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· @micro.thedroneely.com · 15 sec · 44/50 words · 11:28 PM Jun 27 2022 · #id · raw

The dictionary and thesaurus are among my most used tools. Easy to install and use offline on any device — no search engine required. Just also realized that my most used offline tools are not in my blog post about programming without the Internet..

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· @micro.thedroneely.com · 14 sec · 42/50 words · 12:23 AM Jun 25 2022 · #id · raw

Why blog? One key reason is for framing offline and organic discussions — they’re the best. Online discussions tend to devolve into “peanut gallery” takes for any range of topics. You can’t know it all, but being in the gallery is fun?

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· @micro.thedroneely.com · 20 sec · 61/50 words · 11:26 PM Jun 22 2022 · #id · raw

It’s painful to realize that a program’s state is name spaced wrongly/scattered. You’ve then got to either accept the complexity or rewrite select portions + migrate to a more correct data hierarchy. Databases exist to make that easier.

Though, imo the simplest form of system administration is when you only have to backup/copy state directories from one computer to the next.

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· @micro.thedroneely.com · 6 sec · 19/50 words · 10:15 PM Jun 21 2022 · #id · raw

Two interesting indie/micro blog repositories.

1. GoBlog: Simple blogging system written in Go. Example.
2. tally-ho: A micropub speaking blog. Example.

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· @micro.thedroneely.com · 8 sec · 24/50 words · 8:58 PM Jun 20 2022 · #id · raw

SVG is a solid tactic. No one “inspect elements” every site. Everyone’s a user, even programmers — they won’t know until someone tells them.

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· @micro.thedroneely.com · 1 sec · 3/50 words · 1:21 AM Jun 20 2022 · #id · raw

I’m actually sleeping…

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· @micro.thedroneely.com · 10 sec · 30/50 words · 12:50 AM Jun 20 2022 · #id · raw

If the cryptocurrency ecosystem “falls” in on itself, it probably still won’t disappear because it’s almost TBTF. It’s how we westerners do things ;–). Magic is real, but strangely selective?

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· @micro.thedroneely.com · 13 sec · 38/50 words · 12:39 AM Jun 20 2022 · #id · raw

Very tempted to stick GNU Guix somewhere in my main workflow — Guile Scheme looks interesting. I’m sorta curious as to why people like Lisp languages so much. The plan is to read the reference manual. (yeah… right)

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· @micro.thedroneely.com · 32 sec · 97/50 words · 11:47 PM Jun 19 2022 · #id · raw

Nix/NixOS are great for documenting system configurations/models, but the long evaluation times make for slow feed back loops.

My knowledge of the functional ecosystem is mostly diddly, but maybe there’s a way to speed it up? Ignore all module and package imports and piece together a minimal evaluation perhaps?

{ ... }:

{
  imports = [
    <nixpkgs/nixos/modules/programs/git.nix>
    <nixpkgs/nixos/modules/security/auditd.nix>
    <nixpkgs/nixos/modules/services/databases/postgresql.nix>
  ];

  nixpkgs.overlays = [
    (_: pkgs: {
      cpio = pkgs.callPackage <nixpkgs/pkgs/tools/archivers/cpio/default.nix> { };
    })
  ];
}

If that goes anywhere, maybe that’s an article, but I’m fairly certain someone must have tried something like this already.

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· @micro.thedroneely.com · 11 sec · 34/50 words · 11:04 PM Jun 17 2022 · #id · raw

The static versus dynamic site wars are mostly conflicts over where discomfort and computation should happen at increasing scale. You’ll either be lagging/computing on the server side, the client or, maybe somewhere in between.