willjp

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by willjp 4y ago
I feel like this is a reality when communicating across any two domains. People have their own problems their mind is busy with, you have to optimize for the least attentive person. That said, this sales-pitch style communication is exhaust
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by willjp 4y ago
I strongly empathize with you, this and the fast-and-furious truck drivers at 5am. I need to check this out.
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by willjp 4y ago
I think graphql is fantastic, and solves tricky design decisions (versioning, precise rest queries). However, I don't believe all graphql client libraries are created equally, and I strongly prefer those that are simpler, and closer to
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by willjp 4y ago
woooow this brings me back. This is where it all started for me. Before I ever had my own computer.
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by willjp 4y ago
This is my favourite model. Say you are an illustrator, you purchase photoshop once for 900$ and you update again when the features are compelling. Maybe every 5 years? These are not industries where people make programmer wages. Combining
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by willjp 4y ago
It’s not unusual - to see me cry
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by willjp 4y ago
Internationalization is a strong argument. I don’t like it, but you might be right. I’d still prefer a layer of abstraction between config file keys/comments so your configuration can be localized, but there are additional issues here
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by willjp 4y ago
I agree and disagree. The driver issue is frustrating, but I think this is mostly a choice of hardware issue. If you can get a wifi chip with officially supported drivers it’s pretty painless. Broadcom, in my experience have consistently be
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by willjp 4y ago
I still use a non-tiled wm for specific use cases. Openbox is extremely minimalist and customizable. I use it for games, gimp, and occasionally gui application development. You can add directional selection keybindings etc. so it keeps a ti
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by willjp 4y ago
This is what I love about vim. Ironically, I think that the barrier to writing a plugin that solves your problems is lower in vim than an IDE. Pair that with portability, and you have a cozy environment you can feel safe investing hours int
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by willjp 4y ago
I’m not sure that is entirely fair. Sure containers like LXC and bsd-jails existed, but I think the feature that won the hearts of devs was the incremental builds that let people fail quickly in a forgiving way. With jails, the best I know
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by willjp 4y ago
Hahaha fair enough
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by willjp 4y ago
That’s very frustrating. I suppose it would be very expensive to standardize apis at this level where everything is performance critical.
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by willjp 4y ago
Wow, I had no idea. I wonder why all of the resistance - if not github then even the git protocol over ssh or a samba share.
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by willjp 4y ago
This is what I’m hoping for. At least, I’ve noticed on the admin side that lower level tools and system calls seem to be more stable and better documented than the abstractions built overtop of them. I think market pressures make this a dif
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by willjp 4y ago
Re: skill churn I got the impression that there is much less of this in lower level languages. It seems like there is a fairly stable foundation of C, Cpp that everything else is built on top of. I wonder if embedded programmers have this p
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by willjp 4y ago
People that liked this post may also be interested in drawit, a vim plugin that helps you create ascii diagrams. https://github.com/vim-scripts/DrawIt
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by willjp 4y ago
Congratulations, you just made my 2022.
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by willjp 4y ago
I feel exactly the same. I had never played a game before that felt so free. I spent so much time just discovering the world, what you could do. The magic system that invited you to break the game mechanics - at a cost. I love how playful i
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by willjp 4y ago
This is my favourite passtime. So so many little scripts. Some fun ones: * cli tool to diff changes to a branch since the last revision you looked at when it has been rebased (only if you haven’t git gc’d!!) * use fzf to choose from pulseau
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by willjp 5y ago
I seem to be the minority, but this makes me sad. Personally, I find it much less productive to work in an office, with all of the background chatter, interruptions, distractions, meetings. It's my fourth year of full remote work and I
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by willjp 5y ago
Oh I didn't realize that, thank you!
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by willjp 5y ago
I agree, but it's not discord's fault. Discord is great at what it does. I find the same social issues with discord, slack, gitter, irc, matrix.org, etc. Chat may be good for the questioneer, but it's bad for search/rete
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by willjp 5y ago
Well, a house and some kind of NAS or at least a computer that is always on. But I take your point. This idea is brilliant though!!
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by willjp 5y ago
Thank you very much for this reply! Those are all very good points. You’re right, this is a service, and not having the worry about hardware or scripts at all is valuable when you have a million other things to manage.
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by willjp 5y ago
This is terrifying, and has a ring of truth to it. I still think it's better than the alternative though.
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by willjp 5y ago
agreed.
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by willjp 5y ago
This is exactly the solution I landed on as well. It has served me well for a few years now :).
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by willjp 5y ago
This is very slick. Apparently, I need to make some techie friends. Tarsnap is pretty affordable for off-site backups though!
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by willjp 5y ago
I'm not sure, I guess it depends what you're looking for. I'm a hobbyist, with no real professional experience in server admin, so I am probably missing some important things. But most of this can be replicated with ZFS and F

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