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robertlagrant commented on DoNotNotify is now Open Source donotnotify.com/opensourc... · Posted by u/awaaz

systemz · 4 days ago

I would pay a lot to have this on iPhone as I'm distracted easily due to my ADHD. iOS doesn't have as granular notification configuration as Android (topics?) plus Apple probably wouldn't agree to funnel all notification through 3rd party app.

robertlagrant · 4 days ago

This is what drove me to uninstall Facebook, twitter, etc. I use their websites if I occasionally want to visit. I don't want notifications hooking me into my phone.

robertlagrant commented on Coding assistants are solving the wrong problem bicameral-ai.com/blog/int... · Posted by u/jinhkuan

robertlagrant · 9 days ago

> There’s a name for misalignment between business intent and codebase implementation: technical debt.

I wish we'd stop redefining this term. Technical debt is a shortcut agreed upon with the business to get something out now and fix later, and the fix will cost more than the original. It is entirely in line with business intent.

robertlagrant commented on Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years millert.dev/... · Posted by u/wodniok

squigz · 10 days ago

This is why I feel like a missing piece of Patreon/Kofi/whatever is the ability to say "Here's $x; divide it automagically amongst the creators I'm currently following"

Sure, I think a lot of those donations would amount to a few pennies or so at once, but I feel like a lot more people would be willing to support creators if they didn't have to constantly choose which to support.

robertlagrant · 10 days ago

I would love it if something like Github would accept donations from a repo and parcel it out to the repo's dependencies somehow. It would sadly make Github even stickier, but it would be a great feature.

robertlagrant commented on Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games adventuregamestudio.co.uk... · Posted by u/doener

robertlagrant · 11 days ago

I remember making a very simple adventure game from scratch in BBC Basic in the mid 90s. Good times. Code immediately lost on reboot.

robertlagrant commented on I’m leaving Redis for SolidQueue simplethread.com/redis-so... · Posted by u/amalinovic

jacob-s-son · a month ago

Every author of the free software obviously has rights to full control of the scope of their project.

That being said, I regret that we have switched from good_job (https://github.com/bensheldon/good_job). The thing is - Basecamp is a MySQL shop and their policy is not to accept RDMS engine specific queries. You can see in their issues in Github that they try to stick "universal" SQL and are personally mostly concerned how it performs in MySQL(https://github.com/rails/solid_queue/issues/567#issuecomment... , https://github.com/rails/solid_queue/issues/508#issuecomment...). They also still have no support for batch jobs: https://github.com/rails/solid_queue/pull/142 .

robertlagrant · a month ago

> their policy is not to accept RDMS engine specific queries

Why? Is it so they can switch in future?

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robertlagrant commented on Apple picks Gemini to power Siri cnbc.com/2026/01/12/apple... · Posted by u/stygiansonic

thinkindie · a month ago

several years after that they still have their own Maps though, they didn't go back to Google Maps.

robertlagrant · a month ago

That's the point of what the person you replied to is saying.

robertlagrant commented on Message Queues: A Simple Guide with Analogies (2024) cloudamqp.com/blog/messag... · Posted by u/byt3h3ad

coronapl · a month ago

While queues definitely play an important role in microservices architecture, I think it’s worth clarifying that they’re not unique to it. A queue can fit perfectly in a monolith depending on the use case. I regularly use queues for handling critical operations that might require retrying, for having better visibility into failed jobs, ensuring FIFO guarantees, and more. Queues are such a useful tool for building any resilient architecture that framing them as primarily a microservices concern might cause unnecessary confusion.

robertlagrant · a month ago

Totally agree. Banks use durable queues a lot to make sure things get processed. Or at least they used to.

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robertlagrant commented on The Going Dark initiative or ProtectEU is a Chat Control 3.0 attempt mastodon.online/@mullvadn... · Posted by u/janandonly

idle_zealot · 2 months ago

You can absolutely frame enshrining privacy and punishing those who would spy on you in a populist way. The messaging writes itself. The problem is that anti-power populism is considered extremely dangerous and tamped down on far more strongly than the most virulent bigots and fascists.

Populism is how you win votes, but only one form of populism is allowed. For now, at least.

robertlagrant · 2 months ago

Fascism requires an authoritarian state. If you don't want the horrors of the 20th century, be it fascists with a world war, or socialism with even more deaths despite being in peacetime, you don't want authoritarianism to take hold, and you want to move power out of the state.

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