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Still remember headbanging hypnotically to Townsends "Grace" about 13 years ago. Metal has always been my main emotional catharsis.

I've always found moshing to be a primal dance, and felt some of my most inner confidence at metal shows.

Now in my mid 30s, starting to see some of my old idols pass -- from Alexi Laiho, Brent Hinds, and Ozzy, it's been rough

Yep, as a metal head who loves to play along to his favorite songs, this is the next frontier I want!

Sadly same here. firefox ran FoundryVTT poorly in the browser, like 12 fps, on Linux. Chromium had 0 issues with it, 60 no problem.

Fun post.

Always great when your debugging feedback is via a led xD

Same habit here!

Ahhh this takes me back to playing on various private UO and DAoC servers. Part of that experience is why I am a developer today. Cool name for a project like this along with the art!

i just started using tailscale and responses like this make me believe in the product. awesome!

I agree with your assessment, as a full stack dev with CS degree that just kinda waltzed into Salesforce for the last 5 years. Claude is more capable at delivering the customizability that Salesforce tried to offer with it's "clicks not code" approach. the only thing these CRMs have going for them is enterprise entrenchment.

I also work at Stripe and will be recommending that we migrate our CPQ off of Salesforce for various reasons (agent force is butt, platform limits are silly in 2025 - 6 meg max heap size for a backend transaction?????).

Right, there's always room for the "exception" in startup land. But majority will fail right? For me personally, it just wasn't worth the risk to jump, especially given this surge of AI right now. Also, already working at a fintech company has shown me that margins can be razor thin/tiny at times, depending on the product. For Mesa, I am guessing they relied upon interchange fees, partnership/commissions, and interest income.

I had an interview request from this company, which I declined after taking a look at the premise. Somewhat glad I did now

That's fair, I've had similar experiences working in other stacks with it. And with some niche stacks, it seems to struggle more. Definitely agree the more narrow the context/problem statement, higher chance of success.

For this project, it described its reasoning well, and knowing my own skillset, and surface level info on how one would start this, it had many good points that made the project not realistic for me.

Agree with this. I'm a software engineer that has mostly not had to manage memory for most of my career.

I asked Opus how hard it would be to port the script extender for Baldurs Gate 3 from Windows to the native Linux Build. It outlined that it would be very difficult for someone without reverse engineering experience, and correctly pointed out they are using different compilers, so it's not a simple mapping exercise. It's recommendation was not to try unless I was a Ghrida master and had lots of time in my hands.

It's 2025, not 1995 or even 2005. Installers for apps like this are tiny for cloud storage today. Cloudfront's recent flat tier pricing would even probably do the trick. free tier is 100gb data transfer a month, 1m requests. If that doesn't work, Pro is 50 tb, 10m requests, that's 15 bucks a month.

Yes - why are these adjectives even coming up at all? There are alternatives that would probably make your point in a succinct manner without being sexist.

Moonlight is great, but be careful about overestimating how fast video decoding is. I would get 10-40ms additional latency, jitter doing moonlight from tv, vs running it on Linux on my mini PC homelab hooked up to the TV, my decoding/network latency was like 1-2ms for a frame

++ for the LG homebrew community. The homebrew store literally has an app now that will auto refresh your dev token so your TV doesn't go out of devmode and uninstall all of your home brew. Used to have to setup a cron job to renew/refresh dev mode.

All my random open source contributions/projects I think have helped. Especially since I've been working in a niche like Salesforce, it really gives me a leg up to show that I've built stuff in nodejs, c#, etc.

The other gain is that I learned a lot from those, and that will show through in an interview regardless of whether they looked at my GitHub or not.

I dunno, I feel like I can be transparent with my manager when we ask each other that. I think it depends on your relationship with them and the company culture.

I worked at a company that used Proofpoint. Often had to reach out to get emails out of quarantine, etc.

Have you tried contacting the customer and asking them to have their IT team allowlist you?

Had similar issues with Yahoo/AOL.

Yeah it's basically java 1.5...

This is the same company that put out a local dev server for their frontend stack and let it rot into an unusable buggy mess 2 years later. They are planning to re-introduce it in 2025.

Ive been using MS copilot successfully for Apex (Salesforce's backend language) and JavaScript. I would trust Microsoft over Salesforce any day for dev tools.

Maybe it's time to finally try the Linux desktop. I mostly game hobby wise, and proton is in great shape nowadays.

I've played wow on my steam deck, in addition to Warcraft 3 remastered.

Blizz games are definitely doable now for the most part.

Agree with this. I'm fine with companies that make profit while still providing "free" knowledge/diagrams/software. Valve's contributions to proton/drivers has improved Linux gaming potential, even if you don't have/buy a Steam Deck. I view this in a similar lens.

Languishing in ignored obscurity is fine for the stuff I open source. There's no expectations but it's not hidden from anyone either.

spreadsheet rant, no suggested alternatives, kind of just 99% rant.

I have lyrics from this song tattooed along with the albums artwork. Always good to see another In Flames fan....

I'm glad they mentioned Steam Deck! I figured there would be a healthy bump from that.

I also fell into my first programming experience with DAoC! I worked on fixing some very simple bugs/exploits on an emulated server (C#) back in 2005.

There's a ton of fascinating stories coming out in the last decade around hacking/exploits/etc of games of that era; DAoC, UO, Shadowbane (this one was real bad).

I'd highly suggest checking out these two episodes of this podcast - https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/7/

I think it's unrealistic for someone to post "evidence" in this case. Not worth the risk of doxing/etc. Think all we can do is take people at their word, or explore the market ourselves and get data from our own experiences.