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heavensteethon A modest critique of Htmx

I cannot express the pleasure I felt seeing prices in my local currency automatically, without the Shopify "Zoinks! Looks like you're on our American store, would you like to change to our Polish store?" modal I've come to know and hate. Thanks.

heavensteethon Tengine: Open-source web server, originated by Taobao, based on Nginx

I tried messing with Caddy a little while ago and this was my experience.

I'm sure being able to configure it in a million different languages conveniences someone, but [un]official docs documenting things in a format I don't use, and having to figure out what the option is in the format I do use, was immediately annoying.

heavensteethon NixOS is a good server OS, except when it isn't

Good stuff! From the title I thought this would be about sysadmin woes, but this is interesting too :)

Another little addendum: you can trivially create bootable custom NixOS installer images with whatever configuration you want pre-applied[0].

[0] https://nix.dev/tutorials/nixos/building-bootable-iso-image

heavensteethon A few secure, random bytes without `pgcrypto`

> I’m broadly against the use of Postgres extensions because they make upgrades harder and projects less portable [1],

I can't find that footnote anywhere

heavensteethon Should Sports Betting Be Banned?

Drugs are in fact banned for the public good (ostensibly).

And why aren't gambling advertisements "part of a free society"?

I'm all for being skeptical of the government and its (ab)use of power, but I must admit I struggle to find a good excuse to not ban gambling past "people should be allowed to ruin their own lives".

heavensteethon Show HN: Velvet – Store OpenAI requests in your own DB

So they can charge you for it.

heavensteethon There are 665 open licences, most are pretty rubbish

> Well, although SPDX counts 665 licences, there really just 3 main kinds:

> 1. licences with no restrictions (like MIT)

> 2. licences that require you credit the original author ("attribution" licences, including the Apache Licence)

> 3. licences that require you credit the original author and that derivative works have the same licence ("copyleft"/"share-alike" licences like the GPL)

MIT requires attribution, doesn't it? MIT (permissive) / MPL (non-viral copyleft) / AGPL (viral copyleft) seems like a better grouping to me; I rarely find myself reaching for any other licenses.

I do wish there were a shorter copyleft license though. I appreciate how transparent and readable MIT is.

heavensteethon Why wordfreq will not be updated

The earth will recover. We may not, but earth will.