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There should be a competition of yak shaving.

I've writing a Rust based canvas engine, with content via my own IDE, the runtime is fed data via WebSocket using my own API protocol, web proxy routing through a streaming and distributed load balancer using a new protocol, landing on my back-end platform running my own language, writing deltas to my own data store. https://www.adama-platform.com/

Why? For board game glory!

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It's not quite yak shaving, but it certainly is... something:

> I mean, we are running Access in Wine in X11 on Linux in an isolated user account on our server slice that revision controls your Access database in git, and we're displaying it using VNC in your web browser in flash. People can't possibly want that. But they need it.

https://apenwarr.ca/log/20120326

(Not mine, but seems relevant)

Wow. That's amazing. Any other stories you know like that one?

That’s the total opposite of yak shaving, but in the most hilarious way. Layers upon layers of systems and protocols to maintain legacy systems… lazily use a bunch of glue and duck tape to build the whole thing… and it miraculously works!

That's such a good article! The pain, suffering and mind-numbing boredom of SUCCESS ...

I find it somewhat disturbing that this felt like a reasonable approach to me...

I always wonder why the Access database isn't moved then from JET to some database server, even MSSQL (Postgres would also work), and then you can continue Access but without needing to snapshot it in weird and possibly broken ways?

I'm working on breeding hairier yaks, so you don't need as many to shave.

Last year I set out to work some machine learning train+eval loops for my team, but ended up writing a config language. Oops.

Holy Moly, this is Board Game Erlang!

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