- tommicaHi Xena! Your blog is amazing! Didn't realize you're working on Anubis - it's a really nice tool for the internet! Reminds me a bit of the ye' olde internet for some reason.
- > If you hate it, you've lost a weekend. But you won't hate it. You'll wonder why you ever thought web development had to be so fucking complicated.
This part is said really well, and applies to anything. "It's just a single weekend" is a cure to the whole "wasting time" argument/excuse that I guess a decent amount of people have - at least I know I do.
Really well written article, having both when to use and when not to use, is a nicely balanced view.
- Convenience and developer uncertainty. I fall pray to the "it's paid, so it must be better" fallacy, and the "they know what they are doing, they are pros" illogicality.
- I had a larger rant written, but this is the only part that had any value:
Yes, one can argue that lack of produces results does not give big plusses towards their work processes, but it does not necessarily negate the value of the concepts that they preach. The value of a thing is not only defined by who is spouting it, one must evaluate the argument on it's own merits, not by evaluating of the people yelling about it.
There are plenty of concepts in this world that I cannot make work, that does not mean that the concepts are bad. It only means that the failure reflects on me and my in-capabilities.
And this might be something that you are not noticing: You are making claims about programming practices indirectly by stating that THEIR practices are not worth considering due to lack of shipping anything.
- Not really. Let's reverse the situation on you - why should we take your opinion seriously, we have no idea how much you have shipped, if anything at all, so by your logic, your ragging on the other programmers practices is ridiculous.
I've shipped a few things over the years, but doubt I have strong takes in programming, besides 'the "properness" of a variables name is dependent on the amount of lines between it's definition and usage.' Doubt anyone will take my considerations seriously.
- > The default font shouldn't be about aesthetics, it should be first and foremost about usability.
The thing about usability is that it's both objective and subjective, and one can argue that aesthetics is part of usability. For example, I find writing code much more pleasant with Comic Code font, and I can imagine that there are other people that would hate it.
- > Google kills Gemini Cloud Services (killedbygoogle.com)
This will absolutely happen :D
- Love the series! Very educative, and helps me think better in elixir!
- Pretty sure theyentioned that it will be removed soon
- Oh really? That's a surprise
- I had this idea of having toolbox+custom user for each project - that way it would be "simple" to have isolated environments, but it does lead to a lot of bloat. And I do think it is a naive solution.
Bwrap seems like a better option.
- Should have a desktop tool that allows you to subsribe to different communities and interact with them in a more coherent manner. That way people could self host, and as long as the site talks a common protocol, various tools can interact with it.
Then the site itself should have http output for the discoverability.
- This is a very good point - but isn't this solved by dropping the requests from AI scrapers with your firewall?
- Yeah, even with that it is still better
- I try not to use rpmostree to install anything (only steam-input, codecs and nvidia drivers), and rely on homebrew, appimages, flatpaks and toolbox for my app needs. It works so far...
There is something about immutable linuxes that feels right, and I cannot pinpoint why exactly, but it's like things are segregated correctly.
- > This is incidentally how Windows 386-9x ran DOS applications - in a VM, using V86 mode.
Oh that is cool! Somehow I imagined that virtualization is more of a "modern" concept, but clearly that is naive thinking.
- I need to figure out how to be as open as the author is - it comes across as fricking amazing!
- How is it in production? Does it it live up to your requirements?
- Do you use it in small projects only?
- Fun little comic :) wish it had more about WHY the rules exist, but I assume that would be hard to squish into a panel