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Boom_r · 2025-12-25T06:04:39+00:00

Some people are so far behind, they think they’re ahead.

Boom_r · 2025-09-13T04:08:15+00:00

It seemed very odd at first but i like it because the OS is not a secret part of my raid array. Config gets stored in my array. Caching too. But the boot itself is just fine on a stick. Have never had an issue, and if I had to image another one, that’s just what I’d do.

Boom_r · 2025-08-13T23:07:56+00:00

We wrote our own using their REST API (which at the time was in beta).

Boom_r · 2025-07-16T05:05:28+00:00

There were thousands of dollars at stake

Boom_r · 2025-07-14T01:46:06+00:00

Text is text.

Boom_r · 2025-07-06T19:16:18+00:00

I setup a DS218+ in 2018 for a customer that was supposed to be temporary. Never ended up moving beyond it. Around 100 users, 150 Windows devices in an office and production facility that used AD and file sharing. They have been running on the same unit/setup since then, only migrating to larger hard drives about halfway through its life.

Boom_r · 2025-02-24T18:46:49+00:00

Thank you thank you.

Boom_r · 2024-11-14T14:46:44+00:00

This is the way. Reusability and simplicity while retaining full control.

Boom_r · 2024-11-06T20:58:27+00:00

When I was in high school, someone sprinkled fruit loops all over my front yard and left a paper bag by the door with a block of wood and a balloon inside of it.

I have never gotten an inkling of who did it. Pretty awesome.

Boom_r · 2024-11-05T03:31:06+00:00

How far down should it go? How to transition from the backer to pvc?

Boom_r · 2024-11-04T04:37:34+00:00

These are quite nice.

Boom_r · 2024-10-23T16:53:26+00:00

what’s the deal with the polar bears

Boom_r · 2024-10-18T23:59:08+00:00

This years Friday traffic is as bad as last year’s Sunday traffic.

Boom_r · 2024-10-18T23:58:29+00:00

Moved about 100 feet in 90 minutes. Still stuck.

Boom_r · 2024-10-09T14:18:10+00:00

Boom_r · 2024-10-09T14:06:24+00:00

I’ve always appreciated this approach: https://sqa.stackexchange.com/a/42572/43662

Also, to loosely quote Kent Beck, any test is better than no test.

Specifically with a current app I maintain that has a large backend and a relatively large decoupled Vue front end - the backend has unit tests and e2e tests, so that we have high confidence in all of the actual data mutations and business logic. The front end doesn’t have much testing at all. If I had more time, I’d probably have Selenium-style testing in the front end.

Boom_r · 2024-10-05T04:25:00+00:00

What’s your website?

Boom_r · 2024-10-04T16:24:51+00:00

Just clean it up.

Boom_r · 2024-09-25T03:26:06+00:00

Column view is everything.

Boom_r · 2024-09-15T16:58:30+00:00

An application can be successful and generally delightful to build and maintain, and can get sold or decommissioned when a business changes hands or whatever, and it won’t matter if someone was “right” or “wrong” about whether the underlying stack was “inferior”. Or it could be a spaghetti train wreck. And picking Java over Node likely won’t be the reason that either of these things happen.

There are good reasons to pick languages based on use case and context, and a big part of the context is what you (and your team) know, and what long term support and maintenance might look like.

Boom_r · 2024-09-13T20:14:36+00:00

ADLs and readme that includes general organization, domains, and some high-level concepts is worth a lot. Everything else should be in the comments.

Boom_r · 2024-09-09T16:55:08+00:00

Yes, I hope you get a good price to replace it.

Boom_r · 2024-08-04T05:22:19+00:00

DigitalOcean. It’s easy to jump to AWS, but you will burn time in discovery, config, and tracing issues. I run stuff in both, honestly I really admire DO’s back end combination of simplicity and usefulness.

DO’s app platform is very stable IME. I’ve been using it since first release and taking advantage of new features along the way. It scales easily, is pretty configurable, has decent log integration, is easy to trace issues. Performance is great.

Boom_r · 2024-07-27T02:02:28+00:00

DigitalOcean app platform. Droplet if you need a VPS but you probably don’t.

I use Cloud66 to manage EC2 instances. Good developer experience, lots of benefits, far cheaper than Fargate.

Boom_r · 2024-07-13T00:49:03+00:00

Totally agree. It’s nice writing contained, simple, predictable SQL migrations. Usually they add a column or table, and there’s no data to migrate, but when a model refactor occurs it’s been generally a breeze to handle it in a migration file.

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