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Software Engineer / HATEOAS nerd / CTO / Toronto resident! | he/him This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here […] [bridged from https://indieweb.social/@evert on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]

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Evert Pot @evert.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 12h

Debugging a USB audio issue and:

😭

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Thank you so much that solves it!!

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Glyph @glyph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

the biggest problem we *already have* in open source right now, which we have oversimplified into the term "supply chain security", is the lack of understanding that putting a dependency in your project's dependency set (package.json, pyproject.toml, requirements.txt, cargo.toml, etc) is not […]

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Evert Pot @evert.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

What happened with Insomnia? (the http testing tool). I can't find a way to make a simple HTTP request anymore 😢

Evert Pot @evert.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

@me unless you self-host the LLM, this is probably at least a sub-processor with regards to GDPR.

Evert Pot @evert.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

We got 4 USB 3 ports. 1 parallel port, 2 serial ports, 1 GB ethernet and 6 DisplayPorts. Yes, 6!

Evert Pot @evert.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

This is on a Dell Wyse 5090 'Extended' thin client, which is my favourite system right now and will be my main media server at home.

You can pick it up for $50 on ebay, and runs 5 Watt idle. Check out these ports though!

Backside of Dell Wyse 5090. See next post for description!

Evert Pot @evert.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

I used btop here because it lets you filter out kernel threads. ps, top and htop show bigger lists and while useful (lets you see what the kernel is doing), I like just seeing which actual real processes are running to get a better sense of the system.

Evert Pot @evert.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Process list on a clean Debian install is so short! Feels nice to start with such a minimal system. Know every process and why it's running and add what I need.

Only sshd was added at this point

Screenshot of btop, showing a process list of roughly 30 processes

Evert Pot @evert.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Finally watched 'The Substance' after having to pause and continue the next day because it's so grotesque. Curious how people felt stepping out of the theater. Jeez

Evert Pot @evert.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Hot take: `curl [url] | bash` is no worse than `npm i [package]`

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Evert Pot @evert.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 7d

When deleting project directories, #git has trained me to use -f, because .git will always have some write-protected files

Evert Pot @evert.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 8d

strictNullChecks is too annoying in javascript-only (jsdoc) projects

#typescript

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Evert Pot @evert.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 9d

Completed my first SOC 2 Type II !

Evert Pot @evert.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 10d

I used to love Lego but aren't all the brand tie ins kinda annoying and opposite of timeless?

Evert Pot @evert.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 12d

I mostly switched to pure CSS now. But dang i miss Sass' `@extends`

Evert Pot @evert.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 12d

Figma should allow more things than colors to refer to CSS variables, and it should have a CSS export for all variables

Evert Pot @evert.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 13d

Do you read any blogs of people you disagree with mostly, but are interesting?

Evert Pot @evert.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 15d

@ctietze @PixelProphecy a HAL sure is nice

Evert Pot @evert.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 18d

I feel I would make such a good electrician because I would just label and document things

Evert Pot @evert.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 19d

Holy crap this is a neat-ass resource: https://www.makingsoftware.com/

Evert Pot @evert.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 23d

@jbcrawford DisplayLink is the worst. No kernel drivers on stock Fedora, and they seem poorly maintained and broke subsequent updates + it made my xps13 run crazy hot

Evert Pot @evert.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 8

Oh look my famous Stack Overflow question got closed as opinion-based 18 years after asking. 😅

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/978061/http-get-with-request-body

HTTP GET with request body

I'm developing a new RESTful webservice for our application. When doing a GET on certain entities, clients can request the contents of the entity. If they want to add some parameters (for example s...

stackoverflow.com

Evert Pot @evert.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 2

Neat deep-dive into A/UX: Apple's original Unix OS https://youtu.be/L_b8nWRoFA0?si=uGjTok9oVmsrV1kw

Evert Pot @evert.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 2

Doing a minimal Debian install has been one of my best recent Linux experiences. Kind of forgot what its like to get a processlist with only a few processes and for each you know what it does.

Evert Pot @evert.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 1

Do people still unplug things during thunderstorms, or did something change in our devices or grid that it's no longer needed?