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/Uses: A list of /uses pages detailing developer setups, gear, software, configs
- 0ct4via 3y agoWhat does this offer that isn't already well-established at https://usesthis.com https://usesthis.com ? -- aside from /Uses having a hideous design, that is...
- KingOfCoders 3y agoCrashed, but serverless! "This edge function has crashed"
- thomasfromcdnjs 3y agoI have this vague memory of a website where people could upload their bash scripts and more importantly a sort of primary setup script if you were booting up a fresh install. The idea being after installing your distro, you could > curl -sSL <script_url> | bash It was somewhat of a social network. (10-20 years ago) Am I taking crazy peoples or was this something...
- KnobbleMcKnees 3y agoHugged :-(
- dunno7456 3y agoApplication Error w@https://uses.tech/build/_shared/chunk-BLEU733H.js:1:723 https://uses.tech/build/_shared/chunk-BLEU733H.js:1:723 vo@https://uses.tech/build/entry.client-2LPQTYSQ.js:6:19484 https://uses.tech/build/entry.client-2LPQTYSQ.js:6:19484 Pi@https://uses.tech/build/entry.client-2LPQTYSQ.js:8:3153 https://uses.tech/build/entry.client-2LPQTYSQ.js:8:3153 Xa@https://uses.tech/build/entry.client-2LPQTYSQ.js:8:44792 https://uses.tech/build/entry.client-2LPQTYSQ.js:8:44792 $a@https://uses.tech/build/entry.client-2LPQTYSQ.js:8:39726 https://uses.tech/build/entry.client-2LPQTYSQ.js:8:39726 Zf@https://uses.tech/build/entry.client-2LPQTYSQ.js:8:39657 https://uses.tech/build/entry.client-2LPQTYSQ.js:8:39657 br@https://uses.tech/build/entry.client-2LPQTYSQ.js:8:39515 https://uses.tech/build/entry.client-2LPQTYSQ.js:8:39515 Ui@https://uses.tech/build/entry.client-2LPQTYSQ.js:8:35905 https://uses.tech/build/entry.client-2LPQTYSQ.js:8:35905 Zu@https://uses.tech/build/entry.client-2LPQTYSQ.js:8:36715 https://uses.tech/build/entry.client-2LPQTYSQ.js:8:36715 pn@https://uses.tech/build/entry.client-2LPQTYSQ.js:6:3250 https://uses.tech/build/entry.client-2LPQTYSQ.js:6:3250 ba</ue/<@https://uses.tech/build/entry.client-2LPQTYSQ.js:8:34235 https://uses.tech/build/entry.client-2LPQTYSQ.js:8:34235
- ranting-moth 3y agoThis guy uses stacktraces.
- nfriedly 3y agoIt looks like this site is experiencing issues, but I believe this is the same data: https://github.com/wesbos/awesome-uses https://github.com/wesbos/awesome-uses
- pcthrowaway 3y agoThis is really fascinating. Mostly because I never heard of the "/uses" convention. Unfortunately it's impossible to google to learn about it. Does anyone know where "/uses" originated?
- gtirloni 3y agoSame here. I know people have posted about their setups but didn't know `/uses` was a thing.
- mindcrime 3y agoFound this: https://dev.to/nickytonline/do-you-have-a-uses-page-5b82 https://dev.to/nickytonline/do-you-have-a-uses-page-5b82 and https://dev.to/nikoheikkila/show-your-own-uses-page-160j https://dev.to/nikoheikkila/show-your-own-uses-page-160j and https://github.com/wesbos/awesome-uses https://github.com/wesbos/awesome-uses and https://heyfirst.co/blog/lets-share-your-setup-in-uses-page/ https://heyfirst.co/blog/lets-share-your-setup-in-uses-page/ Not a lot of history that I see at first blush, but I didn't look terribly hard. FWIW, Google "uses page" turns up a few other results as well.
- em-bee 3y agoi thought this was some kind of API where you could share your uses tags in a standardized way like other distributed social features so that other sites can aggregate them and show them like uses.tech does. but this is just a static site that will accumulate a lot of stale data once people lose interest to maintain their entries. it would not be so hard. a uses.txt on your website listing tag and description. and a curated list of urls to all these uses.txt files that are periodically scanned for updates.
