Gosh. I remember working with this back in 2019 and earlier. Our legacy products ran on it. I remember a new service we made (before Spring Boot really took off) used TomCat. It was so much easier to mess with. I asked why we don’t use that for our main product. Imagine my surprise when they said we actually used to.

I’m sure they had their reasons, I was a younger dev at the time and didn’t have insight into why they changed it. But still. Everything is so simple now. Java to run your jar. Your jar has your server built in. Done. And that’s not even including containerization.

I do miss Jenkins though. GitHub Actions seems to be the new hotness. Maybe I just don’t have the muscle memory yet, but it can be annoying.

I don’t know if I’d really call these solar punk, but here’s a few things I’ve done.

My yard is clover, not grass. I barely mow it. I know it so little the city “politely” informs me when it’s time. (Pro tip: Don’t use red clover. Use white clover.) I also leave my leaves in place, the most I do is mow them to chop 'em up. The bees love the flowers. The lightning bugs seem to love it as well, I’ve noticed more. I attribute this to the leaves.

I replaced my water heater last year because it broke. It was electric. My new one is a heat pump. It’s cheaper to run. Plus, as a free side effect, it cools off and dehumidifies the basement. I’m not sure how much cooling and dehumidifying it really accomplishes, but I generally have a dehumidifier running down there anyways to help combat humidity.

This is my childhood

“I didn’t tell them they couldn’t eat! I just implied that them not eating at their desk will be punished!”

I love the implication that he’s speaking to the AI and wants to not disturb people, but has no headphones on. so I can only assume it’s responding from the speakers.

I’m not hating on this feature, but it’s frustrating to me because individual commits could already solve this. This is .ore a complaint of people’s commiting style than anything. But so many places just squash to merge, so why bother making them pretty? Either way though, it can still be useful to say a specific range of commits is something to view as a chunk.

You could always just make the ticket yourself. But yeah, I hate this policy as well.

I first check the logs for what the failure is.

I know what this is, but every time I see it I think it’s FSF related lol

It felt repetitive to me too lol. I thought it scrolled back up to the top of something.

Never forget that Epstein was talking about fucking children in plaintext on Gmail and they did nothing whenever you see politicians say encryption should be illegal so they can capture criminals.

Finally, I’ve been waiting for Linux to work on the Atari Jaguar before I pulled the trigger. People called me a hold out in 1993.

It’s not even the good midwit format lol

Doesn’t Rust’s safety guarantees mean automatic reference counting? Or am I misunderstanding. I guess it means more like happening dynamically at runtime.

I’ve heard a lot of good things about the book “automate the boring stuff with Python.” It focuses on practical examples more than the theory. It’s also available for free since it is licensed under Creative Commons. That said, I haven’t personally checked it out. Just mentioning it as something that focuses on goals and works towards accomplishing them, which sounds like what you’re looking for.

Eh, I don’t really see a problem with releasing an app before you “should” release one. I don’t think the world improves by discouraging amateurs from sharing their work. Now whether they actually try to learn and grow or just keep vibe coding, who knows.

I guess in my mind I just associate raw pointers with low level. But I guess Rust lets you do that with unsafe blocks still?

My point is that the natural, not trying to push the limits definition of wheel is already much broader than door.

My bedroom has about four doors in it, but even just one dresser has like 16 wheels inside of it, two per drawer.