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by temporallobe 7mo ago
Oracle is used for mission-critical legacy applications, which is common in the federal government IT space. Replacing with OSS is a nontrivial undertaking, but it is happening. For the most part, replacing Oracle’s Java with OpenJDK is rel
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by temporallobe 7mo ago
Every time I see the term “SSO” I want to vomit. That does not exist any more. On my projects, there are literally dozens of systems each with their own siloed authentication systems. Just to throw out some of what I deal with: OKTA, MFA, M
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by temporallobe 7mo ago
Good.
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by temporallobe 7mo ago
The obnoxious behavior of Windows update is the single biggest reason I left the platform over a decade ago. Too little too late for me. Also there is one huge glaring omission in the article. The sneaky integration of ads embedded in the O
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by temporallobe 7mo ago
Yeah it’s almost like purposely frustrating people has negative consequences, which HP completely overlooked.
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by temporallobe 7mo ago
I don’t use AI to generate any code, but I have used a few tools sparingly as such: 1. Gemini as a replacement for Stack Overflow, but I always have to check the source because it sometimes gives examples that 10 or even 15+ years old, as i
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by temporallobe 7mo ago
Even enterprise COTS products can have some of these issues. We have an on-premise Atlassian suite, and Jira pages sometimes have upwards of 30MB total payloads for loading a simple user story page — and keep in mind there is no ad-tech or
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by temporallobe 7mo ago
Yes and no. Early DOS UIs had elements of TUIs and GUIs, and supported mice. Many old school greenscreen applications were like this too.
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by temporallobe 7mo ago
My wife completed her PhD two years ago and she put a LOT of work into it. Many sleepless nights, and it almost destroyed our marriage. It took her about 6 years of non-stop madness and she didn’t even work during that time. She said that m
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by temporallobe 8mo ago
Unless you’re stuck on an older version. Also there is a jQuery resolver still embedded even in the latest version that looks for jQuery and tries to use it if it’s globally defined. Caused some nasty bugs in certain Enterprise applications
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by temporallobe 8mo ago
Simple way to defeat the game: alias rm=ls
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by temporallobe 8mo ago
As much hate as it gets, this is one thing I like about Angular.
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by temporallobe 8mo ago
The problem with Bootstrap is that it depends on jQuery and Popper, and its CSS has global classes. It’s perfectly fine if BS is the only UI framework, but if you need to bring to bring in other frameworks or libraries (by choice or by forc
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by temporallobe 8mo ago
This is of special interest to me, because man do I hate UI frameworks with tons of external dependencies. Looking at you, Bootstrap.
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by temporallobe 8mo ago
That’s like the crosswalk button that does nothing. It’s there purely for the placebo effect.
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by temporallobe 8mo ago
Interesting, I have never compared make with task but I suppose there’s some overlap. My favorite feature is that it’s cross-platform. I do use it for performing complex builds (like chaining several environment setup and docker compose com
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by temporallobe 8mo ago
I don’t think this is a terrible idea, though stylistically it bothers me. I suppose you could simply have a prefix command router that would essentially do the same thing. I also started using “task” recently and it’s been a game changer f
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by temporallobe 9mo ago
Some of the drawings feature what appears to be flying spiders and other similar shapes. Is this supposed to represent particle collisions?
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by temporallobe 9mo ago
Reminds me of when I tried to invent a SPA framework. So much hidden complexity I hadn’t thought of and I found myself going down rabbit holes that I am sure the creators of React and Angular went down. Git seems to be like this and I am of
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by temporallobe 9mo ago
I definitely needed the initial input from the stakeholders as to what they wanted and why, but it turned into pointless bickering about colors and many disagreements about symbol meanings - for example should a dropped pin have a shadow? S
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by temporallobe 9mo ago
I am partial to the relevant icons in FontAwesome and these days the Bootstrap icons. I think the silhouette of a generic, androgynous portrait universally gets the idea across nicely.
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by temporallobe 9mo ago
This was about 8 years ago and I am not sure I ever retained a local copy of the repo. If I find it, I’ll resurrect it in a public Github repo unless there’s some NDA/IP issue.
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by temporallobe 9mo ago
I do a lot of custom JS widget development, games, and utilities that are outside the context of a gigantic framework like React. Not everything is a a full-page SPA. Vanilla JS is indeed better than it was, but I found myself writing small
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by temporallobe 9mo ago
I spent half a year designing and creating 200+ icons for a custom geospatial mapping app. I really enjoyed the work but it was grueling and tedious, especially the design part. Too many people had too many different opinions on which symbo
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by temporallobe 9mo ago
Completely agree! Aero was stunningly beautiful, and even the flatter Fluent Design version in Windows 10 was great, but not so much how it was applied in 11.
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by temporallobe 9mo ago
They also seem to be reinventing Windows Vista (visually).
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by temporallobe 10mo ago
I tried switching to Zed, and was even able to get it use identical themes and key mappings as my preferred ones in VSC, but ultimately I switched back due to lack of plugins that I’ve really come to depend on, not to mention some key featu
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by temporallobe 10mo ago
I don’t really like pre-commit hooks, but I do think that git-secrets is a very useful one since once a secret is in the commit history, it’s a hassle (though not impossible) to remove it. All other issues can and should be caught early as
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by temporallobe 10mo ago
A polygraph is just an intimidation tool. I have family who worked for 3-letter agencies who “failed” polygraphs, only to have them retaken a day later and “pass”. The polygraph examiners are pretty darn good at intimidating subjects, which
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by temporallobe 10mo ago
It’s always nice to see native implementations of functionality pioneered by third-party libraries. Bootstrap, for example, has made this kind layout (somewhat) possible but there is also a Masonry plugin that simplifies it.

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