My "production stuff":
- https://github.com/festivus-es/festivus - public holidays calendars for Spanish cities
- https://github.com/remote-es/remotes - companies hiring in Spain for remote positions
Usable WIPs:
- https://alexpdp7.github.io/selfhostwatch/ - track self-hosting package updates (such as YunoHost)
- https://github.com/alexpdp7/ubpkg/ - package manager for "upstream binaries"
- https://github.com/alexpdp7/termflux - Miniflux terminal client
I wish regular people thought of hand-written software as being something within their reach.
And that there would be enough of such work in the average town that the local developer could be like a blacksmith and live in a book-lined cottage at the outskirts of town, next to a stream. Living off of quality work for local people, with maybe the occasional big software job for a hotshot rascal that swoops in occasionally with a big idea to take back to the city once things cool down a bit.
Surface-Stable Fractal Dithering https://youtube.com/watch?v=HPqGaIMVuLs&si=0Wz4ntiTRG25TaA6
The Juggler's Curse https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/the-jugglers-curse/
I'm really mad at Jujutsu VCS.
They called their equivalent of `git blame` `jj file annotate`.
`jj accuse` was RIGHT THERE.
Cool how many companies now 'solve' user support by making people go through a maze of pre-written answers to issues they aren't having, allowing them to eventually reach a language model bot if they are lucky—which will do everything in its power to avoid escalating to an actual human being.
Hot take: "HTML is a programming language" is gatekeeping in effect, if not in intent.
That is, something need not be a programming language to be a the subject of highly useful and important technical skills — viewing all of computing through the lens of programming languages is inherently limiting.
Tech folk complaining that kids don't understand computers after spending decades building completely opaque silos for big tech is just a stunning lack of self awareness.
"Legacy code" is often code that you want to replace because you don't understand it. The problem is, before you can replace it, you need to understand it, and, once you understand it, replacing it is rarely the cheapest option any more.
Documented how to use a RPI Zero as a "programmable" USB device that can act as an installer for multiple operating systems.
(And now, playing with ChromeOS Flex.)
@daniel and anyone can use RSS to follow it without using ActivityPub!
Build a personal website, blog, or portfolio and use your own domain name. Make something that a rich asshole with the cringest haircut and gold chain can't ever take away.
One of the most important things I consider when choosing a social media platform is whether people can read what I post without being nagged or forced to create an account. For many of my friends who don’t really care about #Mastodon, https://gultsch.social is just a website they can drop by occasionally to see what I’m up to.
Experiment with OpenNIC + Yggdrasil + YunoHost was successful in some sense. Managed to exchange emails between two YunoHost instances without any public IPv4 address, nor a traditional DNS domain.
However, the OpenNIC ACME server of course cannot contact a web server running on Yggdrasil, so no easy way of having TLS certificates.
Full writeup here: https://github.com/alexpdp7/alexpdp7/blob/master/linux/using_yggdrasil_opennic_yunohost.md
I didn't know about Debian https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/extrepo, but it's quite handy if you do infrastructure as code.
Random tidbit: when trying out Google Workspaces, Google sets up example.com.test-google-a.com. You can use this domain for testdriving GMail without switching MX records.
(Of course, my recommendation is to try to avoid strengthening the Google/Microsoft email duopoly. But you can't always get what you want.)
The other must read from that blog is:
https://testing.googleblog.com/2014/05/testing-on-toilet-risk-driven-testing.html
Despite all, the Google Testing blog is still a gem:
https://testing.googleblog.com/2024/10/smurf-beyond-test-pyramid.html
I think many of us are a bit corrupted due to working on websites with a heavyweight database as a backend, and browsers making things harder. There, the testing pyramid fits somewhat.
But the "SMURF" perspective is IMHO something better than the testing pyramid in every way, and we would do well in adopting it or something similar.
Every morning I take my dog outside so she can 3D-print something horrible.
@cadey oh, thanks! I should have found that myself, sorry!
Very interesting material! More than I expected and explains how they address some problems that I find interesting!
@cadey :
> You can set up your own local copy of a Private Cloud Compute node
From my search, this is "you will be able to set up...", right? Can you do this already? https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/ speaks in future terms.
Also, I didn't find there something along the lines of "independent entities will ensure that we run the code we say we run", which I think is a hard necessary requirement for trustworthiness. I did not find anything equivalent :(
https://github.com/alexpdp7/alexpdp7/blob/master/programming/the-content-web-manifesto/README.md
Just a small draft of an idea. I want something to send to websites that annoy me that briefly provides pointers on providing good content.
I recently discovered about LineageOS:
- You can build the Android TV and Android Automotive variants
- You can build the Android emulator and images that supposedly run on QEMU
One result of this is that following their instructions, you could build a vanilla Android TV image that *could* boot on physical x86 hardware (and test if this has better performance than Chromecasts, etc.).
But there's still the issue that streaming services might not like this.
My terminal email client https://github.com/alexpdp7/epistle/ has reached its first milestone; I think I can do all the mail reading that I need (including viewing .docx/.pdf attachments on the terminal).
I just realized it has 0 dependencies. This would "prove" the "batteries-includedness" of Python, but it cheats; epistle does much of the heavy lifting with external programs: notmuch, LibreOffice, and pdftotext.
You also need to get mail to maildir format (I use mbsync).
Besides other LLM observations, a small realization I'm having recently is about people using LLMs to discuss ideas, brainstorm, etc.
We are becoming increasingly isolated. We need to build and rebuild communities.
As someone who loves hearing themself talk, I offer to discuss *your* ideas.