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To be clear, I am talking about working proficiency. Able to create large, maintainable and “production ready” software that is understandable and idiomatic. Most programmers will learn that once they’ve tackled picking up their second language, that picking up any amount of future languages is relatively easy. There are exceptions to that, of course, but broadly speaking you should be able to transfer the...

What are you doing this week? Feel free to share! Keep in mind it’s OK to do nothing at all, too.

Feel free to tell what you plan on doing this weekend and even ask for help or feedback. Please keep in mind it’s more than OK to do nothing at all too!

I submitted a story about the tech industry’s poor understanding of consent [ADMIN EDIT: removed link], with a recent example prominently featured: Automattic’s decision to sell WordPress.com-hosted content to OpenAI and Midjourney, and their choice of an “opt out” mechanism rather than an “opt in” mechanism. The call to action of this blog post was that tech workers need to push harder for human-respecting...

After @PhantomZorba did the interview with me last month we decided to try to make the lobste.rs interview series a relay, where each interviewee then interviews someone else. Picking a single person from this community is hard, but Arcan is the project that I wish I had the time, expertise, and patience to have written, so I had to choose @crazyloglad. Introduce yourself, describe...

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I am on the cusp (hopefully) of kicking off development of a fairly large and complex system (multiple integrated services, kafkas involved, background processes, multiple client frontends, etc…). It’s predominantly going to be built in rust (but that’s only trivially relevant; i.e. not following standard OOP). Here’s where i’m at: I have defined all the components, services, data stores to use / or develop...

What are you doing this week? Feel free to share! Keep in mind it’s OK to do nothing at all, too.

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Hello! My go-to language to develop something that needs high performance has been C++. I do a lot of high frequency transactions, systems programming (implement tiny compilers/interpreters for domain specific problems and such), personal projects, etc. and I usually start my projects in C++. But it is increasingly looking like Rust can solve all the problems that C++ can without losing performance and while...

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Right now, when landing on the homepage, a user has no easy way to know if new comments have been posted on a story, whose comments they’ve already read. Similarly to how new comments are highlighted in a story’s page, but for the homepage. My personal workaround is to try to remember more or less how many comments were there last time I checked,...

I think that the “average karma per story/comment” is an anti-feature. Since posts usually get more points than comments, it incentivizes people to post more stories instead of interacting with them. The metric has little to no use, and I believe that there are only harms associated with it. I propose that the metric in the profile be removed.

Feel free to tell what you plan on doing this weekend and even ask for help or feedback. Please keep in mind it’s more than OK to do nothing at all too!

What are you doing this week? Feel free to share! Keep in mind it’s OK to do nothing at all, too.

Feel free to tell what you plan on doing this weekend and even ask for help or feedback. Please keep in mind it’s more than OK to do nothing at all too!

Inspired by a recent post about email server software. The biggest hurdle to self-hosting email is large providers (especially gmail) putting your mail into spam regardless of whether or not you conform to the latest smtp standards (spf, dkim, dmarc, mta-sts), leading many to believe the large providers consider IP reputation as the most important signal for spam. Surprisingly many lobsters reported having no...

I’ve recently been experiencing terminal based games in Termux because I’ve always heard about them. One very neat thing is that I find myself actually using my imagination way more and it’s a feeling that I haven’t felt truly in a long time while playing a game. I’ve been enjoying rogue-likes like brogue or dungeon crawl stone soup, but Ive been expanding my horizons...

Moving house, and trying to set things up more properly this time. I had been running opensmtpd, but have heard questionable things about openbsd code, and it’s annoying to configure. Qmail seems nice in some respects—modular, configurable, secure, large patch ‘ecosystem’, etc.; my dad runs it—but last I looked into it it wanted to be djbbuilt and djbrun in a special djbway, which just...

What are you doing this week? Feel free to share! Keep in mind it’s OK to do nothing at all, too.

Feel free to tell what you plan on doing this weekend and even ask for help or feedback. Please keep in mind it’s more than OK to do nothing at all too!