Nate Cox @ natecox @programming.dev

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30mph on a pedal bicycle is very very difficult to reach and maintain. Even on a road bike designed to go fast on pavement, breaking 20mph on a flat road requires you to be extremely fit and streamlined.

I don’t think this is in any way comparable to an ebike where anyone can jump on and break 20 with no issues.

Source: bicycle was my primary mode of transport for 5 years; rode about 20 miles a day, with an attached speedometer, on a fancy road bike.

Maruchan Ramen Chicken, Pack of 24, for $7.36 on Amazon. That’s literally $0.30/pack (or $0.10/oz). https://a.co/d/gr4Ft9F

Just throwing out there that ramen is indeed dirt cheap still.

I feel like the primary complaint here is that the parent commenters very much want to focus on the some that are the cause of the problem, rather than simply stating that men are problematic.

Poem is really really neat and I wish I could recommend it, but honestly I think the docs just aren’t good enough for a general recommendation. The demos in the repo are nice but are not a replacement for actual documentation and tutorials.

It will need a lot more community support to actually take off.

I don’t agree. I work for a very large company with an ungodly number of repos and a huge CI build pipeline; today they have all been converted to “main”. It wasn’t that hard.

This is indeed the silliest debate.

I used the term master for years, never really thought about it. I think I assumed it was referring to a master key (from which other keys are copied), rather than anything to do with ownership of people.

Then some people felt offended by it because they interpreted it differently than I did.

So… I changed the word I used. Like, it was the easiest thing in the world to do. “Main” is fine too, rolls right off the tongue, and if it happens to make a group of people feel less discriminated against than that’s all the motivating I need.

I also changed my repos as I updated them. It was like two commands and maybe a couple of lines in a CI config file. Trivial, even for dozens of them.

Today I wonder what the big deal is. If it really is “just a word”, well… so is main. Both words. If the one we’re using isn’t actually important then why resist changing it?

Seems to me like active resistance is kind of an indicator that maybe it really was about the word all along.

Cool project, seems like something that I would like to try out, but that price point just isn’t realistic for something so niche. It may well be fantastic, but a nearly $800 gamble is too risky when the market is flooded with keyboard alternatives I can build for an eighth of the cost.

Why not sell the hardware kit for something more reasonable and then let us print our own casing?

I am disheartened but not surprised by the “obvious ethnicity based insult is not racist” comments here.

I said it on the exploding-heads thread and I’ll say it here too: my “all” feed would be a much nicer place without hexbear showing up in it.

I am not a fan of reaching for defederation often; I actually came here from beehaw because I felt like they just pulled that trigger too fast and too frequently.

However, I do think that we should defederate from exploding-heads and hexbear. I don’t go looking for chances to be offended, but I do notice that when I see something truly distasteful on All it is almost exclusively from one of those two lately, and at this point removing them from All would make my lemmy experience just a bit more friendly.

It’s not even worth reporting content about them because when you do it seems like a common theme is that they just tag you so they can harass you. I tested this myself recently by reporting obvious misinformation/propaganda and the next time I logged in there were indeed items waiting in my inbox calling me a coward, etc.

Edit: fun fact, even if you block a user, and you block the community they are posting from, any time they mention you in a post you still get a message in your inbox, which seems like a pretty ridiculous oversight and a tool for harassment.

I feel like we would be less forgiving of this happening in other mediums.

Imagine this: car manufacturers are required by law to prevent their vehicles from driving to locations where crime might happen.

Well, I feel old.

3.5” floppy discs which have been removed from their plastic shells.

I actually worked with Django for years. At one point I was a technical reviewer for the book Two Scoops of Django.

Today I basically refuse to go back to Python (and by extension Django). I am not a fan of the Python community, and I am not a fan of the “configuration over convention” philosophy that Python tends to take.

My experience is that Rails apps are infinitely easier to jump into and understand because convention is enforced at the framework level, and this seems to have influenced the Ruby community in very positive ways. I always seemed to find constructive, useful answers faster from the Ruby community than I ever did from the Python community.

The worse dev job I ever had was doing contracting for Django apps. Every single Django app that was brought to us was configured, architected, organized, and deployed in completely different ways and it made just getting to the actual business logic far too difficult.

Between Ruby/Rails and Python/Django it’s Ruby/Rails all the way.

If you’re looking for one thing to help be productive, it’s probably Rails. If you just want to knock something out fast and aren’t really interested in web tech itself, Rails provides the fastest “time to usable website” of any framework I have personally used.

It’s not my favorite bit of web tech by any means (I really like Elixir/Phoenix and Clojure, and Rust is my bread and butter today) but I also don’t dislike it. I used rails in the past for rapid prototyping and it is pretty impressive just how fast you can get a working product with minimal learning.

Man those kids were spot on. Eerily accurate.

My commit bible: https://cbea.ms/git-commit/

I’m all in on nix with home-manager these days. Really seems like an ideal framework for my dotfiles and of all the systems I’ve tried over the years this is the one I’m happiest with.

Hell of a learning curve, though.

Answer here is simple: put your family first.

Tech has managed to convince so many young people that they’re not supposed to have a life outside of work. I fell for this too when I entered tech, working insane overtime, doing “hackathons” where we just worked all weekend, and spending every remaining moment trying to “stay ahead of the curve”.

This is a trap, and it’s not necessary. I worked this way for years until it completely burned me out and I realized that the things that really mattered were being neglected because some tech bros made me feel like work needed to be my life.

Once I rejected this my life simply became better. I put my 40 hours in and I did my best in those hours, but I took back the other 40-50 hours a week I was working and invested it back into my family.

Today my relationship with my wife and kids is better than it had ever been, I am happier and better rested, and my career has skyrocketed as a result. Turns out when you find balance in your life the quality of what you do improves pretty radically, and maybe your attitude and work relationships improve with it.

I’m an EM for a very large corporation today, I make better money and am healthier and happier than I ever was when I was trying to make work consume my every waking moment. I spend a lot of my time with my direct reports today trying to reinforce that they can clock out at the end of the day and it’ll be fine.

Don’t worry about your career, put that time and energy into your family and your friends. Later-in-life you will thank you for it.

I’m running it on my terminal as well and very much enjoying it.

Intel One Mono. It looks bizarre at first but it grew on me really fast and replaced Jetbrains Mono which I had been using for quite a while.