kminehart

This isn't resilient to this downtime though. Our self-hosted runners are currently not functioning because of some github dependency.

kminehart

2 ay öncediscuss

Are there any GitHub Actions-compatible CI services out there that don't rely on their infrastructure? I know of depot's but no others; are these resilient to these outages or do they still lose functionality? I imagine the latter but I don't know.

kminehart

6 ay öncediscuss

I can definitely relate to the abstract at least. While I am more productive now, and I am way more excited about working on longer term projects (especially by myself), I have found that the minutia is way more strenuous than it was before. I think that inhibits my ability to review what the LLM is producing.

I haven't been diagnosed with ADHD or anything but i also haven't been tested for it. It's something I have considered but I think it's pretty underdiagnosed in Spain.

kminehart

7 ay öncediscuss

And Coca Cola

kminehart

8 ay öncediscuss

I walked away with that page open, glanced at the "Is it time to rewrite sudo in Zig?" post, and clicked to see the comments because I thought it was real :')

kminehart

8 ay öncediscuss

I can already tell by their example that I don't like it. I've worked with a bunch of different container-based CI systems and I'm getting a little tired seeing the same approach by done slightly differently.

    steps:
      - name: backend
        image: golang
        commands:
          - go build
          - go test
      - name: frontend
        image: node
        commands:
          - npm install
          - npm run test
          - npm run build

Yes, it's easy to read and understand and it's container based, so it's easy to extend. I could probably intuitively add on to this. I can't say the same for GitHub, so it has that going for it.

But the moment things start to get a little complex then that's when the waste starts happening. Eventually you're going to want to _do_ something with the artifacts being built, right? So what does that look like?

Immediately that's when problems start showing up...

- You'll probably need a separate workflow that defines the same thing, but again, only this time combining them into a Docker image or a package.

    - I am only now realizing that woodpecker is a fork of Drone. This was a huuuge issue in Drone. We ended up using Starlark to generate our drone yaml because it lacked any kind of reusability and that was a big headche.

- If I were to only change a `frontend` file or a `backend` file, then I'm probably going to end up wasting time and compute rebuilding the same artifacts over and over.

    - GitHub's free component honestly hurts itself here. I don't have to care about waste if it's mostly free anyways.

- Running locally using the local backend... looks like a huge chore. In Drone this was basically impossible.

I really wish someone would take a step back and really think about the problems being solved here and where the current tooling fails us. I don't see much effort being put into the things that really suck about github actions (at least for me): legibility, waste, and the feedback loop.

kminehart

10 ay öncediscuss

There's a few things for me, and the saddest part is I'm a very die-hard Linux user. Until a couple months ago when I had to start traveling, I've been using Linux exclusively for work.

1. The battery life, as others have mentioned.

2. The quality of the hardware: The screen is incredibly nice, the trackpad is VERY nice to use, and no other laptop has even come close.

3. It's so quiet. The fans almost never spin unless I've been compiling something for over a minute. I don't know how they do it but any other Linux laptop I've used, including desktops, have been super loud when running similar tasks.

kminehart

10 ay öncediscuss

I used to sharpen my straight-knife planer blades, planing irons, chisels, and knives with whetstones / water stones. It was too big of a pain in the ass over time, so I switched to diamond stones.

Biggest advantages is that you don't need to pre-soak them and diamond stones don't develop a valley / have to be flattened.

if you plan on getting into sharpening I would just start with a coarse, fine, and extra fine diamond stone and a leather strop w/ stropping compound.

kminehart

10 ay öncediscuss

don't use honing steel. at best it doesn't do anything, at worst it damages your knife.

here's a closer look at it with a microscope. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4ReQ83CZOQ

kminehart

10 ay öncediscuss

also don't forget how quiet this thing is.

kminehart

10 ay öncediscuss

Before their arm64 CPUs you could get a thinkpad or an xps and not have really bad FOMO. But now... it's just not even close :\

kminehart

10 ay öncediscuss

> Finding a laptop that works well is annoying, however.

It doesn't exist at the moment. :\

I would pay 2x the price of a macbook for a linux laptop with the same hardware quality.

The battery life and power/efficiency of my m4 pro is insane. It's so good that it's really hard to justify using anything else right now.

kminehart

2 yıl öncediscuss

I don't have a link for it yet, but I am working on using an HCL-like syntax to write CI pipelines. Ideally it would function a lot like dagger but written a lot like terraform.

The main problems that I want to solve are the really slow feedback loop of complex GitHub Actions / GitLab CI, but without the limitation of having to run it within another CI provider.

kminehart

2 yıl öncediscuss

If I was in charge of our infra automation I would have done this. We opted for jsonnet instead which is an absolute nightmare, or at least the way we've set it up is.

kminehart

2 yıl öncediscuss

Yep. And it's gotten a lot worse over the last 70 years. http://guide.saferoutesinfo.org/introduction/the_decline_of_...

kminehart

2 yıl öncediscuss

> You have smaller family sizes; people retreat inside because now they have air conditioning and TV and they’re not out in the front yard socializing as much. So, for a lot of reasons, we begin to lose trust in each other.

I think that a bigger factor is the car-centric city and suburb design that started in the US after World War II. It was intended to give everyone what they wanted; a big house, a yard, consistency, etc., but it prevents anyone without a driver or a car & license from socializing and visiting a "third place." I think that it increased individual isolation even before the internet or social media existed and thus set the foundation for social media to be as big of an influence as it is.

kminehart

2 yıl öncediscuss

But I think the missing ingredient they had back then was there was nothing better to do. Being "bored" isn't as much of a thing anymore for anyone, not just children.

kminehart

3 yıl öncediscuss

It's probably not super important with the switch like it would be with the nintendo 64 or something because it's an ARM cpu.

kminehart

4 yıl öncediscuss

Thanks!

They definitely promise the same thing but with different approaches.

The key thing that turned me off of Dagger is this: "Tie it all together in CUE". Personally I'm not the biggest fan of CUE and would rather just write Go. Correct me if I'm wrong but it seems like CUE is used in Dagger to create the config that the CI service will use. Switching to another service would mean rewriting that CUE file but reusing the Go/JS/whatever components, which is a great improvement over what we have to deal with now. With Scribe the goal is that you'd only ever have to write the whole thing once, but you're limited to Go.

kminehart

4 yıl öncediscuss

It sure would be nice if we could just "drive less". Unfortunately the cities we live in, at least in the US, are designed such that it's the only option we have. That's a huge focus of the website / book in the OP called, "Strong Towns."

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