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by consoomer 3y ago
Is anyone surprised a file called "free download manager" was malware? Anyone that lived through Kazaa isn't surprised :)
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by consoomer 3y ago
So let me get this straight... They went through a phase of, "Let's rewrite it in Rust (from Go)!" but it got complicated, because reasons. One of their reasons is Cargo's cross compilation is bad so they decide to use Z
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by consoomer 3y ago
I have created a custom unique identifier scheme before. This post doesn't address some of the challenges you come across. 1. When dealing with user friendly IDs, it's often important to make sure there are no ambiguous characters
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by consoomer 3y ago
That sounds nice, but it looks a lot like a "what if" scenario. What if I need to support a dozen systems? What if I need to do fancy 3D graphics? What if I need to do some other thing that isn't my problem right now (and lik
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by consoomer 3y ago
Weird.. their answer is to ship a hybrid Go+Rust binary sandwiched with Zig. It's a like a who's who keyword stuffing technical blog post with vomit inducing technical decisions.
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by consoomer 3y ago
Unity has built a very impressive engine and runtime. With that being said, I have never had the desire to use it (or any other engine). Perhaps I'm a minority here, but I dislike engines and I dislike the idea of "building my own
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by consoomer 3y ago
My issue with Rails has always been that-- not just the JS ecosystem rot, but gems in general. Running "bundle update" after six-eight months is like rolling the dice. Especially if you use any Rails engines, etc.
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by consoomer 3y ago
This is why I no longer blog. Guy puts time into a blog post writing his thoughts only to be told it's overwritten and he's complaining about something he didn't even try to contribute to. I guess we should all stop complaini
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by consoomer 3y ago
I see this same issue with htmx and other takes on SSR.. just because you can dynamically update the HTML doesn't mean you should make EVERYTHING dynamic. It's okay to have normal page transitions. It's okay to do something d
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by consoomer 3y ago
We work in an industry where senior developers don't know the difference between git and Github. The same seniors don't know the difference between Github actions, Travis CI and have never heard of Jenkins. Hardly anyone cares. Ar
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by consoomer 3y ago
Thanks for sharing your experience with them. Were you able to finish the game you were working on?
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by consoomer 3y ago
I have been thinking of giving my game ideas a try these days... I haven't pulled the trigger yet. I have completed a few small games in the past but never released on a public market. I can't imagine a game being financially feas
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by consoomer 3y ago
I closed mine years ago (self employed, don't need it for jobs, etc). I reopened it a year ago because potential enterprise customers were sketched out they couldn't find me on LinkedIn (I have a personal site, etc, but they didn&
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by consoomer 3y ago
Once you have kids and meet other parents you will quickly find a whole lot of people you meet are randomly looking you up on LinkedIn...
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by consoomer 3y ago
Create a Stripe checkout. If someone pays, you can email them the PDF files to whatever email they provided during checkout. I'd do it manually at first. If it annoys you later, automate the emailing of the PDFs.
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by consoomer 3y ago
Interesting timing since Insomnia just died on me with the recent flatpak update (apparently my LTS linux install doesn't have the correct glibc, so goodbye Insomnia I guess). I like that receipeui got rid of electron. I don't lik
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by consoomer 3y ago
Ironically, most people will use vscodium and then install a bunch of extensions from unknown developers with a few stars and an unknown agenda.
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by consoomer 3y ago
Facial recognition and mass surveillance has been done at stadiums, casinos and all over cities for over 12 years. I worked at a company in NY that designed and deployed the software that controlled the video feeds for stadium and casinos.
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by consoomer 3y ago
Rotation helps, but as a more senior/experienced person on the team it's easy for things to be "elevated" up to you because person X couldn't figure it out, etc.
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by consoomer 3y ago
Most jobs in the bay area are 6-7 day a week jobs. You may not be logged in to Slack on Saturday and Sunday but you're monitoring email or on the look out for PagerDuty.
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by consoomer 3y ago
I'm not a fan of the htmx take, but it's refreshing to at least hear about other methods than "yet another react/angular/etc".
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by consoomer 3y ago
The problem seems to stem from interactivity on the web. Of course, there's a spectrum here... static content pages on one side and games on the other. The problem as it stands today is most web pages are on the static/low interac
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by consoomer 3y ago
I don't think the answer is shifting focus to HTML. The answer seems to be in relinquishing some control back to the browser, but finding a way to make the experience smoother and add interactivity as needed without handicapping the br
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by consoomer 3y ago
I sorta get it-- Svelte is simpler than React (at least at face value). What I don't get is why as an industry we are hung up on this need to do so much with JavaScript. In the end, Svelte is an incremental improvement over the thing t
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by consoomer 3y ago
My daughters are too young to have a phone, but old enough to play games. Our general rule for gaming is simple. We only do it on the weekends, and we do it together. We make it a family thing.
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by consoomer 3y ago
This is one of those funny things... my wife will rant about Japanese anime being garbage and then watch Korean drama for an hour. You have to pick your battles, friend!
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by consoomer 3y ago
What next? Are you going to tell me you can send down a text file that runs code on a page by page basis?
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by consoomer 3y ago
Am I the only one that believes classic Turbolinks (pre-Turbo) is the ideal solution to SSR? It works out of the box with JS disabled. No extra logic is needed on the server side (as is needed with HTMX). You can still perform partial updat
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by consoomer 3y ago
Seems like an obvious optimization to use a hash instead of scanning the array with comparisons... but I bet it's hard because on small arrays sequentially scanning is faster than building a hash first. Does anyone know at what size th
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by consoomer 3y ago
Mac is more annoying than it seems. I went full Linux around three years ago. The annoyance for me peaked with Mac phoning home file data every time I tried to open a file and apps breaking upon major updates. My main issue was with the har

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