rufugee

Would love to have a conversation. Drop me an email at rufugee@proton.me. Looking forward to it.

The issue we face is CDX. We have >100 dbfs, and >600 clients hitting them at all times.

Do you do consulting in this space? I'd be interested in having some discussions...

I wouldn't trust anything without further review.

I would welcome a community effort. There are many (?) companies still relying on FoxPro. Vibe coding a solution is feasible these days. We've vibe-coded a few from FoxPro to Ruby on Rails with great success. I'm no longer stressed about the future... just the timeline.

We run 500 KLOC of FoxPro at my company, daily. It is the engine that fuels a $500M business.

I hate that it's the hand I'm dealt, but aside from AI rewrites (underway), there's no good answer. It's complicated by our reliance on DBFs.

I welcome efforts like foxscript and anything else in this space. There are still a significant number of FoxPro apps out there and no one has a good answer. If you are struggling in this space, leave a comment here. I'll reach out to you. Strength in numbers...

It's come a LONG way in user friendliness in 10 months. Combine Omarchy with a LLM and you can literally change any behavior you want in minutes. I have heavily customized mine, but have been able to remove some of those customizations on Quattro because upstream incorporated similar features.

I am running it on the Framework 13 and 16. Both are awesome devices, but I'm partial to the 16. Beautiful screen, great keyboard, and I can easily swap in an NVIDIA card when I want.

Battery life isn't the best in this beast. I'd love to try a Dell Panther Lake laptop and may end up with one in the near future. DHH reports Apple Silicon-ish battery life.

I've been daily driving it since July of 25. It's been an absolutely flawless experience. Never have I been more excited to be a long time Linux user.

As short-lived as I want them. Recreating them is one command and about 10 seconds (I have scripted apt/gem/etc installs as a part of the recreation).

I tend to use them for a bit, and then destroy/rebuild. Think days, not weeks.

Looking forward to experimenting with it. Looks awesome!

Sad for the creators of the world. I enjoy the benefits of AI, but I hate if for creative individuals like @justalever.

We (developers) were all sold a promise years ago of technology/software being our future. That's changing rapidly, and there's no going back.

Using incus heavily on Omarchy here and love it. I created a script to read yaml configs and create ephemeral incus containers with certain capabilities and certain directories mounted within. It's a wonderful experience for sandboxing Claude Code.

I have tried both Django and Rails for this, and honestly, very surprisingly, Rails did much better, at least with Claude Code. This is for a rewrite of an old .net application. Claude nailed it almost perfectly with Rails, but struggled with Django. YMMV.

I only wish Fortnite were possible. that’s the only thing I keep windows around for.

After reviewing the available options over a year ago, I decided to implement our own migration tool using https://dbup.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ (we have a pre-existing, sizable .NET codebase). It's worked perfectly for our needs.

And here I am looking at the Windows 11 machine I keep around to play a few games that has forced to me to do a complete reinstall four times because Windows updates broke it overnight, even though I had auto-update turned off...

As much as I despise the macOS experience, this small feature was a bright spot. So easy.

Omarchy uses limine plus snapper to give you (by default, but configurable) five system rollbacks. Each time an update happens, or a package is installed, a bootable btrfs snapshot is created. I've leveraged this myself to after an update caused an issue with nvidia drivers.

I don't mean this to come across as snarky, but before you spread misinformation, you might want to inform yourself.

The elapsed time from burning the ISO to productive development environment is impressive. Also, folks worry so much about customizing it, but you don't have to. And hyprland and Omarchy almost entire driven by text files, so Claude Code and its ilk are super effective at customizations.

For me, it's not about ricing. I find Omarchy to be an incredibly productive setup, from the launchers for webapps to the focus on TUIs.

I'm conflicted about the drama and still learning more about it, so not ready to draw a conclusion yet. But Omarchy is definitely a very, very fun experience for me.

Granted, I've heavily customized it and am using hy3 for i3-like capabilities, so whatever path out of this for me is likely to i3wm or sway.

And, fwiw, I've been running linux since the late 90s, and most of that as my primary OS (with a decade-ish period of macOS I'd rather forget). I know what I'm doing.

same experience here with Omarchy. it’s been (mostly) flawless. the only reason i keep windows around at this point is fortnite.

This is gold. Thanks so much for sharing. Being able to put claude in handcuffs and use --dangerously-skip-permissions without concern is a game changer!

This is great. Thanks for the detailed reply!

So do you configure firejail to give each app their own separate, permanent home directories? Like "firejail --private=/home/user/firejails/discord discord", "firejail --private=/home/user/firejails/chromium chromium", and so on?

Check out https://github.com/outfoxxed/hy3. I use it for i3 capabilities on top of Hypr. It's AWESOME.

As a long-time Linux full time user, I begrudgingly switched to a mac for company reasons around a decade ago. I've lost a little bit of light in my life ever since, and was constantly fighting macOS to just let me work the way I want to.

I've switched back full time to Omarchy, and couldn't be happier. I'll likely eventually land back on NixOS with hyprland and my custom configs, but for now, Omarchy is wonderful.

DHH is just the salesman a Linux distro like this needs, and the combination of smart decisions (most menu'd commands just call out to shell scripts behind the scenes) and text-based config make Omarchy a techie's dream.

Add something like claude code in your ~/.config directory and you have almost instant and infinite ability to customize.

It's so much fun.

For any former i3 users, I've found https://github.com/outfoxxed/hy3 to be a very acceptable replacement.

Hello fellow lurker. I for one am glad you are here ;-)

And I echo the thanks. HN has made me a better technical professional in so many ways.

I share your concerns about homebrew. It was one of the reasons I gave up on Silverblue/Bluefin.

Thanks! re: desktop environment, I am sooooo excited to get back to i3/sway. Peak desktop experience for me. :)

As someone who switched about a year ago from FreeNAS to Synology, this is extremely disappointing. Synology has been a great experience up to this point. I have pools, one on supported WD Reds, and the other on a hodge podge of drives I had collecting dust.

Both pools have been very reliable so far. But if they continue down this path, I'll seek a different solution.