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achoice commented on Lnav Logfile Navigator lnav.org/... · Posted by u/alexzeitler

Is there something like this that's lightweight and works well on (non-WSL) Windows?

I have Windows Servers with tools that create text-based logs and it would be nice to have something that could tail them.

achoice · a year ago

Baretail is what I have used allot. Really old but works good. Like the simple config to color lines. https://www.baremetalsoft.com/baretail/

achoice commented on Securing the Fundamentals: Our Support for Log4j sovereigntechfund.de/news... · Posted by u/schalkneethling

RedShift1 · 2 years ago

Is there any reason to not use java.util.logging? I'm considering dumping slf4j and log4j over it.

achoice · 2 years ago

Mapped Diagnostic Context (MDC) is not available in plain java logging?

achoice commented on Onsen: A Peek into Japan’s Hot Springs one-from-nippon.ghost.io/... · Posted by u/zdw

snowman56789 · 2 years ago

Anyone here been to an onsen? Does it really match the marketing or is this more of people falling over themselves with Japan fascination?

achoice · 2 years ago

Yasuragi in Stockholm Sweden is a popular Japanese style spa retreat. Highly recommended if you have time to spare and relax. I love going especially in the winter to relax and leave the digital stressful everyday life.

https://www.yasuragi.se/en/

achoice commented on Far Manager: files and archives in Windows farmanager.com/... · Posted by u/open-source-ux

lxe · 2 years ago

Related: I've been using Total Commander / Windows Commander for quite some time. Still use it occasionally even to this day. If you're into orthodox file managers, check it out.

achoice · 2 years ago

Love Total Commander. Bought license 20 years ago and still use it. Before that I used Norton Commander and Dos Navigator in dos-era. So powerful tools.

achoice commented on On the insanity of being a Scrabble enthusiast lithub.com/on-the-insanit... · Posted by u/ohpissoff

achoice · 3 years ago

I recommend the book mentioned in the aeticle, Word Freak by Fatis. Entertaining even for me hardly interested in Scrabble. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_Freak

achoice commented on Show HN: Just a Calendar: Simple Calendar to look at, no login, super light calendar.sharats.me/... · Posted by u/sharat87

wodenokoto · 3 years ago

Kinda reminds me of one of my favourite websites, https://weeknumber.com/

achoice · 3 years ago

https://vecka.nu/ is the Swedish variant, very clean. Translats to "week.now" so easy to remember.

achoice commented on Which version of JDK should I use? whichjdk.com/... · Posted by u/aiobe

KronisLV · 4 years ago

Currently upgrading a ~1M SLoC Java enterprise app (with regular Spring, Jetty in there, scheduled processes, PrimeFaces for web UI, REST API services, SOAP services, the whole shebang) from Java 8 to Java 11 (since 17 wasn't out when that change was approved) and it's largely proving to be a pain. Since the version of Spring is ancient and changes over to Spring Boot were also approved, now have to rewrite parts of it and also get rid of the XML configuration and other old approaches which are simply no longer compatible with this upgraded tech stack. It feels like something that perhaps a team should do, instead of one dev over a month or so, but scope creep and estimates for something like that are nigh impossible, so we'll see.

My point is that migrating to new releases isn't always trivial, especially the more complicated and complex a project gets. If i knew that i'll run if compiled successfully, then it wouldn't be too bad, but with the amount of reflection, dynamic class loading etc. that frameworks like Spring favor, my workflow to date has been fixing a bug, building and running, something else breaking, fixing that bug, building and running, something else breaking, realizing that i cannot fix this because upgrades to the logic would be inherently "lossy" due to a mismatch of what the new framework versions provide, making it so that breakages that aren't covered by tests will also be created and so on ad infinitum.

Sometimes it makes me wonder why JDK 9 onward just didn't have a compatibility module: "Here, install this to have all of the old Java classes that were removed from the standard library after JDK 8 and retain that old functionality for software projects that would otherwise be stuck in development hell short of a full rewrite." Or something like that for Spring Boot, that lets you use web.xml instead of having to use hacks to load its contents and register all of the servlets, with half of them not working anyways, because some class names were changed along the way.

Software doesn't always age beautifully.

Furthermore, it feels like new runtime and package versions are made in ways that accidentally break backwards compatibility with no clear ways to avoid this.

achoice · 4 years ago

Upgrading Spring and especially major Boot versions is usually much more work than bumping Java version. Boot change how it does config and such which .. can be confusing.

achoice commented on Angband 4.2.2: A free, single-player roguelike dungeon exploration game rephial.org/... · Posted by u/throwawaybutwhy

philsnow · 4 years ago

There's tons of variants, probably the most out of any of the roguelikes. ZAngband "Zelazny Angband" took the tolkien elements and added elements from Roger Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber series. SAngband "skills angband" added weapon skills and probably tons more. OAngband "opinion angband" scratched the itch of its developers about how Angband should work. MAngband was (wait, IS! it had a release in 2020) a mind-blowing multiplayer Angband variant.

Sil http://www.amirrorclear.net/flowers/game/sil/ is kind of an Angband variant but embraces the middle earth theme a lot more and has removed a lot of stuff.

Tales of Maj'Eyal https://store.steampowered.com/app/259680/Tales_of_MajEyal/ is the continuation of an angband variant called Tales of Middle-Earth / T.o.M.E., which name change I gather was necessary because DarkGod wanted to go commercial.

I wanted to link to [0] for a complete list but it's having struggles today. [1] and [2] have lists but I would guess that roguebasin's list would be more authoritative.

[0] http://www.roguebasin.com/index.php?title=List_of_Angband_va...

[1] http://angband.oook.cz/variants.php

[2] http://www.thangorodrim.net/variants.html

achoice · 4 years ago

TOME is such a great game. I've played Nethack since early 90's, thereafter Angband and Zangband and finally TOME. TOME is very polished, slick, beautiful, full of depth, different challenges and styles. Also actively maintained. Sunken so many hours while listening to talk radio.

achoice commented on Introducing UN/EDIFACT unece.org/trade/uncefact/... · Posted by u/throwawaybutwhy

achoice · 4 years ago

15 years ago I worked with integrating services via IBM WebSphere Message Broker. Big companies needed help mapping EDIFACT messages to/from other formats. Interesting at first, mapping hell after a while. Quite interesting format, see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDIFACT And message specs https://service.unece.org/trade/untdid/d20b/trmd/trmdi2.htm

USA use X12, similar thing.

achoice commented on ZenithOS is a modernized fork of the 64-bit Temple Operating System github.com/ZenithOS/Zenit... · Posted by u/nix23

salmo · 4 years ago

Unfortunately the github page and the website don't explain what the OS actually is.

Anyway, it's on Wikipedia and is fairly fascinating: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TempleOS

achoice · 4 years ago

Here is 85 min documentary about TempleOS and its creator, https://youtu.be/UCgoxQCf5Jg