rvdginste

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by rvdginste 8mo ago
I recently created a static site with technical documentation using Antora. Antora uses asciidoc source that it pulls from git repositories. It has a lunr extension for search. It took some time to get familiar with the setup, but I find it
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by rvdginste 2y ago
A good course will teach you everything on a topic in a structured way. Personally I believe there is a lot more value in well-structured material than in a bunch of responses on rather ad-hoc questions to ChatGPT. Also be aware that not
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by rvdginste 2y ago
Email is one of the few protocols that was designed out of the box to be decentralized, that in the mean time is implemented by a lot of big tech players and that has stayed compatible for communication between accounts at one of those big
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by rvdginste 2y ago
A lot of big words in the summary (reimagine, crafting tools, transformative functionality, smoother workflow, push beyond typical CI/CD boundaries, empower developers, ...) and still, with that summary I have no clue what exactly this
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by rvdginste 2y ago
> There's something that seems very satisfying about loading software from tape, too. Uhhh.. as someone who used to load software from tape on a CPC 464 ages ago, I can tell you that it was painfully slow. Nothing satisfying about
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by rvdginste 2y ago
As a software engineer, I insist on giving developers high-end laptops. The reason is very simple: a lot of development environments are very heavy to run, and developers should not waste time on their development tools running slowly. I al
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by rvdginste 2y ago
Ok, I agree, if there is enough (ad-hoc) communication within the team, you don’t need those meetings every day.
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by rvdginste 2y ago
I think one should not use advanced language features just because, but I also think one should not avoid using advanced language features where it is useful. Why would the code base be worse when advanced language features are used?
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by rvdginste 2y ago
I don’t understand your comment: if you develop software as a team, it seems important to communicate and to know what the others in your team are working on? Also, I really don’t see it as ‘social’ meeting, to me it’s a focused technical m
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by rvdginste 2y ago
> Because all the code I write is high quality… That is a big claim to make… I do follow you on the complexity of code and that good code should avoid unnecessary complexity (‘unnecessary’ being key here).
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by rvdginste 2y ago
When I read about people using AI to write code, it always seems to me that it would be a lot faster and less hassle if they would write the code themselves, without even considering the fact that it would give them more experience and make
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by rvdginste 2y ago
> Sounds kinda cursed, but running something like Debian sid sucks because there's not many other people doing that. I am not sure that is correct. I think it is very common for (experienced) people that run Debian to use Debian Tes
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by rvdginste 2y ago
I really like to work with snapshot isolation and rarely have any problems with it, but you do have to be aware what guarantees it gives and does not give. In the example given in the article, there would not be a problem if the links on th
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by rvdginste 2y ago
Well… if you know the data is real, then knowing everything about that someone can seriously limit the number of people it could actually be, which makes that someone identifiable. Like if you only know the full address, and you see that on
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by rvdginste 3y ago
For a lot of projects, I have 2 worktrees, where one is for my own work on the project, and the other one is for reviewing other people's code. That means that I can easily do a review (I like having the code open in my IDE during a re
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by rvdginste 3y ago
I am trying to create an account (using a gmail address as email address), but I do not receive a code through email. I already tried multiple times. Any idea what is going on?
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by rvdginste 3y ago
Clear, thanks! I did not test it yet, but it looks like something that would be very useful for me. So, I will definitely try it. I will add that me too, I have some concerns regarding the data being "locked" in your service, but
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by rvdginste 3y ago
I still consider semver better. When it is used correctly, the version number gives a clear indication of what kind of changes to expect when upgrading. Obviously this is done to the best of knowledge of the author and might not always be
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by rvdginste 3y ago
Not the original poster, but still not clear to me. Say I mark a page that contains really usable information. For some reason, 2 months later that page goes offline because the domain was not renewed (or whatever). Some time after that hap
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by rvdginste 3y ago
I think forum/mailinglist and Slack/Discord/IRC are different kinds of communication: the first is rather asynchronous/offline while the second is rather synchronous/online. I believe they can exist next to each oth
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by rvdginste 3y ago
I agree, I think forums and things like Slack/Discord/IRC is used for different kinds of communication. Forums are rather asynchronous, while the others are rather synchronous. When a forum is used to help someone fix a problem, t
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by rvdginste 3y ago
I find the following article from some time ago more informative. It contains a very good explanation of isolation levels and how they are implemented in postgresql. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38684447
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by rvdginste 3y ago
I am a .NET developer. I recently read "Concurrency in C# cookbook, 2nd ed" and found that one very interesting and clear. I mainly wanted a decent explanation on async-await, and the book has that. But aside from async-await, the
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by rvdginste 3y ago
That one is on my to-read list. Only hear good things about that book. And I see that C# 12 in a nutshell is just released.
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by rvdginste 3y ago
I see that the iX magazines are also from Heise. Have seen these before in supermarkets in Germany and it seemed like those magazines have interesting and technical articles. Sadly seems to be available in German only.
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by rvdginste 3y ago
> We are not just experiencing the demise of PC magazines, but also the demise of printed press and of major old news outlets. I have the impression that nowadays most people no longer want to invest the time to read in-depth articles or
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by rvdginste 3y ago
Bah… I doubt that, but might depend on location. Some people should really try to take an objective look at C# and .net and decide about its merit, separately from the company that developed it. I know the latter also plays a role in the de
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by rvdginste 3y ago
Would I be wrong in thinking that this "bi-directional logical replication" is only usable in a very limited number of use cases? As you mention, unique constraints pose a problem, and a lot of tables would have unique constraints
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by rvdginste 3y ago
I hope that people say they hate UML and then just make UML (class, database, activity, ..) diagrams according to their own conventions, but I am afraid you are right and that a lot of software is just "hobbled together"...
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by rvdginste 3y ago
I never got the hate against UML. To me, UML is just a language to communicate about several aspects of a technical design, and to visualize a technical design to make it easier to reason about it. I did not read the book "a philosophy

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