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Scarbutt··on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
Also, systemd is still pretty sketchy. It takes over 2 minutes for systemd services to start and if you close a WSL 2 terminal for just a few minutes systemd will delay a new terminal from opening for quite some time. This basically means disabling systemd to use WSL 2 in your day to day.

That doesn't sound good. I was planning to set up a Windows/WSL2 box, but this gives me second thoughts. Where can I read more about this?

Scarbutt··on Microsoft won't support Office apps on Windows 10 after October 14th
That's great but office won't run on linux mint.
Scarbutt··on We switched from Next.js to Astro (and why it might interest you)
The issue with that approach to hydration is that it causes the browser to freeze.
Scarbutt··on Rewrite it in Rails
I couldn’t help but notice that he was working with two extremes, ruby and rust. A nice middle ground could have been nodejs with TS, with the advantage of using a single language throughout the project. While nodejs doesn’t have something like rails, its ecosystem is largely centered around building web applications.
Scarbutt··on GnuCash 5.9
Do you have any tips on where to start?
Scarbutt··on Don't use Vim for the wrong reasons (2020)
No sync issues, no freezes. Your code editor/tools/coding happens in a single computer.

VScode remote extensions are really good though, the best of any GUI editor. But that BLOB it installs on remotes can take a good chunk of scarce VM RAM.

Scarbutt··on Show HN: Shpool, a Lightweight Tmux Alternative
Besides persistence, terminal multiplexing is one of the greats things of tmux. If I'm programming on a remote machine I don't want to open a new ssh connection from each of the five terminals that I need. Seems tedious when I can just create a new window inside tmux. Even locally, I don't want to have 10 terminals opened (or tabs), tmux lets you have multiple terminal windows/panes from a single physical terminal and lets you easily group and switch between them into what they call sessions.
Scarbutt··on Apple unveils 'Passwords' manager app at WWDC 2024
Notes web version is pretty limited though, ex: can't attached images.
Scarbutt··on Neovim decision to use Lua is paying off
Can't please everybody. I don't use Helix but I'll take scheme over lua for this. ;)
Scarbutt··on Microsoft says new Surface Pro is faster than 15" M3 MacBook Air
But the browser wants all your RAM.
Scarbutt··on Using Postgres for Everything
Not to disagree, but if your company has around 300,000 LoC in business logic and your pet project has 1,000 LoC, the processing times are going to be significantly different.
Scarbutt··on C Style: My favorite C programming practices (2014)
I doubt that rule applies to pasting URLs in comments. It's about code.
Scarbutt··on Alternative clouds are booming as companies seek cheaper access to GPUs
The worst part is they ask for it after you have enter your credit card details. Maybe they have policies per geographic region for this.
Scarbutt··on Alternative clouds are booming as companies seek cheaper access to GPUs
Does OVH asks for passport verification too, like Hetzner?
Scarbutt··on I can't stand using VSCode so I wrote my own
IMO, the big is one good/smart programming language support, either out of the box or with a few clicks. If you know vim well, the vim plugin has serious limitations though. On windows/linux the reliance on home/end/pgup/pgdn/arrow-keys/del/mouse etc... is atrocious if you are used to vim so the vim plugin is still a life saver. The remote dev extensions also pretty good.
Scarbutt··on Bringing Exchange Support to Thunderbird
Is thunderbird search on par with gmail's search?
Scarbutt··on If Inheritance is so bad, why does everyone use it?
That was really helpful and cleared up some notions I had. Thanks
Scarbutt··on If Inheritance is so bad, why does everyone use it?
Do you have a CSS component framework that you can recommend for use with BEM?
Scarbutt··on Flyweight: A Node.js ORM Specifically for SQLite
Ah, I misunderstood you at first. I agree.
Scarbutt··on Flyweight: A Node.js ORM Specifically for SQLite
you write your SQL in javascript/typescript? That's a big fat ugly anti-pattern, IMO.

Any other solution sucks more.

Scarbutt··on KDE6 release: D-Bus and Polkit Galore
What do you use as alternatives to xdg-desktop-portal and its backends which require rtkit/polkit?
Scarbutt··on Wireproxy: WireGuard client that exposes itself as a HTTP/SOCKS5 proxy
Isn't this already easily achievable with ssh? with 'ssh -D[port] foo@somehost' ssh will act as a SOCKS server.
Scarbutt··on Show HN: Just Ship, a free and open source SvelteKit SaaS boilerplate
Does that torso thing allows querying all databases at once with one query?
Scarbutt··on Why Elixir Is the Best Language for Building a Bootstrapped, B2B SaaS in 2024
Doesn't matter much, really, as long as it's something with a big ecosystem.
Scarbutt··on Neovide – A simple, no-nonsense, cross-platform GUI for Neovim
FWIW, I settled on using both. Vim with a simple config and Jetbrains(with vim plugin) when I want all the bells and whistles. Using both equally for coding.

My simple config does include vim-commentary, vim-surround (both supported by jetbrains too) and fzf.vim.

Scarbutt··on Duplicity: Encrypted bandwidth-efficient backup
no encryption though
Scarbutt··on Why I love Tailwind CSS (2022)
Those are nice but superficial? the big one is avoiding cascading.
Scarbutt··on Obsidian 1.5 Desktop (Public)
Emacs org-mode.
Scarbutt··on Ask HN: What are your favorite tools?
What's aider?
Scarbutt··on JetBrains forces AI freemium plugin that cannot be completely removed into IDEs
Many plugins can't be completely removed but you can disabled them, was wrong with that?

I disabled this one and it hasn't nag me.

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