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by wvh 4y ago
Well, everybody was a web designer 20 years ago. Nowadays we've got people who are actually good at graphical and frontend design and have actually studied their discipline. My scepticism dropped a few notches the first time I got to w
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by wvh 4y ago
Linear looks good but it's SaaS only. It doesn't feel like a good idea to pump a lot of a company's crucial data into an external system without a way to get it out and continue elsewhere (which is a problem with a lot of bug
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by wvh 4y ago
Oh I think open-source developers care about design these days, but they're focused on getting the core functionality to work and there's only that many hours in a day. I think designers are not joining open-source projects becaus
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by wvh 4y ago
We're running Ceph with Rook and Minio in Kubernetes. I'm evaluating Garage as an alternative for some purposes such as application instance static files for Python or Javascript applications to avoid block volumes in deployments.
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by wvh 4y ago
The main benefit of Arch Linux to me is that when you do a drive-by patch to some software project, it is not unthinkable that the fix reaches you through upstream and an Arch package update in a matter of hours. This flow is not possible w
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by wvh 4y ago
A notepad doesn't sync to the cloud.
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by wvh 4y ago
I have been trying out Helix for the last few months as part of my now 24 year quest to incorporate some form of vi into my daily routine. This time, it's looking good. What sets it apart are the (zero-conf) built-in LSP and tree-sitte
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by wvh 4y ago
Speaking several languages, shifting mindset helps. There's a sort of caricature, a mixture of traits in the mind that helps to shift to Nordic versus central or southern European languages, where imagining the demeanour and cultural s
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by wvh 4y ago
Clearly desktop is too large a target to be solved effectively by a herd of cats. Lots of good intentions and half-standards, but no synergy or force to in darkness bind them. I have been using Linux/Unix on desktop since the nineties,
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by wvh 4y ago
Maybe they thought the robot was meant to deliver something to the crime scene? How familiar are people with those robots?
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by wvh 4y ago
SAP software is the Jira for non-IT software. A slow corporate mess nobody wants to log in to until your boss complains you haven't fill out the SAP thing, so you sigh and try to accept the fact, go in there and try to get it done befo
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by wvh 4y ago
My home laptop Arch installation is about 8 years old. The only major breakage I've experienced with Arch and Debian in the last 10 years or so has been the switch to systemd, which is understandable. I don't necessarily recommend
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by wvh 4y ago
I drop links into a markdown file by topic, along with a short description about what makes the link interesting to me. It's more work than creating a bookmark, but I don't end up with thousands of bookmarks without sufficient con
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by wvh 4y ago
I'm not quite a graybeard yet – even though the first shades are starting to appear – but I have been working for about 24 years now. Frankly, lots of my middle-aged colleagues have been sitting on a chair doing the same thing for 20 y
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by wvh 4y ago
I just wrote a controller that does pretty much that – spawn containers on demand and report back status changes. While this solution does require some knowledge, it so far has been perfectly reliable and reasonably fast. I can fathom the n
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by wvh 4y ago
Sony has an open devices program where some models end up a year or so after their release. Jolla uses this program to make Sailfish releases tuned for select models. I think it's hard to have easy open-source support by default as ARM
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by wvh 4y ago
I have no experience with the company beyond the by now likely 1000 highly irritating ad videos they have thrown at me, making it unlikely I ever would want to have anything to do with them. I also fail to see how a glorified spell checker
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by wvh 4y ago
The brain looks for rhythmic and melodic resolution, and in lots of popular music – and popular classical music – themes tend to resolve in 4, 8 or 16 bars. However, in some Latin American music, themes continuously develop, telling a story
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by wvh 4y ago
At first, you're ignorant. Then, dogmatic. And then you learn what to apply and when. Due to the average age of programmers, a lot of people fall into the first two categories.
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by wvh 4y ago
I don't think this is bad code. Maybe not the most Pythonic in the imperative sense, but certainly you could come across such constructs in languages that are more oriented towards functional programming. This could also be solved in a
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by wvh 4y ago
What's your alternative for stuff that needs to run on more than one server for reliability or scale? I have been duct-taping HA solutions since the late nineties, it definitely wasn't prettier than Kubernetes. We are beyond the p
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by wvh 4y ago
There's a large difference between personal offence and genuine threat, and hence in optimal response. Please teach them that difference; we don't seem to be doing a good job at the moment.
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by wvh 4y ago
Here we are, meticulously crafting open-source programming languages, libraries, operating and distributed systems, only for people to squander the knowledge and freedom on closed ecosystems like Apple's and Google's, and, in the
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by wvh 4y ago
True, but it usually doesn't stop with a one-off lucky shot. Some people just repeatedly spend money in ways that will hurt them in the long run. It's a sad situation if you think your best hope for the future is (extremely unlike
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by wvh 4y ago
I've been looking with some interest at the NW Walkmans for several years, and as far as I know, the whole range still missing queue functionality. It's strange to me whoever is in charge for the product line at Sony doesn't
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by wvh 4y ago
It would be worthwhile if some companies would just be willing to minimally invest into an open-source version of their interface and a safe way for developers and hardcore users to update their devices without bricking them. It might go no
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by wvh 4y ago
A new approach with native speed and incorporating LSP and easy extensibility at its core instead of bold-on – as in older editors – sounds interesting. LSP and across-file editing doesn't always fit nicely into the old tab-per-file or
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by wvh 4y ago
Well, run something rolling such as Arch Linux or Debian Unstable on desktop, and an LTS distribution such as Ubuntu LTS or Debian Stable on servers. If you're not a complete beginner, there are many benefits to run a distribution that
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by wvh 4y ago
This is an interesting read with concepts to keep in mind when designing some application. I've worked with open data, ontologies and semantic web, and I'm afraid a lot of the difficulty is in cross-cutting concerns, interoperabil
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by wvh 4y ago
I don't want the bridge, but I'd pay good money for a unique picture of it!

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