- tiim 3y agoI'm pretty sure it originates with wes bos (wesbos.com) , the person that also created uses.tech
- ttepasse 3y agoYou may also be interested in the /now convention: https://sive.rs/now3 https://sive.rs/now3 https://nownownow.com https://nownownow.com
- ranting-moth 3y agoI bit like a modern version of the .plan file displayed when the user is fingered. http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/P/plan-file.html http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/P/plan-file.html
- _lvbh 3y ago“when the user is fingered” ?
- pcdavid 3y agoYes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_(protocol) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_(protocol)
- gtirloni 3y agoThe Internet was more innocent back then :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_(protocol) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_(protocol)
- mindcrime 3y agoDon't forget Finger's more modern cousin, WebFinger![1] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebFinger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebFinger
- technothrasher 3y agoWas it? We used to giggle about "fingering each other" way back in the early 90's, ask the Internet Oracle filthy questions, and compare notes on the Purity Test while we waited for all the uuencoded parts of our dirty pictures to download off the local Usenet server.
- em-bee 3y agoat the time we used to giggle, now we complain about it being obscene.
- 0xblinq 3y agoAhhh… lovely serveless cloud SPA crashing in your freaking face with a stack trace. We’re being so cheated with all this marketing bullshit. Had you used a decent web framework you’d at least show a proper error page and get sent a notification about the problem.
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- gochi 3y agoYou can also show a proper error page (or continue) through edge functions[1]. They just didn't set any up. So the chances of them also doing so in another framework and caring about being notified is slim. 1. https://docs.netlify.com/edge-functions/optional-configuration/#when-to-customize-error-handling https://docs.netlify.com/edge-functions/optional-configurati...
- pc86 3y agoNot everything needs to be a serverless SPA, that's the point.
- gochi 3y agoNobody is saying everything needs to be serverless. I'm addressing the point that going the traditional route doesn't negate the work required to implement a custom error page and handle rewrites on error.
- mikojan 3y agoYes they are and the promise cited as a justification is always "automatic scalability", "increased reliability", "decreased downtime". This is from the first google result on "Why move to cloud": https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2021/03/12/why-migrate-to-the-cloud-the-basics-benefits-and-real-life-examples/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2021/03/12/wh...
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- wlkr 3y agoUnfortunately, the link is currently unavailable, but from the title, it sounds similar to Uses This (https://usesthis.com/ https://usesthis.com/), which I find to be an interesting way of learning what tools people are using in different industries.
- notorandit 3y agoThis edge function has crashed An unhandled error in the function code triggered the following message: The deployment failed while serving the request. Connection details Netlify internal ID: 01H4NGBNZ4NDV642KSK4XW6Y1Q
- gtirloni 3y agoEdge functions for hobby projects are awesome, until your project gets featured on HN's front page. I'd love to see a postmortem about the cloud costs.
- LocalPCGuy 3y agoI'm guessing he'll (Wes Bos) bring it up on Syntax.fm, the podcast he does with Scott Tolinski. They've talked about this site before and I would be surprised if they don't bring this up and discuss how/why it failed and any plans for changes to avoid it in the future. As it's a little hobby site for him, not sure how much in the way of resources or money he really throws at it.
- 50 3y agoalternatively, see https://usesthis.com/ https://usesthis.com/ - "a collection of nerdy interviews asking people from all walks of life what they use to get the job done" ongoing since january 2009 some somewhat notable interviews have been submitted before: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=usesthis.com https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=usesthis.com e.g., aaron swartz[1]: https://usesthis.com/interviews/aaron.swartz/ https://usesthis.com/interviews/aaron.swartz/ 1: his reference of using the MPW 9 font led me towards the discovery of the monaco 9pt bitmap font - curious if it's still around
- bjornasm 3y agoI had a period where I read every interview there, it was so cool to read about peoples tech stacks. I kind of fell off as it seemed like it ended up being more interviews with non-tech people than tech-people which removed some of the interest and utility for me. Got to revisit that site.
- 50 3y agoi tend to find the non-tech interviews the most interesting for the remoteness of the tools so to speak, e.g., coming across tools like https://www.wonderdraft.net/ https://www.wonderdraft.net/, a fantasy map creation tool, and thinking it's rather neat
- beezlebroxxxxxx 3y agoI find them interesting too because tech people tend to just all have the latest and greatest hardware, while a lot of non-tech people are getting by on bizarre clunkers and set-ups which have more novelty value.
