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Not sure about use in the Go community at large but Go introduced os.UserConfigDir[1] which is portable across Windows, macOS, Plan 9 and Linux/BSD as per XDG back in 2019. Also Ca…

The great thing about Plan 9 is it can make other distributed systems look so complicated. The worst thing about Plan 9 is that it can make other distributed systems look so compli…

Mistral used to serve a feed actually up until 6ish months ago I guess? Their admin console used to be built with HTMX too which I found kinda interesting. Now the news site and ad…

Revitalising a 20+ year-old GTK mail client with Zig. Talons[1] is my stripped down fork of claws-mail[2] which itself is a fork of Sylpheed[3]. Moving from auto tools to Zig’s bui…

> What sort of companies are those were receptionists have access to tools beyond their role? and why are people approaching the receptionists asking for data queries? It's a fair …

That's pretty much how it happened. A neighbour bought a medical practice from two retiring doctors in their 80s. One had officially diagnosed vascular dementia but was still pract…

Haha thanks for saying that. It’s real! It’s relatively easy to get into the middle of nowhere in Australia after all ;) Actually still haven’t published my journal scribblings on …

I was lost, literally, hitchhiking across the Australian outback when this article was published. Going home felt scary because I was afraid to be alone with no one else sharing my…

Work may enable altruism outside of your actual job. For example, I got fulfillment from sharing my journey publishing some open source software over the course of a few months. Ha…

Could you cast your mind 10 years back to 2015 and ask yourself the same question? Then fast-forward to today. What could you have done in 2015 that could have prepared you better …

Plan 9 is definitely not mainstream but readers of your comment's replies may find it interesting when looking into Unix/Linux cruft.

Plan 9 (a Bell Labs successor to Unix) did away with the whole bin, sbin, usr/sbin thing and its shell only looked in /bin. How things got into /bin is a different story. For me th…

It's stuff like this that makes me want to scurry right back into the SRE/sysadmin space. Currently back in webdev after a few years out. I just feel like I'm being a pain in the a…

AWS supports IPv6 on a number their services now: https://aws.amazon.com/vpc/ipv6/ For example there are options to use their hosted memcache/redis service IPv6-only: https://docs.…

From the author of Redis on MicroQuickJS[1]: > If this had been available in 2010, Redis scripting would have been JavaScript and not Lua. With that in mind we can do a quick searc…

> I’ve spent a decade doing frontend work. Think about it this way: you've spent a decade writing software. > Does it make sense to change direction at this point? Changing directi…

Couple of anecdotes from the dev side. I worked on an IoT project at one of the big German car makers and it was a mess. More money than sense. They didn't really have any idea why…

> The old randomized ones were actually better. Exactly. We changed from some fancy one that my boss gave me to a cheap one that you operate with an old-school (can't believe I'm s…

OpenBSD’s dhcpd(8) is apparently basic on the one from the ISC: https://man.openbsd.org/dhcpd Not sure this counts as a fork or when it was “reworked” by OpenBSD, though.

That’s a fair point re: apology. FWIW I take issue with the tone (petty name calling, elitism) of the comments. And I disagree with the assertion if I understand the original comme…

The specific change: https://github.com/ziglang/www.ziglang.org/commit/c8d046b288... I applaud the migration, and I sympathise with the difficulty of running open-source software p…

It’s more money and more user’s compute being thrown at the problem to get the streaming service’s CDN bill down.

The godoc[0] tool provides minimal support for doing something with these comments via its “-notes” flag. It renders any TODOs (or BUG or whatever can be specified by regexp) in th…

> If Australia doesn't have the capabilities then why are the university campuses full of overseas students? Because it’s great business: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-27/aus…

> I thought prevailing wisdom was that a used 3090 with it's larger vram was the best budget gpu choice? The trick is memory bandwidth - not just the amount of VRAM - is important …