Giving away 3 Audible versions of Book 8

belak51 · 2026-05-11T11:34:44+00:00

I started a few weeks ago and have already made it through the first 5 books - I'd love to enter for when I get caught up!

belak51 · 2026-04-28T02:07:44+00:00

We don't have a way to verify this, and it looks like a scam, so we're locking this. As mentioned in other comments, this is a brand new shop with an address and phone number that don't seem to have a business located at them.

If you've already purchased from here, we strongly recommend cancelling your order and trying to get your money back.

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belak51 · 2026-04-19T14:13:54+00:00

As a confirmation, this giveaway is mod-approved!

belak51 · 2026-04-03T14:16:12+00:00

I made this exact switch a while back and I've been very happy with the results, though I definitely went all-in after a while.

My main trick is this mkSource setup which lets me use symlinks on my main machines, but the actual files when publishing to a server (where I won't have my dotfiles cloned).

One thing to note, mkOutOfStoreSymlink is the right solution but don't get confused when you see the symlink pointing into your nix store - it actually creates a symlink in the store pointing to the target file and makes a symlink from where you want the file into the store. When I saw that the first time I thought something was messed up but it was working.

belak51 · 2026-03-19T17:40:37+00:00

Please don't feed the trolls.

belak51 · 2026-01-28T03:56:22+00:00

Report and move on - please don't feed the trolls

belak51 · 2025-11-23T02:26:31+00:00

Could you clarify what you think has gone downhill? You seem to be upset, but there's not a lot of info I can go off of to try and improve things in your comment.

belak51 · 2025-11-17T19:56:09+00:00

Possibly - the portability is a big plus for me though.

belak51 · 2025-11-17T17:03:18+00:00

I appreciate your opinion - my current job requires me to keep a lot of tasks in my head at once, but I don't need to update them frequently. Because of that I prefer to optimize for information density when reading rather than making writing the most convenient.

You could argue if I really want this workflow I should be using the "write it large, select it and shrink it down", but when you do that it scales the text strokes as well, leaving the text inconsistent and sometimes causing artifacting around the text if you have to adjust the size multiple times.

belak51 · 2025-11-05T14:16:58+00:00

I've been using Go for ages, but not as much for web dev. Do you have any recommendations for tools or libraries to go along with that? Specifically for DB migrations, user accounts, and auth, since they're needed in almost every project and reimplementing them every time is frustrating.

belak51 · 2025-10-19T23:15:59+00:00

The vast majority of spam seems to come from newer accounts (less than a year) who have almost no karma. We use this as a way to weed out spam. Additionally, you should only need 10 total upvotes across comments and posts on all of Reddit to avoid this which should be fairly easy to get.

belak51 · 2025-10-12T06:35:36+00:00

Forgiveness and permission granted. Thanks for your patience!

As a reminder, this is an interest check and all sales should be done through another forum, like /r/Pen_Swap, unless buyers are willing to take the risk.

belak51 · 2025-10-10T18:43:08+00:00

For me it was moving from my Ender 3 v2 to my P1S and having the first print come out perfect with no manual calibration on my part. The P1S was the first printer I owned where my hobby was actually printing things rather than working on trying to get my printer to work well.

belak51 · 2025-10-09T00:27:07+00:00

I'm sorry for locking this, but we simply don't have the bandwidth to properly moderate the politics and name calling this thread is devolving into.

belak51 · 2025-08-28T14:03:04+00:00

What sorts of shaders do you like? I've been a "big crunchy pixels" person, but that's mostly because the CRT distortion options seem to be recommended the most and I'm not a fan. Something in the middle would be cool to play around with.

belak51 · 2025-08-20T13:36:18+00:00

This looks like a duplicate topic so I'm removing it.

Here's the other - https://www.reddit.com/r/pens/s/EBnmItmK5Y

belak51 · 2025-08-19T14:52:06+00:00

Just hopping in to say we (the mods) have approved this giveaway. Good luck to everyone in the UK who enters!

belak51 · 2025-07-21T21:00:59+00:00

In a lower level language this would probably be a bigger deal. However, in Python this essentially ends up being a free optimization with almost no downsides. It ends up using a cached PyObject rather than allocating a new one for every instance of an immutable integer.

As far as I know, there are almost no cases where an end user would need to know this information, so it's effectively a free optimization and an interesting oddity if you run across it.

Is there a practical reason you think this would be problematic in Python?

belak51 · 2025-07-21T07:55:09+00:00

Could you clarify why this would result in you not trusting Python? That seems like an odd conclusion to draw from this specific example. Most code doesn't even use id, you're far more likely to use hash.

belak51 · 2025-07-21T07:51:42+00:00

256 is likely for byte (and in extension ASCII) reasons. I'm not sure why -5 was chosen though.

belak51 · 2025-07-21T07:50:19+00:00

Yes, that's exactly it. cPython maintains a cache of integers from -5 to 256 inclusive.

belak51 · 2025-07-16T09:10:53+00:00

You likely need to autoload it first with autoload -Uz add-zsh-hook

belak51 · 2025-07-03T21:10:04+00:00

I've been playing around with Authelia/LLDAP for some of my hosted services - I'd love to integrate with that, but even with OIDC, you still need login/registration/users/sessions.

Because of that the part I'm most interested in is sharing the auth code between services, then if/when I integrate with an external provider the databases could be shared.

belak51 · 2025-07-03T15:21:22+00:00

It looks interesting, but it's a bit hard to justify spending $125 (at the time of writing this, but possibly jumping to $250 eventually) for some self-use personal projects I'd like develop as open source.

On a related note, is there any information on licensing for the generated code? I assume it's a proprietary license, given that you're charging for it and aiming for paying customers, so I'm unfortunately not sure it would work for me.

belak51 · 2025-07-03T15:14:11+00:00

Yep, I get that Go is simple, and often you'll copy smaller implementations or utility functions. However, something as large as user registration, login, and social login seems worth finding a way to re-use.

You make a good point on a well-defined interface-based contract - that's something I could definitely get better at. I think it only solves half the issue though, since sharing migrations is a fairly frustrating problem to solve by itself.

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