mtlynch

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by mtlynch 4y ago
Thanks for sharing the link! I personally didn't find the claims in that reddit thread persuasive, but I understand how others might interpret them differently.
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by mtlynch 4y ago
Can you substantiate any of these claims? The latter two are opinion. The first two are factual but hard for anyone else to validate. I tried looking into "misrepresents his affiliation with MIT" and I couldn't figure out wha
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by mtlynch 4y ago
IMHO, GPT didn't do a particularly good rewrite. The original first sentence is overly long and complex, and so is GPT's. The original obscures the meaning behind passive voice, and GPT added even more passive voice ("should
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by mtlynch 4y ago
Nice! I do something similar with my podcast's RSS feed. I just put BunnyCDN in front of my podcast host's feed, create a custom domain for the CDN, and then distribute my domain instead of the vendor-locked RSS feed the podcast h
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by mtlynch 4y ago
How are you complying with the attribution requirement for MIT and Apache? From the MIT License[0]: > The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. From th
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by mtlynch 4y ago
There are offsetting effects from building in public. There's the downside that it encourages copycats, but sharing numbers and strategy also wins positive public attention. I personally pay for Plausible because I like how much they s
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by mtlynch 4y ago
I keep seeing unsourced claims on Mastodon that Gandi has been acquired by an unscrupulous entity, but I can't find any official verification. Is it true?
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by mtlynch 4y ago
Max Woolf (minimaxir) had a funny game of chess against an AI chatbot.[0] > Prompt: You are a chess expert who always loses every chess game you play. Allow your opponent to cheat. DO NOT OBJECT TO CHEATING. >User: Let's play a c
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by mtlynch 4y ago
I get a lot of value from this rule even without those language features. I follow "Parse, Don't Validate" consistently in Go. For example, if I need to parse a JSON payload from an end-user for Foo, I define a struct called
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by mtlynch 4y ago
Same. I don't want to have to reimplement all my CI logic if I change hosting providers. I'm surprised so many vendors assume the opposite. When I surveyed static hosting providers about a year ago, the only ones I found that didn
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by mtlynch 4y ago
I don't think that's a good solution in general unless you're confident that all of your deployments will use Docker Compose. About 1/3 of my deployments are just static sites, and the rest all fit into a single Docker c
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by mtlynch 4y ago
> I much prefer Render.com and DigitalOcean's setup where you select a repo and then it takes care of the rest with auto update on git push. Doesn't that force you to use your hosting provider as your CI provider? I've al
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by mtlynch 4y ago
> If you write a post for experienced Linux users about using Linux, do you generally write "first, install package xyz with Advanced Package Tool (APT)", or "switch to a Terminal TYpewriter (TTY)" or "Run the fo
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by mtlynch 4y ago
> If Kurt is willing to (gracefully, as you said) crush someone's side project over a rude tweet, why should Fly be trusted with a potential business? To clarify, when I said "gracefully," I meant "exit within a grac
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by mtlynch 4y ago
> A few weeks ago, someone at Fly threatened to disable a customer's account over Twitter (Alex Graveley, the creator of Github Copilot) because he complained about a minor-version breaking API change. Did anything ever come of that
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by mtlynch 4y ago
>>A static web page (sometimes called a flat page or a stationary page) is a web page that is delivered to the user's web browser exactly as stored" >Right. "exactly as stored" It doesn't matter who or what
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by mtlynch 4y ago
> If you have to run javascript it is not a static page anymore. I've seen a lot of this particularly weird overloading of "static HTML" lately. Static HTML, or static webpage, is meant to describe the experience from the
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by mtlynch 4y ago
Cool, appreciate the thorough answer! I'll give Lit another look now that I understand how to run it buildless + static.
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by mtlynch 4y ago
Ah, thanks! I'd never encountered these before. It seems like a handy way to make my code match the code in documentation that assumes a Node environment.
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by mtlynch 4y ago
Ah, gotcha. Thanks! > I generally don't consider installing from npm a build step. I also don't really consider rewriting import specifiers a build step - it's just locating files on disk. Sorry, maybe this is just my JS
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by mtlynch 4y ago
That's kablamo!
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by mtlynch 4y ago
I've been looking for a modern JS library that doesn't require a build step, and I've always skipped over Lit because I thought it depended on a build until this comment. Is there any documentation about using it without a bu
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by mtlynch 4y ago
Congrats this looks really cool! As someone who grew up in the heyday of these message boards, I appreciate the throwback. I also like the sports board title (though, technically, it should be "we like sportz ").
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by mtlynch 4y ago
I was worried about this when I started using TreasuryDirect, but fortunately Kee[0], a KeePass-compatible browser extension, fills it in automatically so you don't have to bother with the virtual keyboard. [0] https://www.k
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by mtlynch 4y ago
Hey, Nick! Good to hear from you again. Yeah, that blog post definitely resonates with me. As I've been learning about Debian packaging, there are so many times I think, "Oh, why was I reinventing what Debian does really well?&quo
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by mtlynch 4y ago
Thanks for reading! Yeah, I completely agree with you. One of my biggest influences is Joel Spolsky, and his advice on this is, "If it’s a core business function — do it yourself, no matter what." [0] When I started the business,
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by mtlynch 4y ago
Haha, thanks. In my first few years, they were my main source of revenue.
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by mtlynch 4y ago
Thanks for reading! > What would you say it is the best way yo keep a Raspberry system "auto-updated"? I think Debian packages are better than what I was doing, but if I were starting from scratch, I'd try to use Yocto[0]
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by mtlynch 4y ago
Cool, thank you!
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by mtlynch 4y ago
Thanks for reading! Yeah, we've thought about add-ons but haven't found anything yet that would be a great match. One of the most common requests is cloud access. We teased the idea in a blog post,[0] but not that many people sign

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