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coolgoose

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A jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one.
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coolgoose··on Don't Be Frupid
People tend to forget that even in smaller companies 15 usd / month isn't that simple.

You need to approve the vendor, check if there no minimum amount of seats, then figure out that even for a simple sso they have a different plan which is 50 usd / month

And with laptops, I get the point to some extent, nobody says buy an engineer a 2 core 8gb ram machine, but try speccing up a Mac and see how deep the apple tax is on ram and storage, especially if you're non US.

I would propose, as always, things are about context and compromises.

coolgoose··on Okta Bcrypt incident lessons for designing better APIs
Thank you
coolgoose··on Okta Bcrypt incident lessons for designing better APIs
But why not bcrypt the password, but sha the cache key on top?
coolgoose··on Okta Bcrypt incident lessons for designing better APIs
I am curious why bcrypt was used for hashing in the first place and not something like sha-512

Is there a reason I might be missing?

coolgoose··on Gemini 2.0 is now available to everyone
Plus one on this it's so stupid, but also mandatory in a way. Sigh
coolgoose··on Forgejo: A self-hosted lightweight software forge
This is such an interesting thing of generational difference, since I remember sourceforge fondly before the crazy era of so many ads.
coolgoose··on Printf debugging is ok
I usually call this ddd, debug driven development, or in case of php die() driven development :)
coolgoose··on iTerm2 critical security release
Looking at the replies here, I am not even sure how to react, it seems this community overall is going into a sad direction that just blames instead of trying to think of solutions.

Most of them are just entitled and aggressive for absolutely no reason.

It's perfectly fine to want to switch, or try something else, but to think other projects couldn't have issues is just naive to say it gently.

coolgoose··on Egui – An immediate mode GUI written in Rust
Am I the only one that has a problem with all non dom/html renderers that I can't copy the text on mobile? The same with flutter etc, it's such a regression in my eyes but nobody prioritizes it.
coolgoose··on Clay – UI Layout Library
I swear to god, I thought this is AI generated response.
coolgoose··on Vultr Raises $333M at $3.5B Valuation
That aged well :P
coolgoose··on A common urban intersection in the Netherlands (2018)
I never understood why people have a tough time understanding the lovely shark teeth signs.

It's literally a painted give way sign.

coolgoose··on We Built a Self-Healing System to Survive a Concurrency Bug at Netflix
One of the things I am greatful for kubernetes and the killing of pods.

Had a similar problem but memory wise with a pesky memory leak, and the short term solution was to do nothing as instances would to do nothing.

coolgoose··on The ACF plugin on the WordPress directory has been taken over by WordPress.org
This is definitely going a bit too crazy.

I sympathized with Wordpress a lot in the initial drama, but this is going downhill fast.

Blocking somebody's access to the plugin repository, not accepting their patches, and then 'releasing' your own 'secure' version is just abuse, period.

coolgoose··on Linux from Scratch
Same here, the amount of times I did gentoo stages from knopix live cd's is too much.
coolgoose··on I Like Makefiles
Wsl2 :)
coolgoose··on Zed Editor automatically downloads binaries and NPM packages without consent
I don't get why having a modal for each tool asking for consent is too hard.
coolgoose··on Writing GUI apps for Windows is painful
They are available
coolgoose··on FUTO Keyboard
I really miss a good t9 keyboard.
coolgoose··on OpenLoco: Modern, open source version of the classic transport simulation game
It's a different base game for each project, so not sure I get the question :)
coolgoose··on Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment?
I think it's a bit more nuanced.

One complains about enterprise level architecture in run of the mill small projects.

One complains about bugs, which should just be covered by tests, nothing that should sound or be complicated.

coolgoose··on Things you wish you didn't need to know about S3
A lot of them are interesting points, but I am not sure I agree with the complaint the file system is case sensitive.

That's how it should be and I am annoyed at macos for not having it.

coolgoose··on GitHub Copilot Workspace: Technical Preview
Because the problem is not necessarily coding.

90% of the market is just doing CRUDS, and every year there's a new magical website that will make all websites be built by a WYSIWYG drag and drop editor.

The problem is even defining the correct requirements from the start and iterating them.

My concern is not the death of the market, but more of the amount of not good but workable code that's going to make juniors learning path a lot harder.

As others said, I do think this will help productivity by removing the let's please update the readme, changelog, architecture diagram etc etc part of the codebase, and maybe in some cases actually remove the need to generate boilerplate code all together (why bother when it can be generate on the fly when needed for eg).

coolgoose··on We Have to Start Over: From Atom to Zed
One thing I don't get, and I hope I didn't miss an obvious comment, is that for all the complains about elektron and js being slow, vscode was and still is faster than atom.
coolgoose··on Aho – a Git implementation in Awk
Somebody's sarcasm meter is off :-)
coolgoose··on Delivering Copilot for Everyone
I did have one cute moment regarding the copilot integration.

I downloaded a menu of a restaurant in Dutch, and it could translate it and explain what those dishes are and what was most likely to be similar to chicken nuggets.

coolgoose··on Kando: The Cross-Platform Pie Menu
Long press?
coolgoose··on Only 90s Web Developers Remember This (2014)
No mention of the hacks for transparent pngs :P
coolgoose··on Go: What we got right, what we got wrong
The nil handling (or the lack of) in go is right now my biggest annoyance with the language :)
coolgoose··on Fewer people are buying electric cars in the US
I guess I am in the minority looking at all the comments here, but I only use my car 1-2 times per week, and that means 350km+ usually on a trip (there and back, and no not even NL has charging stations everywhere).

A car with constant 400km+ range, in colder weather at 100km/h highway speed is still no way cheap enough to be worth it.

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