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Huh, I got cottage core, not dystopia!

Not really -- non-profit boards are usually volunteers, even ion the non-profit has revenue used for operations.

I've seen a couple of cli apps recently take the path of "config file is long form arguments, minus the --, separated by newlines, overridden by actual arguments", so if you were d…

I generally use [click]( https://click.palletsprojects.com/en/stable/ ). Need to try typer now :-)

A coworker, once, had a cool idea to use Taylor Series to encode histograms for metrics collection. Basically a digest method akin to sketches or t-digests. We wound up using t-dig…

I'm not sure how this applies in softwoods (like the hemlock & fir type stuff usually used in construction), but it is not really so obvious that slow growth (tight rings) is bette…

Introduced by mutual friend

20 years ago I was in a very similar position, but it was perl I was writing instead of python :-) This advice is therefore dated, and exhibits survivor bias, but it is what I know…

Learn both, you will eventually have to anyway, and it won't hurt your learning curve, in fact will probably help to see similar ideas implemented and expressed very differently.

beelink or minisforum have you covered

https://skife.org/ Kind of on pause for last few years, but not dead :-)

Apache uses [APR Versioning]( https://apr.apache.org/versioning.html ) which I think had a big influence on semver, fwiw

Most companies, in my experience, don't actually know how to make use of Staff+ engineers. I spent years at a medium sized public "tech" company just trying to help the company cha…

Hah, wave . That is a name (latchkey, not jboss) I have not heard in a very long time :-) I was thinking of the EJB 1 & 2 era xml wiring of all the things.

This is... EJBs. It is probably less painful to use, but the model is pretty much the same. Fascinating.

Yes, but it mainly has come up when combining libraries and releasing something else as OSS. For example, the ASF has a good examination of the effect of combinations with the AL2:…

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It predates Groupon, was actually started at/around Ning (if anyone remembers them). Groupon hired a bunch of the core folks at the time they decided to adopt it.

Thrift and GRPC fill that niche nicely.

The title is misleading -- one developer (a major one, mind you) is stepping back from offering free community support. This is not "Apache PLC4X" announcing an end of community su…

This looks brilliant, but... Sending CLI input data, even just the root command, back to Fig is going to be a deal breaker for a lot of companies. Too high a risk :-/ If you don't …

mod_python ( http://modpython.org/live/current/doc-html/handlers.html#pub... ) as a service!

The technical heavy lift is rarely the success determinant, so having a company implement half-baked (enough for internal use, but without the edges polished off that are needed to…

> can VSCode connect to a remote server and connect to remote docker containers? Yes, it can. https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/containers-advance... talks about setting it…