Enjoyed this. Reminds me of the great Idle Words (Maciej Ceglowski’s blog) travel posts.
Shuffleboard At McMurdo: https://idlewords.com/2016/05/shuffleboard_at_mcmurdo.htm
Readit Newsb3lm0nt commented on Greenland is a beautiful nightmare matduggan.com/greenland-i... · Posted by u/zdw
I use Gary Bernhardt's (non)-method, quoted here:
IMO you don't need a special tool to manage your home directory / dotfiles. Git is the tool. Your home directory is a repo with a .git directory like any other repo. No other tools; no symlinks; nothing else. Commit what you want and gitignore the rest. I've done this since 2008.
Never had a problem with it.
b3lm0nt commented on There is still the need for a better Goodreads alternative creativerly.com/there-is-... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
A new alternative that I came across recently: https://www.literary.salon/
b3lm0nt commented on Show HN: Original 8x16 ASCII Fixed Width Font: Classic Console Neue webdraft.hu/fonts/classic... · Posted by u/deejayy
b3lm0nt commented on A Road to Common Lisp (2018) stevelosh.com/blog/2018/0... · Posted by u/fuzztester
I wanted to love Common Lisp, but as a Vim user every day was a struggle. One typically uses plugins (Slimv, Vlime) that contort buffers in bizarre ways in order to simulate the SLIME EMacs REPL — if not, they will lose out on the interactive development experience that is so central to CL.
Being tied to either EMacs or an enterprise solution like LispWorks to get the full language experience was ultimately a non-starter. I’d love for someone to build an alternative CL development experience that could work in a wider range of text editors and IDEs.
There is a lot to learn from CL, but I think it can be hard to access for most developers.
b3lm0nt commented on Show HN: PostgreSQL index advisor github.com/supabase/index... · Posted by u/kiwicopple
I've often thought that a database that could automatically detect slow queries and create the necessary indexes would be neat. You run a load test on your application, which in turns calls the database and you collect all the queries it makes. Then the database automatically adjusts itself.
Andrew Kane built dexter, which is an automatic indexer for Postgres.
b3lm0nt commented on Barnes and Noble Sets Itself Free nytimes.com/2023/10/17/st... · Posted by u/prismatic
I'm finding myself slipping back to books again now. It's very hard to sift the wheat from the chaff with online stuff.
Agree —- as someone who previously only owned software books for coursework in the early ‘10s, I’ve built up a growing collection over the past 3 years. The quality of book content is generally much higher than blog posts and SO answers, and I’ve never been one for eBooks / PDFs.
Plus, it makes my home office feel more in tune with my profession. I like to see the books on the shelf and leaf through them while waiting for my CI to build.
b3lm0nt commented on Using OpenBSD Relayd(8) as an Application Layer Gateway tumfatig.net/2023/using-o... · Posted by u/zdw
In addition to the excellent man pages, I enjoyed Michael W Lucas' "Httpd and Relayd Mastery" [1].
[1]: https://www.tiltedwindmillpress.com/product/httpd-and-relayd...
Seconded. Nice, concise volume that helped me setup hosting for multiple sites on a single VM with different requirements (some reverse proxy, some CGI, some static).
Really looking forward to the 3rd edition of Absolute OpenBSD.
b3lm0nt commented on Lindy Approach to Web Development: Htmx and Go medium.com/@kyodo-tech/li... · Posted by u/g4k
Plain old Ruby on Rails is significantly more Lindy than this. And how about…
- LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)
- CGI programming (/cgi-bin/)
- HTML, CSS, JS (with XMLHttpRequest to avoid full page reloads)
- AOLServer with Tcl (still developed as NaviServer)
- FTPing your HTML and CSS directly to the server
HTMX in particular is decidedly non-Lindy.
Because the technologies we had were good enough. It turned out that very few people needed to cross an ocean in three hours instead of six hours. On my way to this conference, I flew from Switzerland to San Francisco. It took eleven hours and cost me around a thousand dollars. It was a long flight and kind of uncomfortable and boring. But I crossed the planet in half a day!
Being able to get anywhere in the world in a day is really good enough. We complain about air travel but consider that for a couple of thousand dollars, you can go anywhere, overnight.
The people designing the planes of tomorrow got so caught up in the technology that they forgot to ask the very important question, “what are we building this for?”