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Self hosting is hard. How do you overcome?
  • I have set up forgejo, which is a fork of gitea. It's a git forge, but its ticketing system is quite good.

  • Cost by Protein Source
  • It's not that they are separated on the chart, but that they are comparable (on both axes), that impressed me.

  • Fully Virtualized Gaming Server?
  • I know you asked about VMs, but fwiw there are GPU-capable containers now: https://docs.nvidia.com/datacenter/cloud-native/container-toolkit/latest/install-guide.html

    Used one of these and the setup is as easy as it sounds. It can run Houdini, Stable Diffusion.

  • G7 agrees on transfer of $50 billion in profits from frozen Russian assets to Ukraine
  • I mean didn't Russia already seize foreign companies, so the precedent is set?

  • SMB, FTP, or NFS for NAS + server?
  • Fair enough, i thought it should be noted. The difference was significant at times.

  • SMB, FTP, or NFS for NAS + server?
  • Same here, SMB was significantly slower in our organization than NFS.

  • Sweden orders review after 'explosion' of ADHD cases
  • Ditto on the usefulness and commonality of these skills. But we still need firemen, delivery workers. Lots of professions do benefit from this, maybe also sports.

    Moving them too much into the "disease" category doesn't do it service. It'd be better to teach ways to manage it.

  • Selfhosted messenger/community software like discord
  • Matrix does support voice, and I found the quality to be amazing.

  • Armenia and Azerbaijan agree on ā€˜historicā€™ return of villages
  • So relations are improving after the Russian "peacekeepers" left?

  • How do you handle UX Design?
  • One suggestion - if you get 10 plain black t-shirts, then implement your style!

    I am a dev who was focused on design and ux early on (this has changed as the needs of my work changed).

    @abhideckert's suggestion on how to analyze the needs is great. Now on to the implementation.

    Similarly to development, you start out with some requirements - you need to show an input box, a history of inputs, and a sidebar with categories. You work out the layout (with wireframes, pencil drawings, etc.). Then comes visual style, which I guess is the thing you struggle with?

    In both layout and visual style, you need to apply design principles, but ultimately the goal is to guide the visitor's eye to the right places. This is where rhythm, repetition and contrast play a role. Basically highlight important elements, make the order of elements logical and not boring, avoid large empty areas but leave sufficient "breathing room" between elements, etc.

    For visual style, you should make your own "style guide" that you apply to all personal projects. You can vary it a bit for each, if you are worried about them looking the same. Make that into a css file with a dummy html page to test. Add an input box, a textarea, select, unordered lists, etc. and style all of them to your liking. This guide will capture a lot of visual ideas, colors, spacing, which you can paste straight into your project. Do not sweat too much about stealing other people's ideas - it's an intrinsic property of art, and anyway it will probably not look 100% the same even if you copy it.

    Edit: PS: spend some time just looking at the design and thinking.

  • The most recent version of KeePassXC loads indefinitely when trying to open database. Any idea how I can fix this?
  • If you start it from the terminal, do you see any error output while it's loading?

  • Chechnya bans all music deemed too fast or too slow
  • That's so weird. So musical instruments are banned, but there is a loophole for a capella...

  • Chechnya bans all music deemed too fast or too slow
  • I think IS are not too much into music, on the whole.

  • The Things Users Would Appreciate In Mobile Apps ā€” Smashing Magazine
  • Not always, i think. There are some SSO solutions that behave like this, and password gets filled in fine.

  • Slovakiaā€™s brain drain picks up pace under populist leader Robert Fico
  • Scary, there is a real danger for Bulgaria to go the same route, after brain drain rate at least reversed in the last years. Here's to hoping

  • What's your preferred code generation tool in 2024?
  • Just thought of an example. If you want to, you can open a file at macroexpansion time, and generate code based on its contents. There are no limits, pretty much.

  • What's your preferred code generation tool in 2024?
  • Both languages you mentioned i highly recommend.

    Lisp macros are another level, because they are part of the language - you can use all language primitives to transform forms however you like.

    Haskell will give you a different view of programming. It's beautiful and concise, and implements all sorts of academic research in languages. Ocaml is similar in many respects.

  • [Personal project] GitHub - monomon/schooloprog: generate ical school schedule
    github.com GitHub - monomon/schooloprog: Small program to convert sexp description to ical

    Small program to convert sexp description to ical. Contribute to monomon/schooloprog development by creating an account on GitHub.

    GitHub - monomon/schooloprog: Small program to convert sexp description to ical

    I had been meaning to try OCaml for a long time, and saw the opportunity.

    My daughter's school schedule was sent in an inconvenient format (screenshot), so I decided to type it in manually in sexps, which I am a fan of.

    These are used as a source for my program to generate icalendar with recurrences, exceptions for the holidays, and so on. Someone might find it useful as reference too.

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