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News website to read the latest news about Go? in c/golang@programming.dev

[–] ndotb@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not exactly static text, but https://discord.gg/golang on Discord is pretty busy.

Watch and play Flash with ruffle.rs on the Internet Archive in c/rust@programming.dev

[–] ndotb@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

How to make lots of friends and enrich the lives of everyone around you:

Play Kenya
Lock screen
Go to lunch

Say you could solicit a notable figure in technology, who would you want to lurk on this instance? in c/programming@programming.dev

[–] ndotb@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

BBSs had fidonet in 1993, if email, usenet and irc don't count

Twitter traffic appears to be declining since the beginning of the 2023 calendar year in c/programming@programming.dev

[–] ndotb@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago

They use Atlanta Metro, AWS and GCP as far as I know. I want to say they own the Oregon DC but can't remember.

has postgres got an official solution for sharding? in c/postgresql@programming.dev

[–] ndotb@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

If you're looking for a mysql/maria drop-in replacement, then you may also want to look at tidb

postgres can do it, but it's kind of presented as lego blocks for a HA cluster and often requires making your own tooling if you want sophisticated features like placement index instances and rebalancing

I feel threatened the further I scroll in c/programming_horror@programming.dev

[–] ndotb@programming.dev 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Right-clicking and inspecting the end of it is interesting. It's like html waltz

h3> font > font > h3 > font > font > h3 > font > font > h3 > font > font > h3> font > font

center > font > font.

A new GitHub profile README [made with Python/Textual] in c/python@programming.dev

[–] ndotb@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

New personal goal: distribute gh commits over days to spell out words in the 52x7 profile commit graph

It gets better the longer it runs in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

[–] ndotb@programming.dev 9 points 2 years ago

It's all fun and games until it returns a "maybe"

The Current Challenges With Using Linux On Airplanes in c/linux@programming.dev

[–] ndotb@programming.dev 7 points 2 years ago

I'm not really going to address the speaker directly since after reading NSF forums for a few years, I'm convinced aerospace engineers can devolve any innocent or academic discussion into 4chan levels at rates exceeding the speed of light. Of note: the speaker doesn't speak to anything specific that is being worked on to address issues, and only addresses "linux" as a whole, which is about as useful as addressing SVR4 as a whole.

I will address the blog writer as not being particularly diligent in filling that gap, though. Here's a few links of what's going on in that realm since there's people here of all walks and ages:

Disabled at 22 million commits in c/git@programming.dev

[–] ndotb@programming.dev 8 points 2 years ago

Demand a special profile achievement badge from them as a consolation!

Do people use git alternatives? in c/ask_experienced_devs@programming.dev

[–] ndotb@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago

Domains like CAD use revision control, if you're looking for a rabbit hole to a parallel world to get lost in on a Sunday. It's not to be completely confused with RCS that predated VCS.

What's the biggest docker footgun you've experienced? in c/devops@programming.dev

[–] ndotb@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago

I can vouch for podman. It can run daemonless and rootless, symlinks to docker.sock and the ui works with both kubernetes (kind & minikube) and most of the docker desktop extensions.