Threads for crooksey
-
The OS itself in my opinion is not ready for widespread desktop usage…
Would I install it on my granma’s computer? Most likely not, but nor would I GNU/Linux. However, it is just right for my kind of usage (workstation on a Thinkpad Carbon Gen 3).
OpenBSD is by far the most stable and predictable OS I am running (that includes OSX and GNU/Linux) and I am running -current. It does everything that needs being done and does it well.
I agree with OP that one has to like configuring stuff by editing files and reading manpages on the CLI. That being said, configurations are usually pretty terse, man pages well detailed and examples in the man abundant.
OpenBSD is a powertool for powerusers. It’s not being developed for mass market appeal and that’s actually one of its most attractive features.
-
Actually, it is exactly the system I would install on my granma’s computer: A clean OpenBSD desktop with two icons: “Internet” and “Mail”.
She will never get a virus, break it, or fail to fake windows phone scams.
My mother ran a Linux box for many years before jumping to a mac, and she was happy. Everything worked, nothing ever broke. It was predictable. Nowadays Linux is less predictable, especially after an upgrade, but OpenBSD is :)
Edit: However I wouldn’t recommend OpenBSD to a “regular user” friend.
-
Actually, it is exactly the system I would install on my granma’s computer: A clean OpenBSD desktop with two icons: “Internet” and “Mail”.
Geez, what an assumption ;), maybe grandma is a UNIX wizard and uses qutebrowser and mutt and launches them from the terminal.
At any rate, as far as I understand from various posts (haven’t tried OpenBSD since the early 00s), “Internet” would be very slow. Moreover, she would not be able to watch Netflix, since Widevine is not supported on OpenBSD. Oh, and she probably can’t Skype with her grandchildren, etc.
Do you non-tech beloved ones a favor and buy them an iPad. Despite the problems of Apple or Apple hardware, it is the most secure consumer platform, that gets updates for at least half a decade, and probably supports any popular application they’d want (Skype, Netflix, Youtube, Facebook, etc.).
-
An iPad would work well for some people, but for many of my older relatives, they have trouble with the touchscreen input. They can all type reasonably well, since they’re of a generation where Typing was an entire course you took in school, but find touchscreen-typing to be frustrating. As far as something similar but with a kb, not sure whether iPad+bluetooth kb, or just a MacBook would be easier.
-
An iPad would work well for some people, but for many of my older relatives, they have trouble with the touchscreen input. They can all type reasonably well, since they’re of a generation where Typing was an entire course you took in school, but find touchscreen-typing to be frustrating.
That’s interesting and a good point. Though it does not apply to everyone. My mother is in her sixties and never used a computer until 5 years ago (well, except for a domain specific-terminal application when she worked in a library in the 90ies). Despite doing some courses, etc. she always found computers too complex. However, since my dad bought an iPad for her ~5 years ago she has been using it very actively. She is able to do everything she wants - iMessaging, sending e-mail, and browse the web. Later, she also started using a smartphone, since ‘it is just a small iPad’.
At any rate, iPad + KB vs. MacBook would strongly depend on the person and how much they want beyond a simple media consumption device. Of course, if someone is going to compose documents on a device all day, an iPad is a bad option.
Of course, when it comes to typing you don’t want to buy a MacBook 12”/Pro now either ;). The butterfly keyboard is terribly unreliable (my 2016 MBP’s keys are sticky all the time).
-
Sounds like my grandmother. She does almost everything through a web browser. I had her use Ubuntu briefly. She had no trouble with using it but just prefered the look and feel of Windows. So she went back. I still get malware calls on occasion.
-
-
On phones, touch typing sucks for me cuz I have shaky fingers. Miss the keys and have to backspace a lot. Happens less on tablet with big keys. Doesnt happen with a physical keyboard regardless of size. I think it’s the extra, tactile feedback my brain gets from raised keys.
-
I use an iPad (with a bluetooth keyboard) while on vacations as a substitute laptop. And with an SSH client program I can even do development on a remote server [1].
[1] I may not like it that much, as the bluetooth keyboard I use is hard for me to use [2]. But I can do it.
[2] Even the keyboards on Mac laptops suck. I generally only use IBM Model M keyboards, but taking one on vacation is a bit overkill I think.
-
-
Geez, what an assumption ;), maybe grandma is a UNIX wizard and uses qutebrowser and mutt and launches them from the terminal.
Sounds like OpenBSD would work even better for your grandmother than we first thought!
“Internet” would be very slow.
Why would that be?
Do you non-tech beloved ones a favor and buy them an iPad. Despite the problems of Apple or Apple hardware, it is the most secure consumer platform, that gets updates for at least half a decade, and probably supports any popular application they’d want (Skype, Netflix, Youtube, Facebook, etc.).
