I’ve looked at Prometheus (another team at work uses that) and the thing I didn’t like about it was that it polls for data instead of receiving data. Yes, there is a way to feed data into Prometheus, but from what I’ve read, it is extremely discouraged to use that, and instead, let Prometheus poll for the data. In my case, this means embedding a web server into several components that don’t use HTTP (or even TCP for that matter—they all use UDP) for network transfers.

I’m using a stripped down version of elinks to do HTML -> plaintext conversions, both for mail and some other projects. w3m is also popular for this task.

Do you have other solutions you’d like to share?

Same for me but two years later, 1998. Using Slackware was likely one the biggest contribution to my career. The fact that it forced me to really understand what was going on taught me so much about operating systems, software development and open source. I haven’t used Slack in a looong time, but I hold it dear in my memories!

Like the sibling comment, I, too, had my “parked domain” flags triggered.

I agree, but once you scroll down it improves a lot. Nice site.

I don’t know about Dell, but my 2016 MacBook Pro was hit pretty hard after the Specter/Meltdown fix came out. I used to go 5 or 6 hours before I was down to 35-40%. Now I’m down to %20-25% after about 4 hours.

Yeah I get 4-6 hours with the Dell, and I was literally getting about 2-3 hours on the Mac with the same usage patterns and apps running. I think the fact that you can be a lot more granular regarding what’s running on Linux really helps in that regard.

Perl has __DATA__, which is places at the end of the code in the file, and everything which comes after you can read with the DATA filehandle (I don’t know where Larry stole this idea from).

So a file looks like:

#!/usr/bin/env perl

print "here be dragons!\n"
__DATA__
{
   "id": 42
}

and you can read that last bit by passing a filehandle along. Pretty nice to embed simple stuff in test files, for example.

Oh woops, I misread the first paragraph, I thought it stated that Zig was supporting him entirely, when it’s actually about his programming supporting him.

I work remote, and there are places I could move that are < 20% of the cost.

My friends aren’t going to move with me, and I have enough money to live where I am. Why be wealthy and lonely?

The usual reason is the significant other.

There’s a shit-ton of them. Even Memphis TN that’s close to me with all its problems is low cost of living with all kinds of fun stuff to do. Just don’t live in or shop around the hood. Solves most of problems if you don’t have kids going to school or college.

There’s plenty of cities in the US that similarly have low cost of living with plenty going on. One can also live in areas 30-40 min from cities to substantially reduce their rent. The fun stuff still isn’t that far away. The slight inconvenience just knocks quite a bit off the price.

Interesting document, thanks. And I didn’t know they entered the YC circus (in 2015).

My firefox has that in the settings somewhere:

[X] Block new requests asking to allow notifications

This will prevent any websites not listed above from requesting permission to send notifications. Blocking notifications may break some website features.

help links here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/push-notifications-firefox?as=u&utm_source=inproduct

there always has been in Chrome and Safari and since very recently, there’s also one in Firefox. It’s the first thing I turn off whenever I configure a new browser. I can’t possibly think of anybody actually actively wanting notifications to be delivered to them.

Sure, there’s some web apps like gmail, but even there - I’d rather use a native app for this.

It’s really an overview of adventure games during the late 80s through the 90s all the way to today - with a focus on the Monkey Island games and SCUMM-built games (as well as their competitors). If you love that style of adventure game you’d probably get a lot out of this video.

COBOL is probably a bad language by most criteria that you can come up with. And yet… Has that it mattered that much?

I have no idea what a “COBOL runtime environment” looks like, to be honest.

I think I said “Yes, some people still do” and left it at that.

You say Backwards compatibility is necessary, and yet Google managed to get all major sites to adopt AMP in a matter of months. AMP has even stricter validation rules than even XHTML.

XHTML could have easily been successful, if it hadn’t been torpedoed by the WHATWG.

Disingenuous? Me? Really? :-D

Who was in the working group that wrote CSS2 specification?

I bet a coffee that each of those “does not specify” was the outcome of a political compromise.

But again, beyond the technical stuffs, don’t you see a huge geopolitical issue?

