I've written a tutorial of sorts, showing how to write a streaming XML sitemap scraper using Promistreams! https://wiki.slightly.tech/books/projects/page/example-project-scraping-xml-sitemaps
@joepie91 "if you disagree then you can just fork it" is a response that you'd only get from a developer to shut down genuine complaints often made by users who are themselves not developers and never will be developers.
It's a callous cop-out at best and a refusal to acknowledge and address poor design or critically missing features at worst.
It occurs to me that this is rarely said out loud, but it probably should be:
The ability to fork open-source software is important, *but* the idea of "if you disagree then you can just fork it" is basically a lie. It has never worked that way and it will never work that way.
In reality you're dealing with project governance and so there are a lot of social factors (community support, motivation to 'compete' with the established name, etc.) that are critical to not having a fork wither on the vine.
And it's very difficult to pull that off, and usually requires a long history of growing resentment about the leadership of the forked project. This means a fork is rarely the best solution.
vaguely spicy take
People joke about "expensing hacker events as work trips" but actually I think that's genuinely a reasonable thing to do, even under the 'conventional' understanding of what constitutes a 'work trip' (for training and education).
There's no rule that says a trip must be boring to qualify as "materially useful to your job"! That idea is just some puritan(?) ideological nonsense, it has no bearing on how the world works.
Promistreams are now officially in beta! (Which mostly just means I have added a little infobox at the top of the page
)
https://wiki.slightly.tech/books/projects/page/what-are-promistreams
Basically, they're streams for #JavaScript that are actually nice to work with, have first-class Promise support, handle errors correctly, handle concurrency reliably, interoperate with other stream implementations, and just generally make more sense than Node streams.
You can use them for streaming data, but also for things like task queues or distribution patterns. They can work in any JS environment, and are not limited to Node.js. More documentation will become available soon (especially for more complex cases), but the basic stuff is already explained at the link.
Please give them a try and let me know how it went, and whether you ran into any issues!
Asking for suggestions for a free blogging service that's anonymous, not corporate-owned, preferably connected to the #Fediverse, that's NOT #WordPress. Wanting to scratch that itch again. 😃
ETA: @PleaseBoost
What is really frustrating for me when I volunteer for @c3auti and also #accessibility is that the most difficult work is totally invisible but the mishaps are always obvious.
I know I will get shoutet at (rightfully) for some of the barriers I know will still exist on #38C3. I know I will probably need to bother PL at least once per day.
Nobody sees the huge nastiness that is averted by good care work. They just see that I couldn't hold my presentation the day after.
Check your backups.
FFS.
CHECK YOUR BACKUPS.
My alerting didn't trigger so I learned there are no valid backups since December 1st (to one of my two offsite locations). And I can't re-enable it because the remote ran out of disk space and zfs holds are funny.
I had to reboot the source machine in the end, and that triggered a new cascade of issues with the nvidia driver updating and totally screwing containerd over.
How did I end up in this place arrrgh.
Check your backups. And alerting.
Darf ich vorstellen:
Die Docs-Page des derReparierer Repositories. Schaut mal rein!
May I introduce:
The docs page of the derReparierer repository. Take a look!
consider writing to Luigi to take the meme posting and the jokes to the next level of directly expressing your support to him
tips on how to write prisoners here: https://www.liberationlib.org/become-a-penpal.html
write to:
Luigi Mangione 52503-511
MDC Brooklyn
PO Box 392002
Brooklyn, NY 11232
assume all your letters will be read by the feds before he gets to read them. accordingly, consider using a pen name (and tell him, "my pen name is XYZ"), and a return address that isn't your home.
check the mail guidelines before you write/send to ensure your letters get to Luigi:
https://www.jailexchange.com/federal-prisons/new-york/mdc-brooklyn/mail-an-inmate
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Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.