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eiginn··on How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs
A very good friend, who is not a brain surgeon, but designs and plans brain surgeries for clinical trials with the very brain surgeons doing the surgeries. So yes they do think it through and even do entire dry runs through every step.
eiginn··on LittleSnitch for Linux
Seriously, the amount flatpak misinformation that people hold onto is absolutely wild. Ex: I have had to show people it does differential updates because they don't bother to read the output.

Flatpaks are easily the best gui desktop app experience for users we have today.

eiginn··on Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal
Praise be to projects that use xdg paths before posting it to hn.
eiginn··on Attention lapses due to sleep deprivation due to flushing fluid from brain
This mirrors my experience as well of multiple instances over my life of repressing childhood trauma and some event or conversation suddenly bringing it back to the surface.
eiginn··on Ubiquiti SFP Wizard
Now if only the fiberstore SFP programmer didn't require an app that is basically malware as far as I'm concerned.
eiginn··on Collaborative Text Editing Without CRDTs or OT
I miss Wave a lot, very quirky in a good way imo. We ran a few D&D games over it. RIP
eiginn··on Tracing packets in the Linux kernel networking stack and friends
Two other projects in the same vein:

https://github.com/YutaroHayakawa/ipftrace2

https://github.com/cilium/pwru

eiginn··on The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat
O by Cirque du Soleil has underwater lifts not sure about other shows
eiginn··on 0AD, an open source historical RTS in development for 22 years
Loved Dark Reign, I have the discs still, somewhere.
eiginn··on The first planetarium projector was unveiled 100 years ago
I'll just leave this here for the interested https://web.archive.org/web/20230408013446/https://www.plane... (archive link to not hug it to death)
eiginn··on The case of the mysterious --help directory (2020)
In Zsh setting '-x' on an interactive shell will also show you what is executed for prompts, completion, and any hooks (probably other things too)
eiginn··on Sequoia-PGP – A new OpenPGP implementation in Rust
Thanks for sharing those, I had kind of written off Nix for personal laptop after first glance, going to play around again.