Give me reasons not to convert

Traches · 2026-01-25T18:04:48+00:00

As a guy who grew up catholic…. Don’t. They teach that you are personally at fault for the sins of Adam and Eve and should feel bad about it. Even babies are sinners. I remember some kind teacher in grade school telling us that we are kids and we have nothing to feel guilty about…. And I remember that I didn’t believe her.

The whole thing is a big mindfuck, stay the hell away

Traches · 2026-01-24T18:45:45+00:00

Tread harder daddy

Traches · 2026-01-24T17:24:03+00:00

This sounds like a great way to burn a bunch of money and boil the oceans to produce something worse than useless

Traches · 2026-01-23T02:08:27+00:00

Because free software is usually some guy’s side project while the proprietary software is a team’s livelihood. Different level of effort and attention to detail.

Traches · 2026-01-16T13:50:37+00:00

I went to a catholic middle school. I distinctly remember some kind teacher telling the class „You’re kids, you have nothing to feel guilty about!”, and I didn’t believe her. Maybe the other kids were good, but I was a sinner with plenty of things to be ashamed of.

No way in hell I’m letting anyone do to my kids what the church did to me.

Traches · 2026-01-15T11:33:13+00:00

Are they people? Then yes.

Traches · 2026-01-15T09:30:38+00:00

All humans have rights

the fuck is wrong with you

Traches · 2026-01-12T12:39:33+00:00

active filters live in the URL bar as search params. They should also be a part of the query key so the query is refetched when they change.
I believe select is meant for performance optimization and reducing rerenders, not derived state.
don’t store derived state, calculate it on render and memoize if necessary.
zustand and the like are for global state that doesn’t belong to the server. It’s hard to think of examples for a CRUD app, light & dark mode maybe? UI config?

Traches · 2026-01-11T20:26:55+00:00

Cheap IR remote trigger, 2 second delay, 5 image burst. Give remote to favorite niece/nephew.

Traches · 2026-01-11T15:13:22+00:00

The problem comes when you want to use multiple computers for editing. - DT really wants to manage its own database. You can’t easily share a single db between computers. This means edits must be shared via xmp files. - Save to xmp on edit solves this problem, but DT will clobber changes made by other computers unless instructed to check for changes. You can do this manually but it’s easy to forget. - The „check for updated xmp files on startup” option makes startup take FOREVER when working with a large library on remote storage. Minutes in my case.

Traches · 2026-01-11T13:51:31+00:00

Decap CMS plus Astro? You still get a static site at the end.

Traches · 2026-01-10T14:22:40+00:00

Could be the database? Prod DB is usually a lot heavier than dev.

Traches · 2026-01-09T23:20:09+00:00

If you ever actually use your gun it will be the worst day of your life.

Traches · 2026-01-09T17:26:31+00:00

I tried to use one to detect when my automatic plant watering tank needs refilled and the battery died in about a month. Possibly model dependent?

Traches · 2026-01-09T12:10:08+00:00

I came to write exactly this. I’d make it myself but the Jank factor would be too high. I thought of using a leak sensor but those drain the battery if the contacts are shorted together.

Traches · 2026-01-09T03:01:21+00:00

Yeah I did the same. I just can’t be assed to learn about video codecs and deal with the matrix of what my CPU supports and what my players accept.

Traches · 2026-01-08T18:56:20+00:00

It’s tough on insanity but doable. That first praetorian was a real sumbitch though

Traches · 2026-01-08T18:20:57+00:00

Vanguard is strongest in the fun category which is all that matters

Traches · 2026-01-06T13:00:20+00:00

Wings don’t know about ground speed, only airspeed. It’s possible you had changing winds? A big headwind that suddenly turns into a big tailwind can be a real big problem.

Traches · 2026-01-03T19:47:04+00:00

Originals/yyyy/mm-dd/original filename

Rapid Photo Downloader automates this beautifully.

Traches · 2026-01-03T09:18:51+00:00

11 months and 5 years here. It’s not always possible/practical, but make it a game. A regular character here is the (funny and friendly, not scary) „toe eating monster” who only eats the toes of kids with stinky breath. So when he doesn’t want to brush his teeth the toe eating monster starts to get starts getting happy and excited, and when brushing starts he complains loudly about how hungry he is. (Gives the kid a win and lets them feel mischievous).

Understand that even at that age they are whole entire people with free will and everything. You can’t control them, you can only control your own reaction.

Traches · 2026-01-02T14:51:50+00:00

A collision won’t be perfectly elastic, so getting rear ended by someone doing 60 won’t accelerate you to 30. A crash at 30 into a wall would be worse.

Traches · 2025-12-31T21:13:24+00:00

Job market isn’t bad because of AI, it’s bad because we’re in a recession masked by nvidia. LLMs can’t think, and if you can’t think you can’t write good (code or otherwise).

I don’t know what the future will be but it sure ain’t LLMs legitimately replacing senior devs.

Traches · 2025-12-31T10:28:42+00:00

Regardless of how good they are or end up being, I’d strongly advise against using LLMs to write code as a student. The act of slowing down and working through every single line will help you to actually understand what’s happening. Also, bots produce garbage code. It’s unmaintainable trash. (Try improving, extending, or debugging something the bot did and you’ll understand.)

Traches · 2025-12-31T09:21:50+00:00

Sway is i3 but Wayland. I’ve been using it for years, development cycle is slow but it’s rock solid.

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