either have to quote everything, or end up in a weird situation where some things are quoted and some aren't.