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shame I had not heard of this till today.

Aperture was the best. I miss it.

- https://www.datacouncil.ai/bay-2025

- https://www.databricks.com/dataaisummit

For now: Give Jujutsu (https://jj-vcs.github.io/jj/latest/) a try, it's good whilst maintaining a level of compatibility with git which is good for gradual adoption and uptake.

Avoid: Pijul. I doubt it will succeed in getting wide adoption. Some of the reasons already covered by others comments in this thread so don't want to repeat.

Wish: I really wish darcs was rebooted and made a comeback. What can we do to make it happen? I heard a version 3 is a work in progress. I am also aware of this new initiative (GitHub equivalent but for darcs): https://smeder.ee

What topics are you interested in?

For Postgres take a look at this:

https://www.crunchydata.com/developers/tutorials

I was wondering same .... found this:

https://docs.fxtwitter.com/en/latest/index.html#

My understanding is the volunteers do make some money helping via services like this:

https://www.directly.com

(looks like they got acquired and had some big companies using them so google using something similar I imagine: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/css-corp-acquires-s...)

Based on the fact that your ideal is to have a similar experience to heroku than managing your own server setting up reverse proxies take a look at these options:

1) https://dokku.com - lets you turn your light sail instance basically into heroku

2) https://render.com

3) https://fly.io

4) If you have aws credits this is their heroku equivalent: https://aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk

above is not what I do but would be the options I would pursue if I understand your preference and requirement correctly.

I think the alternatives to consider would be:

- https://www.purescript.org/

- https://reasonml.github.io/en/

Or like others have suggested typescript and the usual libs and frameworks

Hi All, So I created a simple scala news site for the community:

https://www.scalanews.net/index.html

I want all of us to blog more and have our blogs discovered so I added a blog directory page with links to bloggers rss feed lets bring back the googlereader days :

https://www.scalanews.net/Resources/Blog_Directory.html

I need everyones help though! For this to be a useful resource I need everyone to add their blog to the directory and if you come across any interesting news to add it to the next edition! PRs are welcome:

https://github.com/softinio/scalanews

Thanks!

here are some for you to consider:

https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo

https://github.com/plausible/analytics

https://github.com/arp242/goatcounter

All 3 of them open source and you can host yourself. If you don't want to self host all 3 have options for you.

I am currently self hosting Matomo and am happy with it.

Fun timing for you to ask as just running a poll to see what others are using:

https://fosstodon.org/@softinio/109689221718875173

Great to see this happen! Should have been done a long time ago.

I am starting my kids off with Python personally.

I don't know if best, but I know it well and with the repl and existence of notebooks like Jupiter (https://realpython.com/jupyter-notebook-introduction/) it gives me the tools to get started and teach quickly.

Interested to see what resources others share as I not using any right now just my own knowledge of python. I did have kids learn scratch using a book as a prequel.

I did come across this book but still have not decided if I will use it:

https://nostarch.com/pythonforkids

Thanks for heads up on blog had missed that. Great!

I am curious to know more about what lead to D lang being chosen for this project?

pretty aweful, this: https://thenewstack.io/this-week-in-programming-the-elastics...

I am really impressed with swift. I think its good to have both in your toolbelt if you have the time for it.

I am excited to take a look at this especially as it doesn't seem to be an electron app which I try to avoid.

Great to see Matrix progress. Big fan of Matrix me for sure.

Personal opinion as a frequent conference attendee, I do not like pre-recorded talks.

I see why they are doing it, but I think its at the expense of conference experience.

There will be less motivation to be there to watch when you can view online later.

I was hoping to find a list of alternatives that are serious contenders as part of this thread.

What alternatives are people using?

fair point indeed.

comparing it to my macbook (us layout), Ctrl is in the right place, it just that the function key that should be to its left is not there and is on the other side of the space bar which I prefer.

Fun fact: As well as caps lock, it has a function key lock without having to touch anything in macos preferences.

perhaps: https://www.linode.com/products/kubernetes/

I have noticed more companies adopting Amazon Linux when a few years back they would have used CentOS. I wonder how much this affected the decision.

Wish we would see more adoption of Freebsd and NixOS in the future.

For now I like my Debian :-)

I am just curious to know if any effort has been made to find out who was behind the attacks? at least more information about it?

Not that it matters, but there is an established web framework called play fyi: https://www.playframework.com

Haven't tried myself, but a friend of mine was talking up Amazon's offering. Apparently one of the big benefits is that they store your photos 100% raw as you took them so no reduction in quality to save space. Apparently with your prime membership you get unlimited storage of full resolution included ie free. Guess Caveat for this option is having a prime membership with Amazon.

Thanks for sharing! Good to know. Had not looked at their offering before.