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jackofalltrades commented on Sending emails to my three-year-old   blog.haschek.at/2024/leav... · Posted by u/geek_at
davchana · 2 years ago
Not OP, but I have a Google Apps Script running on daily schedule which extracts every email older than 30 days as .eml file, renames it as YYYY MM DD HH MM SS SUBJECT.eml, saves in a Google Drive Folder with YYYY as subfolder. Drive itself is synced instantly with my hard drive, and I backup that drive occasionally (like around 3 to 5 weeks) to another local & rclone to Dropbox.

30 days so that I can have enough time to delete it. Trash & Spam is excluded, and every successful downloaded email is labeled to prevent it getting downloaded again in next run.

Originally 4 years ago when I started this script, it was timing out because of about 15 years of emails. I ran it for 6 minutes only, every hour. Now once it caught up, it needs only few seconds, and there are only like 5 to 20 emails caught in its daily net.

jackofalltrades · 2 years ago
Any chance you can share that script?
jackofalltrades commented on Zellij: A terminal workspace with batteries included   zellij.dev/... · Posted by u/thunderbong
_blz2 · 2 years ago
jackofalltrades · 2 years ago
Thank you! Will try it in the next few days!
jackofalltrades commented on Zellij: A terminal workspace with batteries included   zellij.dev/... · Posted by u/thunderbong
paranoidxprod · 2 years ago
Huge fan of Zellij. I really like the discoverability it offers. Felt really intuitive to learn, and now it’s hitting a point where navigation between Zellij and Nvim is getting on par with tmux. Can’t recommend trying it enough!
jackofalltrades · 2 years ago
What didn't cut it for me some months ago was precisely the seamless navigation I can get in tmux and Neovim with the tmux-neovim navigator plugins. In Zellij it was no so fluid to jump between panes and Neovim. I wonder if it was solved, done differently but better with any new plugin or config.
jackofalltrades commented on MDN Curriculum   developer.mozilla.org/en-... · Posted by u/tagawa
jackofalltrades · 2 years ago
Is there something like this for backend? I am aware of things like https://roadmap.sh/backend just wondering if there's anything else backed by some big tech name like Mozilla.
jackofalltrades commented on Show HN: Wave – Modern Open-Source Terminal (macOS and Linux)   github.com/wavetermdev/wa... · Posted by u/sawka
jackofalltrades · 2 years ago
Honest question, why does everyone uses discord for community space nowadays? What happened to product forums that could be easily found in a web search?
jackofalltrades commented on Xerox PARC Special   thechipletter.substack.co... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
liendolucas · 3 years ago
I never get tired of reading the amazing achievements from Xerox PARC, even if it's something I already know. The book mentioned in the post is super-interesting and goes in lots of details and the dynamics between the different teams and people behind the legendary research division, but as Alan Kay (if I'm correct) itself mentioned is quite disorganized in regards to the sequence of events. Nevertheless you don't get bored a single bit. Highly recommended.
jackofalltrades · 3 years ago
I second this! The first time I heard about the book was somewhere here on Hacker News and I gave it a chance and it was really good (specially because I too am excited about reading everything about what was done in the Xerox PARC).
jackofalltrades commented on Minitel: The Online World France Built Before the Web (2017)   spectrum.ieee.org/minitel... · Posted by u/adrian_mrd
jackofalltrades · 4 years ago
this episode of command line heroes talks about the minitel (https://www.redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes/season-7/world)

Season 7 of the podcast is all about the first times of the web.

jackofalltrades commented on I think I know why you can't hire engineers right now   cushychicken.github.io/wh... · Posted by u/cushychicken
hguant · 4 years ago
There comes a point where the money just isn't a motivating factor anymore, and companies are struggling to figure out how to work in that environment. This bit from the author hits the nail on the head:

>Is an extra $10k per year worth learning a new org, a new skillset, a new set of expectations, a new set of coworkers, and a new boss?

For many engineers, the answer is: “No.”

Yes I could quit and get a ~20k raise by shopping my resume around, but I don't need the money. I have enough for a down payment on a house, I meet my expenses for the month with 1/2 of one paycheck, I can buy a new car on a credit card if I wanted to. More money would be _nice_, and I imagine I'd be singing a slightly different song if I had kids, but it's much less important than knowing the work that I do has meaning and an immediate impact on the world, and about as important as working with new/interesting technology. I imagine there are a lot of early career (26-30 year old) software engineers who are in a similar boat. If money was a motivator I'd be serially founding companies and striving to be The Next Big Thing. I'm just not. I'm happy being hire number 13, or 99, and working with people I like doing work I find value in.

Edited for spelling

jackofalltrades · 4 years ago
I understand yours and authors view about money, but for some people 10k per year raise is a really good amount. I was recently on that boat, jumped companies for a close to 10k/year raise because that was 1/3 of what I was making in my previous company. Development jobs aren't at all paid in the same scale in the US vs rest of the world (I'm in Europe).
jackofalltrades commented on macOS Setup after 15 Years of Linux   hookrace.net/blog/macos-s... · Posted by u/def-
tra3 · 4 years ago
Did you disable kernel security to inject the window server extensions? I don’t understand the repercussions so I’m a little reluctant to.
jackofalltrades · 4 years ago
Same, and this really makes it a deal breaker for me in my company's MacBook pro.
jackofalltrades commented on Book Review: A Philosophy of Software Design (2020)   johz.bearblog.dev/book-re... · Posted by u/fagnerbrack
ratww · 5 years ago
In my opinion, the caveat on the article is very apt: Clean Code teaches rules, not principles. If you read it with a critical mind you'll get a lot of it, if you follow it blindly you'll get a lot of bad habits. Unfortunately programmers need some experience to be able to do it.

IMO the same caveat applies to Clean Architecture: it is study material to architects, rather than something you can copy-paste into a new project. The reason it's dauting, IMO, is because there are some unnecessary concepts there that are unrelated to the "grand idea", and those small things might make sense for Bob Martin but might not make sense to you.

If you want to understand it, I really like this article. I think it explains very well the "grand idea" of architectural templates like Clean/Hexagonal/Onion... and links it to Gary Berhnardt's Imperative-shell-functional-core: https://danuker.go.ro/the-grand-unified-theory-of-software-a...

Of course I also recommend Imperative-shell-functional-core itself: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/boundaries

jackofalltrades · 5 years ago
Thank you for your recommendations, I'll take a look on them.

u/jackofalltrades

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