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   by bbkane 2y ago

   > Profit isn't far removed from theft I definitely think there are unethical ways to profit - capitalism needs to be regulated for the good of the consumer/ecosystem/society. However, I don't believe that a blanket co
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   by bbkane 2y ago

   That's technically correct, but they listed several ways they contribute back to the OSS ecosystem: PRs, issues, creating new libraries... This comment makes it seem like all this company does is take, which feels unfair to me
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   by bbkane 2y ago

   Could you please add some examples? I'm still living in poor man's SQL land
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   by bbkane 2y ago

   This comment feels like "old man yells at clouds". Vague, non-specific points about the accuracy of the article. This is on top of mixing in grievances with the author non-judgmentally listing and citing facts about SQLite's
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   by bbkane 2y ago

   I mostly agree, but I also rely on GitHub Copilot, CI/CD, issues, pages, and storage (for releases). And that's just for my simple little side projects! While I'm grateful GitHub is such a great service and provides these for
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   by bbkane 2y ago

   Even that means a lot more than `{}`, who's tortured journeys I have to painstakingly take notes om in the source code while I wonder what the heck happened to produce the stack trace...
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   by bbkane 2y ago

   I used to think I was a bad designer, because I often have to redesign things. Then I found folks who don't even do that...
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   by bbkane 2y ago

   Are there any exceptions? I feel like small companies can be nimble because they don't have as many customers to lose, but larger orgs need to worry much more about existing customers: scale, migrations, backwards compatibility, legal
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   by bbkane 2y ago

   Ok, that makes sense. Thanks!
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    by bbkane 2y ago

    Buf seems really nice, but I'm not completely sure what's free and what's not with the Buf platform, so I'm hesitant to make it a dependency for my little open source side project ideas. I should read the docs a bit more
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    by bbkane 2y ago

    I respect that, and if I was happier with Bash I would probably agree with you :)
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    by bbkane 2y ago

    Yes, but I LOVE yq's ability to update YAML files without stripping existing comments. For example, I use it to programmatically update similar (but not identical) GitHub Actions files across projects.
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    by bbkane 2y ago

    Man if you think Bash doesn't need an upgrade, more power to you, but every time I use it for anything slightly complicated I regret it, so I'm firmly in the "dear Lord, let's find a smooth upgrade from Bash" camp a
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    by bbkane 2y ago

    I agree, but `Just` as an incremental improvement is a much easier sell to teams than asking them to think about their builds completely differently and rewrite everything to fit that. Offering a cave man a flashlight is probably more helpf
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    by bbkane 2y ago

    Two more tools I really enjoy: - https://www.beekeeperstudio.io/ - electron based and I find it really simple to use. - https://github.com/k1LoW/tbls - generate markdown docs from databases (similar to
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    by bbkane 2y ago

    There's a lot to like about Elm, but the tradeoff is that the BDFL (Evan) has essentially abandoned public work on it [0, 1], and the community seems to be shrinking [2]. I personally wouldn't choose it for new projects, and I con
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    by bbkane 2y ago

    I actually switched my blog to use Zola (similar to Jekyll but packaged as a static binary instead of a Ruby gem) because I couldn't figure out how to build my site with Jekyll after a few years- it kept trying to compile C code? Bear
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    by bbkane 2y ago

    Agreed, but I wonder what the OP is missing in their webdev debugging journey that exists elsewhere
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    by bbkane 2y ago

    Don't browsers have some of the best dev tools out there? For example, you can use the `debugger`[0] statement in your JS code to trigger the in-browser debugger when that statement is hit (its basically setting a breakpoint). 0: http
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    by bbkane 2y ago

    I think in many scenarios, print debugging wins the cost/benefit analysis - new project where I don't want to learn how to set up a debugger, trying to debug something really custom or specially formatted, etc. However, if I know
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    by bbkane 2y ago

    Are you sure you don't miss modern features like mandatory network connectivity and micro transactions?
22. 292.▲
    by bbkane 2y ago

    I'm with you. I also like the IDE niceties like autocomplete and docs on hover that don't really work on SQL
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    by bbkane 2y ago

    *most notable thing HN finds worth mentioning I think
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    by bbkane 2y ago

    I tried an ultrawide, but had trouble with window management - I need to make 4+ apps visible at the same time and found that a lot easier with 2 displays and the Rectangles app
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    by bbkane 2y ago

    I do something similar, and I've come to appreciate the manual work. It lets me take a moment and reflect on what's important before I copy it over to/from the endless list.
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    by bbkane 2y ago

    I actually REALLY LIKE MacOS, especially workspace/window management when using Rectangles. So much so that I'm trying to recreate it on Linux (I don't want to buy a new Mac when I have a perfectly good gaming desktop to repu
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    by bbkane 2y ago

    Does https://github.com/dbgate/dbgate count?
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    by bbkane 2y ago

    This one is hilarious
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    by bbkane 2y ago

    Another way personal projects are different is the fact that there's not usually someone depending on you- whether that's in the form of timelines, API stability, tech choice, etc. I'm working on a large breaking change to a
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    by bbkane 2y ago

    You might look into https://graphite.rs/ . MS Paint is about my digital art interface complexity limit, but I do read Graphite's blog posts and their app sounds really attractive for more serious artists