Stavros @stavros@mastodon.social

MFW I warn people against some complicated technology like Kubernetes or Kafka and they use "but scale" as a counterargument.

So with CloudFlare Workers in CloudFlare Pages I can write a JS file called mypath.js and when someone visits http://myserver.com/mypath, the code gets executed server-side? That's pretty neat!

Looks like we're back to the PHP days, except the language is bett... never mind.

Listen to my woes: I bought @songsofconquest@twitter.com but it doesn't run on Linux, and I can't be bothered to reboot to Windows to play it, even though I really like it.

I'm never buying a game that doesn't run on Linux again, I have decided.

PSA: "GMT" doesn't mean "whatever time it is in the UK". The UK isn't even on GMT right now.

People say "well-written code doesn't need comments" to mean "my code is well-written, therefore it doesn't need comments". The saying should be "if your code needs comments, it's not well-written enough".

Causality goes the other way.

I guess they can charge however much they want, but I think price fatigue will set in soon. We can't be paying $20 per user per month on 100 small tools.

Tool pricing has gone a bit crazy. I just tried an incident management tool, which I liked. It's priced at $200/yr/user.

It's like, you're useful, but you're not FIVE TIMES AS USEFUL AS GITHUB. I see this trend with lots of tools, they simplify something and charge tons.

Why do meeting software companies hate me? All I'm trying to do is make a physical mute button, yet nobody will give me a simple API to get/set whether I'm muted on the meeting or not.

I posted a new article on my site: Better communication with other drivers https://www.stavros.io/posts/communicate-with-drivers-better/

PSA: There are only two essential rules when having an online meeting:

1) Wear headphones.
2) Mute yourself when not speaking.

Also, less important (but still important), ethernet is better than wifi, and wired is better than Bluetooth.

You'll improve everyone's experience.

- UDP
- Who's there?
- Knock knock.
- UDP who?

If you were building, say, the Spotify client app and said "every part of the app is a different microservices and we'll deploy it on the customer's machine using K3s for orchestration" you'd be put on a PIP, but it's somehow perfectly acceptable for servers.

I've been learning a lot about SQLite in this thread and it's elevated my already high opinion of it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30894913

The @Buildah_io@twitter.com website is one of the worst I've seen. No description of what it does, no advantages, no mention of anything, installation instructions are an afterthought in the sidebar.

0.1% of visitors will be interested in project news, yet it's 100% of the page.

I just had a customer ask three times how he can get the upgraded tier on one of my services for free, and told me to go fuck myself when I said I wasn't interested in helping him any more.

Customer support is not always fun, but times like these it really is!

Well this about sums it up:

"If Russia didn't want Ukraine to turn towards the EU, they shouldn't have annexed the parts of Ukraine containing all the citizens who didn't want to do it."

My favorite story I heard lately is how @JamesBlunt@twitter.com sort-of prevented (postponed, I guess) World War 3 by also refusing an order to fire on Russian soldiers, after his superior, Michael Jackson, disobeyed it.

I'll say one thing about @Tailscale@twitter.com, I sent them an email with a highly technical question on Sunday morning, figuring I'd get a canned reply two days later.

I got an email six minutes later that answered my exact question in detail, and then some. Props.

I just started trying @Tailscale@twitter.com and I'm pretty impressed, the ACLs are easy and very powerful. I'm thinking it would be a good way to have a home network as well.

@Tailscale@twitter.com, how can I remove the need to trust you not to add extra devices to my VPN?