toastal

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721.
by toastal 4y ago
But they aren't the only ones, nor the only ways. It's not necessary to know other paradigms, but knowing of their existence is nice, but also they should never be discounted as lesser methods of doing source hosting and code
722.
by toastal 4y ago
Would something like a federated option for politicians be acceptable—where the government itself hosts then platform and only allows official accounts on the instance? There could be a reason to get across content in a digital medium, but
723.
by toastal 4y ago
Godot also fits the bill quite well.
724.
by toastal 4y ago
Truth. Vendor lock-in is a concern when it comes to platforms. One thing that can help is writing shell scripts (or Nix building those scripts) for CIs to run minimally. With the merge request model having issues scaling, I'm curious h
725.
by toastal 4y ago
No it's not. Every time they have an outage more folks jump to other Git hosting alternatives. The biggest free software projects like Freedesktop, GNOME, KDE, are all self-hosting GitLab. Folks concerned with their data and the idea o
726.
by toastal 4y ago
Something like this, I hope it is open sourced or at least not patented
727.
by toastal 4y ago
It's relevant. The article has a sarcastic section asserting that GitHub is an industry standard and job requirement. What I don't like seeing is a new generation thinking DVCS implies Microsoft GitHub.
728.
by toastal 4y ago
PostgreSQL uses a mailing list and Google uses Gerrit to name two "major" counters. There are plenty of big projects and orgs operating under different models.
729.
by toastal 4y ago
> I notice from your blog that you have links to a number of commercial services including Keybase... Blog has been under redesign-rebuild for a long time--other priorities. Said services were planning on being removed and replaced with
730.
by toastal 4y ago
And Krita doesn't hold a candle to darktable for working with photography on RAW images. So? The point is that the basic features a students need to know will be covered by free software or there will be an alternative that does. Havin
731.
by toastal 4y ago
Is that why most people don't know stack-based Git flows or how to using send-email? GitHub only really works on the pull request model which is not the only way to use Git. There are pros and cons to these workflows, but if skills are
732.
by toastal 4y ago
That's precisely the thing we should avoid. Learning on free software like LibreOffice Calc would be better just like learning GIMP would be better than students learning Adobe Photoshop and demanding employers buy these licenses/
733.
by toastal 4y ago
Training our next generation on proprietary tools like GitHub isn't the way though. Understanding a VCS (i.e. Git, Mercurial, darcs, Pijul, etc.) is great skill and almost certainly a job requirement, but a specific platform? Its cla
734.
by toastal 4y ago
Skip the containers and have it all be reproducible with Nix/Guix
735.
by toastal 4y ago
One of my go-to links has always been “When to use target="_blank"” https://css-tricks.com/use-target_blank/ I'd recently gotten a feed reader set up and CSS-Tricks was one of the first things added as I
736.
by toastal 4y ago
I liked the Keybase model better for verification. Why do we need monthly fees?
737.
by toastal 4y ago
In what way? Not in mature stable clients or in system resources for hosting a server. There’s issues around the centralization of Matrix.org and I've seen many cases where folks spun up then spun down a Matrix server 'cause it co
738.
by toastal 4y ago
Nah, IRC and XMPP MUC
739.
by toastal 4y ago
That is better, but it's still nowhere near `type Foo = Bar String | Baz Boolean`. It's also nowhere as clean to pattern match on.
740.
by toastal 4y ago
Luckily not everywhere. In Thailand cash (and bank transfers) are king. Most places do not accept credit, and the place that do usually require a $15 or $30 minimum and/or you're going to pay that extra overhead yourself. Alternat
741.
by toastal 4y ago
I did not know this, and it's a really cool fact.
742.
by toastal 4y ago
I pay for SourceHut and haven't noticed an (unplanned) down times. I also don't feel like they're trying to sell me anything beyond the platform itself. The bundled IRC bouncer is a nice touch as well.
743.
by toastal 4y ago
It's not just the ADTs but the exhaustive pattern matching that help make sure you've covered all of the cases in your ADT. You'll see JavaScripters use objects as a poor man's ADT where they'll use the key name as
744.
by toastal 4y ago
I like that they have stopped accepting flag proposals. They don't have any business trying to play geopolitics and they don't want to either, but as a result these legacy symbol must stay there for compatibility and new nations o
745.
by toastal 4y ago
Do we have to give the you-are-the-product speech? It's a proprietary platform that is trying to sell you all of their other services, get you locked into the their tools, and require everyone you wish to collaborate with create an acc
746.
by toastal 4y ago
Well that's a relief
747.
by toastal 4y ago
I'm not a fan of the use of CDNs here. Why should I be trusting a third-party for your JavaScript? What is that CDN doing with this data? Why are there no subresource integrity checks to verify the scripts aren't tampered with?
748.
by toastal 4y ago
I often forget how unusable Reddit is without old.reddit and a native, FOSS app like Infinity to make it acceptable.
749.
by toastal 4y ago
But feeding into a proprietary product isn’t good for us. Using Google and Photoshop as verbs isn’t great as is, but Git by its nature as a DVCS it becomes even more important we don’t have our language drift in a way that centralizes. Spec
750.
by toastal 4y ago
But please no demos from other code forges, blogs, the spec, or the web in general? Code exists everywhere. Git is distributed version control—not centralizing code a feature. You didn't need to specify a specific place.

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