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Still using that 2019 MBP (16 inch, 16G memory) as a daily work machine. Is still handling the load well, though at times, fans get quite loud, especially with all the background p…

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Yes. Partly because of ephemeral nature of most cloud platforms / services, and also the vagaries of proprietary specific configuration.

No. These factors that I'm speaking of were more along the lines of: - a slab caster implemented, but there is already a bloom caster and only one crane facility to support both so…

It's been a few decades but I worked for USS as a developer, after attaining a computer science degree. I know it's a tired old adage that labor / labor unions was the reason for A…

There are still many features not working. I used to search within lists (was like the best feature of Twitter, for my usage) quite a bit -- after Musk gutted the team after taking…

1. Doppleganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein — have read other titles by this author & they were mostly meh, but this is an incredible book, hard to describe, bette…

>Sorry, but the Here Comes Everybody phenomenon Clay Shirky predicted has not worked out so well. Public discourse doesn’t work at scale. It’s fine at the corner pub. Watch out for…

It seems we need a CSS: The Good Parts guide here.

Obligatory Cory Doctorow link on enshitification: https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys

A few years back, I wrote a web based publishing tool that used `wkhtmltopdf` to generate PDF from database content along with web images (& even more complicated with API access &…

This is a thing now when applying for developer jobs. When I was looking for a job in 2020-2021, I think it happened everywhere I got past the original opening interview round. Som…

My own app concoction, written in Ruby & Sinatra and JS-less at the moment, one of these days going to upgrade and enhance as I wrote it while I was out of work during COVID days. …