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All codes (new ones too) have been redeemed, interesting app! I personally like Contexts (https://contexts.co/) but it has been barely supported.

Have you found out which cat was it in the end?

I tried a couple donwloaded from the site and worked just fine on DosBox without those dirs.

What do you run on it or use it for? Anything to share?

Looks really neat! It might be really interesting if the live demo is the actual live stats of your umami.is :)

This reminded me a lot of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BiModem - Fun times

If I may, I want to share my recently pleasant experience with MailU[1]. I am in no way related to them, but it worked very nicely, it wasn't difficult to setup, and it sorts a lot of things out that have always been a pain for me when setting up my own mail server.

[1]: https://mailu.io/

Looks very nice! Two things I noticed right out on a projet:

- It doesn't seem to be picking up my global .gitignore file. I see untracked changes of something that should be ignored. It doesn't appear on any other git client nor `git status`.

- Please add regex to the search :)

I will try it out immediately, but I am surprised GitSavvy[1] was not even mentioned in this thread. It's by far my everyday package, and it fits very nicely. It's the only thing in a way of really wanting this.

[1]: https://github.com/divmain/GitSavvy

I agree with pretty much everything and I also advocate for that. However, how do you invoice your clients? Its hard to say: hey I'll charge X for each two weeks increment. Client: Great, how many increments will there be? Me: dunno, we'll figure it out somewhere down the increments.

The agile approach is the way to manage projects, but how do you quote them?

For some reason it doesn't work on this page :)

EDIT: Ah, because of: Refused to load the script 'https://hi.kickassapp.com/kickass.js' because it violates the following Content Security Policy directive...

This actually reminds me I should start using this on my projects.

Interesting, for those who enjoy reading (which I guess are probably quite a lot) I'd recommend the big fat surprise[1], a very interesting book about this, which goes way beyond this article.

[1]: http://thebigfatsurprise.com/

You normally use Windows on your 2013 MBPR? All hardware working nicely?

I used desktime and they seem to provide an extension for urls, couldn't you do something similar?

Nice links, that's why I like comments.

Ok, let's don't state it as an argument, but rather as a question.

Do anyone that's so much against opt-in is aware of closed source tools that tracks you and use it anyway?

And..

Do you use any third party web service like gmail or any other?

Although I hardly think I'll get an answer from most. At some point you have to make assumptions, wether those are fallacies, ok.

It's true it's not directly related to the functioning of the software, but it improves it in anyway, then there's a connection with it.

I take developer side and I personally look for see the grater good/less harm and compromise.

Opt-in will likely give them very little % of adherence and thus rendering all of this useless. Most of the opt-in advocates have technical capabilities to opt-out in any way (homebrew way, network filters, forking ,etc...). So why not simply letting this go?

I do think homebrew is a rather technical tool so most users are tech savvy guys, but still.

For me, this is pretty similar debate to donating organs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_donation#Opt-in_versus_o...

And I am 100% an opt-out advocate!

I normally enjoyed the insight and comments of the thread more than the content of the article and don't comment that much.

But my personal opinion on this, only to share it and be heard possibly by the developers of homebrew, is that I honestly do not care about this. It's nice they are open about it, it's a hell of a tool and hey, if they want to track what I do to improve it, have my data.

I really don't see the opt-in/opt-out debate being so harsh on this. Because it's open source it should be opt-in? I really don't think so. Analytics are a valuable source of information for the developer and google provides a hell of a service for that. And you probably use several closed source tools that track you, sometimes without even telling you. Yes, you can really of external tools to block this, great for all of us those tools exists, you can use it for homebrew as well.

I wonder if all of the opt-in advocates don't use gmail for their email. I am pretty sure they do, and they are not worried about all of the tracking going on there? Or on other apps? Unless you really follow most if not all of stallman's computing principles[1], being furious about this, is, IMHO, disproportionate and a bit ungrateful.

So I am more than OK with opt-out. Nice that you wrote about it, nice that you provide a way to do it, and nice that you use your time to create such a great tool!

Kudos!

[1]: https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html

I went ahead and gave it a try. I choose the first db in my local environment, give "select * from users" for a spin. It's a table with 84k records. It's loading for quite a bit now. I see is a big table, however isn't huge. I wonder if there's something to warn about long result queries and also if you can somehow prevent this, by adding a fixed limit to a query or something like that, maybe making this configurable?

EDIT: Might it be possible to stop a running query, still loading :).

One thing I couldn't figure out from your page is how the trial works? Would just end at some point or would you remind us to license from time to time, in the like of sublime text/svn form wbond?

I bought my first notebook in 2006, it was a dell 640m, hell of a machine. I had it until 2013, upgraded way above their recommended specs (more memory, ssd drive). I had a dual boot with windows (although it was really never being used) and a happy all time debian user. But everytime a new version was out, and evenhough it was an old laptop with old hardware and all the drivers were pretty much there, there were always something to fix. Spending 2-3 days sorting some annoying issue out was the norm rather the exception. I think linux is and awesome OS and a great one to work on.

I switched to a macbook air on 2013, and not being an APPLEist (switched my iphone 4 for a rooted Samsung galaxy s3, which I still have), It's hardly to ever look back.

Once I get used to all of the MAC-ish things I was as productive as before, if not more. Things just work and it's a unix system underneath, so overall, I have everything I had on linux, compiling packages, package manager with hombrew, command line, etc. Just the fact of closing the computer, move around, open it and be working just where you left in 10 seconds, for me, worth the premium. Right now they are not that expensive.

I still had to overcome a few annoying mac things, it's not 100% fool proof, had to fiddle with open size limits, some specific configurations, proper web dev setup, but this time, I feel it was the exception and not the norm.

My +1 goes for a mac at the moment.

http://tilde.club/~cortex/js/tildebird/ - extremely hard to play!