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Garrit πŸ‘πŸ› οΈ

The size of #space once again left me in a state of awe, so I tried to capture some words about it.

garrit.xyz/posts/2023-11-26-th

This is post 088 of #100DaysToOffload.

Garrit πŸ‘πŸ› οΈ

Is anyone here still actively using #Bluesky? I recently got my Invite code but I have no clue whom to follow.

Adam

@garritfra I'm on it, but not as active as here.

Garrit πŸ‘πŸ› οΈ

I grew tired of the negativity on #HackerNews, so I built an alternative #RSS feed that only includes positive headlines.

Feel free to use, share and remix! πŸ’«

Writeup:
garrit.xyz/posts/2023-11-24-po

Link to the RSS feed:
garritfra.github.io/positive_h

Source Code:
github.com/garritfra/positive_

This is post 087 of #100DaysToOffload.

I grew tired of the negativity on #HackerNews, so I built an alternative #RSS feed that only includes positive headlines.

Feel free to use, share and remix! πŸ’«

Writeup:
garrit.xyz/posts/2023-11-24-po

Link to the RSS feed:
garritfra.github.io/positive_h

orizuru

@garritfra

This is great!
Only thing left to make it perfect would be to remove the "Ackchyually" comments. πŸ™ƒ

Garrit πŸ‘πŸ› οΈ

After all these years I wasted a serious thought to giving one of the newer Call of Duty's a try, until I saw they take up 175 GB on disk. Funk that.

Garrit πŸ‘πŸ› οΈ

I've played a lot of Modern Warfare 2 (1) back then. 12 GB on disk was plenty to run it. Cyberpunk, a moderately optimized game with a huge world and massive content needs 70 GB, so how the hell do you justify 175 GB? It's just insane.

Kev Quirk

@garritfra Ah this annoys me so much. I’m not a gamer, but I do occasionally play a bit of COD when time permits - I have an XBox One, but because I don’t use it often, I always have to spend at least 30 minutes updating everything when I do turn it on. Sometime it’s hours, and I only have time to update the thing.

I understand why that happens, but it’s very frustrating. Auto-updates would be nice.

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@garritfra Did you hurt yourself while taking the bike instead of a train, or why? πŸ€”

Garrit πŸ‘πŸ› οΈ

The fact that you have to name a specific month for the best practices of a programming language ecosystem says it all.

A GitHub card for a repository named "nodebestpractices". The description reads "The Node.js best practices list (July 2023)"
Nikita

@garritfra

> Chat: WhatsApp

And this is how you detect a European resident πŸ˜‚

Kev Quirk

@garritfra has it actually dropped? It says coming soon, and I see nothing for passkey support in my BW app.

Garrit πŸ‘πŸ› οΈ

Apparently, someone already posted this on HackerNews minutes after I published it. πŸ˜…

#RSS for the win?

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3

fedops πŸ’™πŸ’›

@garritfra interesting. I wonder if it wouldn't be possible to store the actual dumps in clear text.

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@garritfra I use something similar to automatically track changes on my blog in a Git repository. But with your tip, I should be able to improve it a bit.

Garrit πŸ‘πŸ› οΈ

I'm still on the fence with split keyboards. They look so cool and neat, but I don't see myself getting used to them.

lopeztel :manjaro: :arch:

@garritfra I was like that a while back but after getting used to the #lily58 split keyboard I had to make an extra one for the office because I can't code on anything else πŸ˜‚

Dusty Pomerleau

@garritfra I eventually migrated from Minidox to Planck, despite feeling that the essence of split keebs is superior, for 2 reasons:

1. Split keebs that use serial sometimes don’t handle complex mod-tap behavior well, because the connection isn’t fast enough between the halves.

2. Setup of split keebs is a little fiddly, as you’re orienting things in so many dimensions, whereas with a single-slab board you just drop it on the desk and go.

Anyway, I kept the same 36-key layout and I’m happy.

LoopedNetwork

@garritfra The good part is that, at least in my experience, getting acclimated to a split keyboard doesn’t diminish the ability to type on a traditional keyboard. I use both styles regularly.

Garrit πŸ‘πŸ› οΈ

#Terraform and #AWS peeps:

Is there any reason to use the AWS *modules* [1] over the plain AWS *provider* [2]?

To me it just seems to be an unnecessary abstraction since most of the parameters and resources of the modules overlap with the provider. So, why should I use the modules at all?

[1]: registry.terraform.io/namespac
[2]: registry.terraform.io/provider

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Jack

@garritfra it's similar to asking why you'd want a library over DIYing things in a language's core lib. The provider only gives you primitives, the modules simplify things greatly and make it easier to implement tricky patterns. Check out all the stuff that the s3 or ecs ones do under the hood, for instance.

Ayush

@garritfra the modules are an abstraction over the aws lib. for example, to setup a ecs cluster you can use the module or you can deal with 500 things, end result is the same

Alex Harden

@garritfra I used some of the AWS modules early on and pretty quickly abandoned them when noticing that resource refactors between versions sometimes caused unnecessary heartburn (i.e. recreation of resources/downtime). I found it better to learn the provider resources better and create our own reusable modules.

Garrit πŸ‘πŸ› οΈ

And a wrapup by the X engineering team:

twitter.com/XEng/status/171775

The platform went to shit, but you can't deny that they're working hard to reduce costs.

Ricard Torres

@garritfra without having more context other than the blog post, this speaks on how the birdsite might've been managed in the past.

I consider myself amongst those surprised by how this has worked so far under the new leadership.

Garrit πŸ‘πŸ› οΈ

I'm really impressed by how quick the team around #Kubernetes responds to open issues.

One hour to finish triage, 5 hours until a fix was provided.

Granted this was just a small change in the documentation, but such a quick triage is great to see!

github.com/kubernetes/website/

Garrit πŸ‘πŸ› οΈ

I learned the tiniest bit of #COBOL during my training, and seeing a proof of concept for a web framework takes me right back. πŸ˜…
github.com/azac/cobol-on-wheel

There's something particularly beautiful about the structure of a COBOL program. It almost reads like an essay.

Garrit πŸ‘πŸ› οΈ

Bypassing the new #YouTube adblock detection was as easy as clearing my uBlock filter list cache and hitting "refresh". πŸ™ƒ

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@garritfra I think when my Turkish YT Premium subscription expires, I will subscribe to German YT Premium (Google made subscribing in foreign countries harder). But for me it replaces any other music streaming service and Spotify for example is just 1€ less, so it's worth it to me. Also on mobile no more ads and the option to download videos.

Ricard Torres

@garritfra For now, it's going to be a challenge for the maintainers to keep up. I feel :youtube: YouTube will start pouring more resources into this.

Garrit πŸ‘πŸ› οΈ

Girlfriend just got home with an IKEA smart plug and asked if I could add a lamp to our "cozy evening" routine in #homeassistant.

My setup finally hit the critical mass to overcome the wife approval factor. πŸ˜‚

Pete Keen

@garritfra that's more than approval, friend. That's participation, a rare feat. Congratulations!

Garrit πŸ‘πŸ› οΈ

@medium doesn't seem to understand that #RSS is meant to be fetched periodically.

A screenshot of my RSS reader showing rate limit errors for various engineering blogs hosted on Medium.
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@garritfra Engineering blogs but they can't figure out how to setup a simple blog and rely on Medium...

Vijay Prema

@garritfra This is #miniflux isn't it? is there a way to make it automatically retry failures because for me it seems to just give up after one error, until I manually go to this page and hit Refresh

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