XHTML had little traction, because of developers

I remember that in early 2000s everyone started to write <br/> instead of <br> and it was considered cool and modern. There were 80x15 badges everywhere saying website is in xhtml. My Motorola C380 phone supported wap and some xhtml websites, but not regular html in builtin browser. So I had impression that xhtml was very popular.

This is an interesting interpretation, but I’d call it incorrect.

You are welcome. But given your arguments, I still stand with my political interpretation.

the reason to create whatwg wasn’t about control

I was 24 back then, and my reaction was “What? Why?”.

My boss commented: “wrong question. You should ask: who?”

XHTML had little traction, because of developers

Are you sure?

I wrote several web site back then using XML, XSLT and XInclude serverside to produce XHTML and CSS.

It was a great technological stack for distributing contents over the web.

w3c didn’t “start working on a new Dom”. They copy/backport changes from whatwg hoping to provide stable releases for living standards

Well, had I wrote a technical document about an alternative DOM for the whole planet, without anyone asking me to, I would be glad if W3C had take my work into account!

In what other way they can NOT waste WHATWG’s hard work?
Wel, except saying: “guys, from now on do whatever Google, Apple, Microsoft and few other companies from the Silicon Valley tell you to do”.

But I do not want to take part for W3C: to me, they lost their technical authority with EME (different group, but same organisation).

The technical point is that we need stable, well thought, standards. What you call live standard, are… working draft?

The political point is that no oligopoly should be in condition to dictate the architecture of the web to the world.

And you know, in a state where strong cryptography is qualified as munitions and is subject to export restrictions.

I’m not speaking on behalf of my function in the w3c working group I’m in, nor for Mozilla. But those positions provided me with the understanding and background information to post this comment.

I have no doubt about your good faith.

But probably your idealism is fooling you.

As you try to see these facts from a wider perspective, you will see the problem I describe.

there are too many people generating too much content in too many sloppy ways for draconian error handling to work well.

I do remember this argument was pretty popular back then, but I have never understood why.

I had no issue in generating xhtml strict pages from user contents. This real world company had a couple handred of customers with pretty various needs (from ecommerce, to online magazines or institutional web sites) and thousands of daily visitors.

We used XHTML and CSS to distribute highly accessible contents, and we had pretty good results with a prototype based on XLS-FO.

To me back then the call to real world issues seemed pretestuous. We literally had no issue. The issues I remember were all from IE.

You are right that many mediocre software were unable to produce proper XHTML. But is this an argument?

Do not fix the software, let’s break the specifications!

It seems a little childish!

XHTML was not perfect, but it was the right direction.

Look at what we have now instead: unparsable contents, hundreds of incompatible javascript frameworks, subtle bugs, bootstrap everywhere (aka much less creativity) and so on.

Who gain most from this unstructured complexity?

The same who now propose the final solution lock-in: web assembly.

Seeing linux running inside the browser is not funny anymore.

Going after incompetent developers was not democratization of the web, it was technological populism.

I think it’s more about all of this sounding like a science fiction plot than just taking a jab at the Trump presidency; just a few years ago nobody would have predicted that would have happened. So, no, not pure trolling.

After 20 years of Berlusconi and with our current empasse with the Government, no Italian could ever troll an American about his current President.

It was not my intention in any way.

As @olivier said, I was pointing to this surreal situation from an international perspective.

USA control most of internet: most root DNS, the most powerful web companies, the standards of the web and so on.

Whatever effect Cambridge Analitica had to the election of Trump, it has shown the world that internet is a common infrastructure that we have to control and protect together. Just like we should control the production of oxigen and global warming.

If Cambridge Analitica was able to manipulate USA elections (by manipulating Americans), what could do Facebook itself in Italy? Or in German?
Or what could Google do in France?

The Internet was a DARPA project. We can see it is a military success beyond any expectation.

I tried to summarize the debacle between W3C and WHATWG with a bit of irony because, in itself, it shows a pretty scary aspect of this infrastructure.

The fact that a group of companies dares to challenge W3C (that, at least in theory, is an international organisation) is an evidence that they do not feel the need to pretend they are working for everybody.

They have too much power, to care.