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Omakub – A Developer Setup for Ubuntu

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Re: Omakub – A Developer Setup for Ubuntu

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Post by kyawzazaw »

cxr wrote: post #18

> Turn a fresh Ubuntu installation into a fully-configured, beautiful, and modern web development system by running a single command. That’s the one-line pitch for Omakub. Most webdev tools are written in JS (or at least used to be). Web browsers run JS just fine. Webdevs, then, should be striving to make sure that their JS-based tooling actually runs in the browser—instead of targeting the non-standard, ever-shiftin…

> 1. downloading a copy of the source code

> 2. opening README.html

> 3. following the instructions in the workspace on the resulting page that says "to build this project, drag and drop the project folder here"

i don't want to do all this stuff. literally none

Re: Omakub – A Developer Setup for Ubuntu

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Post by btreecat »

heeton wrote: post #34
btreecat wrote: post #30

The "kub" very much implied that this installs/includes/is based around k8s. It isn't, and that's a poor choice in name due to needless friction. This is similar to an Ubuntu "spin" so I'm ot sure why someone would go through all the effort but of customization with out releasing a proper remix that just gives you the out of box XP with lower friction. This clearly isn't meant for containers, maybe folks who dev on w…

The name is from Omakase (a term DHH likes) & Ubuntu. For disambiguation, this project is also not implying the following: Om - this is not a flavour of Linux oriented to Meditation. Maku - this project is not associated with the city in Iran. Oma - this project was not created by a German grandmother. DHH is a man from Denmark.

Only none of those have any sort of contextual meaning in tech, let alone the specific context of self hosting and web development.

You don't prove a point by being silly about random tokens out of context.

"kub" in the context of tech, specifically tooling for a developer of web tech, it's better to avoid using names that have similarities to tools they don't touch.

It's good marketing because it's good UX.

You can continue your pedantry if you like, the context of our tooling is what it is, and no sort of absurd reductionist argument is going to change that.

Re: Omakub – A Developer Setup for Ubuntu

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Post by btreecat »

kyawzazaw wrote: post #49
btreecat wrote: post #30

The "kub" very much implied that this installs/includes/is based around k8s. It isn't, and that's a poor choice in name due to needless friction. This is similar to an Ubuntu "spin" so I'm ot sure why someone would go through all the effort but of customization with out releasing a proper remix that just gives you the out of box XP with lower friction. This clearly isn't meant for containers, maybe folks who dev on w…

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Re: Omakub – A Developer Setup for Ubuntu

#54

Post by cxr »

kyawzazaw wrote: post #51
cxr wrote: post #18

> Turn a fresh Ubuntu installation into a fully-configured, beautiful, and modern web development system by running a single command. That’s the one-line pitch for Omakub. Most webdev tools are written in JS (or at least used to be). Web browsers run JS just fine. Webdevs, then, should be striving to make sure that their JS-based tooling actually runs in the browser—instead of targeting the non-standard, ever-shiftin…

> 1. downloading a copy of the source code > 2. opening README.html > 3. following the instructions in the workspace on the resulting page that says "to build this project, drag and drop the project folder here" i don't want to do all this stuff. literally none

... what?

Re: Omakub – A Developer Setup for Ubuntu

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Post by kyawzazaw »

cxr wrote: post #54
kyawzazaw wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 1. downloading a copy of the source code > 2. opening README.html > 3. following the instructions in the workspace on the resulting page that says "to build this project, drag and drop the project folder here" i don't want to do all this stuff. literally none

... what?

I don’t want to do any building from the source code. I just want the apps on my machine
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