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Zed 1.0 3 months ago

I use Sublime as a scratchpad and never save anything, so this is an important feature for me. It's worked flawlessly for years.

I've tried Zed several times like this and it continues to lose data.

This matches some previous comments around LLMs driving adoption of programming languages or frameworks. If you ask Claude to write a web app, why not have it use your own framework, that it was trained on, by default?

It's an opinionated vertical platform; if you run into an edge case, bug, or functionality you don't like, you are have to open a discussion Github and wait for a new release to fix or change things. The devs are very responsive, but the same as any open source tool, it's their project. It perhaps depends on how much customization you want to do - GPUs and drivers, custom CNI, very specific disk settings. I've had more trouble with bare metal systems with varied hardware vs their supported cloud platforms, which are approved and tested.

I'm pretty positive toward Talos but if you stray from the happy path, by choice or accident, it can become challenging technically. And then you have sunk costs around choosing this platform and how hard it would be to restart from scratch.

Looks promising! I was able to get it installed and delivering logs in 5 mins.

I really like the high volumes you offer; I really agree that volume should be cheaper. What Papertrail charges per GB seems really high IMO.

That said, I'm just a hobbyist doing under 1GB month of traffic. I will try to stick with the free plan for as long as possible. If you could offer some nice features for $5-10/month, I would upgrade for that.

Write the Docs 12 years ago

I went to the first Write the Docs conference in Portland and had a great time. It was a well organized conference with plenty of fun events and useful knowledge. Highly recommended! Thanks again.

Why Vagrant? 13 years ago

Should I upgrade to VirtualBox 4.3 yet or stick with 4.2? I remember you cautioning about new things not being as stable in 4.3.

I have been using the beta since they started. This is good upgrade that brings a much more polished UI from 1password 3.

The auto-fill functionality seems greatly improved: there are many JS based lightbox or hidden-until-you-click logins that 1pass3 couldnt autofill. 1pass4 just works.

I'm still waiting on my invite. I saw some ads on FB advertising it and decided to try, but have been waiting since. I hate the Post Office and would love to this us.

I've been using it for several months in SF and it's pretty great. iPhone app and pretty website let me see my mail from anywhere. They pickup my mail Tuesday, Thursday, Friday. Coolest thing to me being able to mark magazines or letters as spam and they will send unsubscribe messages for me.

Some flaws are how they handle anything more complex than just picking up mail addressed to you. Living in a rental apartment, I get plenty of previous residents that they ignore; I love would love to be able to get them to unsubscribe me from all mail that isn't addressed to me. But that gets more complex with my roommate, who doesn't use the service.

Otherwise, for $5/month, I like not having to check my mailbox and I haven't had any issues.

Django 1.5 released 13 years ago

Howdy! I have a branch with all the tests working, just haven't made an official release yet. Hopefully very soon...

Django 1.5 released 13 years ago

Anecdotal: I wrote a Google Reader API library in Python 2 that I'm working on porting to Python 3 and it really hasn't been that bad. I had some HTTP dependancies on urllib/urllib2 but requests (with a py3 compatibility class) made it easy.

The port was requested by someone looking to build an RSS feed reader or checker in Sublime Text 3, which using Python 3.3. Things are moving forward.

I do love this talk and this bit is a really good explanation for why I blog and contribute to open source:

You should do your job in such a fashion that others can build on top of it, so they will indeed say, "Yes, I've stood on so and so's shoulders and I saw further." The essence of science is cumulative.

Divvy has seems pretty dead to me, I haven't seen any new features in months? maybe years? It works well, but after seeing the new crop of window managers, it's too simple. The configuration isn't the most flexible and not easy to sync configurations between computers.

How I Open Source 14 years ago

I've definitely had this hesitation before and, like with programming, the more I publish and open source things, the easier it becomes. It might not be perfect, but good programmers can figure it out without help or novice ones can ask questions and show you where you need to explain things in more detail.

I've always wanted the organized README file, the detailed CHANGELOG file, the pretty bootstraped github page, and the polished docs, but it takes effort to get there. The little details along the way have tripped me up. After creating 3-4 active projects now on Github, I've worked through most minor details, cleaned up my older projects, and raised the overall quality of all my projects.

Sweet! I use tig daily as my main git viewer.

Here are some bindings my in .tigrc, which I use in the log viewer window, to make it more vim like:

bind generic g move-first-line

bind generic G move-last-line

bind generic n next

bind generic p previous

I generally use n/p to flip between commits in log view, hit enter to view a specific commit, and then j/k to move lines on the commit view.