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

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.

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.

I’ve had something similar happen, except the post that I found which fixed the problem was made by… me. Apparently I’d had the problem before, figured it out, and then posted an update about why it was happening and how to fix it.

That was some Twilight Zone shit.

At that point you may as well go full Vagrant or start using Docker images.

And no matter how quirky or obtuse venv/conda/pip can be, they will never be as bad as Node. Ever. Node will hold that King Shit crown forever, or at least to God I hope it does.

Something worse than Node coming around and getting popular might just make me quit IT altogether.

The worst part of ML is Python package management

Do you have some time to talk about our Lord and Savior, venv?

A few jobs ago, we had a fleet (2K+) of mobile inkjet and Zebra printers that we were responsible for for some ungodly reason.

The Big Blue Sledgehammer from Lowe’s was the official method of decommissioning them per the IT disposal policy. That I wrote.

That’s the only thing I miss about that job.

But first, can you fix my printer?

“I need it to print off the marketing flyers for the app.”

“I don’t need to comment this code at all, it’s pretty self-explanatory, I’ll remember this 100% no problem.”

Scene cut:

Me six months later, staring blankly at the code like the monkeys & The Monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey, desperately trying to unravel the workings of my ADHD brain and just exactly why the seemingly innocent and innocuous-looking function named “dontFuckingTouchThis” is the lynchpin preventing the whole goddamned thing from falling over and going tits-up.

I’ve been using vscode since it was released and I never knew that was an option. Thank you!

docker (while you don’t need it to host things, it makes your life 10x easier)

…until you have a single extra space character hiding 20 lines into your compose file and the whole thing falls over the next time you try to bring the containers up.

Lint your code and configs every time!

I’m seriously missing the ability to jump to the current/next/previous parent comment. I make heavy use of that and only Jerboa has it right now, I think.

Liftoff is great, has a lot of potential too. Devs in their Matrix room are cool.

Ok. I’ll give it a try some time this weekend, thanks for the tip. Hopefully I can contribute in the future.

How are they going to determine which apps have free API access without this definition!?

If there’s one thing that I’ve learned from this trainwreck, it’s that they’re not going to define it publicly. If the internal definition is fluid, it can serve as a moving target to be whatever is most beneficial to them at the time.

Unfortunately I don’t know shit about Rust. I use Python/PowerShell/Bash/some C#/etc daily for my job, but I haven’t touched Rust at all.

What would you say the learning curve would be based on the languages I’ve worked in?

The ones that are confirmed have an orange checkmark on them.

I’ve been a RiF diehard for about a decade, but I’ll definitely give Sync for Lemmy a try when it’s available.

What I’m really interested in is this. If this gets completed, theoretically any existing third-party reddit app could update the API URL it hits and their app would pretty much “just work” with Lemmy, they’d just need to add an option for the user to input their home instance’s URL and their credentials. It was started by @derivator

There is already an existing phpBB implementation for Lemmy.

I too remember those bygone days of the modem handshake sound.

I had that as my cellphone ringtone for so long. An intern at work asked me once why my ringtone was the sound that a fax machine makes, and I could help but think “Oh, you sweet summer child.”

I desperately want a RiF clone for interacting with Lemmy. If RiF does actually shut down at the end of the month, I really hope talklittle open-sources it.

This has very strong “I’m not touching you!” energy and I’m all about it.