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811.
by tracker1 8mo ago
I'm largely of the same mindset... I find the current .Net tooling for the backend to be pretty great. C#, Dapper and FastEndpoints FTW. I still really like JS/TS tooling with Hono and Rust with Axum though... but C# today is pr
812.
by tracker1 8mo ago
For that matter, the entire site could be in a Cloudflare worker with all the content in R2 (no egress fees, just storage). Likely to barely exceed the $5 baseline price for a paid account. (not sure on the storage costs, but likely well u
813.
by tracker1 8mo ago
If it's large enough for say 2x or more "retina" usage... a very minor soften filter, then color reduction to get well under 256 colors (often can do 32-64) quantization and oxipng w/ zopfli can go a long way... just g
814.
by tracker1 8mo ago
Yeah... lol, because cloud setups never fall over. Ever.
815.
by tracker1 8mo ago
I think the free/cheap tier is what gets people kind of hooked... it's really easy to setup something like Dokku self-hosted and run a few dozen apps on a decent rented server... Even then, there's something appealing about
816.
by tracker1 8mo ago
Just guessing, patent troll.
817.
by tracker1 8mo ago
There's also good old edit... ;-) https://github.com/microsoft/edit Yeah, it's a re-creation of edit, but it's pretty great... also runs outside windows.
818.
by tracker1 8mo ago
You can jump through a couple hoops to get WinGet working in Windows Server environments without much issue. IIRC, there's a single PS1 script you can run to do it, followed by a reboot.
819.
by tracker1 8mo ago
You mean like WinGet? or the Windows Store?
820.
by tracker1 8mo ago
I think it's in reference to using Win9x notepad.exe as opposed to somewhere in the Win7-10 timeframe before they went over the top in Win11.
821.
by tracker1 8mo ago
I just don't get why they didn't just add these features to WordPad, where it would at least make more sense.
822.
by tracker1 8mo ago
I need to just break down and find an old version of that... from before the Jasc sellout. IIRC, it ran via Wine without issue too. I try to use Pinta/Paint.Net, but it's not quite as good as I remember psp being. I don't e
823.
by tracker1 8mo ago
Probably the only good thing about Google Docs becoming so popular in school/education use... All you need is a current Chromium based browser mostly. The Web versions of Office, err MS 365, err CoPilot App.. (OMG!>!!>) ... aren
824.
by tracker1 8mo ago
Just... no... not notepad.. Notepad should be the single-simplest of text editors, always has been, always should be... it should be "safe" much like "task manager" it should be as simple and bulletproof as any applicat
825.
by tracker1 8mo ago
The guy that did the bulk of the hardware integration work...
826.
by tracker1 8mo ago
What's funny, is this is exactly one of the reasons I happen to like JavaScript... at its' core, the type coercion and falsy boolean rules work really well (imo) for ETL type work, where you're dealing with potentially untrus
827.
by tracker1 8mo ago
Might help to have a companion app that uses the same embedded webview that is nearly indispensable at least for gui distros... something akin to MS Compiled Help (CHM) ... which I always thought was a pretty great idea. I mean... it'd
828.
by tracker1 8mo ago
I'm honestly not sure... it could also backfire with intentional social groups... such as someone created a social network expressly for progressives or conservatives, where repeated contrarian rhetoric is simply disallowed (for good o
829.
by tracker1 8mo ago
"Phone Swap Collective" ... You keep an extra smart phone... then just swap phones with people who commute to different areas of your city each day. Keep social media accounts that are effectively "bots" on the collecti
830.
by tracker1 8mo ago
On the login... when failing either via user lookup, or password mismatch, I'll usually put a random 500-2500ms (or more) delay before logging and sending the response to handle timing attacks. You can try a db transaction against a lo
831.
by tracker1 8mo ago
I think that censorship should be expressly limited based on size and usage of 230 protections. ex: if you have 10+ million users and you want to cite section 230 protections, you may not censor protected speech, but maybe allow users to o
832.
by tracker1 8mo ago
I've been using Deno a LOT for general shell scripting... it's been pretty nice in general. FWIW, Node, Bun and Deno have FS interfaces in the box, so yes, you can do it without npm modules. Though Deno allows you to directly
833.
by tracker1 8mo ago
Considering how bad some of the Gamer-ish firmware UIs are now, it might be an improvement.
834.
by tracker1 8mo ago
Should be able to do similar with MicroQuickJS or maybe just QuickJS...
835.
by tracker1 9mo ago
I'd say it's even more true with appimage and flatpak options for desktop apps, and docker/podman containers for development use. My biggest hobby project right now has several dependency services that are configured via dock
836.
by tracker1 9mo ago
Expensive how? It should be baked into your contract cost per client... maybe more expensive than you can run at scale. As to 5 dedicated employees for db systems management... that's just roughly where I would put the breakpoint... s
837.
by tracker1 9mo ago
Of course... it's definitely interesting. I'm also thinking that there are times where you insource vs outsource to a SaaS that's going to do the job for you and you have one less thing to really worry about. Comparing cost
838.
by tracker1 9mo ago
Not to mention apps that may have differing versions deployed on client infrastructure with different test/release cycles... this is where something like grate is really useful imo.
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by tracker1 9mo ago
I tend to prefer to hand-roll schema migrations... but I use grate[1] for the most part. That said, I've created similar tooling for different scenarios. 1. https://grate-devs.github.io/grate/ Pretty easy to setu
840.
by tracker1 9mo ago
Definitely a cool story and really happy to see people being really open with their code, as well as hardware designs/plans. It's an area that could/would be pretty easy to gatekeep and lock away.

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