That's more of a takedown of whoever built the Gitlab tool than Mermaid itself.
In the world where LLM's are very good at mermaid diagrams is the syntax even that terribly important?
What a terrible take
Readit NewsHad these exact same thoughts while I was configuring a series of workflows and scripts to get around the multiple unjustified and longstanding restrictions on what things are allowed to happen when.
That sinking feeling when you search for how to do something and all of the top results are issues that were opened over a decade ago...
It is especially painful trying to use github to do anything useful at all after being spoiled by working exclusively from a locally hosted gitlab instance. I gave up on trying to get things to cache correctly after a few attempts of following their documentation, it's not like I'm paying for it.
Was also very surprised to see that the recommended/suggested default configuration that runs CodeQL had burned over 2600 minutes of actions in just a day of light use, nearly doubling the total I had from weeks of sustained heavy utilization. Who's paying for that??
I've been saying for years, GitHub Actions is alpha software.
Can you guys shut up about Trump just for a second? This is not about the United States.
EatFlamingDeath commented on Xcode constantly phones home lapcatsoftware.com/articl... · Posted by u/MaysonL
I sincerely don't understand how devs that use macOS put up with this crap. I remember getting a Macbook M1 from the company I used to work for and the battery life was amazing, but as soon as I needed to install Xcode I just gave up. It's unbelievably bad, fuck that.
EatFlamingDeath commented on Venvstacks: Virtual Environment Stacks for Python lmstudio.ai/blog/venvstac... · Posted by u/ingve
It's crazy to me that in 2025 we still haven't figured out python dependency management
Dependency management and imports (without a proper namespace solution) make me angry beyond reason. I love and hate Python.
EatFlamingDeath commented on Wazuh – Open-source security platform wazuh.com/... · Posted by u/LorenDB
I'd like to give you a virtual cookie, for being the only person in the comments so far to spell out what SIEM stands for.
I appreciate you.
Seriously, this is getting out of hand in the cybersecurity space. SAST, DAST, SBOM, WAF, SOAR, TPRM, NGFW, MSSP...
EatFlamingDeath commented on How do you deploy in 10 seconds? paravoce.bearblog.dev/how... · Posted by u/mpweiher
Or (on K8S) you set your drain time to 0, the surge to 9999999% and the PDB to "screw everything". Now your deployments take 2 seconds (the time to pull down your change and run it).
You also just lost all your guardrails and collaborative controls, as well as created a dependency on all engineers being equally capable.
In other words, unless you are DHH and don't have to scale (both in terms of workload and terms of company), this scenario doesn't apply in the real world.
Exactly. I mean, I understand that 45+ minutes to deploy something that takes less than a minute to build is obnoxious, but the pipeline is not always there to only build the app. Deploying in 10 seconds means no safeguards and that you can send broken code to production. And pipelines are about automation too. Having a sane pipeline that will check formatting, linting, test, build and deploy quickly to a server is not that hard.
Well, if you don't care for production being down for a couple of minutes, fine, do the "10 second deployment". But, at least for me, even in really small projects, it doesn't make any sense.
Embracing, extending, and extinguishing their own tool?
Please consider what you are going to say before you say it.
Oh my sweet summer child...
Classic problem: management hits workers for “perfectionism”… and then hits them again when things aren’t perfect.
This or the manager wants it perfect but complains when it takes longer
I hate all of the half-cooked non-TOTP MFA methods that I'm forced to use. Just let me use my freaking authenticator app. If you believe that your users prefer (or maybe it's just you?) more databroker-friendly methods, then fine, but please at least provide TOTP as an option.