The Hampster Dance by Hampton and the Hampsters.

Here for the senior discount?

Bottom left one is laughable. I don’t think we’d have Mongo, Elastic, and Redis all on SSPL if that was true. (And yes, I know this post is a joke, I’m not trying to suggest it was a real suggestion.)

I only have two domain names and both just redirect to my public code repositories.

Thank you, I was making a tongue in cheek reference to this though: https://www.bleachbit.org/cloth-or-something

BleachBit? Wipe with a cloth?

After fixing some Windows problems with their version of a live USB (the recovery USB) I really don’t want to do it ever again. It’s harrowing.

Is it cheap? I got shifted to SquareSpace from Google Domains and it’s pricier. I switched the name cheap but have no loyalty to them.

APL, same difference.

CS degrees, at least in my experience, prep you for a bunch of things that honestly don’t matter too much. Like, I don’t think knowing what P versus NP means really helps me at my job. I think learning to use build tools and frameworks rather than just the language itself would’ve been more useful.

The best professor I had in that regard at college was younger and also working at a “real” company while also teaching (I believe he was getting a master’s degree). He taught us about Spring and Maven and had us make a REST API. The only downside is that this course was about making GUIs and the majority of it was about Swing which nobody really uses. I have a feeling he added the other assignment because it was.more relevant to things most folks do with Java.

Forgejo is a fork of Gitea. https://lwn.net/Articles/963095/

The look and feel of an application really does matter a lot. When Reddit’s API got shut down and I couldn’t use RIF anymore I tried using Reddit’s own app. It sucked. It felt awful. It’s extremely possible that if Reddit’s app felt close to something I was used to I wouldn’t have ended up swapping to Lemmy. So, if we want people to use Mastodon instead of Threads, why are you upset someone is making an app that uses Mastodon while looking like Threads?

Thanks, edited!

I think Codeberg is totally open as opposed to GitLab which has an open core and paid enterprise version. There’s also SourceHut but you have to pay to use it (no free tier). As far as I know there aren’t any public Forgejo instances. (Codeberg is Forgejo)

I think any of these are better than GitHub (I say as I still use GitHub).

From 2016, https://thenib.com/this-is-not-fine/

I use JSON. I have used Avro for things in Kafka but I’m not sure the benefits outweigh the negatives. Avro is much more complicated than people think and most folks don’t really have a strong desire to learn how it should be used and do stuff incorrectly. Everybody knows JSON and it works with everything though. (Example: so many people just hear that Avro schemas can be backwards compatible but have zero idea that you still need the schema that wrote the message even if you want to read it into a newer one.)

Interestingly, I take the meme as saying a dev is using the wrong types in their serialization format (using strings to store integers) which was my biggest problem with Avro. Mostly from people not using logical types or preferring to use ISO 8601 datetime strings instead of the built-in timestamp-millis type.

I wanna learn PowerShell but I only really learn extra stuff like that if I have to. My work computer is a Mac now and has been since 2019. At home I don’t use too much on Windows to really warrant it. I did used to know how to do “sudo” in PowerShell which was useful. Best the hell out of restarting as admin.

The “object” approach instead of everything as text seems desirable.

When people have hundreds of tabs open i get it.

The funniest one is when it tells you this but by the time you get back to close the ones that didn’t close they’ve already closed on their own. Confused Travolta.gif