dayvster (u/dayvster)

dayvster commented on Zig + Qt feels like doing the impossible right dayvster.com/blog/why-zig... · Posted by u/ibobev

hiccuphippo · 3 months ago

Very nice! One thing I'd like to known is how good is the cross-compilation story for this library? Zig itself makes cross-compilation easy but Qt seems to be a beast to get cross-compilation working.

dayvster · 3 months ago

Well I discussed this with the Author briefly and that's a huge undertaking and he is working on it but the results especially desired results will take time.

dayvster commented on Worse Is Better Start Simple and Iterate dayvster.com/blog/worse-i... · Posted by u/ibobev

ChrisArchitect · 4 months ago

Aside: this post is from the future? (Oct 29) How'd you even find it?

dayvster · 4 months ago

Yea as the author of the article that's what I'm wondering too this is scheduled to be "released" in a couple of days. I basically figured I wouldn't need to do much more than not link it anywhere on my website or sitemap.

haha looks like I might have to straight up make non public posts unavailable for viewing in the future.

dayvster commented on Accidentally Made a Zig Dotenv Parser dayvster.com/blog/acciden... · Posted by u/ibobev

peterldowns · 4 months ago

Why do you have so many ads in this blog post?

dayvster · 4 months ago

Author of the article here again.

Since I've seen multiple people complain about this I've dropped adsense completely as they were pretty invasive with tracking and the amount of ads.

I'm currently testing carbon ads and then I'll do a split test with ethicalads.io

So far both of them only display a singular small banner and it's better targeted towards devs.

dayvster commented on I Miss When Software Ended dayvster.com/blog/i-miss-... · Posted by u/ibobev

ChrisArchitect · 4 months ago

https://rosswintle.uk/2025/10/software-can-be-finished/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45568950)

dayvster · 4 months ago

Oooh that's a good one, saved for later!

dayvster commented on I Miss When Software Ended dayvster.com/blog/i-miss-... · Posted by u/ibobev

JohnFen · 4 months ago

I got out of the subscription software pool a number of years ago, for the reasons that this article is presenting.

I also disable (or block, if I can't disable) automatic updates because I realized that I couldn't stand having the software I use change underneath me without warning. Especially when that change involves features being removed or the update breaking things.

I'll only update after I am pretty sure the update won't give me grief.

I miss the days when updates were things I looked forward to rather than dreading them as I do now.

dayvster · 4 months ago

That is precisely what prompted me to write this article, it was an update to a piece of software I require to use for work that suddenly just stopped working properly.

That's actually a point I wish I touched upon more in the article, how SaaS and the ability to patch software issues later down the line made sloppy coding a norm, because you can always just push a patch and expect your users to update to resolve their issues.

Whereas back in the ol' days (promise I'm not that old) a bug in your software would essentially mean severely dissatisfied costumers that may not purchase the next version from you

dayvster commented on Accidentally Made a Zig Dotenv Parser dayvster.com/blog/acciden... · Posted by u/ibobev

porridgeraisin · 4 months ago

> hosting costs

Your using page says you use astro, so I assume you have a static site. Isn't any of the free hosts (GitHub, cloudflare) sufficient for that?

dayvster · 4 months ago

Do you really wish to go into stuff that has very little to do with the article itself?

I'll gladly provide an answer but I don't think it's constructive.

I host the site on vercel with astro, I'm on the pro plan which usually costs me somewhere around 20€ per month +/- 5-10€ depending on my monthly traffic.

add to that the minuscule cost of my domain and other stuff I'm paying about 250-300€ per year

My adsense avg per day is just about 1.20€ roughly.

So at best I break even, at worst I lose a bit of money.

I still maintain my position that everyone is welcome and should use adblock or brave or pi-hole on my site if they so wish I won't mind.

But I do like the fact that I don't have to foot the bill :)

Basically if I had to lose money to write I'd probs stop writing if I'm honest.

dayvster commented on Accidentally Made a Zig Dotenv Parser dayvster.com/blog/acciden... · Posted by u/ibobev

porridgeraisin · 4 months ago

Yeah, I disabled brave shields and reloaded, and... Wow. Even sketchy pirate sites don't have these many ads. On a personal blog too! Not gonna read the article on principle.

dayvster · 4 months ago

Harsh but fair, I strongly encourage you to keep your shields up and or adblocker turned on.

Sorry you couldn't enjoy the article though.