Noah K

I casts the spells that makes the peoples fall down!

Website: https://coderanger.net/
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2025-08-21 17:28:10 UTC

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it’s basically how all the config management tools worked too (ansible, salt, puppet, chef). Of those I guess ansible still counts as vaguely alive.

2025-07-08 23:28:30 UTC

@npub160z…49wu It looks like Bitbucket has lost the source for South, any chance it can be cross loaded to Github somewhere? :)

2025-06-24 17:46:13 UTC

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Still cron jobs but you have a "Pending Work" API/service/table. It sounds like you are still imagining something like celerybeat and really really don't do that anymore.

2025-06-24 17:31:08 UTC

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depends on the frequency. Anything less than once a minute, use a cron job or more likely the equivalent in your container platform. More than once a minute, if it’s simple enough you can spawn a background thread or task in your web server and service them there.

2025-02-26 21:12:57 UTC

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For context, the OID system was started only about a year after DNS was released so it made a lot more sense back then :)

2025-02-26 20:46:55 UTC

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https://www.iana.org/assignments/enterprise-numbers/assignment/apply/ if it's the same as LDAP then IANA manages them.

2025-02-11 08:53:40 UTC

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Locust is hard to beat.

2024-12-20 19:35:33 UTC

Do I have any friends with contacts at Patreon? Someone is running a Patreon to fund a cheat tool for the game I work on and I would love to talk to someone there about it.

2024-12-19 18:11:50 UTC

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But relicensing is fairly rare. I would only be worried about it if the project had a substantial “open source data" or "open source AI" component as their licenses are still in way more flux. Patent handling is also kind of a solved problem in modern licenses like Apache 2 and GPL 3, so I wouldn't worry a ton there unless you expect the project to involve extreme cutting-edge tech where a contributor might not know about patents their employer is filing.

2024-12-19 18:08:56 UTC

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How much of a brain dump do you want? There's two main concerns that I am aware of which CLAs exist to address: copyright assignment and patent licensing. Copyright assignment only matters if you predict relicensing will be a factor in the future, since without that you have to track down every contributor and get their consent or deal with a project with a substantial amount of code under different licenses, both usually non-starters. 🧵

2024-12-19 17:47:45 UTC

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Kubernetes does

2024-11-05 18:02:44 UTC

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If it was less terribly implemented I can see some value, like “follow only very important things" is useful but the algorithms need to be non-shitty. Like there's lots of repos I don't want to follow but I would love a push if there's a ticket with >= 100 interacting users or a major version release :)

2024-11-05 17:57:28 UTC

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Also this https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/53331#discussioncomment-11156924

2024-09-09 02:10:32 UTC

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I also think it's fair to say that some of those distro promises are less strong than used to be, as the surface area has increased dramatically over time, what does it even mean for a distro to "support" random Python libraries? Libraries too small for an official security reporting process so good luck noticing when there's sec fixes to backport. Or increasingly subjective xkcd://1172 "bugs”. I salute you for fighting that fight, but I'm not sure it has a future anymore.

2024-09-09 02:07:48 UTC

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While I think it's very very fair to say that many users still want the promises that only the distro style can offer (stability, support, long term maintenance), I think it's also fair to say that it's decreasing over time, slowly being replaced by “run this container image" or similar which I will never claim is better, but it's definitely more direct :)

2024-09-07 22:55:55 UTC

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I don't think it's compiled vs. runtime because distributed C++ apps still suuuuucks. Rust just happened to do this correctly.

2024-09-07 05:02:50 UTC

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I don't think anyone is objecting to Rust as a reasonable technical choice for this kind of tooling. But we do have to realistic about it shrinking the potential future maintainers pool by a lot which is a downside to weigh against the benefits. And with paid contributors right now is kind of masks the downside in a way that many of us who have been on the receiving end of this cycle before find concerning.

2024-09-05 19:40:04 UTC

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What if Django copied the whole text of the code file into migrations table? Jk unless … 🤔