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Looks great! Curious what the author and others use for local maildir email reading.

A bit of an alternative take on this, but I talk to a lot of folks at small start-ups (in Toronto, if that matters), but it seems like most people actually get this right and understand not to bring in complexity until later. Things like microservices seems like they are mostly understood as a tool that's not really meant to solve a real scalibility problem and is massive liability early on.

The exceptions are usually just inexperienced people at the helm. My feeling is, hire someone with adequate experience and this is likely not an issue.

I do think architecture astronauts tend to talk a lot more about their houses of cards, which makes it seem like these set ups are more popular than they are.

Also been doing vim and now neovim for 20+ years. LSP just broke and several keybinds alongside it and just not looking forward to figuring out what happened (but will anyway). It's a huge mental block for me whenever I need to get into configuration. So to me this feels very relatable.

I think the general issue with software engineering discourse is that while our tools and languages may be the same, there's a massive gradient in tolerance for incorrectness, security, compliance, maintainability.

Some of us are building prototypes, and others are building software with a 10 year horizon or work with sensitive personal data.

So on the one side you get people that are super efficient cranking things out, and others that read this and feel appalled anyone would be comfortable with this and see software engineering as theory building. Neither are really wrong here, but the context / risk of what people are working on always seems to be missing when people talk about this.

Individual bits always go fast, the difficulty is always telling many apart. Speed is kind of the wrong word. It's about throughput

Not a scientist or science reporter, but it strikes me that the headline (and content) of the article should include 'that we know of'. Is that silly of me, or is it expected from the reader to know that this is always implied?

Or h3ss, pronounced hess

Yeah this also reminds me of people getting burned by Web Components, because they use them with the same granularity as React components.

Different people are motivated differently. My work is meaningful but it's not enough to feel like I'm having fun every day. Some dopamine is basically critical for me to function. It's always a bit wild when people feel they can generalize their own experience and assume it must be the case for everyone else. This needs more I statements.

I feel the Plan 9 of the web should use the URI as the most important primitive vs a local path. Neat though!

Many things in the list are niche concerns, counter to the design of Wayland or are actually solved today. But regardless the beauty of Linux is choice. I hope X11 and non-systemd distros stick around for the few that have those niche concerns. I think a lot of frustration from these folks come from the fact that they wished they weren't in a niche and better served by more maintainers, but that ship has sailed. For mainstream use-cases this has mostly been a good thing.

Recycle is definitely grammatically correct. It's just a different word for re-use.

SMS 2FA stops enough would-be criminals and checks the compliance box. They don't lose enough money to sophisticated thefts to do something better.

My REST client emits this to console.log out of the box, and it's been really useful https://github.com/badgateway/ketting

It's nice when tooling builds this sort of stuff in, because it also encourages APIs to implement it.

Web developers should be forced to use hardware that's roughly at the 10th percentile in performance of their user base, not the 90th. Alternatively, make performance a WCAG concern.

Absolutely, and this trend didn't start with the current AI boom. It started getting tough for people around ~2017 (with some exceptions in between). Before that you could likely get a job right out of a boot camp. Supply now has far outweighed demand on the junior level.

On Windows, doesn't this technically mean OP is running Linux inside a Linux VM inside Windows? From what I understand Docker is Linux tech and to use it anywhere else a (small) Linux VM is required. If true, I would just dispense with the extra layer and just run a Linux VM. Not to discourage experimentation though!

It's still an interesting post, because if true I'd still be curious how you'd get 20 million people to load anything.

But the title here is totally misleading because it sure sounds like someone took control of 9% of the ipv4 address space but the actual post starts with context.

One correction that I can't leave on the actual article (subscriber only!) is that I'm certain multi-screen support worked on Windows 98. Excellent article as usual though!

This article is probably the first time I 'get' why OS/2 was seen as the future and Windows 3 as a stop-gap, even without the GUI. The OS/2 GUI never really blew me away and every early non-GUI versions of OS/2 are mentioned it always seemed a bit dismissive.

But seeing it laid out as just the multi-tasking kernel that it is it seems more obvious now as a major foundational upgrade of MS-DOS.

Great read!

Raspberry Pi OS is a derivative and not straight up debian. It's not a released yet. A beta exists and looks like this one will support an in-place update

Great idea, but pretty painful at the moment. I guess not everything uses this protocol yet, so I often can't find (for example) my password pops under other windows. Hoping this gets a bit better over time, it's one of the last remaining Wayland pains.

People have preferred either the terminal or chunky IDEs for decades. Neither are wrong.

I use it for media hosting. Backups (connected USB disks), home assistant, syncthing

If anyone is looking to get started with a homelab at a good price, I can highly recommend checking ebay for a Dell Wyse 5070. They flooded the market for $50 and are likely powerful enough for many needs. They have a M.2 slot that support SATA. The 'extended' version also has space for a small pcie card and has a parallel and 2 serial ports for a blast to the past.

The '50 extra packages' one is wild. The author of those packages has racked up a fuckload of downloads. What a waste of total bandwidth and disk space everywhere. I wonder if it's for clout.

Seems like a great opportunity to learn a bit about automating this set up. Really not hard to upload a .vim directory on a remote server for example.

Gnome user, but for me one of the last major issues with Wayland is lack of focus stealing, including KeepassXC appearing under my browser when I need it

Do they infer anything? Correct me if I'm wrong but having the types right there in the source for training data just means more context.

shutdowns can be done in software like 'sudo systemctl halt', so it doesn't need a line straight to the motherboard. That's the desired path because it lets running applications gracefully close and finish writing to disk.