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ehayes··on New mystery AWS product ‘Infinidash’ goes viral despite being entirely fictional
Reminds me of Jabberwocky episode of Better Off Ted

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spyJ5yxTfas

ehayes··on IBM's 18-month company-wide email system migration has been a disaster: sources
Former Red Hatter wondering the same thing. RH was transitioning to Gmail right as I was onboarding. I never really used the previous system which I think was Zimbra iirc.
ehayes··on There is no “us” in team
But there is an "I" in pie.
ehayes··on SXS switching cutover to ESS, live at Glendale CA central office (1984) [video]
Or is it in fact the original meaning? (Genuinely curious)
ehayes··on CSS Container Queries in Web Components
Just to give the less grizzled devs among us an idea how much better things are today: 14-ish years ago we all wanted rounded corners, but there was no border-radius (or at least we couldn't use it because IE). So it seemed like the web was full of rounded corner tutorials, and all of them involved jumping through a bunch of hoops. This thread reminded me of this parody of rounded-corners called "How to Make Square Corners with CSS" containing their coveted 84 step process to beautiful square corners in CSS:

http://web.archive.org/web/20071014004940/http://www.drivl.c...

ehayes··on CSS Container Queries in Web Components
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Clearfix classes assigned to every element. I watched rounded rectangles built in Photoshop, sliced and exported to PNGs, then aligned with tables and a prayer. All those hacks will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to design.
ehayes··on Men Becoming Wolves
Glad I'm not the only one lol
ehayes··on The future of web software is HTML over WebSockets
Turbo[links], Stimulus, etc. ARE non-blocking background updates. It's HTML over the wire instead of JSON. [1] I don't think this is what you think it is.

[1] https://hotwire.dev/

ehayes··on Red Hat announces no-cost RHEL for small production environments
I manage a "tiny company", but we have 10-ish production CentOS 7/8 servers and this sounds interesting. Although my web-app use case is probably fine with Stream, I don't know why everyone is assuming Stream will be completely broken and useless.
ehayes··on Cabal: A peer-to-peer, off-grid, community-first, hackable chat platform
Cool, we've jumped right into "if you want to be independent from FaceAppAmaGooMicroTwitBookTube, it's just because you're a right-wing fascist plotting an attack." Way to go everyone.
ehayes··on A Brief Goodbye to CentOS
Am I the only one who doesn't get the "risk using CentOS Stream" stuff? Isn't it going to be slightly-less stable RHEL?

I actually worked at Red Hat a few years back and almost all work was released upstream-first. The one time I fixed something security-related, the fix was still made upstream first, but just embargoed until the fix was made and released for downstream versions. If I recall correctly, we pushed the upstream fix the day the downstream patch was public.

Now I run CentOS in production for a small web app. I get wanting a decade of support for your OS, but at least for cloud-based web apps that seems pretty unnecessary.

What am I missing here?

ehayes··on Hard Data on Remdesivir, and on Hydroxychlorquine
> I have no interest in goalpost-moving efforts to say that they didn’t administer zinc or azithromycin

Don't really have a dog in this fight, but my understanding is that pro HCQ doctors believe that zinc must be included with HCQ --it's not "moving the goal posts" if doctors aren't arguing that HCQ alone is a cure. However it does sound like moving the goal posts if it HCQ is bad because it is not alone a cure.

In a study of 932 patient cases, researchers at New York University Langone Health found that the addition of zinc to hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin was associated with a decrease in mortality in patients who were not admitted to the intensive care unit. [1]

[1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.02.20080036v...

ehayes··on We now consider Moment.js to be a legacy project in maintenance mode
Just want to plug Luxon, it's pretty great.
ehayes··on Restream: Stream live to many social platforms at once
Any open source or DIY alternatives to this?
ehayes··on How to ensure that your program does not run under Windows 95 (1995) [pdf]
Getting Wing Commander to work with a sound card, and a joystick, and in conventional memory was my intro to a lifetime working with computers.
ehayes··on Better Box Shadows (CSS)
Layered shadow builder (without blur filter) https://brumm.af/shadows
ehayes··on MacBook Pro 16 Has a Fan Problem
32GB+1TB here, I haven't experienced anything I'd call a fan issue. Every once in a while fans spin up, mostly because of Chrome-based things. A few times I think it's been heavy GPU activity. I use it connected to 2 monitors (display port) most of the day. It's completely silent most of the time.

I've experienced more issues with what I'm guessing is Catalina or driver-related bugs. Once when disconnecting my monitors I got RGB "static" on the MBP screen, had to force power down. Another time the touch bar quit working due (I think) to an external monitor plugged in. A restart solved that.

ehayes··on US Constitution – A Git repo with history of edits
> ...where does the government get the power to ban drugs.

It likes to pretend that the interstate commerce clause gives them that power. _ie_ they're "regulating commerce" by waging the drug war.

ehayes··on MongoDB removed from RHEL 8 beta due to license
It's a little ironic because Red Hat invested in MongoDB several times: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/red-hat/investments/...
ehayes··on A single-page app is almost always worse than a multi-page app
Over the past year we replaced an Angular front-end with the author's recommendations: Turbolinks and Stimulus.js. With the pair, our app mostly feels like an SPA, but has the developer benefit of leaning on server-side rendering.

The experience was wonderful and highly recommended. I think it's perfect for small teams who are more productive with traditional/backend tech.

ehayes··on Linux touchpad like a Macbook: goal worth pursuing?
I use a 1st gen "Magic Trackpad" that works great with my hackintosh. Maybe there's special hardware in a MacBook, but the OS seems to be able to work without it.
ehayes··on D3.js 5.0 is out
I've been using Billboard.js as a drop-in replacement for C3. It's a fork made specifically to work on D3 v4+.

https://naver.github.io/billboard.js/

ehayes··on Enter a pair of names to see if any intersections in the US match those names
There is no intersection of Technology and Liberal Arts https://www.crossing.us/intersections/Technology/Liberal%20A...
ehayes··on Quantum entanglement between a single photon and a trillion rubidium atoms
As a layman, this sort of sounds like the beginnings of a Heisenberg Compensator (from Star Trek transporters), is that way off?
ehayes··on Fossjobs: A website for free and open-source software jobs
Not only possible, I'm pretty sure it's impossible to work exclusively on closed-source at Red Hat.
ehayes··on Fossjobs: A website for free and open-source software jobs
Another Red Hatter here to give a recommendation for Red Hat. All of my work is in the open. Furthermore I can say just about all code written at RH is upstream-first. Red Hat has a great culture and is very remote friendly. (My team is fairly distributed)
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