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What pops out: The 5 most popular languages:

Most widely used language – JavaScript

The most widely used programming language is, unsurprisingly, the venerable web language JavaScript.

JavaScript has topped the list of the “most popular” programming languages in the Stack Overflow survey for the past seven years.

The language has grown beyond its roots as a simple scripting language for the web, and with the help of frameworks like React is today used to build graphical user interfaces for web and mobile apps, as well as to create server-side software running in a Node.js environment. It can even be found in software controlling IoT appliances thanks to the flow-based development tool Node-RED.

—https://www.techrepublic.com/article/the-most-loved-and-most-disliked-programming-languages-revealed-in-stack-overflow-survey/

Developers are:

Developers are a lot of things!

In case you forgot:

I was researching how to automatically backup my computers online… and was looking for info on how to backup directories using ftp when I got “schooled”.

1: I learned I can’t recursively ftp directories.

2: I learned that there’s a better way to do what I need.

Alrighty then! How sweet online education can be.

Started out today trying to figure out why my startup script wasn’t running on client’s digital signage display… and ended up overwriting my server sd-card because I have 2 raspberry pi’s and forgot midstream which one I was working on, doh!

Luckily I have a backup routine that the server runs everyday so I didn’t lose any data, just the config settings and wiki setup and ftp script.

After spending most of the day working on the script problem, the solution was very similar to what I had previous to the client sd-card failing… I think the problem may have been that I re-installed a noob version instead of the raspian version and the noob version wasn’t running lxde as a window manager. So at least I wrote down the session test in the project pi docs. And I put a piece of duct tape over the raspberry pi wiki server sd-card so it won’t be so easy to pull it out next time without realizing there’s a reason that piece of tape is there!

I was reading an article on rsync in order to save my webserver wiki files remotely because!–and I came across the sentence:

I automated my backups because – “automate everything.”
–from “Using rsync to back up your Linux system”

Delightful.