and if they want to go fancy and cheap, suggest excel.

how didn’t I think of that, thanks!

to be fair, that’s a talk from 2005, but I can imagine the new article taking longer to read than the app to be created.

I don’t bother. Most sites I wouldn’t miss at all. There’s only half a dozen or so websites that could force me to take any action on my end.

that is an ungodly 40 minute read without much of a takeaway. Here’s the AI generated tl;dr

The author recounts a reluctant experience with public speaking, stemming from a past incident where he discussed topics beyond his audience’s expectations. Despite initially hesitating, he revives his experience to talk about “Computers in the Movies,” drawing parallels between the portrayal of computers in films and real technological advances. The author highlights the impact of movies like 2001: A Space Odyssey and WarGames in depicting computers as both helpers and threats, often reflecting societal fears about technology. He contrasts Hollywood’s dramatizations with today’s mundane reality of technology, pointing out how things like email and PowerPoint have subtly influenced our behaviors and thinking, suggesting that our relationship with technology is akin to addiction rather than dependency. Transitioning to modern development practices, the author critiques tools like Visual Studio and features like IntelliSense for shaping, perhaps simplifying, programming methods. Despite these tools’ capabilities, he fears they undermine coding skills by promoting faster but potentially less thoughtful programming. Finally, he reflects on the shift from traditional coding, highlighting the value of returning to basic coding tasks to rediscover the joy of pure algorithmic programming, away from the complexity of modern integrated development environments and pre-written frameworks.

ok, that’s it, I’m donating monthly

https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/support/

They meant mail. With patches in punch cards. Just as good.

ah, this filter by timestamp might be very useful to me, thanks

last year I had over 1TB freed by docker system prune on a dev VM. If you’re building images often, that’s a mandatory command to run once in a while.

I do think the demand decreased in the past decade. The average consumer has their photos and documents in the cloud and signs up to streaming services for movies, shows, and music. Local storage is not as important as it used to be.

title should read adopt*

We do it like that too. Most meetings are not useful at all (no blockers), but at least we don’t waste more than 15-20 minutes

but when something goes wrong it’s on you, so you can wear that hat too

I’ve been doing that for years. Rollbacks are very rare, to the point that it doesn’t make much of a difference whether I do them all at once or not, other than spending more time to do it.

If I wasn’t using containers for everything, sure. Otherwise it’s a bit of an excessive concern.

exactly my point, I’d suggest automating that before I bothered with PRs that upgrade versions, as it’s a waste of time.

“manual changes”, which connotes “local changes”

It doesn’t. Manual as in a PR with upgrades that you’re suggesting yourself, as opposed to running dependabot.

Putting up a PR with changes isn’t considered a manual anything.

If I have to open a PR myself, that’s very much a manual change.

that’s a lot of FUD, topgrade just upgrades using all package managers you have, it doesn’t do the upgrades itself bypassing the manager that installed it, or package authors.

dependabot is a tool for repos, not to apply local changes

That may work for a handful of projects. It’d be my full time job if I did it for everything I run. Also, I might simply suggest maintainers to adopt dependabot or an alternative before I spend time with manual changes. These things should be automated.

what’s the alternative? Write a PR yourself?