This is why I got all of our devs to start building with the target of a Docker container in mind.

And for the ones who still won’t or can’t wrap their brains around Docker, I run their shit through a Github Actions workflow that spits out their ugly baby as a Docker container. In the end, I don’t give a shit what it is, your Rube-Goldberg piece of shit is getting stuffed into a Docker container.

“It works on my machine!” Yeah, well, your machine is now everyone’s machine thanks to the magic of containers. Now fix your broken shit so PagerDuty doesn’t call me at 3am again. Fuck.

Never going to happen, same for Excel.

Whatever future iteration of ChatGPT that eventually enslaves the human race will be using Outlook and Excel to keep track of the genocide.

I’ve been doing -fr like forever. Don’t know why

BURN THE HERETIC

Well you see, finding a way to reliably deliver ads via the API would have taken far too much developer brainpower for a company that can’t make a functional video player or a mobile app

It honestly wouldn’t be that hard at all. You deliver ads via the API alongside actual posts, as if they are an actual post, and forbid altering them in the developer ToS. If you want to be anal about enforcement, run popular 3rd-party apps in an emulator to verify that the JSON returned by the site is unaltered when it’s rendered in the app. You could put this together in a weekend.

Which really just speaks to quality of talent at reddit, or the management at reddit suppressing that talent. Or both.

His mind’s gonna be blown when he finds out about Mode averages.

Even now, the only thing that Javascript has going for it is that it’s not Groovy…

I hate Node and NPM so much that I have a physical reaction to just seeing the words now.

I already disliked Node & NPM quite a bit, but the hatred and disgust got to the point it is now after having to write a CI/CD pipeline in Groovy/Jenkins for a Node site that that our devs were building. I had to automate the build/deployment of Satan’s favorite framework in Satan’s favorite language. I came pretty close to quitting.

It’s out the door now, but I’m in the middle of reimplementing the pipeline in Github Actions so I don’t drink myself to death when they come knocking to do it again.

I’ve been using Linux professionally for a couple of decades and using it altogether since like 1996. I never knew about the timeout command. I’m gonna have some fun with that.

I wonder if I can set someone’s shell to it…

More like <esc><esc><esc><esc><esc><esc><esc><esc>… Just in case

MY PEOPLE!

VSCode is what made me finally switch away from vim for anything but minor edits. It’s just too good.

I did set up vim keybindings in it, though.

I first settled on vim as a teenager because I was a fan of… performing surprise penetration tests.

It defaults to opening files read-only, so you don’t have to worry about the access/modified time on the file changing if you open one for… science reasons.

Man, this comment made me feel a little embarrassed at myself. I saw the shortcuts and thought about how I have a tradition of going to the top of the file when I’m done editing and about to save/quit. I always hit the shortcut for it and think “gg boys! Good game” and then quit out of vim.

Stop judging me.

Quick editing for me is in vim. Anything else is in Visual Studio Code. Which I have set up with vim keybindings.

That certainly makes me feel better for letting the Magic Smoke out.

I don’t think it became easier at all until it was forked off into Xorg and they started making dramatic improvements.

I think it was trial and error for hours at least.

It certainly was until I discovered the monitor I hadn’t fried had the modelines printed on a sticker on the back…

So I’m not the only one who fried a monitor trying to get X11 working…

and how hard it was to get x11 working

Oh good God. If you really want to test someone’s resolve, sit them down at an old computer with a CRT and no Internet and have them configure X11 from scratch. Seeing that default X11 crosshatch background for the first time was practically orgasmic after the bullshit I went through to make it work.

That’s one of those traumatizing experiences I’d completely blocked from my memory until I read your comment.

Traumatizing experience #2 that just came back to me was getting a winmodem working and connected to my ISP via minicom.

Just added it to the massive Google graveyard next to Stadia, wave, hangouts, plus, music, etc etc

I am shocked and appalled that Google Reader didn’t get called out in this list and is relegated to the “etc” category.

It deserves more than “etc.”

Gotcha. I’m actually in the process of moving away from Namecheap because of an experience I just had with them. I tried to register a domain about a month ago (the domain my Lemmy instance is on) and it stopped the registration process immediately after I hit the Pay/Checkout/whatever button and told me to contact their support team to register it.

The error message said it was because the domain name was too similar to something that already existed, and that the support team would have to decide whether I’d be allowed to register it or not. So I went to another registrar and registered it with no issue. I really didn’t like that, and it’s enough to make them lose me as a decade+ long customer. I already use Route53 for DNS for all my domains, so it’s not like I was using them for anything else other than a registrar, so untangling that shouldn’t be too much of a pain.

Aside from the callback chains and API shit, my issues with Node rest almost entirely on the lack of a standard library, because that led to the state of NPM today, which is just an absolute garbage-fire shitshow as far as I’m concerned.

I have my own separate issues with NPM, namely its dependency resolution (my God, just take dnf's dependency resolution algorithm and use it), trivial packages that other packages list as a dependency (is this an int? Is this running on Windows? Better take this one line and make it a package!), and the relative inability to remove a package from a registry (did a secret slip in there while testing? Tough shit!). The worst of that being the trivial packages, I think, because then you can end up with projects that can have a dependency tree 10s of thousands packages long.

And all that bullshit wouldn’t be even 1/16th of the problem it is today if there were a standard library.

You should take what I’m saying with a grain of salt, though, I’m just a DevOps Sysadmin, and aside from running some software that uses Node, most of my experience with it is unfucking it when our devs come to me to fix the tangled monster they’ve created.