#tabsvsspaces — Public Fediverse posts
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🎉 Wow, someone finally cracked the code on how to turn mindlessly scrolling through Hacker News comments into a career! 🤯 Just what the world needs: a dissertation-length analysis of tech bros arguing over tabs vs. spaces. 📜💻
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/21/profiling-hacker-news-users/ #HackerNews #Career #TechBros #CodeAnalysis #TabsVsSpaces #Dissertation #HackerNews #ngated -
🎉 Wow, someone finally cracked the code on how to turn mindlessly scrolling through Hacker News comments into a career! 🤯 Just what the world needs: a dissertation-length analysis of tech bros arguing over tabs vs. spaces. 📜💻
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/21/profiling-hacker-news-users/ #HackerNews #Career #TechBros #CodeAnalysis #TabsVsSpaces #Dissertation #HackerNews #ngated -
🎉 Wow, someone finally cracked the code on how to turn mindlessly scrolling through Hacker News comments into a career! 🤯 Just what the world needs: a dissertation-length analysis of tech bros arguing over tabs vs. spaces. 📜💻
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/21/profiling-hacker-news-users/ #HackerNews #Career #TechBros #CodeAnalysis #TabsVsSpaces #Dissertation #HackerNews #ngated -
🎉 Wow, someone finally cracked the code on how to turn mindlessly scrolling through Hacker News comments into a career! 🤯 Just what the world needs: a dissertation-length analysis of tech bros arguing over tabs vs. spaces. 📜💻
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/21/profiling-hacker-news-users/ #HackerNews #Career #TechBros #CodeAnalysis #TabsVsSpaces #Dissertation #HackerNews #ngated -
🎉 Wow, someone finally cracked the code on how to turn mindlessly scrolling through Hacker News comments into a career! 🤯 Just what the world needs: a dissertation-length analysis of tech bros arguing over tabs vs. spaces. 📜💻
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/21/profiling-hacker-news-users/ #HackerNews #Career #TechBros #CodeAnalysis #TabsVsSpaces #Dissertation #HackerNews #ngated -
So... we could use tabs for indenting code..
But what if the IDE just recognized if a file is indented with 2, 3, 4 or 8 spaces, and then treats any such number of spaces as a tab when displaying the code? Wouldn't that be way easier?
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Wow, that was quite a battle.
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Oh Haskell, not you too...
#TabsVsSpaces #haskell -
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This is what I imagine people's code looks like when they complain about the forced indentation in #python.
And yes, this code is correct.
#programming #c #formatting #indentation #tabsvsspaces #whitespace #developers #developerexperience #debugging #fail #goodluck
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Reading about how tabs for indentation are an accessibility issue for some suddenly makes me feel like I should switch to tabs in all my projects.
Are there any accessibility concerns that would actually point to using spaces instead of tabs? Or is it just familiarity? Assuming you work with a code style where you don't need to align things to columns that don't divide nicely to tab levels.
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i hate having to read code on github with an 8 space tab width, afaik i can't view code using a custom width
i especially hate people who use spaces to indent their code
fuck all of you
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It's impossible for a computer nerd to hear "TABs" without thinking about the age-old conflict about tabs vs spaces for indentation of program text.
In the disability context #TabsVsSpaces could be about how people without disabilities go and design bad spaces that work only for them.
Just to confuse things. 😅
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My latest blog post looks at my code formatting styles. Give it a read and tell me your thoughts!
https://vale.rocks/posts/my-code-formatting-guidelines
#Blog #Blogging #TabsVsSpaces #Formatting #FrontendDev #Frontend #FrontendDevelopment #WebDev #WebDevelopment
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Gut, dass moderne Medien auch noch über die wichtigen Dinge in der #Linux-Welt berichten, und nicht nur über Sachen, die viele Klicks erzeugen! 🙃 🥴 😆
https://www.golem.de/news/linux-kernel-linus-torvalds-sagt-ja-zu-tabs-2404-184308.html
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«#Torvalds really doesn’t like spaces – as in, #tabs vs. #spaces – and got a little annoyed that a commit removed a hidden tab because it “apparently showed breakage in some third-party #kernel config parsing tool”. So, Torvalds decided to add some hidden tabs to trigger breakages like this, and is threatening to add more hidden tabs if necessary.»
#TabsVsSpaces ist annähernd so religiös wie die #ViVsEmacs Diskussion — die zwei Grunddiskussionen der #Hacker.
https://www.osnews.com/story/139334/linus-torvalds-really-prefers-tabs/
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Really not happy with tools like `npm init` creating a package.json file that's indented using spaces instead of tabs. It contributes to new devs thinking that tabs are an acceptable way to indent things.
In a codebase that multiple people will be working on, this is not true.
Tabs. Not spaces. Tabs are the way.
(Yes, I'm going to keep banging this drum until the #webdev and #software #development worlds catch up.) #coding #SoftwareDevelopment #WebDevelopment #TabsVsSpaces #TabsNotSpaces
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Reminder: If you're using spaces instead of tabs in your code, you're enforcing your personal preference in indentation spacing on everyone else.
That's unkind. Don't do that.
#coding #development #programming #BestPractices #TabsVsSpaces #UseTabs
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The only sane way to do indentation and alignment of programming code:
tabs for indentation,
spaces for alignment.This is called smart tabs: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SmartTabs
:boost_requested: Spread the word.
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The only sane way to do indentation and alignment of programming code:
tabs for indentation,
spaces for alignment.This is called smart tabs: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SmartTabs
:boost_requested: Spread the word.
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If you’ve ever pasted a code-block-abomination of mixed spaces and tabs, then you’ll be happy to know that #JetBrainsRider has actions to convert all tabs to spaces, and all spaces to tabs. #tabsVsSpaces #coding
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Tabs vs Spaces Divorce: Judge Rules
https://dev.to/justlig/tabs-vs-spaces-divorce-judge-rules-3jan
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Multiple spaces
VS
A single tab character whose width you can adjust in your editor of choice to be the length you want
Will people plz explain why?
Like I’m legitimately confused why spaces seems to be the default for most people. Surely there’s a reason?
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CW: Tabs vs Spaces, Accessibility
Just a reminder that tabs are far better for accessibility (#a11y) than spaces.
Not only do they allow people to adjust the indent size to improve readibility, but they are far more compatible with screenreaders and refreshable braille displays.
Modern #coding tools really make all of the other, more trivial differences pretty much moot. So please consider using tabs to ensure that everyone can read and contribute to your project!
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@sohkamyung you'd think that debate ended after we stopped using typewriters...
But, that of course reminds me of #TabsVsSpaces. -
Learn to embrace the command line.
@Cinnamon_MSFT shows you how in this episode of #TabsVsSpaces:
https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Tabs-vs-Spaces/Windows-Terminal-the-secret-to-command-line-happiness -
@aeris Non, XSLT n'ajoute pas de \t, c'est qu'ils étaient dans le source. #tabsVsSpaces
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@holger If Black would at least indent by tabs! And yes, I know PEP8 says spaces. But, indenting by spaces is just plain wrong!
