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icy replied

@hugo fortunately wasn’t directly work related. Yeah, I wouldn’t mind a compliment like that, but in my experience, it’s usually been suffixed with “… for an Indian” lololol (or something to that effect).

icy posted

Dang, the last two meetings have had the "you don't sound Indian" exchange. It's cringe, don't do that. Today's went like this:

  • them: "you don't have the stereotypical Indian accent I was expecting you to have"
  • me: "uhhhh it's a big country with a large population, so I suggest you avoid painting it with such a broad brush"
  • them: "........... haha ....... okay ........ moving on..."

Perhaps I should've said, "you don't have the stereotypical German accent I was expecting you to have". Next time.

icy replied

@nilix nice!! i might borrow some ideas from your honk ↔ website integration. i’ve been meaning to do something like that.

icy posted

Chilli mayonnaise in Finland is ALWAYS a disappointment. Why is it sweet???

icy replied

@nemo the Photos redesign isn’t so bad. I don’t use the “new” stuff; I just stick to the grid.

(meant 18.1 beta 4 in the prev post)

icy replied

@nikhil huhhhh that’s strange. Yeah gotta wait for the .1 release—there’s been a whole bunch of these tiny things that are off.

icy replied

@signalapp has this feature changed/improved recently? Since the last time I tried it (~3 months ago) it was excruciatingly slow (in the order of hours), and was very prone to failure.

icy replied

@jbauer @klardotsh The thing about Ubuntu/Debian/etc. is they tend to go "bad" after a while. They're far too complex that something inevitably breaks after an update/PPA whatever. I've never managed to run a stable install of any of those for longer than a few months at max.

OpenBSD/Alpine are small enough that this issue isn't quite as exacerbated—i.e. the system can be fixed pretty quickly if something breaks.

I think this just has to do with the mutable nature of "normal" Linux distros. Package installs mutate global state—this rots the system over time.

NixOS (you knew this was coming), doesn't have this problem—and I can verify this in practice because it's the only Linux distro I haven't had to re-install in ~3 years now. Rolling release with unstable nixpkgs.

I'd recommend giving it a try!

icy replied

@calpaterson Genuinely no idea. Asked a few Finns at work who run their own registrars (turns out you can become your own!)—they had no clue either. Everything seems above board, however.

icy posted

::selection is one of the first things I like to style in any new web project.

icy posted

I've been writing a CRUD backend for a $thing in Go/templ/Tailwind/htmx and I'm really enjoying it. Haven't done too much with htmx itself yet, but I love templ now that I've grokked it. The composability is so powerful.

But the biggest sell by far has been the lack of the "JSON layer" which your frontend then builds off of. I don't have to think about "what data to return" or god forbid, do codegen using OpenAPI. Instead, HTML fragments are constructed organically using templ and swapped in using htmx.