mxey

> After doing some preliminary research I discovered that Go uses its own internal assembly language called Plan9.

Is the language actually called that?

> All failure, rebuild, and reindex cases will be reported by pg_upgrade if they affect your installation; post-upgrade scripts to rebuild tables and indexes will be generated automatically.

MySQL has only logical replication, there is no equivalent to PostgreSQL‘s WAL/physical replication.

I haven’t used Galera, but I am very happy with https://patroni.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ for Postgres.

I don’t see how this is homebrew‘s fault? Homebrew lets you install multiple versions of PostgreSQL at once, which you need for pg_upgrade, just like you can do with APT

brew install postgresql@17

\? shows the help

> The replication and high availability that mariadb offers is rock solid, and much more advanced than what postgresql has to offer. It works out of the box, no plugins or third party shenanigans needed, and there is "one obvious way" to do it.

Looking at https://mariadb.com/kb/en/standard-replication/, is the one obvious way binlog replication or Galera?

As someone who operates both I much prefer to run pg_upgrade every few years rather than dealing with mysqldump, replication issues and babysitting Orchestrator.

WordPress is licensed under GPL.

https://research.swtch.com/coro at the very end explains that channels are too slow.

Re mutexes: one of Rob Pike‘s Go Proverbs (https://go-proverbs.github.io/) was "channels orchestrate, mutexes serialize“. Both have their places.

I use my inbox in OmniFocus as a running log of things for later, but I like the idea of having a dedicated journal thing.

Would be good to have some examples of when you need it, given that PostgreSQL lets you do many migrations without downtime.

the validation you are asking for sounds like what CUE does.

If you say

a: 5

a: 3

That’s an error.

If you want the ability to "override", you have to write it like this, for example:

a: *5 | int

a: 3

This also works for struct/list members, so you can set defaults for all fields, and stuff like that.

https://cuelang.org/docs/about/

You might like https://htmx.org/extensions/path-deps/

Good point.

So the advantage of FreeBSD over Linux is that a feature that is broken can be disabled?

I feel like these articles always do a disservice by misrepresenting things about Linux. Just some parts I stumbled over:

> [about jails] They are also very easy to debug and troubleshoot comparing even to plain Docker – not to even mention Kubernetes which requires whole team of highly skilled people to maintain.

Yeah, of course, a single-node container tool is easier to run than a Kubernetes cluster.

> Can you tell my how many steps (and which ones are required) to rebuild CentOS or Ubuntu for example without Bluetooth support?

Why do I need to rebuild without Bluetooth support?

> When using systemd(1) you never know how the services gonna start because it will be different each time. Zero determinism.

systemd starts services in dependency order. The author makes it sound like systemd just randomly shuffles the services each boot for fun.

Yes, Docker on macOS can switch from qemu-user to this. It uses the same binfmt mechanism, so it should be mostly a drop-in replacement.

This is only available in combination with Virtualization.framework, but Docker is already migrating from Hypervisor.framework to Virtualization.framework.

This is probably the first time macOS includes a Linux binary, yes.

Outside of macOS, Apple has been providing Linux binaries of the Swift toolchain for years: https://www.swift.org/download/

It has to be on the level of the package manager, if you want to avoid package A interfering with package B

The cloud environment where the code runs might be ephemeral, but it would most likely have access to some not so ephemeral resources that should still be protected.

If one wants to go sandboxing, the right place for it would be in npm, where packages should not be able to modify anything but themselves.

A friend of mine made this: http://mxey.net/content/images/2013/Dec/Screen_20Shot_202013...

Dancer or Mojolicious are more like Sinatra or Flask, not like Rails or Django

In Python I miss a switch statement, anonymous functions longer than a single line, and an object system with the power of Moose. I don't think shared-by-default threading is a good idea, and Python's GIL makes it close to pointless.

I also miss a web framework like Django or Rails in Perl. I never liked Catalyst, but have not spent much time with it.

I cannot judge if the tooling is less obvious, but think the tools are better, especially in regard to testing. There is a virtualenv equivalent called local::lib, but I recommend the bundler equivalent called carton ;-)

I spend less time “working around language deficiencies, inadequate tooling and all the rest of it” in Perl than in, for example, Python.

CGI is not the way to go today. If you want to build web pages with Perl, check out http://mojolicio.us

max and min are part of List::Util, a library that comes with Perl

gmake 4.0 is GPLv3, it will never be added to OS X.

You do not, it once read “Windows has…”

You might want to check out the new pkgng system, if you still care.