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chrash0

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  • Voiden - A Markdown based Open Source Alternative to Postman

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  • first, i’m biased. i’m a home row kind of guy. i live in the terminal.

    Which of the preferences you mentioned discounts this project?

    i’ll be direct: light weight dependencies. i understand why you’d use Electron to build a UI, but does an API tester need a UI as a first class feature? i think something like hurl shows it’s not necessary. i get that maybe it’s an accessibility problem (juniors and Java devs being afraid of the command line etc), but UIs are not composable. i could run hurl (or curl for that matter) via bash or nushell or Elisp or Rust or Powershell or JavaScript or GitHub Actions or as a k8s postDeploy… and, not to draw the ire of Lemmy armchair zealots, they’re not easily usable by agents. an 8B model on my Macbook could figure out hurl, no MCP or crazy preprompting required.

    plus: user adoption. this is the self hosted community, so maybe not everyone here has the same concern, but i can’t just commit a bunch of exotic files to my shared repositories. Bruno was a tough adoption, even though it seems obvious to version control this stuff and it was the only real option at the time. now i’m tired of Bruno cuz it goes out of date cuz it’s not easily scriptable with our internal auth services because it runs everything in its bespoke UI. if they haven’t made a button for it, you can’t do it. that’s the problem with UI dev tools.

    no shade, i understand some people would be totally lost if their IDE didn’t have a big green run button.

  • Voiden - A Markdown based Open Source Alternative to Postman

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  • i’ve been looking for a silver bullet in this space. hurl[1] seems promising as well. i feel like Bruno has always been jank, and going 1.0 didn’t help. at work i’ve stuck to vibe coding my API test code with a stack of TOML configs, that way i get to reuse/test my client code as well.

    what i want is something version controllable with lightweight dependencies that i can automate easily. i’m afraid that discounts this project. not going to ask my team to download Yet Another Electron API client UI. i’m hesitant to introduce hurl, which can at least be scripted.

    1: https://hurl.dev/

  • Can I use Android Studio on Alpine Linux?

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  • lots of good reasons to spin up containers for development is my point, especially for an embedded system with exotic system dependencies (compared to Node.js, for example).

    Home Assistant is a “simple app” that i have to open ports for.

    does that mean they have a good reason? maybe not.

  • Can I use Android Studio on Alpine Linux?

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  • really? i mean, people have done it for friggin vanilla ass Node.js servers. Android projects can have weird dependencies that a container might help solve (NDK etc).

    i’m not saying that it’s my preferred way to build, but that wasn’t the question.

  • Open-source game engine Godot is drowning in 'AI slop' code contributions: 'I don't know how long we can keep it up'

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  • generally yeah. the problem is that the barrier to entry used to be higher so fewer people knew how to write code to integrate with the project before coding agents. now anyone who can install Claude Code has a seat at that table

  • Deprecated Linux Commands You Should Not Use Anymore

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  • sometimes syntax changes are part of the decision to do a rewrite. these are user interfaces at the end of the day. i’m not saying you’re wrong about any particular case, but it’s like saying “why make Instagram when Facebook exists” or “why make Scala when Java exists” etc. i like a good fresh look at how we use and instrument and teach our development tooling.

    also, when i was 18 and would tell IT professionals i was getting a computer science degree, the #1 response was, “get ready to spend the rest of your life learning new things.” and i’ve found that to largely be true

  • The EU Moves To Kill Infinite Scrolling

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  • i personally have pushed back on every “infinite scrolling” feature request from product designers. first, you think you need it; you don’t. second, you think it’s just so nifty! it isn’t. oh is your content is dynamically generated? what was wrong with Reddit’s pager that launched that site into popularity?

    it’s unnecessary complexity that hides information from the user, makes API calls (which are, spoilers, paginated) more complicated, can cause the obvious memory/resource consumption issues, and just generally disempowers the user. which i guess on a social media app is the point. but totally counter to the goals of a fleet management system lol

  • VLAN’s and Subnets For Home Networks

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  • yeah i get that.

    generally most modern UIs are moving away from those reactive patterns (React, Svelte, etc) just cuz the composition can be optimized (Kotlin compiler plugin, shadow-DOM, etc), and a lot of people—myself included—find that declarative design easier to reason about. and yeah i guess i outed myself as an Android dev, but i can’t in good conscience recommend the node based Android XML UI lol (although that’s a different SDK).

    anyway, not to yuck your yum. i played around with JavaFX back in the day but never made anything to speak of. i’ll have to check out more of your blog!

  • VLAN’s and Subnets For Home Networks

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  • JavaFX with Kotlin

    mad lad.

    what makes you snub Compose UI?

