Update to my comment: I changed it up a little bit to remove that bit of code. You can optionally uncomment part of the code to re-enable it, in case the current implementation doesn’t work on windows

I was just following the naming convention as other string methods, like strlen, strcmp, strcat, (string length, string compare, and string concatenate, respectively), mine is string format, so I did strfmt!

My reasoning is simple: I had never heard of it.

But also, this is an incredibly simple program and a really good way to help me learn C. Additionally, it seems like tealdeer accepts ai generated submissions, though generally discourages it. I aim to make my project as free of ai as I possibly can.

For the first part: You’re probably right! I’m not sure of a safer way to do it though. This specific part is an artifact of the original method I used, which I don’t think would have worked on windows (according to some stack overflow post), but the current code might actually work fine, I just don’t have access to anything running windows and would rather not set up a VM.

Second: That’s highly disappointing! I think their policy is fairly well thought out, in a way that allows for accountability and auditability, so I might be okay with continuing to use it, I’ll have to think about it. If you know of an alternative I could use, I will happily take suggestions!

I intend on maintaining this for as long as I’m able to program

Update to my previous comment:

1: Fixed!

2: Yes, it seems like it is! According to the open-slopware repository curl does take ai submissions.

1: thanks! I’ll fix that soon.

2: this is according to the same friend I talked about, but it would be good to double check her knowledge

Ohh, not bad! If I feel like I need to change it, tlcr is probably the best option

yes! However, I found it very frustrating to use and it kept leading to ludicrous errors beyond my wildest dreams. So I made my own function that works better and easier.

Update to this, I actually just fixed that bug, and I went through the first section of the hardening guide. Changes are now pushed to main and I released v1.2.1

damn! I guess I should have looked it up before going with the name. I just liked the play on tldr, cldr.

Mostly just w3. Occasionally I had to look up some stuff for more “niche” use cases, but for the most part I just learned from w3.

I already have experience with programming in general, so the hardest part was learning the syntax, and strings… oh god strings are so bad in C, I had to make a new function called strfmt that works like printf but just for returning a formatted string.

Ah damn! That’s one of the things I had told myself I needed to make sure I checked, but I forgot! Thanks! I’ll look into this tomorrow. Like I said, I literally learned C over the last 3 days to make this, so I’m always happy to learn more!

Ohh! That’s a good point! Thanks! I just updated the README to provide an actual description.

Now that is very cool