Ugly webcam shot of dying plants and grow lamps
Reason #152 why I love @tailscale.com:
I set up this "wicking rope" to water my plants while I'm away. But I don't trust it. So I set up an old laptop and wrote a small python server.
Thanks to Tailscale, actually reaching the server is easy and safe.
Now I can watch my plants die while away.
It's spelled "127.0.0.1"
#git submodules are fantastic, I saw a Stack Overflow thread this dissuaded me from using them years ago, but I'm glad I gave them another shot!
Amazingly Dell seems to be offering a really compelling package with the XPS 14.
I was planning on getting a @frame.work 13 as my next laptop, but as much as I want to, they just don't seem to be quite cost competitive enough. Even when I factor in sourcing my own RAM, SSD, and not paying for a Windows license.
Does it only become a cost advantage after you do a major upgrade?
Cool. Personally I've never used a visual scripting tool I liked, they just feel too limiting compared to code code.
This is crazy news. 2013 me—who was big into PSP modding and Java game development—would have lost his mind.
Whoops, it's actually #libGDX. It's been a long time but it was a great library!
Getting back into #gamedev again, and I love it! I feel like a kid again.
It's been... 🤔 13 years or something since I last built a game. I used to use #Java and #libGTX, which seems to still exist, but this time I'm using #C++ and #SDL3, lots to learn!
So far I'm enjoying #C++ modules a lot. To me it is far more elegant than dealing with header files, #pragma, #ifdef, etc.
That said, it was no fun getting the compiler to work, I had to give up on macOS completely and move back to Linux (which is for the best).
@tailscale.com are having a hell of a week with all their announcements!
They're touting Aperture for AI, but it sounds like there might be other applications.
I've been thinking hard about many of the same things you listed. Tailscale seems like such a great platform to build on, of course you run the risk of tailscale putting out the feature themselves.
Your idea sounds more fun though
What's your use case? If you're trying to share files on your tailnet, they actually have a system for this already called Taildrop. And of course these is always scp, rsync, rclone, etc.
tailscale.com/blog/sending...
You were so right, I should have listened 😓
Can't blame you for it! Hearing you speak at Fintech Devcon a few years ago was a real highlight for me. But now we have Bluesky!
If you've been following along on my Docker Swarm journey, I'm ready to admit that I was wrong. There are just too many problems to deal with, I'm moving on.
Either to Nomad, or maybe just good old fashioned rsync to server, run the bloody app.
I don't think it's a noun
Yes, that is exactly what they think, and it's exactly as stupid as we all know.
You push a commit. You wait. A runner picks it up. You watch logs scroll. Something fails. The error looks like someone fed a stack trace through a paper shredder and then set the shredder on fire. You add a run: env step to see what’s going on. You push again. You wait again. A twenty-minute feedback loop for a one-line change. You do this fourteen times. This is your afternoon now. You had plans. You were going to go outside. The afternoon belongs to the CI now. It has always belonged to the CI. You are only now perceiving this truth.
www.iankduncan.com/engineering/...
Slack does it too, and I get a lot more of those than emails.
Have you found that masquerading as an AI lady has made you more successful? Asking for a friend?
I think it's a somewhat fundamental issue with today's models. They are trained on Reddit and Tumblr as well as GitHub and Stack Overflow, and I don't think they understand the difference.
But if you give up Reddit as a source you lose a lot of your models worldliness.
I just realized it applies to repositories and libraries too. I'm not instinctively looking for signs that a human was involved at all. A project being older than 2 years old is a good sign.
Tell me again why we want this future?
Interesting to see the charts align with my observations. It's presumably made way worse by all the hidden tokens we aren't shown from web results and system prompting.
I just learned that it's called "context rot".
Crappy AI blog posts have permeated all my interests; gardening, cooking, woodworking, programming, etc.
When I go looking for information, I have zero faith in anything I find.
It's pretty upsetting actually 😞
And I suppose future AI are going to be trained on this slop. Entrenching it forever.
I'd hope I could blame someone else too.
Moderation is probably the hardest part of building any user content platform.
If it's done right it's invisible, too much and you hate free speech, too little and you hate children. Impossible to make everyone happy.
Bsky is nice for now, but it will go through it all soon enough.
