It’s pretty easy to avoid all of these, mostly by using ===. Null being an object is annoying and is one of the reasons ‘typeof’ is useless, but there are other ways to accomplish the same thing.
JavaScript has a lot of foot guns, but it’s also used by literally everyone so there is a lot of tooling and practice to help you avoid them.
Probably getting hammered by ai scrapers
NAS at the parents’ house. Restic nightly job, with some plumbing scripts to automate it sensibly.
Have you considered karakeep (formerly hoarder)? It does all of this really well - drop it a URL and it saves a copy. Has lists & tagging (can be done by AI if you want), IOS & android apps as well as browser extensions that make saving stuff super easy.
Tailscale deserves it, bitcoin absolutely does not
Aww, man, I’m conflicted here. On one hand, I’ve enjoyed their work for years and they seem like good dudes who deserve to eat. On the other, they’re AI enthusiast crypto-bros and that’s just fucking exhausting. I deal with enough of that bullshit at work
Edit: rephrase for clarity
Agreed, that should be many tens of pages not one. Also the mobile layout isn’t very good. I think it’s important to remember that normies use their phones for almost everything.
Hey cool, I learned something. Thanks!
This is what I’m talking about:
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type NonEmptyArray<T> = [T, ...T[]];
function neverEmpty<T>(array: T[]): NonEmptyArray<T> | null {
if (array.length === 0) return null
return array
}
I’ve tried to use that NonEmptyArray type in the past and it was a real pain in the ass getting the type checker to believe that no, for realsies this array is not empty I just checked the length two lines ago. Is there some trick I don’t know or has it gotten smarter about that in recent updates?
Sqlite compiles to wasm, you can run it in the browser
I mean I agree but you don’t have to be a dick about it
I don’t get the hatred for types, they have saved my ass so many times and saved so many headaches exactly like what the article describes. I used to write a lot of ruby and after getting decent at typescript I can’t go back.
It’s not just ceremony, types ensure some level of logical consistency in your app. They reduce how much of the world you need to keep in your head at one time, and they allow you to express your intent far more robustly than comments and naming can. I love rust’s approach of making invalid state not even representable.
Yeah, docker in a VM makes sense. Docker in docker in a vm in a vm though?
People don’t actually do this, right? Docker inside docker inside a VM inside another VM? On windows? Right???
Seems fine, but you’re sorta hitting two fields at once. Application development (coding) is a different skill set from devops/deployment (docker). I’d stay pretty surface level on docker and the CLI for now and focus on building your app. You’ll know when you need to go off and learn those things.
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I’ve been meaning to set up a drive rotation for the local backup so I always have one offline in case of ransomware, but I haven’t gotten to it.
Edit: For the backup set I back up pretty much everything. I’m not paying per gig, though.
Im so excited to finally get icc color calibration
So there’s a storage protocol called “S3” (I wanna say it stands for simple scalable storage?), first created by Amazon for AWS. Many types of software, including backup programs, have been designed to use it as a storage backend. There are now many S3 compatible providers, last I looked the best value was backblaze B2.
You need a backup program with end-to-end encryption, S3 compatibility, and whatever other features you like. I use restic but it’s CLI only, there’s also borg backup and many others.
If you encrypt locally with a good key, you don’t have to trust the remote storage provider. They just see a bunch of meaningless noise. Just don’t lose the key or your backup is useless.
Yeah, that’s my experience. The backend is an environment you control completely and has well-defined inputs and outputs specifically designed to be handled by machines. Front end code changes on a whim, runs who the hell knows where, and has to look good doing it.