Husband, father, kabab lover, history buff, chess fan and software engineer. Believes creating software must resemble art: intuitive creation and joyful discovery.
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Timeseries with PostgreSQL (alexplescan.com)
A relatively simple but common application of time series done with PG.
systemd path unit questions
Hello together. I try to use a systemd path unit, to monitor a directory structure. But as of now, I was only successful for the top level directory. The unit should be triggered, if a new file is written to either the top level of the monitored directory and also, if there is a new file in any of its subdirectories. I don’t...
The Fall of Stack Overflow (programming.dev)
Stack Overflow has seen a substantial decline in traffic over the last year that appears to be accelerating. observablehq.com/…/the-fall-of-stack-overflow
Obscure programming language rabbit hole: A toy Lemmy viewer in Skew (locust.pages.dev)
Source code...
Is there really no viable alternative for Photoshop on Linux?
I’m starting this off by saying that I’m looking for any type of reasonably advanced photo manipulation tool, that runs natively under Linux. It doesn’t have to be FOSS....
Profile switching
I recently switched from brave(flatpack) to firefox(rpm) on fedora 38 running wayland...
How To Measure the Network Impact on PostgreSQL Performance (www.percona.com)
What terminal file manager that you use, if any?
Long time nnn user right now. But interested in hearing some other people suggestions in case I missed something more interesting.
What was your worst tilting session?
Just lost 70 points in few days on Lichess, so annoying!...
I work in a B.C. food bank. We’re serving triple the number of people we used to. - Macleans.ca (macleans.ca)
Forth: The programming language that writes itself (ratfactor.com)
Forth, its history and the computer science ideas which form its foundations explained in a light and humorous style sprinkled with links to interesting resources on the web.
immutable + reproducible packages - learning curve = ?
Is there a distro with:...
Firefox profiles: Quickly replicate your settings to any machine (www.bahmanm.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/2039017...
Use a FF sync account for “bootstrap” configuration on new installation
So I frequently install firefox on different desktop devices and it’s a hassle to set up and configure all the privacy settings and extensions every time I install it on a new device....
What are the most unusual or interesting uses of property lists?
I’m interested in examples or ideas in any Lisp dialect that supports the feature.
Handy rsync tricks
What are you favourite/useful rsync tricks these days?...
Firefox 115 released (www.mozilla.org)