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by xiaomai 5y ago
I hate the mac my work makes me use, but this makes it a bit less painful. Thank you.
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by xiaomai 5y ago
"non-viral"? Sounds like late 90s Balmer talking. (I understand being worried about the license of libs you're going to deploy, but the license of cli utils isn't something you need to worry about "infecting" y
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by xiaomai 5y ago
The blockchain has nothing to do with dollars. The "value" that disappeared has always been illusory.
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by xiaomai 5y ago
Ah, I thought this was no longer the case. Thanks for the info.
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by xiaomai 5y ago
I guess what I'm trying to say here is that decentralization and cryptography obviously predate all this blockchain nonsense and we shouldn't let the crypto hucksters try to "own" those terms.
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by xiaomai 5y ago
I could be wrong, but I don't think storj is "crypto"/web3. It's decentralized and encrypted, but it's not like files are being stored on a blockchain. (I think they did to an ICO way back in the day, but I don
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by xiaomai 5y ago
it's not discoverable, but ff does have tab search. You prefix a search in your URL bar with '% ' (so like, if you enter '% esbuild', the "suggestions" in the dropdown will all be your tabs that match &#x2
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by xiaomai 5y ago
dino.im is very promising, It's a little buggy right now and missing features, but I love the approach.
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by xiaomai 5y ago
I miss the "golden age" of chat where I could talk to anyone (google/fb/msn messenger/aol?) with my own jabber server. Pidgin was a great client at the time. I've been looking for a modern self-hosted chat sol
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by xiaomai 5y ago
The fontconfig patches are a big reason I stay with Ubuntu. Fonts look _so_ much better on Ubuntu than Arch/etc.
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by xiaomai 5y ago
I want to like AppImage, but it is just unreasonable that there is no built-in way to trivially install a .desktop file for a given AppImage I've downloaded.
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by xiaomai 5y ago
What are people using for a self-hosted "slack" type messenger these days? I have looked at Matrix (which I am interested in but I think needs time to settle right now), Zulip (I really like their threading model but it has been
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by xiaomai 5y ago
GTK+ on Rust is a thing that is seeing a lot of active work (see https://gtk-rs.org/ ). I think some of the core gnome stuff has even moved over to rust at this point (like libsrvg).
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by xiaomai 5y ago
I love seeing all the proper integration with gnome/kernel/etc. Props to the 1password team.
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by xiaomai 6y ago
I have observed this same thing and found it unintuitive, but I think it makes sense? technically your `profile` field could be returning anything (even though you're passing an `id` param in, you potentially could be doing something l
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by xiaomai 6y ago
the main text entry ("Name", the one that starts out focused) lets you type/paste paths.
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by xiaomai 6y ago
I still use rss too (switched to using a self-hosted tt-rss after trying out a ton of Google Reader alternatives). I love RSS and mourn the fact that it's not more popular. The main problem with RSS becoming so niche is that lots of
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by xiaomai 6y ago
They do still have the ad-blocking stuff built in (although is that much better than Privacy Badger?). One big plus for me is it syncs with my phone (where I do vastly prefer Brave to Chrome).
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by xiaomai 6y ago
one thing i have done recently that definitely didn't work is syncing history from phone->desktop. i haven't gone phone->phone in at least a couple years though--good to hear that that's working better.
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by xiaomai 6y ago
I think not having it disappear by default is reasonable. My biggest complaint about signal is how hard it is to preserve history (backing up / transferring to new devices). I think the normal expectation is that your data is not goin
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by xiaomai 6y ago
I think Phoenix Live View is maybe the most compelling story around this ( https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view ). I'm moving a side-project from React/SPA to Phoenix live view and it's k
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by xiaomai 6y ago
This is a great article. I have a different strategy that I think is "better" in a few ways but definitely still complicated. (I'm assuming this is starting on a machine that already has windows on it because that's h
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by xiaomai 6y ago
bitwarden looks cool. what parts are open-source and what parts are closed? (are all the premium features closed-source or are they just charging for that in the hosted-by-them version?)
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by xiaomai 6y ago
This is pretty cool. I am a long-time super-satisfied user of pass ( https://www.passwordstore.org/ ) for all my personal needs, but my work uses shared vaults in 1password and this will make dealing with that a lot more smo
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by xiaomai 6y ago
Good point, I was definitely too flippant about the amount of work involved. Glad to hear it's on the list though!
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by xiaomai 6y ago
I taught a high-school Intro to CS course last year with the TEALs program ( https://tealsk12.org ). I was very unenthusiastic when I heard that the first semester was taught using Snap, but I was wrong. Snap is a pretty awesome
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by xiaomai 6y ago
I used Arch for several years while Ubuntu was doing annoying stuff like shipping a broken/out of date gnome-shell because of Unity. It is soooooooooo nice to be back on Ubuntu. I appreciate the people that like and develop Arch linux
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by xiaomai 6y ago
Arch's official package manager is `pacman`. The official arch repos are tiny though, so you frequently need to interact with the AUR (which are just user submitted packages (they need to be built by the installer unlike the official r
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by xiaomai 6y ago
The n+1 problem is real but I do think dataloader is a very ergonomic solution. In a simple REST API using your ORM's preload functionality is even more ergonomic, but in more complex cases I've seen a lot of gnarly stuff like bu
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by xiaomai 6y ago
Mutations don't have the really clear advantages that queries do (compared to their REST counterparts), but the one thing that I think does make them worthwhile is that you get the cache updates/re-renders based on the mutation re

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