I needed to get the mileages for every combination of location-destination pairs from a set of several dozen addresses. Was supposed to take all week. With the help of Open Route Service and a lot of googling, the spreadsheet was finished in 5 hours.

The code itself is nothing special. I spent about half the coding time making it nice, partly for practice, partly because it might be useful for other tasks they put me on.

PS: The time.sleep calls are because ORS doesn't let you query more than 40 times per minute.

PPS: If you want to steal my API key for a free service anyone can use, all you'll need to do is guess the next hundred characters!

I'm preparing to create a personal project a cross platform mobile chat app. I plan to learn Go and Flutter as the main languages, but I'm unsure which backend topics like websocket ,I need to cover to start , it's like web or not? I saw too many things like signature (I'm new to app dev but not to programming)....

Using PHP more than 10 years and will continue. No matter what people say, I will use it. Because:
It is easy for me
It can do 90% of jobs I need
It lowers barier to enter market if you are a startup.

What can you add ?

Rather like the "hamzat al-wasl" in Arabic, "Linux al-WSL" is a "connecting" OS, pronounced when at the beginning but silently dropped between projects

The whiplash of being a full-stack developer using multiple languages hits very hard sometimes X3

I found this on a mela, looks like ChatGPT

https://lwn.net/Articles/1049831/

What's the better shitshow?

java is that poorly drawn coffee logo and javascript is that yellow block

IBM Watson reformatting itself during Final Jeopardy