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ndreason Autossh – automatically restart SSH sessions and tunnels

I used to use autossh to set up a SOCKS proxy to tunnel my web browser traffic via my home network and it worked really well. Also had a ControlMaster on the tunnel which made SSH connections to my server instantaneous.

Nowadays I use wireguard an a dedicated SOCKS proxy. The upside is that I can access everything on my home network directly without having to tunnel.

ndreason NilAway: Practical nil panic detection for Go

This is the core of the problem. Of course you can learn the language in a weekend, but you're bound to make the same mistakes developers have been doing for decades.

This may be ok, as you say, if you allow errors here and there because you are fine dealing with those problems. But at the other end, it may be a user that is affected by the error. Which may be ok as well, but why should it be? We lament the quality of software all the time.

Compare this to other engineering fields: unless you study the knowledge of those who came before you may not even be allowed to practice in the field. I would not want to use a bridge built by someone who learned bridge building in a weekend.

Software is different though, it's rarely a matter of life or death. Given that, maybe it's ok to not have the highest quality in mind, because the benefit of productivity far outweighs the alternative.

I'm torn.

ndreason Ask HN: How do you do backups for personal/home server?

I use borg to backup all my computers to my home server, including the server. It runs raid 1+0. I then use rclone to sync the borg repos to backblaze and dropbox. I encrypt both in the borg repo and in the rclone transfer.

ndreason Slate: a Mac OS X window manager for power users

I have used Slate for quite a while to manage my windows, and I think it's great, especially the snapshoting and layout functionality allowing me to go easily between an external screen and my laptop's screen.

One of the later versions added support for Javascript configuration which makes it extremely powerful: https://github.com/jigish/slate/wiki/JavaScript-Configs

ndreason Django Best Practices

This is nice. I've been wanting to dabble a bit in Django, but I find it a bit hard to find basic information like this, for example, how to decide when creating a separate app inside a project is better than putting everything in a single app.

It definitely helps to have conventions to follow while you're learning, until you become proficient enough to break those conventions.