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djbusby··on Hi Google, please stop pooping the bed: a desperate plea from the indie web
Opportunity for a new discovery engine. Not Kagi (I buy it) but a search focused on the small web, find stuff not in the top 100k sites.
djbusby··on Debian’s “secret” sauce
Debian is not "wild" at all. It's so boring that decade old bugs stick out.
djbusby··on Show HN: Marmite – Zero-config static site generator
Gentoo is faster.
djbusby··on Google preps 'Jarvis' AI agent that works in Chrome
At the moment none of these tools are sticky; switching is easy; trial costs are low.

This feels more like a sticky move than an innovation in what AI can do.

This is the know more about you, better context for results trick. Which any other could deliver with your "user habit profile RAG data" - browser hook is a great way to collect.

djbusby··on Ask HN: Who is hacking Internet Archive?
Paid a "black hat" to hack AI and they hit IA.
djbusby··on Ask HN: Who is hacking Internet Archive?
And besides donating money what else can we do to help them (IA)? Make more archivers? Distributed? IPFS? How to ensure content integrity/trust?
djbusby··on OpenObserve: Observability platform for logs, metrics, traces, analytics
Still didn't answer the "who" part.
djbusby··on Arm is canceling Qualcomm's chip design license
And with VM tech, and the power of modern devices even some emulator/thunking layer is not too crazy for apps that (somehow) couldn't cross compile.
djbusby··on T-Mobile, AT&T oppose unlocking rule, claim locked phones are good for users
They keep you on a plan but they don't keep charging the payment for the device. In my case I'm on a cheaper plan than current offerings and have three lines, all with paid off devices.
djbusby··on U.S. Border Surveillance Towers Have Always Been Broken
Waste.
djbusby··on The useful use of cat
Moar cat!
djbusby··on Regarding our Cease and Desist letter to Automattic
WordFusionEnginePressCom.org
djbusby··on Svelte 5 Released
What!? Why would that be?
djbusby··on What do you visualize while programming?
I don't visualize while writing the code. I do scribble written notes about bits to rework, ideas, notes on other parts I'm adjacent to but won't touch on this cycle.

When I'm designing a data-schema or some systems integration I'm in my head with blocks (different shapes/colour) wired together. Then document with PlantUML, C4, Mermaid or whatever the gig calls for. Back in the day it was Visio.

Different modes for different tasks.

And manager mode, ugh. It's lists and checkboxen floating on board game (Risk?)

djbusby··on Another burnout post
Right. Work being "not fun" is a long way from Burnout (which looks a lot like, and maybe is, depression).

The difference between a Grind and Hopeless.

djbusby··on Why does everyone run ancient Postgres versions?
It's a step of your script or runbook. Right?
djbusby··on The science of "Zoom fatigue"
The number of folk in the meeting that cannot properly operate their terminal is, I'm sure, a big frustration driver.

Can't figure out mute, crappy angle, bad lighting, noisy background, where is screen share? Where is chat? How to use breakout?

djbusby··on Using Cloudflare on your website could be blocking RSS users
The number of feeds with crap headers and other non-spec stuff going on; and loads of clients missing useful headers. Ugh. It seems like it should be simple; maybe that's why there are loads of naive implementations.
djbusby··on Show HN: Makedown – A Markdown powered Makefile alternative
X is kinda overloaded. Maybe "makedown"? Or something?

I just do mine in bash (make.sh) and it runs scripts from make.d/ which are in whatever (python, js bash, PHP)

djbusby··on Busy Status Bar
Maybe aranet4 device as add-on? It does BTLE.
djbusby··on Busy Status Bar
Staring into space is what I do when thinking. Lots of my job is thinking. Maybe that's why folk ignored my busy indicator.
djbusby··on Upgrading Uber's MySQL Fleet
VACUUM and VACUUM FULL (and/or with ANALYZE) can lock tables for a very long time, especially when the table is large. Incantation may also require 2x the space for the table being operated on. In short: it's slow.
djbusby··on The TikTok documents: Stripping teens and boosting 'attractive' people
If my kid has my social skills it's guaranteed - with or without social media.
djbusby··on CRLF is obsolete and should be abolished
That's just two systems that happen to agree on garbage.
djbusby··on DeskPad – A virtual monitor for screen sharing
Lots of posts on everyone's unique method; I'll add mine.

I'm on Xfce (X) with three monitors. When I share I can pick just the right-most. Shares everything in that panel. Just need to be careful what is on 3. Then, I zoom in the app (browser, VCCode) for viewers.

But I like this idea of a virtual, so I don't accidentally leak a window I shouldn't.

djbusby··on DeskPad – A virtual monitor for screen sharing
HN needs a dedicated pastebin (remember those?)
djbusby··on Ask HN: Do 10DLC Requirements make it impossible for hobby projects to send SMS?
Status page is wrong; no outage; it's been working great.
djbusby··on Ask HN: Do 10DLC Requirements make it impossible for hobby projects to send SMS?
I use ntfy.sh for the hobby projects now. The Twilio (and others) process was just too heavy. And for business the delays are frustrating; every small business I work with complains - but has no way to change the system.

There may be a wrapper opportunity here.

djbusby··on Rust needs a web framework for lazy developers
Its pretty awesome and almost there. Actually, I'm sure if we could find the time it would be there. (We $DAYJOB)
djbusby··on Rust needs a web framework
Servo is in Rust.

I want to make an app in Rust that hosts Servo in it with my business logic in maybe SciterJS - like electron but hopefully lighter?

Something, just a business software guy who wants something with more control than an webapp and not so heavy like electron.

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