  • Rust Coreutils Continues Working Toward 100% GNU Compatibility, Proving Trolls Wrong

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  • i mean, how many realistically? how many systems are out there using non-LTS releases that would actually run into these edge cases? and auto-updating them in production without triggering the bug first? or maybe i’m a naive corpo

  • Getting worn out with all these docker images and CLI hosted apps

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  • honestly, i 100% do not miss GUIs that hopefully do what you want them to do or have options grayed out or don’t include all the available options etc etc

    i do get burnout, and i suffer many of the same symptoms. but i have a solution that works for me: NixOS

    ok it does sound like i gave you more homework, but hear me out:

    • with NixOS and flakes you have a commit history for your lab services, all centralized in one place.
    • this can include as much documentation as you want: inline comments, commit messages, living documents in your repository, whatever
    • even services that only provide a Docker based solution can be encapsulated and run by Nix, including using an alternate runtime like podman or containerd
    • (this one will hammer me with downvotes but i genuinely do think that:) you can use an LLM agent like GitHub Copilot to get you started, learn the Nix language and ecosystem, and create Nix modules for things that need to be wrapped. i’ve been a software engineer for 15 years; i’ve got nothing to prove when it comes to making a working system. what i want is a working system.

  • Recommended software to scan a load of video files for detected motion

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  • someone was asking for a GUI, so not going to be an ffmpeg expert. likely the LLM would recommend ffmpeg anyway. plus you would run YOLO (or maybe CLIP) locally; it has been running on Android phones since 2020 at least. a Jupyter notebook would also give a quick and dirty GUI to visualize and document the solution. plus “motion detection” is probably not the full story, and any video will probably have artifacting that means you’d have to tune the motion detection algorithm or end up with a bunch of garbage artifacts/false positives in the end. also, sounds like the user isn’t looking for something long-running like Frigate. if the user isn’t familiar with Python and wants to do something downstream like sort the outputs or whatever, an LLM would help with that.

    sure, programmatically, it’s not a difficult problem, but like it or not it can be solved by someone without an advanced CS degree with an LLM precisely because the problem is easy. no easily ready solution exists, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be done. “just use ffmpeg” to someone like my dad who might have the know how to install Linux but isn’t a programmer isn’t exactly the simple advice it sounds like.

  • Recommended software to scan a load of video files for detected motion

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  • i’d vibe code something in Python for this tbh, but i have some expertise in this area already. you could even get some classification going with a YOLO model to help you narrow down the search. it won’t have a GUI unless you count Jupyter notebooks.

  • Help me understand the workflow for cloning dotfiles after a fresh install without hosting dotfiles in the cloud

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  • i host my dotfiles on GitHub, but any cloud provider or self-hosted git instance will do. otherwise, rsync, scp, or a good old fashioned thumb drive

  • Org Mode Syntax Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages to Use for Text

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  • sorry it’s been a minute. i drank the emacs KoolAid because of posts like this years ago and happily switched back to Neovim after they added Lua config support

  • Org Mode Syntax Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages to Use for Text

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  • lol @ +BEGIN_SRC

  • GNOME and Mozilla Discuss Proposal to Disable Middle Mouse Paste on Linux

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  • this feels like a breaking change akin to macOS changing the Command key to bringing up a start menu because it confuses Windows users. platforms have differences, and this one is actually so tiny and inconsequential it feels like any ameliorated confusion will be offset by confusion of people that rely on it and use it. is this really the barrier to adoption?

  • Elon Musk’s AI Grok Goes Rogue with Posts Suggesting Trump Is a Pedophile and Erika Kirk Is JD Vance in Drag

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  • “Suggesting”

  • Running Python on Debian - is not so easy?

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  • other commenters have hinted at this, but the main point of most of the good advice is this: don’t use the system Python install (ie the one from apt) for development. uv is my go to, but the idea behind *conda, pyenv, asdf, etc is the same. the underlying OS shouldn’t be an issue; you should be able to ship the code between OSs and build just fine, ideally.

  • How to navigate around AI written recipes online

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  • generally speaking, i think it’s good practice to find several recipes and compare and contrast them. you’ll find opinions and get a sense for what the writer’s priorities are (quick, fewer dishes, what they usually have in the pantry, etc) and can figure out which writer has similar priorities to you. or just synthesize a recipe from those sources. this does require some technical know-how, but i think this is a good skill to have.

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    chrash0 @lemmy.world

    what do y'all use for CI/CD?

  • Bicycles @lemmy.ca
    chrash0 @lemmy.world

    help me choose a cycling computer?