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pikdum··on Oracle cut its Always Free ARM limits to 2 OCPU / 12GB, enforced Aug 18
Interesting, I definitely haven't received an email from Oracle about this yet. Guess I'll have to move this server somewhere else now though. Maybe OVH?
pikdum··on Ask HN: Did Fable disappear from your Claude usage and requires credits now?
Yep. I thought it was supposed to run through the 19th?
pikdum··on Rift: Better Alternative to Git Worktrees
Neat! Would a similar approach work with ZFS instead of btrfs?
pikdum··on Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps
I'd agree if this was more like a Freenet v3, but it's an entirely different project with completely different goals.
pikdum··on Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps
Yeah, I'm not a fan. Feels like this project is trying to get popular off of Freenet's name recognition rather than its own merits.
pikdum··on Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw
Does this mean I can't use `claude -p` in bash scripts now?
pikdum··on Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team
Only an anecdote, but I was working on a side project with another dev who wanted to use Tailwind Plus components. It wasn't immediately obvious whether this was allowed under his personal license or if we'd have to get a team license instead, though.

We decided to go with a FOSS component library instead to avoid any potential issues down the road. After re-reading the license page now, I'm still not sure.

pikdum··on Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg
I'm not a fan of GitHub Actions either, but is there actually anything better nowadays? I've just come to accept it as the best of bad options.
pikdum··on Automatic K8s pod placement to match external service zones
Wasn't aware that there was noticeably higher latency between availability zones in the same AWS region. Kinda thought the whole point was to run replicas of your application in multiple to achieve higher availability.
pikdum··on Cloudflare Email Service: private beta
Oh cool, somehow missed that. :)
pikdum··on Cloudflare Email Service: private beta
As someone not currently using Cloudflare Workers, I'm not sure I want to build a worker and figure out how to interface with it though my existing application just to send email. What happened to SMTP?
pikdum··on GCP Outage
Was just about to do a demo, but Google Meet was down. Tried to use Jitsi as a fallback, but couldn't log in because Firebase was down too. Ended up using a Slack Huddle, lol.
pikdum··on Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust
Looking forward to either being stable. I like the idea of Tauri, but I need it to work well on Linux too.
pikdum··on Writing A Job Runner (In Elixir) (Again) (10 years later)
My open source projects are generally more applications than libraries, yeah.
pikdum··on Writing A Job Runner (In Elixir) (Again) (10 years later)
It's more than just a few - even more basic things like rate limiting or concurrency controls are gated behind Pro. It works extremely well, but I've been reluctant to use it in open source projects because there's quite a bit in there I'd need to rebuild.
pikdum··on Ash Framework – Model your domain, derive the rest
I've been using Ash for a few side projects and recently started using it at the day job too. We're mostly using it for new functionality, with the Ash APIs alongside our existing ones, but planning on slowly moving older things over too. It's been working well so far, and it's been easy enough to use the escape hatches for anything weird we're doing.

Getting started was a bit tricky though - definitely recommend the Ash book there. It works a lot better than the documentation as an introduction.

pikdum··on Show HN: Hydra (YC W22) – Serverless Analytics on Postgres
I feel like my ideal would be something more hybrid. It's pretty rare that I have a table that I decide upfront should be columnar. It's a lot more common that I want occasional analytics-like queries on my regular tables to not take forever.
pikdum··on Bitwarden is turning 2FA on by default for new devices
This is how I use Bitwarden too, and it's the one thing I definitely don't want 2FA on.
pikdum··on Purelymail: Cheap, no-nonsense email
I've been using this for a while now just to have mailboxes for various domains. Works well, no complaints.
pikdum··on Building a World of Warcraft Server in Elixir: 2024 Update
Awesome! Contributors are definitely welcome, with just me this project will take an extremely long time to get to a polished state. For anybody interested in helping out, a Discord channel was set up to help coordinate.
pikdum··on Bitwarden is no longer free software
I never really looked into it, but I thought Bitwarden was completely free software based on their marketing. Looks like it's had some weird proprietary bits introduced around 2020, though?
pikdum··on Soft Deletes with Ecto and PostgreSQL
> What I haven't seen much of is a trigger-based system which moves the deleted record into an entirely new table.

I've used https://github.com/nearform/temporal_tables before for that, has been pretty solid. Still need to manually keep the schema in sync, though.

pikdum··on Building a World of Warcraft Server in Elixir
Thanks! It's been the most fun project I've worked on in a while now.
pikdum··on Jelly Star – The Smallest Android 13 Smartphone
If I ever needed a second phone for work, something like this would be nice.
pikdum··on Linkerd no longer shipping open source, stable releases
That message is from updating the linkerd CLI, so not quite that bad. My script updates the CLI and then the cluster, though, so if I hadn't interrupted then it would have.
pikdum··on Linkerd no longer shipping open source, stable releases
They're still shipping stable releases, but now under a restrictive license so they cannot be redistributed.

You can compile the current unstable development branch, but they'll be keeping the stable release branches secret.

pikdum··on Linkerd no longer shipping open source, stable releases
Just ran into this while trying to do some patching:

    *******************************************
    * This script is deprecated and no longer *
    * installs stable releases.               *
    *                                         *
    * The latest edge release has been        *
    * installed. In the future, please use    *
    *   run.linkerd.io/install-edge           *
    * for this behavior.                      *
    *                                         *
    * For stable releases, please see         *
    *  https://linkerd.io/releases/           *
    *******************************************
Bit frustrating, wasn't expecting to have to rework my scripts right now.
pikdum··on OpenWrt 23.05
This is one of my favorite features. Wasn't able to figure out how to set up my somewhat complicated guest + iot wifi vlan setup through the web interface, but it was pretty straightforward through the config files. And now I have it backed up in case I ever need to set it up again from scratch.
pikdum··on HyperUI: Free Open Source Tailwind CSS Components
Nice, I like that there isn't a plugin or anything else needed.

Will be useful as a reference when building some components later.

pikdum··on When “free forever” means “free for the next 4 months”
Probably not from my personal use, no.

But for company use, I'd rather pay for something I'm happy with using personally or have had good experiences with in the past, rather than rolling the dice on something unknown.

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