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by vbsteven 7y ago
I like to log everything I do in a log file. I use OneNote for this as it is very easy to create checkbox lists. I start the day by creating a new day title with the date and then add empty checkbox items for the things I want to get done,
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by vbsteven 7y ago
The first part of Neal Stephensons latest novel “Fall, or Dodge in hell” explores exactly this topic in the context of social media. The possible consequences of a post-truth world where people cannot agree on facts are stunning. An interes
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by vbsteven 7y ago
Yes, indeed.
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by vbsteven 7y ago
Are you self-employed? That can be a way to bump your income significantly in the belgian IT world. My email is in my profile if you want to talk about it. (self-employed for 5 years, 1 kid, early thirties, also in Belgium)
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by vbsteven 7y ago
The Minimalists movement talks about this a lot. The idea is that you pack everything you own into labeled boxes and for 3 months, every time you need X you first think about if you really need X or not, and if you do you unpack. After 3 mo
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by vbsteven 7y ago
In a sense that already happened with the web stack. In tech like Electron developers write most of their app once and use a “shell” like Electron to interact with the host OS. Unfortunately the web stack is very bloated with years of legac
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by vbsteven 7y ago
I disagree. We've been doing this for decades on mailinglists # example heading You can add emphasis with asterisk or _underscores_. Links can be done with [1] tags And as an alternative, nothing stops you from using Markdown syntax
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by vbsteven 7y ago
Adding links and plaintext emails are not mutually exclusive. Hackernews comments are a great example where commenters often embed a [1] tag in their comment and at the end of the comment have a section like [1] https://news.ycom
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by vbsteven 7y ago
The fiasco was not on Parse's end but it was ours for locking ourselves into their platform. The sunset window was indeed fair and as you described they provided a clear migration path to self-hosted mongo and eventually the open sourc
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by vbsteven 7y ago
After the Parse.com fiasco I am not touching a high-vendor lock-in BaaS ever again.
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by vbsteven 7y ago
I have to spend some more time on it but due to lack of getting started documentation or examples it was hard to get a Hello World project running. On the GTK-rs side the documentation [1] is much better and I was up and running with a samp
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by vbsteven 7y ago
Interesting project, I’ll be checking this out soon. I’ve been experimenting with several gui libraries in Rust lately and so far the GTK3 bindings seem to be the most promising for building native GUIs in Rust. With native I mean GTK/
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by vbsteven 7y ago
Nice project, congrats on shipping. I’ve taken a quick glance and looked at the code. It’s a Java/Spring Boot project which usually gets a lot of flak around here for “too much magic”. This project is written in a very clean style and
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by vbsteven 7y ago
This depends on the scenario. Before the async revolution most app servers were using this model and I’m sure that a very significant portion of the current internet is served with this model. It may not be the fastest in all cases but I st
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by vbsteven 7y ago
Plainly deleting the image will cause existing setups to break. Something like `cargo yank` would be more appropriate where you can still download the version for existing projects but you cannot use it in new projects anymore. Unfortunatel
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by vbsteven 7y ago
Maybe libui can be of use? As far as I know they wrap native element but I have not looked into it much.
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by vbsteven 7y ago
I've been thinking a lot about this lately and I'm trying to compile some information on how others think it should work. Can you elaborate on what you mean by an all-native solution on top of a powerful modern language? The way I
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by vbsteven 7y ago
As far as I know most traditional package managers only remove files and folders declared in the package. Not files installed somewhere else during the install script or created by the binary when it runs.
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by vbsteven 7y ago
In a good knob it’s not an arc but just clicking and dragging straight up or down that makes it move. A lot of VST audio plugins work like this and they get a lot of controls into a small area like this.
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by vbsteven 7y ago
In Bash/Zsh you can do it with `git config --global alias.cof $'!git for-each-ref --format=\''%$refname:short$\'' refs/heads | fzf | xargs git checkout'` and then do a checkout with `git cof`
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by vbsteven 7y ago
FZF is also very nice for Ctrl-r history search in the shell.
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by vbsteven 7y ago
If you are interested in this type of stuff The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson is an entertaining read that touches some of these topics circa 1650-1720 in Europe. More specifically the switch from bills of exchange to the foundation of s
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by vbsteven 7y ago
This reminds me of that old emacs email extension that inserts a bunch of random keywords into every email.
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by vbsteven 7y ago
Does a proxy really help if the url is parametrized? Even if they do some param stripping a wildcard subdomain can easily get around that.
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by vbsteven 7y ago
It’s not very hard to configure (neo)Mutt to display html only emails with w3m in the terminal. Makes it even easier to parse/read them
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by vbsteven 7y ago
This looks good. I believe there is a lot of room for TUI tools like this. Modern terminals and TUI libraries are advanced enough to support splits, colors, clicks etc. Why run a 600mb electron app when a small TUI app will do just fine. Ev
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by vbsteven 7y ago
In a way yes, but for me it's not about that. It's about not letting everyone and their mother execute their code on my machine for whatever reason. Ads, tracking, cryptomining, surveillance. Mind you that I am only running NoScri
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by vbsteven 7y ago
It’s not the internet we want but it is the one we have. In the end it is your own responsibility for which code gets executed on your machine. I run NoScript with all JS blocked by default and only whitelist the domains I want. On most sit
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by vbsteven 7y ago
I was recently thinking about an open search protocol with some federation elements in two parts. A frontend and an indexer. The idea is that anyone can run his own search frontend or use a community hosted one (like Matrix). And then each
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by vbsteven 7y ago
I wonder if some sort of structure can be used where you split the invoice in two separate invoices. One for the work and a smaller one for the open source donation that can be deducted from taxes as an actual donation. It might not be lega

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