- mattl 3y agoI did one a few years ago. https://usesthis.com/interviews/matt.lee/ https://usesthis.com/interviews/matt.lee/ Glad to see they’re still doing them. My stack has completely changed since.
- oneeyedpigeon 3y agoLooks like this site needs to /use a more scalable backend...
- zanchey 3y agoIt's geek code in the cloud! https://web.archive.org/web/20090220181018/http://geekcode.com/geek.html#computers https://web.archive.org/web/20090220181018/http://geekcode.c...
- folivore 3y agoCould you disable the favicon changing all the time? It's crazy annoying
- wavemode 3y agoLive site's down for me. Use this instead: https://archive.ph/51fPZ https://archive.ph/51fPZ
- _joel 3y agoMaybe they need a setup that works themselves
- dazzawazza 3y agoAnyone who is, or knows, a guitarist will recognise the pointlessnes of this fetish for "gear used".
- rgoulter 3y agoIt can nice to hear about ideas which are practical improvements, and which others can benefit by. e.g. I don't think trackballs are anywhere near as popular as they deserve to be. (Albeit, with trackballs, showing off is pretty much limited to 'look I have a good one').
- the-printer 3y agoI like https://hackerstations.com/ https://hackerstations.com/.
- dotnwat 3y agoHow do I stop the animated icon in the chrome tab? It's cool, but very distracting to keep the tab open.
- karaterobot 3y agoIs this meant to be a directory of people who are looking for work? If so, that's fine, I guess. If not, be aware that it feels like one. If I made one of these for myself, it would be completely out of date in a year. It's almost like setups, gear, software, and configs are ephemeral and don't describe a person very well.
- diffeomorphism 3y agoQuestion as a non-dev: many devs there seem to use only laptops and often even relatively old ones; no desktop workstations or high power servers in sight. Is that common? Or is that selection bias of that website?
- gtirloni 3y agoNo powerful workstations or server under the table? That's pretty common. Unless you're training an AI model or compiling Chromium all the time, there's very little need for a super powerful computer (by today's standards). You could have many VMs and whatnot, but that's not common.
- diffeomorphism 3y agoThanks for the answer. I had somehow thought that compiling and rapid iteration requires high power or that devs would be heavily into home servers, smart home stuff etc.. But I guess you are right and that only applies in some cases. Hm, then who is supposed to be the target audience for maxed out "pro" devices?
- monsieurgaufre 3y agoIf there's a real need for a high powered computer, most people will just connect to a server or whatnot to do the calculation there.
- diffeomorphism 3y agoBut that server would be built by someone else? My thinking was that cloud servers, google colab etc. are cost effective for sporadic use, but that "devs" could justify needing this power often and locally.
- jakebasile 3y agoI like the idea, but I'm a proponent of humans.txt [1] as an analog to robots.txt. I put one on my own sites. [1]: https://humanstxt.org/ https://humanstxt.org/
- skilled 3y agoI extracted all the external links in each of the /uses pages and there are about 3,200 unique external links in total. I also checked each domain whether it's alive or not (expired) and surprisingly only 2 domains were expired - that's a pretty good result. As far as the site itself goes, it's too impractical the way it is made now. It would work way better if people formatted their /uses page in a specific format that could then be pulled by this site and viewed directly. Otherwise, it's a link farm that you'll get bored of browsing very quickly.
- imbnwa 3y agoAgreed, I was hoping for structured data layout but instead I gotta click through to personal blogs and extract the information I need from prose. Should give me the structured data and append a link to the website but I guess that means less free hits for the participants.
- swyx 3y agonobody asked but here is mine! https://www.swyx.io/new-mac-setup https://www.swyx.io/new-mac-setup maybe i should switch it to a /uses URL
- meetpateltech 3y agoThis is great site!
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- cellularmitosis 3y agoHmm, clicking on the buttons doesn't seem to do anything? Edit: oh, I see, the changes happen off-screen, "below the fold".
- mgaunard 3y agoThe people listed there mostly appear to be some kind of pink-haired gender-fluids. Doesn't really look representative of nerds at large.