jvinet

Maybe Uncloud would fit the bill?

Mermaid is great for this, though the output will be an image, not ASCII.

https://mermaid.js.org

This article tries to follow the action via the tweets emerging at the time.

https://medium.com/coinmonks/the-40b-wipeout-the-fall-of-ter...

The last laugh: https://x.com/FreddieRaynolds/status/1524139694388355072

Still, I’d say that trying out Arch has immeasurably improved my knowledge, not just of Linux but of the underlying concepts behind modern computing.

I love hearing that, because it was a goal of Arch from the very beginning: to stop fearing the commandline.

And I was the first alpha tester, in that I wanted to learn more about how the sausage was actually made, so to speak. I was comfortable using things like Linuxconf at the time, but its beginner-friendly veneer meant that I didn't really know what to do if it _wasn't_ there.

After tinkering with Crux and PLD for a bit, I wanted to go deeper and start from nothing. So I loaded up the LFS[1] docs and just started typing in the shell stanzas to start building my compilation toolchain. In an effort to DRY as much as possible, the work also got placed into shell scripts, which eventually became PKGBUILD modules.

I started having way too much fun with it, so I put up the world's ugliest webpage[2] to share my triumphs, and a couple people found it, somehow. That begat the immediate need for documentation, which eventually brought Arch into the forefront. I can't recall who spearheaded the Arch wiki, but we owe them a great debt, because it has become a valuable resource for Linux users, and not only the Arch users.

Arch is my happiest accident.

ps: btw, I run Arch (is this still a meme?)

[1] https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20020328043401/http://www.archli...

I use something similar, but it leans on at(1) to popup reminders at predefined intervals. I tend to forget things once I'm buried in my Vim window.

https://github.com/jvinet/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/rin

Examples:

  $ rin +30 Check the turkey
  $ rin '14:30 tomorrow' Watch baseball

This way, I have a nagging badge/icon in my waybar system tray until I finally do check that turkey and watch that baseball.

Ah, those were the days.

If you're on Linux, you can accomplish this with dbus.

https://github.com/jvinet/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/doorman.p...

With JSONB here, JSONPath starts to become very interesting...

http://goessner.net/articles/JsonPath/

http://blog.redfin.com/devblog/2012/03/json_in_postgres.html

That article was written before JSON/JSONB showed up, but the idea remains the same.

I didn't have plv8 installed, so I did some plumbing code in plpython. plv8 would be more suitable though.

https://github.com/jvinet/pg-jsonpath

The archlinux.org transfer is in progress. I'd imagine the domain-transfer tubes are a bit clogged right now, given the mass exodus from GoDaddy.

That's a good analogy - I've never heard that one before.

Brilliant. You've probably added a few years to my life, both in terms of hours lost and frustration listening to the same 24kbps top-40 song over and over.

Thanks. :)

Another approach, though more alpha in code/docs:

http://github.com/jvinet/jive

Exactly. Follow the cost-benefit analysis through to completion. For my startup, it's not worth it to create a second version of the site.

I'd love to serve up the site in a way that lets any screen reader or NoScript user see the site as it is intended, but the costs are too high for the relative gains.