I don’t have a concrete idea for you, but I suggest starting with something really simple. I think simple games are a good place to start. Or create a front-end for some command line tool to make it easier on beginners. That way you can focus on the UI development you’re interested in without getting bogged down in the rest of it.
It’s a pretty common assumption in software, especially on Linux, that if anyone can access your home directory, then you can’t have any expectation of privacy. Some apps make the explicit statement that secrets are stored in plain text because obfuscation would just give you a false sense of security.
The solution is to encrypt the data on a system level, e.g., with encrypted home directories. You could also create an encrypted volume in a file and store the profile in there. Make sure to protect your private keys with good passphrases.
Pinned (major.minor.patch) versions and ignore-scripts should be the default. It’s insane that the default is to execute untrusted code from the Internet.
It reminds me of back when IE would let me download a bat file and execute it
/Getoffmylawn
True open source products are your best bet. TruNAS and Proxmox are popular options, but you can absolutely set up a vanilla Debian server with Samba and call it a NAS. Back in the old days we just called those “file servers”.
Most importantly, just keep good backups. If you have to choose between investing in a raid or a primary + backup drive, choose the latter every time. Raid will save you time to recover, but it’s not a backup.
This is a qualified truth. In theory what you’re saying is true but for example with Synology they use their own raid format and while they ostensibly use btrfs they overlay their own metadata system on top.
Gotcha. I face similar issues with Synology. Their hyper backup format doesn’t seem to be standard. I’m considering setting up Borg Backup for offsite so I can restore it onto non Synology devices later.
Was this Synology by chance?
Heck yeah…Just in time to make a push to finish my CS degree right at the height of the .com boom and Y2K cleanup. The world is my oyster. If I can reuse my current knowledge, maybe go join some startup that actually makes it.
Remote, because my commute would be 140 miles round-trip again. Otherwise I mostly enjoy working in an office with people and I don’t mind going in every few months or so.
Remote is also nice because it actually makes it easier to collaborate with other developers when we can both be at our own keyboards and share screens.
I work well alone, but I spend a lot in time in calls, either work meetings or collaborating on code. I do enjoy the social aspect of that as well.
I use AI pretty much every day, but mostly as a search engine/SO replacement. I rarely let it write my code for me, since I’ve had overall poor results with that. Besides, I have to verify the code anyway. I do use it for simple refactoring or code generation like “create a c# class mapped to this table with entity framework”.
I don’t understand your response. They’re talking about SQL the language. To my knowledge, sqlite implements its own dialect of SQL. What am I missing?
My fat ass: “a vault full of chicken breast?”
Looks like your Windows 11 update is almost complete. Or it could be fleas, bed bugs, or lice. I’m not a bugologist.
Would it count if they used one of these?
Entertaining! Well done. LGTM and ⛴️
Those lines are mostly comments, right? Right?
This is one of the reasons I prefer using ctrl-insert/shift-insert when it’s available. Unfortunately the Insert key seems to have disappeared from a lot of keyboards. Scroll lock sometimes works instead of ctrl-s and ctrl-q. I would be ok remapping ctrl-c to ctrl-break, but I still use ctrl-z to background a job. Would be great if terminals had a quick easy way to select your preference of Microsoft, unix, or CUA shortcuts.
That’s because it’s not 5G like some conspiracy theorists will have you believe, but a mundane Romulan war horse, instead.
We had pgp and ftp in the 90s
Yep. Blew my mind when I learned about it, too. Unfortunately it’s not unusual or even difficult for these people to hold two completely incompatible opinions at the same time. I should add that female genital mutilation is not commonplace in the US. It doesn’t make it better, just less horrible.
I speak standing on a hill if my own dead projects. Just remember personal projects are supposed to be fun and educational, maybe with a little resume padding for good measure. Scratch that itch you can’t get to at work. It’s great when other people enjoy them, but as soon as they become a commitment, they start feeling like work. To me, at least.
That’s why I think games or little tools are great. They small enough so you can throw them out and start over. People won’t get (too) mad if you stop maintaining them (if you open source them) because it’s easy for someone else to take over.