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by rufius 6y ago
Every book MWL has released has been super helpful in my experience. Probably one of the best tech writers I’ve ever encountered. I own most of this books - especially the more BSD specific ones.
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by rufius 6y ago
I can see it cut both ways. I won’t argue that my way is the only correct way because I’m certain it’s not. Something I didn’t make clear in the very brief description I gave was that, yes, capturing context of what was there is important.
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by rufius 6y ago
Honestly, I’d have approached it differently. Close everything older than 2 weeks. If it’s important/relevant, it will crop back up. If it’s not, then it stays unfixed. This can be really uncomfortable to do. But it’s how I’ve rescued
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by rufius 6y ago
I don’t do much on the apps/websites side of things. I’m a platform and systems developer by experience/preference. That said, I’ve long maintained a blog. I prefer to build my own tools. I wrote a highly opinionated static site g
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by rufius 6y ago
Honest question - what would I use UPnP for? I discovered a similar issue as the blog poster with my QNAP NAS which was easily remedied by disabling UPnP. I’ve not noticed any issues. We can do all the same things we did before. My Xbox and
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by rufius 6y ago
By at least some measures, it’s the most popularly deployed language as well. This is probably at least 50% due to counting WordPress. That said, I did pick up PHP and Laravel out of curiosity. It truly is nothing like the PHP I learned in
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by rufius 6y ago
I worked in University IT. In fact, for one of the schools listed though it’s been 10+ years. Basically everything the above poster said. It was pulling teeth to update or upgrade anything.
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by rufius 6y ago
Honestly, pfSense has been a bit suspect for a while due to less than forthright development. OpnSense is the truly open source alternative and is a solid option. It was started in protest of pfSense’s less open behavior.
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by rufius 6y ago
For giggles, would've liked to have seen Erlang/Elixir in the mix.
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by rufius 6y ago
I have mixed feelings on this. I go back and forth on whether I agree or disagree. For example, once an application becomes sufficiently complex, I've found ORM's to be more of a hindrance. The abstraction gets leaky and I end up
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by rufius 6y ago
Honestly, frameworks like Rails or Django are an anti-pattern for Golang. The standard library makes it very easy to build web services and there’s a couple or popular packages for making routes and dealing with HTTP requests/responses
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Subset of Fastmail Users experiencing interrupted access(twitter.com)
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by rufius 6y ago
Not the parent OP, but for myself... I keep it simple. Choose a couple things to focus on and write those down in my planner (pen and paper). Lately it’s been: - read more books, especially biographies and histories - spend time with my kid
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by rufius 6y ago
I used to chase bleeding edge Linux distros but these days, I nearly always reach for either an LTS release or a BSD for my personal projects. Sadly, I got all my network appliances setup and configured with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS a month or so b
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by rufius 6y ago
Yes exactly. Sorry, didn’t realize I’d used it without providing context. Been a distracting couple of days.
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by rufius 6y ago
I actually worked in an org that took the Tick/Tock model and applied it to rewrites. As a big monolith got too unwieldy, we’d refactor major pieces out into another service. Over time, we’d keep adding a piece of functionality into th
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by rufius 6y ago
Interesting. I have a TVS-471 that I run the default QNAP OS on. That said, I only use it for typical NAS workloads like: - serving media - file storage - device backup - off-site backup I recently started using the Hybrid Backup Station ap
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by rufius 7y ago
I’ve been doing the same in fact. I’ve always had a soft spot for Erlang (and now Elixir). I wrote a pretty large Erlang app back in college for a distributed system in a Biology research project. I’ve been enjoying working with it - taking
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by rufius 7y ago
Same. Disgrace sticks with me to this day.
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by rufius 7y ago
Why uhhh... why wouldn’t people just start writing new components in C#. Surely learning C# is not beyond them? It’s not like there’s a compatibility issue. Just stop writing it.
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by rufius 7y ago
That site does a really poor job demonstrating what a Microformat is. There’s good descriptors but I was looking for an example or scenario to better elucidate their use...
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by rufius 7y ago
That depends. If it’s “bring your own key” then there’s nothing they can do. That said - I’m not familiar enough with how they’d build that infra at scale to make it cost effective.
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by rufius 7y ago
Mojave and Catalina added more restrictions around non-App Store programs where you need to sign and notarize. I know I’ll probably catch downvotes for it but I think this is a good thing for the average user as someone in security. I know
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by rufius 7y ago
I'll be uh... honest, I didn't realise anyone still used Dart. Not meant to be a dig - just forgot it existed. As to the topic - a single question mark seems to make more sense.
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by rufius 7y ago
It's not so much a problem with the watch as it's not really in line with the way I want to interact with my watch. As I've gotten busier, I prefer a pull model, not a push. I block off parts of my day and don't want to
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by rufius 7y ago
I wear a Christopher Ward C65 GMT. It's got the ”pepsi face” with a 24 hour hand I keep on UTC.
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by rufius 7y ago
I recently went back to traditional watches because I was frustrated with being able to control notifications in a granular way. Ultimately, I need the time, preferably in two time zones, and the date. I've got a GMT watch now and a Ca
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by rufius 7y ago
Anecdotally accurate for me. I've tended to prefer higher fat foods - preferably things like olive oil and nuts, which helps keep my mindless consumption down.
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by rufius 7y ago
If your run a NAS on your network that has some extra horsepower, most of them can run containers now. I run both pi-hole and my own DNS server inside my network as containers on the NAS. I then have my router configured to default to the p
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by rufius 7y ago
> To this day I have the nervous tick of initializing arrays with zeros even in numpy. I dunno - I wouldn’t call that a nervous tick. If you know or have a good idea of how much memory you need, then it only seems polite to let the runti

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