I’m reading this article about the de-skilling of the web, web dev burnout, and how we are no longer allowed to be specialists. I’m reading it while at work where I’m trying to figure out why my SQL queries aren’t working, what I’ve done wrong in a backend server framework, and there’s a design waiting for me to review before I implement it in CSS and HTML. 😖
Please let me hone in on just a couple of these and practice a craft…
TIL there’s a big difference between “Looks like this is your issue” and “Looks like this is your issue” and it’s impossible to tell them apart in plain text.
Finally got a hard drive issue sorted out and all my self hosted bits and pieces running again. I guess this is the risk of not renting hardware. Still, fun to have it all working again and aside from catastrophic failures, I think I’m set now.
Are AIs/LLMs going to push everyone away from VC & Big Tech content & communication products to self-hosted and/or FOSS products? That would be nice. Though it feels like the method of getting there is the rejuivination that comes after a raging and destructive wildfire.
@aligorith True. Plus that other wildfire over there (crypto) is somehow still raging while salting the earth and returning nothing useful. So I don’t expect this one to burn out any time soon.
So Slack is going to read private messages and shared files all so that it can… checks notes
Recommend other channels for you?! That is a hilariously bad cost/value prop.
Oh, also it will suggest emojis for you.
I have telegram because it was really easy to set up a bot and a bash script to send messages to it-basically my own little notifications app. But it’s also the only thing I use telegram for. What’s a good alternative? Free and open source preferred. Self hosting as well
@mez Matrix account is even easier to get (no phone number needed) and just as easy to write a bot - I'm just writing a bash script doing a little magic that my client app failed to do. And it can be completely self-hosted, including the push notification server (gotify or ntfy)
@chebra Does this mean hosting an entire Matrix setup? I’ve been curious if something like Matrix would work, but don’t understand the system well enough.
Helping someone with recovering data from their corrupt external hard drive which is requiring me to use my server’s storage drive to do the backup. Unfortuantely, I need to do this from a different computer than the server, so all my self-hosted services are currently down while I do a multi-terabyte data transfer dance. :(
Trying to install php and composer locally with Homebrew and then doing a Homebrew upgrade and I’ve been here for hours. I know it’s been a while since I did anything with Homebrew and stuff is outdated, but yikes this is slow!
Does anyone have any good resources for making a drag-and-drop list reordering interface accessible to non-mouse users? The lists can be nested.
Using a form seems clunky:
Place item at top level OR inside Item B
Place at start OR after Item C
Reveal up/down arrows to keyboard focus? How do I move items in and out of nested hierarchies? How to I keep the primary list interface from not getting cluttered?
@aligorith Yeah, I often check apps like Confluence, Notion, etc. Neither allow re-ordering without drag and drop. Just “move to” (which places it inside another page). Notion’s keyboard accessibility, at least tabbing around, just isn’t there.
I’m wondering about tabbing between items and then ctrl-arrow to move it. Doesn’t solve touch yet and also requires learning hotkeys.
A tools menu may work instead, like you say, but it means more interactions to get to the command.
@zeborah Yeah the current setup is a little weird, but surviving to the person in it. I’d like to accommodate that but also make it generalised for any other setup.
I think the bed “wants” to be pillows under the right window.