This weeks community of the week is programming horror! This is a community to share strange or terrible code you come across

Top Posts

• There has to be an easier way to do this
• The switch-case starts on line 83.
• my react frontend crashed with Segmentation faults

!programming_horror@programming.dev

This week we have advent of code as our community of the week! Advent of code is an annual event that happens every december with a programming challenge released every day. The website where its run is https://adventofcode.com/ . Feel free to discuss things about the event, ask questions about it, post your solutions, post memes relating to it, etc. in the community

Top Posts

• Advent of code is approaching!
• Let's just get this one out of the way...
• What programming language will you be using in the upcoming advent of code?

!advent_of_code@programming.dev

The federated community of the week this week is the xkcd community over on lemmy.world! xkcd is a webcomic that frequently has subject matter relating to math, programming, and science

Top Posts

• xkcd #1172: Workflow
• xkcd #2846: Daylight Saving Choice
• xkcd #743: Infrastructures

!xkcd@lemmy.world

Hey everyone! Will be trying to get communities of the week started up again with community of the week on wednesday, and federated community of the week on friday

This week we have the opensource community! This is a community where you can post anything relating to open source software. If you ever stumble upon a cool open source software, have an article to share relating to open source, have a question relating to open source, etc. feel free to post it there. Its currently one of the low-medium activity communities in the instance but has the potential to be a pretty active one

Top Posts

• DocuSeal - Open-source DocuSign alternative
• An open-source bandcamp alternative under developement
• OBS Studio 30.0 released(GPL2+ live streaming/recording software)

!opensource@programming.dev

Hey everyone! The community of the week this week is the science community in the mander.xyz instance!

Similar to how this instance is the instance for programming related topics, mander is the instance for science related topics. It has things like science memes, mychology, archaelogy, etc.

Feel free to check them out if youre interested! Ill likely be showing off some other topic specific instances in the future as well to give them more attention for people to use

!science@mander.xyz

Show-Off

The community of the week is show-off! This is a community for showcasing cool things you or other people made that you want to showcase to other people.

Feel free to join it and show off some cool things you made or are using with a link and explanation about them

Link to community: !showoff@programming.dev

RegEx

The community of the week is !regex@programming.dev! This is a community all about regular expressions where you can learn about and get help with them.

A regular expression is a sequence of characters that specifies a match pattern in text. Theyre usually used for find, or find and replace operations on strings, or for input validation.

If this community interests you feel free to subscribe to it from the community page !regex@programming.dev

And feel free to put some content there on regular expressions to get the community going. Its currently at 1 active user per month so lets see if we can bump that up

If anyone wants to be a mod for the community let me know!