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glmdev | 2 years ago | on: Microsoft enables booting PCs directly into cloud PCs

In _theory_ using a thin-client and booting into a cloud machine means you can "upgrade" your machine in a couple years w/o having to replace the thin-client.

Could be easier for grandma, could reduce e-waste, will definitely be used to pigeon-hole us into an endless hell of subscription software.

glmdev | 3 years ago | on: On Markdown in Java documentation comments

I also think "adoptability" should be a consideration. Perhaps AsciiDoc would be a slightly better fit, but every developer I know is already familiar with MarkDown and at the end of the day convincing people to write good docblocks is easier if they don't have to pick up new syntax.

glmdev | 3 years ago | on: Go generics are not bad

I think Go's generics are reasonable, but not quite powerful enough to scale.

It's all well and good to generalize basic containers and functions (good, in fact), but I wish the language was better at inferring types.

I'm sure this is something that will improve with time, but a bit after generics were released, I tried to build a type-safe language evaluator in Go using generics and found them lacking the kind of type-narrowing necessary for fully-generic architecture.

Short write-up of my conundrum on SO, if anyone is interested: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71955121/how-to-type-swi...

TypeScript has me spoiled. :)

glmdev | 3 years ago | on: Why America can’t build

I think this is an interesting idea, though I suspect "on net the status quo is worse environmentally" is a hard question to answer w/o the aforementioned in-depth reviews (at least to an extent; obviously the current system has problems).

glmdev | 3 years ago | on: Why America can’t build

The concept sounds good in theory, but I think it's going to be nigh unworkable in practice. The NCLB/high-stakes testing era exposed many problems with tying educator pay to student outcomes -- chief among them that student outcomes didn't improve.

glmdev | 3 years ago | on: Fish Shell 3.5.0

The auto-completion alone is worth it IMO. I've been using fish for 6 or 7 years now, and having it hint ahead some obscure command that I only use once a month saves me so much time reading MAN/searching online.

Pair that with tldr and it's a really good experience.

glmdev | 3 years ago | on: Welcome to the M1 Windows project

Surprised I had to scroll this far to see this. It's an objectively cool project, even if it doesn't make the most financial/business sense. Doesn't seem like that's the point.

glmdev | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you sync your computer’s development configurations/environment?

I keep a .dotfiles git-repo similarly. The configs/custom scripts/etc are organized into separate folders by what they do (shell config/work tools/...) and I use GNU Stow to symlink them into my home directory. Makes setting up super easy:

    git clone <repo> .dotfiles && cd .dotfiles
    stow --target=$HOME --dir=packages shell-config
    stow --target=$HOME --dir=packages work-stuff
I've found this to be much more manageable than tools like yadm since I can pick-and-choose sets of configs/scripts based on the machine I'm using them on.

glmdev | 3 years ago | on: JavaScript quiz that may confuse you

One particularly annoying case comes up when using IIFEs:

    let c = a + b
    (() => { ... })()
This is evaluated as:

    let c = a + (b(() => {...}))()
which usually results in "TypeError: b is not a function." Obviously this can be solved with a semicolon after the "let c..." line, but another common approach is to just prefix all IIFEs with semicolons, since empty statements are no-ops in JS:

    let c = a + b
    ;(() => {...})()
I personally prefer to forego semi-colons, but I have a hard time getting worked up over it either way.

glmdev | 3 years ago | on: Abcdesktop – a cloud native desktopless system

This seems like a cool concept, but I didn't try it out because the demo requires FULL READ-WRITE access to my GitHub account, its organizations, and private details! Surely reading basic user info would suffice.

glmdev | 4 years ago | on: Is your SSH key still safe?

I 100% assumed that's what this would be until I clicked on it. I feel like a large portion of (especially beginner) SSH users don't really understand asymmetric encryption enough to understand the implications there.

glmdev | 4 years ago | on: USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness (2021)

This is true, though Ethernet seems to be an endemic problem. I have a ~$300 Dell WD19TB that works flawlessly to drive a couple displays, audio out, USB hub, and card reader, but the Ethernet died after a few months.

So now, comically, I have to have a type-C Ethernet adapter connected to the back of my Thunderbolt dock...

glmdev | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: Bloben – Self-hosted web CalDAV calendar client

I mean, assuming you run the server for this app on the same LAN as your CalDAV server, you don't have to directly expose it to the internet.

That said, my Radicale server is exposed to the internet, and I haven't had any issues. The *DAV protocols are mostly just HTTPS requests with Basic Auth.

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