samwho.dev
That guy who makes visual essays about software at https://samwho.dev.
He/him.
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It’s so hard to trust reviews at all anymore, especially on larger sites like Amazon. Feels like too many companies have “solved” it. Too many good reviews is suspicious. Better too look for good returns policies (if applicable) 🫠
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I feel attacked.
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Has happened to me. I assumed at the time it was because I had the author blocked or something. Didn’t dig into it.
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I’ll make some calls.
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You are a national treasure.
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Good good, as you were.
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Have you two ever chatted?
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Nope. Into the sea.
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Ok go.
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Hold on, let me finish my reply to this post.
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Of course.
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It’s a pet peeve of mine for someone to start a conversation with me when I’m clearly doing something (typing at my desk or on my phone, etc). You can see I’m in the middle of something! Start out with something like “can I ask you something?” so I can respond “just a minute, finishing this email.”
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Yessir.
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Sir, a third package manager has been installed on the system.
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u wot
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This was a good one.
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What’s the reason? I’ve installed one thing via it and nothing appears to have burst into flame yet.
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I’ve been so tempted to buy one of these in the past but I know it’s silly.
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Oh in that case I take it back.
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Unreal.
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Preach.
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Headless on a Raspberry Pi. Seemed to be the most well supported way to go.
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Software in question is www.getzola.org/documentatio....
As far as I can tell, snap is my option there. I don’t particularly want to install the .deb by hand, and I haven’t used flatpak before but it looked more complicated than snap.
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What I’m reading on the web makes it sound like a docker-like thing where all the deps of a piece of software are packaged with it.
Is it widely used / supported? Do people love or hate it? Why do I now have to care about 2 package managers?
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Do your pitch in the form of a PR, works every time.
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I believe it requires some config.
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GitHub tells us about them, I believe it happens through the dependabot integration?
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Just learned the smallest positive whole number that doesn't have its own Wikipedia page is a measly 316
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/316_(nu...
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Thank you for such a lovely message 🙏🥰
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I’m using it to build a suite of little tools for myself. I got it to create a Telegram bot so it can ping me, I’ve made a tool that runs every week to find autism-friends activities for the kids near us on the weekend. I can do all this on the sofa in the evenings, don’t need to be at my desk.
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I’m enjoying Claude Code but found I want to be able to use it on my phone, so I hooked up a RPi 5, Tailscale, and an SSH app on my phone. Works really well!
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It is 😂
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Series is very accurate to the book. Both extremely enjoyable. Book, as you’d imagine, does have more in it.
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It’s 10/10. Based on a book by a Rolling Stole reporter who embedded in a marine unit in Iraq. One of the actors in the show is literally a marine playing himself, one of the people talked about in the book. Is only about 8 episodes. Couldn’t recommend it higher for seeing how dumb things were.
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Scary how little power and will exists to remove these things.
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We do it quite haphazardly. If there’s a CVE or a bug that’s fixed in a later version. The big ones, like Node and TypeScript, we try to be somewhat proactive about. We always try to be on the latest LTS Node release.
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My god, yes.
At the moment the thing I’m enjoying and know I’ll miss is when they get into our bed in the middle of the night. Yeah it’s annoying but they’re so cuddly. 🥰
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Have you ever watched or read Generation Kill?
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Groovy allowed spaces in function names comes to mind.
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This isn’t quite what I have in mind. I often have my pan slightly off center, leaving one side hotter than the other. I want the whole pan surface to tell me how hot it is so I can adjust accordingly.