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/Uses: A list of /uses pages detailing developer setups, gear, software, configs

183 points| petecooper | 2 years ago |uses.tech

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[+] 0xblinq|2 years ago|reply
Ahhh… lovely serveless cloud SPA crashing in your freaking face with a stack trace.

We’re being so cheated with all this marketing bullshit.

Had you used a decent web framework you’d at least show a proper error page and get sent a notification about the problem.

[+] dimgl|2 years ago|reply
There's actually quite a few ways to prevent this without breaking the bank.
[+] 50|2 years ago|reply
alternatively, see https://usesthis.com/ - "a collection of nerdy interviews asking people from all walks of life what they use to get the job done" ongoing since january 2009

some somewhat notable interviews have been submitted before: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=usesthis.com

e.g., aaron swartz[1]: https://usesthis.com/interviews/aaron.swartz/

1: his reference of using the MPW 9 font led me towards the discovery of the monaco 9pt bitmap font - curious if it's still around

[+] beezlebroxxxxxx|2 years ago|reply
Another one is https://workspaces.xyz , although it's more interesting to see the actual spaces where some people work. Some are hilariously clean and staged, while others look like they were taken mid escape with a go-bag. Unfortunately they're becoming more like a way of marketing tbh, but the sheer amount of posts on it are interesting nonetheless. (The number of people working in crypto is also hilarious.)
[+] bjornasm|2 years ago|reply
I had a period where I read every interview there, it was so cool to read about peoples tech stacks. I kind of fell off as it seemed like it ended up being more interviews with non-tech people than tech-people which removed some of the interest and utility for me. Got to revisit that site.
[+] jdsalaro|2 years ago|reply
I compared some all-time favorite programming fonts last week; you might enjoy that write-up :) ( I tried not to be too biased towards Fira Code as well as JetBrains and Julia Mono )

https://jdsalaro.com/blog/best-programming-fonts/

I also got quite a few suggestions on Mastodon and Tildes, which were added retroactively.

[+] pcthrowaway|2 years ago|reply
This is really fascinating.

Mostly because I never heard of the "/uses" convention. Unfortunately it's impossible to google to learn about it. Does anyone know where "/uses" originated?

[+] tiim|2 years ago|reply
I'm pretty sure it originates with wes bos (wesbos.com) , the person that also created uses.tech
[+] gtirloni|2 years ago|reply
Same here. I know people have posted about their setups but didn't know `/uses` was a thing.
[+] notorandit|2 years ago|reply
This edge function has crashed An unhandled error in the function code triggered the following message:

The deployment failed while serving the request. Connection details Netlify internal ID: 01H4NGBNZ4NDV642KSK4XW6Y1Q

[+] gtirloni|2 years ago|reply
Edge functions for hobby projects are awesome, until your project gets featured on HN's front page. I'd love to see a postmortem about the cloud costs.
[+] LocalPCGuy|2 years ago|reply
I'm guessing he'll (Wes Bos) bring it up on Syntax.fm, the podcast he does with Scott Tolinski. They've talked about this site before and I would be surprised if they don't bring this up and discuss how/why it failed and any plans for changes to avoid it in the future. As it's a little hobby site for him, not sure how much in the way of resources or money he really throws at it.
[+] thomasfromcdnjs|2 years ago|reply
I have this vague memory of a website where people could upload their bash scripts and more importantly a sort of primary setup script if you were booting up a fresh install.

The idea being after installing your distro, you could

> curl -sSL <script_url> | bash

It was somewhat of a social network. (10-20 years ago)

Am I taking crazy peoples or was this something...

[+] mgaunard|2 years ago|reply
running arbitrary code from the internet, what could go wrong?
[+] dunno7456|2 years ago|reply
Application Error

w@https://uses.tech/build/_shared/chunk-BLEU733H.js:1:723 vo@https://uses.tech/build/entry.client-2LPQTYSQ.js:6:19484 Pi@https://uses.tech/build/entry.client-2LPQTYSQ.js:8:3153 Xa@https://uses.tech/build/entry.client-2LPQTYSQ.js:8:44792 $a@https://uses.tech/build/entry.client-2LPQTYSQ.js:8:39726 Zf@https://uses.tech/build/entry.client-2LPQTYSQ.js:8:39657 br@https://uses.tech/build/entry.client-2LPQTYSQ.js:8:39515 Ui@https://uses.tech/build/entry.client-2LPQTYSQ.js:8:35905 Zu@https://uses.tech/build/entry.client-2LPQTYSQ.js:8:36715 pn@https://uses.tech/build/entry.client-2LPQTYSQ.js:6:3250 ba</ue/<@https://uses.tech/build/entry.client-2LPQTYSQ.js:8:34235

[+] folivore|2 years ago|reply
Could you disable the favicon changing all the time? It's crazy annoying
[+] KingOfCoders|2 years ago|reply
Crashed, but serverless!

"This edge function has crashed"

[+] wlkr|2 years ago|reply
Unfortunately, the link is currently unavailable, but from the title, it sounds similar to Uses This (https://usesthis.com/), which I find to be an interesting way of learning what tools people are using in different industries.
[+] dotnwat|2 years ago|reply
How do I stop the animated icon in the chrome tab? It's cool, but very distracting to keep the tab open.
[+] 0ct4via|2 years ago|reply
What does this offer that isn't already well-established at https://usesthis.com ? -- aside from /Uses having a hideous design, that is...
[+] skilled|2 years ago|reply
I extracted all the external links in each of the /uses pages and there are about 3,200 unique external links in total. I also checked each domain whether it's alive or not (expired) and surprisingly only 2 domains were expired - that's a pretty good result.

As far as the site itself goes, it's too impractical the way it is made now. It would work way better if people formatted their /uses page in a specific format that could then be pulled by this site and viewed directly. Otherwise, it's a link farm that you'll get bored of browsing very quickly.

[+] imbnwa|2 years ago|reply
Agreed, I was hoping for structured data layout but instead I gotta click through to personal blogs and extract the information I need from prose. Should give me the structured data and append a link to the website but I guess that means less free hits for the participants.
[+] oneeyedpigeon|2 years ago|reply
Looks like this site needs to /use a more scalable backend...
[+] karaterobot|2 years ago|reply
Is this meant to be a directory of people who are looking for work? If so, that's fine, I guess. If not, be aware that it feels like one.

If I made one of these for myself, it would be completely out of date in a year. It's almost like setups, gear, software, and configs are ephemeral and don't describe a person very well.