Thanks for creating this. However, I was a bit puzzled when I found a packages.json
and then saw that all the heavy lifting is done from bash. I don't understand the need for having to install Yarn for just running a bunch of bash scripts. IMHO, after seeing the size and the amount of logic within the scripts, I think you could have made it more ergonomic by just building a bash script that takes parameters and that's it.
Readit NewsOctabrain commented on Show HN: Ward – a file vault written in bash github.com/oeo/ward... · Posted by u/genesishash
I'm working on a side project which is a Python library that provides of an abstraction layer to manage infrastructure in cloud providers by interacting with their APIs. This is something I've been developing every now and then for the last months after years of working with Terraform and getting tired of the limitations of it's DSL (yeah, Pullumi is better but I just simply want a generic library with classes representing services in the cloud I can call natively in Python without having to deal with a 3rd party application like Pullumi is!).
Octabrain commented on The anatomy of a 2AM mental breakdown zarar.dev/anatomy-of-a-me... · Posted by u/recroad
I can relate to this. I used to be on call for many years and honestly, it destroyed my mental health. In the last company I did it, it felt like falling in a meat grinder for a week. I remember once spending a whole weekend giving support on an bug that was introduced by a recent release. 72 hours of working non stop. Because of that among others, I got a severe burnt out that took me to the deepest dark place I've ever been.
To this day, I simply refuse to do on call. There's no enough money you can pay me that would make me to suffer that again.
PS: Fuck you, Rackspace.
Octabrain commented on Is Clear Air Turbulence becoming more common? flightradar24.com/blog/is... · Posted by u/redtriumph
I hate flying with passion and get extremely scared when flying through turbulences but, there was a journalist in my country, that also had experience as a pilot and said once on TV that during turbulences, is one of the safest moments in a plane. I don't remember the reasons but is there anybody in here with knowledge in the field that could confirm/deny this?
Octabrain commented on Adventures Making Vegemite daveon.design/adventures-... · Posted by u/vintagedave
The first time my father was in the UK, he had just come from the Netherlands, where they put chocolate sprinkles (Hagelslag) on toast, so he thought the open Marmite jar must be something Nutella-like, and slathered it liberally onto his bread.
He had just been engaged in the process of pondering how awfully civilised the Brits were when he bit into it.
Same thing happened to me when I moved to the UK: I went to the supermarket, bought one jar or Marmite, went back home, had a toast with it expecting to have some sweet-close-to-chocolate flavour and then I was shocked. I have to admit that I actually liked although I don't eat it regularly these days because that wild amount of salt cannot be healthy in any manner.
Octabrain commented on The KDE desktop gets an overhaul with Plasma 6 lwn.net/SubscriberLink/96... · Posted by u/jrepinc
It's so straightforward you can't even switch to another window without pressing a separate button first!
The Gnome designers have apparently discovered that taskbars are attention vampires and a detriment to users.
I don't get your point. I just use two ways:
1. With mouse -> Up left corner (a.k.a hot corner) -> Click on the window I want.
2. With keyboard -> Alt + Tab -> Select the window I want.
I find that quite straight forward. Again, it's a personal thing.
Octabrain commented on The KDE desktop gets an overhaul with Plasma 6 lwn.net/SubscriberLink/96... · Posted by u/jrepinc
Fair enough. I guess I have a hard time understanding why you wouldn't be interested to make the workflow fit better for yourself on a device you spend hours per day using.
It's just a personal thing. I try to stick to using tools that provide me the best defaults + being open source. I don't want to spend time customizing my desktop or getting overwhelmed by the amount of different choices I have available. Don't get me wrong, KDE is a beautiful and great project, it's just that, a very personal thing.