axismundi

while we're at it, what gear would you recommend for a beginner stargazer?

You can get ThinkPad L14 Gen 3 AMD Ryzen 7 5875U, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD refurbished on eBay.co.uk for roughly £320

> Frankly, dependency cooldowns work by free-riding on the pain and suffering of others.

Snyk and socket.dev take money for the pain and suffering...

Come to Europe, we have cookies ;)

From my experience WebSockets are harder at scale. For load balancing you either need sticky sessions or an L7 proxy that can route consistently, and reconnect storms amplify this. Long-lived upgraded connections mean more complexity with rolling deploys, drains, autoscaling, and regional failover. Many managed LBs/proxies have tighter limits/timeouts for WS, so you must tune idle timeouts and ping/pong.

The simplest way to use kingfisher is global pre-commit hook. Works with any git repo. rad could suggest to install this as a part of privacy hygiene.

Did you mean 4-6 hours?

Yes. Kurva is used kinda like sudo ;)

Maybe that 90% transferred into lots of low quality code caused by reckless vibe coding? That slop now sits there as kind of technical debt?

I value simplicity and stability over bells and whistles. Meld looks simple. I mostly use macos and they seem to have good approach to support it.

I really like the rubberband connections. They are like mental glue.