I'd rather stay in Linux and use Windows if I really must. Can we have an LSW, then?
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olav commented on Ditching Obsidian and building my own amberwilliams.io/blogs/bu... · Posted by u/williamsss
https://web.archive.org/web/20250518171639/https://amberwill... as long as the original throws a 500 "Internal Server Error".
Yup. Immediately a negative impression from me.
Doesn't mean it won't sell, congrats to OP, but god I hate everything about Teams.
Right now it's showing me calendar items with times that are wrong, they'll switch to the right time in a few minutes... probably. I didn't change time zones, I didn't do anything, it's just something wonky about their new calendar setup. If the time updates I'll click to open the calendar item, and it won't show me the join link to join the meeting ... well eventually it will pop in there, maybe.
It's not just annoyingly designed and slow, it's constantly buggy with new and exciting bugs every few months.
For thirty years now, the world knows that the last company to trust calendars and mail is Microsoft and yet they are all over the place. I have lost all hope for humanity‘s future.
I ported John Earnest's Octo variant to an ESP32 cheap yellow display (CYD) board, loading many of the examples from the archive: https://github.com/codekulturbonn/espocto
A password manager for ~20€
olav commented on Why time seems to pass faster as we age invertedpassion.com/why-t... · Posted by u/paraschopra
I wonder if the way the author describes it, ie. new memories are just diffs against older experiences, is scientifically grounded.
I came up with another explanation: My thought processes have slowed, so the world has sped up, relative to myself.
Is there scientific evidence for either explanation?
olav commented on In Defense of Simple Architectures (2022) danluu.com/simple-archite... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
Early in my career one of the IT guys told me that one of the people on staff was "a technical magpie". I looked at him with a raised eyebrow and he said "He has to grab every shiny piece of tech that shows up and add it to the pile".
This is where we are.
I can't tell you how many times I have seen projects get done just to pad a PM or developers resume. Just because it was the lastest and greatest hot shit thing to use. No sense of if it would be better, faster, cheaper, useful.
When cloud was the hot new thing the company that I worked with launched a replatform on AWS. It gave us the ability to get through the initial scaling and sizing with ease. We left right away, because even then the costs did not make sense. Now we see folks crying about "exit fees" that were always there. That assumes that your institution even has the gall to own years of pissing away money.
Workman like functionality isnt sexy, it wont be the hot bullet point on your resume, it wont get you your next job, but it is dam effective.
As a product manager, I am frequently confronted by UX people who declare something as „standard“, a feature that is supposed to be an absolute „must-have“, or else our organisation would loose even the last of our users. Unfortunately, developers tend to accept these things as interesting challenges and (knowingly or not) underestimate the effort and complexity needed to implement it.
My very lonesome role in these cases is to insist that this shiny thing is no standard at all and that our users would be quite happy without it.
olav commented on New Outlook sends passwords, mails and other data to Microsoft mailbox.org/en/post/warni... · Posted by u/New_California
The real question is: why are you using Outlook?
My employer forces me to, why else?
Ah, and Pocketbase has automatic database migrations, so all schema modifications can go into version control.
I even hacked a Gemini protocol server into it, so that I can browse my personal knowledge graph using Lagrange.