jarofgreen
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Comment · 11 days ago
Depends how you install GitLab. If you just run one of their containers in Kubernetes or whatever then yeah they are packaging Ruby.
Comment · 1 month ago
Yeah, if IDE's allowed code folding of comments then the authors original problem (having to scroll past comments they thought weren't useful) wouldn't be that big a deal.
Comment · 1 month ago
If line breaks really were irrelevant, the author wouldn't have felt the need to give a tip all around optimising line breaks.
Personally, I would have hoped by 2026 we had better IDE's and tools for managing code in text files such that developers with different preferences for a number of characters in a column or things like how you display comments can be accommodated. Yet still teams end up arguing about what standard to use.
Comment · 1 month ago
> Typically keep comments on a single line without line breaks — if a comment is useful, developers will scroll to read them, if it’s not they can easily scroll past it.
Disagree. Personally that sounds like a massive barrier to reading the comment to me. Limited width column text is generally regarded as easier to read, make your comments easier to read. Especially as I probably have the code open in a limited width window, as that's what I expect from code.
Comment · 1 month ago
Discussion is fine, let's just try actually linking back to the source.
Comment · 1 month ago
I'm sad this was just screenshots without a link. I shouldn't have had to find the original posts by hand.
Comment · 1 month ago
Also discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49638353
Original posts
https://mathstodon.xyz/@andreasthom/117240535270608201
https://mathstodon.xyz/@andreasthom/117240536885387540
https://mathstodon.xyz/@andreasthom/117240537520615623
This story is someone on bluesky screenshotting someone on twitter without a link. The person on twitter screenshotted the source on the fediverse without a link. This is getting daft.
Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 2 months ago
I've been doing something similar for years with https://www.datatig.com/
Specifically, my observation was lots of people use a collection of markdown files (or other data formats) in a git repository to crowdsource data. This ties in really nicely with a lot of static site generators.
I was interested in seeing if a tool could help data reuse and help people who aren't comfortable with git contribute.
Comment · 3 months ago
> We did all the tracking on the backend
Just checking, you do know that still counts as tracking and may fall under GDPR rules? GDPR was never just about cookies.
Comment · 3 months ago
Is this the kind of thing EKS Auto Mode helps with? (For a price, of course)
Comment · 5 months ago
Unfortunately that has no team features, and last time I checked they were quite pushy about not adding any - which is totally fair, they know what product they want to make and are sticking to it! But BitWarden has good team features.
Comment · 8 months ago
whispers Stirling castle is better than Edinburgh castle
Comment · 8 months ago
Hello fellow Scot!
I missed this when it was launched and it's very interesting to see your rationale. If you ever want a chat some time get in touch, I'm working on https://opentechcalendar.co.uk/
My ulterior motive is to ask you to add open data feeds for basic group and event listing information to your site - a free and open API and standard formats like ICAL (Just listings information about the next event, not private info like members names). I would never encourage event organisers to use a platform that didn't do this, as then their data is essentially being held hostage and it's hard for them to spread their information around to other places.
Comment · 8 months ago
Hey, sorry it was hacked.
You mention rsync which can be fine. But there are tons of other solutions, many that will have snapshot features. I use borg backup, for instance. https://www.borgbackup.org/
Also, look into scriping your server setup with tools like Ansible or PyInfra. There is always the risk that bad things happen to servers, and when you want a new server it's great to be able to spin things up in a matter of minutes. Tools like these are profesional best practices these days.
In fact, if you have a scripted server setup and a server that doesn't collect data itself you may not even need backups. What is there to backup? Just spin up a new server with your scripts and carry on.