i blogged about mysql's json functions for all the people who think putting large blobs of schemaless data into their relational databases is a good idea.
@ghorwood@grmpyprogrammer Literally doing this at the jobby job for an internal solution - it's been Not Pleasant™, but we've gotten there. Appreciate all of these tips!
@niclake@grmpyprogrammer i have a client with a business model that relies very heavily on reams of json from Other Places and it's been... not bad. the performance has been significantly better than i thought it would be and the only really annoying part has been that 'where in' situation. i hate that part.
"using linux is difficult. i think it would be simpler for me, a lone consumer in a mid-sized city, to bend the corporate behemoth that is microsoft to my will" is an absolutely wild take.
@ghorwood What Linux is missing for everyday folks to adopt it is normal people don't want to install an OS. If you could go into Best Buy and buy a laptop that had Fedora with KDE pre-installed and configured, people would quickly realize that it's actually very solid and usable for non-tech people.
"It's simple -- just download the .iso of your favorite distro (oh, also, pick one), boot into your BIOS, partition your disks, pick a DE, click install"
everyone is falling all over themselves about all this new whale language research and how maybe whales have words. but, my people, we've known prairie dogs have a language -- verbs and nouns, even adjectives -- for fifteen years and no one has ever cared.
look, i’m obviously one of those crusty, old command-line-first linux guys, but hear me out: you don’t need to be “culturally linux” to use linux. you can just install it and use it and not make it part of your identity.
any of those distros people talk about will work fine, great even, right out of the box: popos, mint, fedora, elementary, zorin. it doesn’t really matter.
all those things the nerds dogpile into the comments section to argue about? they don’t really matter. we’re enthusiasts and we argue because we’re enthusiastic. that’s all. ignore us.
shout out to the lady from the ltc who called to tell me the dad was having his review meeting in forty minutes and “would i like to be there”. nothing like dropping everything and driving across the city for a meeting everyone else knew was happening two months ago.
@ghorwood Every once in a while the folks at my dad’s LTC call me because they didn’t like the answers or instructions my mom gives them and I always shut it down and tell them my mom is the one to talk to, full stop
i blogged about splitting tarballs into smaller chunks for all the people out there still backing up to a ziploc bag of 1gb thumbdrives they got at 7-eleven.
let me get this straight: slack is going to scrape all our data and poison their relationship with their userbase so they can recommend emojis? emojis? really?
any you guys remember that whole 'nft' craze thing from a long time ago when people were demanding microsoft disable right-click 'cos they spent a thousand bucks on a png. wild times.
the gang is playing this game that involves a lot of running and has a stamina mechanism and i’ve been yelling “fartlek! do fartlek!” and only discovered now that no one knows what i’m talking about.
you want enshittification? the bell phone monopoly gave us, free of encumbrance, the transistor, the solar panel, telstar, three different types of lasers, pressure treated lumber, and two operating systems, one of which i like.
and today at&t is bribing the friends of public officials to get out of providing landlines.
a client is running a closed beta and some total rando from china signed up out of the blue on day two and is doing a better job of using the application than the beta users who've had their hands held through the whole process.
@hyc it’s true. like, this is an application for a very specific business case that involves a lot of config to use with third parties, none of which is super intuitive. the user docs say “call us” in thirty places.