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It is an excellent technical write-up and yet again another testimonial to the importance of keeping things simple.

For me, among other things, Thinking, Fast, and Slow cracked the implicit notion that my intuition is always right by demonstrating how easily it could go wrong.

RIP Daniel Kahneman.

haha! I did use regex to find and delete repetitive patterns of code with slight variation that would be carried out by the aforementioned function.

I wish I could write such a monstrosity though :)

I was giving myself RSI by deleting <12000 lines of copied comments (only misleading noise, explaining what was happening) and <4000 LOC (replaced with a 120 LOC in a single fn) when I reverted to using regex while sanitizing a badly bloated codebase.

Can feel you right there.

Not quite what you're looking for, but checkout bullshit.js[0].

[0]: https://mourner.github.io/bullshit.js/

> If you hadn’t previously noted the difference between a living and a dead butterfly, I’m afraid you will now begin to see dead butterflies EVERYWHERE, as I do.

I didn't know this (as most of us I'd guess). It was an interesting read though, thanks.

Z is part of my dotfiles. Everywhere I clone them, Z would be available immediately.

That's fantastic news.

OpenWRT-based cheap travel routers have been a life-saver for me during my trips, specially to countries behind Iron Curtain firewalls.

I'll buy at least one as soon as it comes out.

Interestingly one reason I use firefox is because of its builtin synching. My tabs, bookmarks, and passwords are synced. Extensions could also sync their preferences (not sure about data). I also heavily use their "send tab to device" feature, which allows me to send tabs to specific devices to act on them later.

In order to consume such algorithmus in any form, one should first know whether such algorithms exist at all. Moreover they should be able to figure out which one applies to their problem best.

I was on Influxdb 1.8 when they introduced 2.0 and flux. I'm glad I refused to switch since it's deprecated in 3.0.

Baresip is the single cleanest SIP client/library that I've ever found. And there aren't many.

Because I wanted to learn more about CGI. Below is the script, I'd appreciate pointing out any weaknesses in it.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mehdisadeghi/mehdix.ir/mas...

> But you did spend time learning unix, nginx, bash, CGI, SQLite, etc.

True, and it's been a rewarding decision ever since. For a corporate or a community Netlify or similar JAMstack content management systems might make sense, but for a indie developer? I don't think so.

I used to have my static website on Netlify. I was using their form submission API and webhooks to trigger AWS lambda functions to run some scripts and send emails to users upon replying their comments. The website would then be rebuilt using new comments.

I replaced all this crazy setup with vanilla tools. I moved my webpage (a bunch of html pages and other files) to my VPS. I modified nginx to submit incoming html form submissions to my CGI bash script which then in turn adds them to a sqlite database and emails me.

There is no automatic rebuild. I wrote makefiles to rebuild and publish my pages in a few seconds.

It turns out I didn't need anything else, and above all I didn't need to spend time learning someone else's APIs.

Firefox is my daily driver on all my computers and smartphones. There are some hiccups, often with obscure websites and airlines. Most of them better be avoided anyways. However, Slack and Microsoft Teams don't function properly in Firefox.

Slack added threads somewhere last year iirc.

The CVE[0] is still reserved and yet to be updated.

0: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-37450

I use DecSync in combination with Syncthing to achieve that.

It'd be in user's best interest but not corporation's best interest.

no GIL (Global Interpreter Lock)

Perhaps interesting, they also acquired rancher (makers of k3s).

I think the AI gold rush has just begun, and we are yet to see much more.

> The same is true of the time investment.

One person once told me "urgency has no price." i.e. time is priceless, as cliche as it looks like. For me in the long run, the cost of time I invest in the "consequence" of my decisions dwarfs all other costs.

Sentenced to nine years in prison when on parole for a previous eight year conviction, while having a child and a disabled sister to care for compared to fighting for wagner for six months to be free again.

Not defending their actions, but I can see how that offer works on most human minds.

It was a good reminder.

> People don’t walk around with anti-résumés telling you what they have not studied or experienced (it’s the job of their competitors to do that), but it would be nice if they did.

I can resonate with this one. Over the years I have learned that things a person NOT do, is more important compared to what they do.

Thanks for sharing.

I find "paying twice for things" a nice analogy. Over the years I have been unconciously paying more attention to the second price, and often ignore the first one (obviously I'm getting older and have less time to waste). "will this thing last long enough?", "will it break when I most need it?", and "is it worth my time?" are some questions I ask myself when purchasing or choosing something new. It has had a net positive outcome for me.

This was exactly my experience too. Their app is also optimized toward that end, ad-riddled, laggy, and privacy-invasive (the green online dot, bombarded my pi-hole with requests). Their web is the same, just pushing for the app and slow. I have not been on reddit on the past few days, and perhaps this is my chance to put my time into better use, including more HN again.

I received the announcement email today. I understand and appreciate them offering the email service for free for many years. It's a lot of work and I was always wondering how they manage to offer email hosting for free.

Aren't all those potential limitations, in fact their strengths? They are eating their own dogfood, which works for them. That sounds great to me.