anotherevan
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Comment · 16 days ago
As long as you can use one instance of Postgresql. There's another comment thread here[1] about each thing wanting its own Postgresql container.
Comment · 16 days ago
I'd be interested in a list of services he uses that he could self-host but chooses not to. I think the only one he listed was email.
Comment · 1 month ago
> I switched to Brave because Firefox no longer holds the technical or moral high ground.
Every time I see mention of "Brave" I'm reminded that Brendan left Mozilla because of his contributions to anti-gay rights causes, and then immediately founded a company called "Brave". In essence, to me, it felt like he was thumbing his nose and saying it was brave to be a homophobe.
So yeah, nah, comparing the moral high ground between Mozilla and quote Brave un-quote is not a compelling argument to me.
Comment · 1 month ago
I have at least one box of old A/V cables and such sitting in my cupboard that I've been thinking I need to sort through and probably throw out.
Things like big, thick composite cables and extra long VGA cables.
Now… maybe not?
Comment · 1 month ago
Yep, ziploc bags with the type of cable written in permanent marker.
Pro-tip, use a hole punch on a corner of the bag. That way, once zipped you can just squeeze it to get the air out.
Comment · 1 month ago
Ha! I use CD spindles for… wait for it… CDs! Just opened the second drawer of my desk and counted four spindles of blank CDs and DVDs that I haven't used in years.
(I also hoard blank CD/DVD jewel cases. Who says technology ruins lives?)
Comment · 2 months ago
“In an ideal world the scientist should find a method to prevent the most severe forms of autism but allow the milder forms to survive. After all, the really social people did not invent the first stone spear. It was probably invented by an Aspie who chipped away at rocks while the other people socialized around the campfire. Without autism traits we might still be living in caves.”
Comment · 2 months ago
Except that it will get it wrong infrequently but often enough that you should really proof-read the result properly. All of which you end up taking more time than if you wrote proper if the first case.
Comment · 2 months ago
You just gave me strong memories of using voice messages for a couple of months some years ago. In my defence, I had dropped a circular saw blade through the tip of my finger which slowed down my typing for a while. (I did manage to get surprisingly fast as a nine-finger touch typist, sans the left index finger.)
Fortunately my colleagues were very understanding, and I reverted back to text once I could type reasonably well and with minimal pain again.
Comment · 2 months ago
"You millennials and your obsession with public healthcare. Back in my day we just died."
Comment · 2 months ago
While I don't always agree with everything Drew writes, the title of his blog post[1], "Please stop externalising your costs directly into my face," really resonated with me.
At the end of the day I don't care how much of what you're presenting is your own words vs AI generated, as long as I can see evidence that you have reviewed and understood what you've passed to me. My resentment and ire is raised when the onus is pushed on me to be the first real human reviewer, having to do all the weighing of merit, practicality and in some cases plausibility that the quote un-quote author should have done before ever hitting send. It's passing the buck and an abdication of responsibility. It is lazy and makes more work for those you foist it upon when your role should be making the effort in your communications to make it easier for the recipient. Not wasting their time having to spend orders of magnitude more effort refuting bullshit you shouldn't have put out there in the first place.
It is something that has always pissed me off, however AI has made it fair easier for lazy people to think they sound smart and externalise their costs into my face.
[1] https://drewdevault.com/blog/Stop-externalizing-your-costs-o...
Comment · 3 months ago
My problem is I thoroughly learned HTML and CSS twenty years ago and am only incidentally aware of how they have changed and improved since. (I'm mostly a backend programmer with some frontend skills. I work with another programmer who is the other way around. I also learnt during the time when new features to the specs moved into browsers at a glacial pace, making them hardly worth keeping up with.)
For example I was spinning up a new project and added SASS so I could do nesting to make things cleaner. My frontend counterpart pointed out that CSS already has that.
Anyone know of some good resources that would bring my knowledge up to date without trying to take me through first principles?