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so, a friend has been trying to learn to program for the past year and a half or so, by doing coding puzzles. I've helped her a bit! when she wanted a bigger project, she started writing QR code generator entirely from scratch, in Rust, which is incredibly tricky. and look!! 😭
this is just an incredibly impressive feat to me, all things considered.
20 months ago she had no idea what a trait, or a generic type, or move/copy, or mutable reference, or lifetime, or were, and she definitely couldn't have written this then. it's so cool to watch someone you know learn a new skill!!!
(especially considering that there were long periods where she had to take a break from learning for various reasons)
oh no, i wrote <many other things> and it got parsed as html and rendered as if i didn't type that. haha
@hikari Yeah, I've been bitten by this – even though the content type is set to markdown, HTML seems to be interpreted anyway.
@jernej__s it's because Markdown supports inline HTML (very useful when you run up against its limitations)
@hikari That seems stupid (but explains why apparently HTML is shared between servers instead of Markdown). Extra stupid because (at least on infosec.exchange) I can just choose HTML content type…