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Did you intend to reference "It's a wonderful life?" When I read your comment I imagine a tiny child in Jimmy Stewart's arms, exclaiming the joys of capitalism ;-)

My employer fits your first criteria precisely. Turbo and Stimulus provide exactly as much interactivity as we need. The appearance is that we're trying to avoid Javascript. The re…

I freely admit that I pulled numbers out of a hat, just to help me visualize the problem.

I was curious and did some math. A five minute zoom call is not realistic; you probably need 15 minutes per person. If my math is correct, and if no one was even a minute late, it …

I recommend Godot ( https://godotengine.org/ ). It solves many of the problems you suggested.

You and (other person) started your lives on different dates, in different places, in unique circumstances; you are statistically unlikely to end those lives at the same time and p…

Apt sidesteps this problem because Debian-based releases are not rolling releases. Unless you install a custom PPA, if you are running Ubuntu 18.04 and you "apt-get install postgre…

That is my preferred solution and I think it works great. I have persuaded a couple of coworkers to switch, but only a couple so far. Containerized Postgres is a real win, but runn…

There is one single feature of homebrew that regularly bites my coworkers. You can refer to software by name@version ("brew install postgresql@11" or "brew install postgresql@12") …

https://github.com/The-Complete-Guide-to-Rails-Performance I learned quite a bit about ruby memory mgmt from the above. Free text, pay for video tutorials IIRC. The course was auth…

Just adding to the choir. This is a great tool. I prefer using open source software when possible, but I also like to pay for the tools that makes my job easier. The developer is a…

I won't presume to answer for the OP, but my (remote conference attendance) pet peeves include: I have printed out important information (but forgotten to email it); let me use the…

Almost thirty years ago now, driving around on a hot summer day with a couple of friends. One guy puts a punk mix tape in the player, and the guy with a college music scholarship w…

A .psd file is not an end-user asset. I can think of no use case where someone would point a browser at a hosted .psd and expect that binary file to render as an inline image. A .p…

This article is rhetorical slight of hand, written by a man who directly benefits if history takes a kinder view of the GW Bush administration. The author asserts that GW Bush is s…

Interesting experiment, but two groups seems like a too small a sample. If moderation is done by humans, you could simply prove that one moderator had a worse morning than the othe…

Would you join a company in whose purpose you don't believe? I find it rare for people to take an opportunity with a company they don't feel good about, regardless of how much they…

I have also been using that app and I am very happy with the results. I had a couple of false starts, but now have gotten into a nice rhythm. The trick is to not judge or criticize…

Consider Sendmail as a cautionary tale. One more than one occasion I have seen a busy sysadmin manually edit a .cf file and forget to backport the edit to the .mc file. The next ti…

Please forgive me if I'm misinterpreting you, but the lament you make about open source software seems to me to be more about distributed systems. It is an interesting observation,…

I can't remember the man's name now, but I once read an interview with a NYT gossip reporter who worked up until the 1950s. He said (and I'm paraphrasing from memory), "gossip is r…

Oh man, now you've triggered my OCD and I feel pedantic. https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/

In the early 2000s, the Zope community felt that Zope 2.x had grown long in the tooth, so they decided to create a new, modern code base that they called "Zope 3," initially releas…

Are you making the Nagios host pull (via NRPE) or are you asking the individual hosts to push (via NSCA)? I am trying to solve a similar problem. Given a dynamic population of host…

"Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a p…