Sorry but no way would I ever subject anyone I know to using an iPad. Not only is their hardware crap (overheating the moment you do anything with it), and not only is their software locked-down-to-the-point-of-unusably crap, but tablets in general are absolutely pointless devices that have no reason to exist in the home. Tablets are great if you’re an engineer that needs to have a lightweight device with a good bright screen that they can use to look at plans on site. For my mother? Why wouldn’t she just use a laptop?
Want to make a spreadsheet of your expenses? Nope, sorry, tablet spreadsheet software is garbage. Hope you like having a keyboard pop up over whatever you’re doing every time you want to input anything. Hope you like being unable to copy a row in a single drag of the mouse like you can on desktop, instead having to apparently click, copy, and manually paste into each cell. etc. They’re just bad devices for doing anything productive with a computer, and contrary to popular belief most people want to sometimes do something productive with their computer, whether it’s making a spreadsheet of their expenses, writing a letter to the editor of their paper, making a newsletter for their knitting association, or whatever. Sure they also want to watch Netflix, but that doesn’t mean that all they want to do is watch Netflix.
-
Why would that be?
https://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/firefox-vs-rthreads
but tablets in general are absolutely pointless devices that have no reason to exist in the home. Tablets are great if you’re an engineer that needs to have a lightweight device with a good bright screen that they can use to look at plans on site. For my mother? Why wouldn’t she just use a laptop?
Both my parents and wife are completely happy iPad users. Outside work, my wife usually uses her tablet, despite having a laptop. They are safe, fast and effortless (require virtually no tech support). Interestingly, I as an engineer don’t need or want one. I had an iPad and Nexi on several occasions, but would never use them.
YMMV
-
-
-
-
-
-
What ads? Paid apps typically don’t show ads. Besides that Safari on iOS has a content blocking API. Install e.g. Firefox Focus, which is a Safari ad blocker (besides a privacy-focus browser), and websites in Safari are ad-free.
I have an iDevice (iPhone) and I never see an ad.
-
-
What exactly does that have to do with the iPad? Facebook and Youtube are hardly specific to the iPad. Circumvention being ad-blocking? Won’t block facebook stories that are ads.
-
-
Well, the comparison here is unfair. In OpenBSD they wouldn’t even have a Facebook or Youtube app. If they’d use the browser to access Facebook/Youtube in OpenBSD, there would be no difference, since Safari can also do ad blocking. Plus they would get hardware-accelerated video ;).
-
-
-
-
-
-
Feels like a Chromebook would have a lot of the same advantages?
-
-
Might pretend on the distro. Ubuntu is annoying about changes that break stuff or needlessly force me to learn new way to do old thing.
-
-
-
OpenBSD feels to me similar to how Linux felt 10 years ago: precisely aimed at me. Now it feels like the ‘powers that be’ in the Linux community are only interested in targeting mobile devices and turning GNOME into macOS’s awful UI design of not letting you do anything that they didn’t think of beforehand.
-
-
-
Wonder if this still works, or if your email will get stuck in spam filters for recipients using big providers like Outlook/O365, Gmail, Fastmail?
-
If you want to use your own mail server, the best thing I have done is basically setup postfix, but then send all email via AWS SES service, it gives you your own mail server and will cost you less than $1 a month, probably something in the region of $0.10 for a normal user. You get all the benefits of using your own mail server, but you mails don’t get caught in all the spam folders (trust me, they will).
-
-
-
-
You need to setup 1 txt record for AWS SES that’s it (there may be something else, but looking at my DNS I can’t find anything). One point to note is all mails from your server must have be from your domain, e.g. user@yourdomain.com you can’t send messages from fakeuser@notmydomain.com.
-
-
-
-
-
Depending on which IAP you’re using you might be able to use their mail server as a ‘smart host’. This way your mail will be sent by way of your IAP’s domain and be filtered as such by the likes of Google and Microsoft. If your IAP has a reasonable reputation this will make your mail sail through without problems. You might need to dicker a bit with their customer services to open up their mail server for your domain, try to get hold of one of the hands-on people to explain what it is you want.
-
-
I think of Material Design more of a safety net. We can’t expect every app maker to be proficient in design and creating something interesting, unique, and useful. MD saves the average app developer from making a really really terrible app. Yes, you still have to understand the design philosophy, the guidelines, the patterns. But it’s easier to use a set of components Google has made for you and copy patterns that occur in the MD-complaint apps.
Disclaimer: I work at the GOOG.
-
As a backend developer that has had to take on the lead on a few front end projects, this is a massive win. You can simply follow material design spec and get solving problems, then when someone queries why you have done something or wants something changed, you can just quote the material spec and get on with solving real problems.
-
“real problems”
-
and get on with solving real problems.
I think if the application in question is small enough, then this might hold true; however once the project gains any significant complexity or scope then I’d say having a backend developer work on UI might cause a few ‘real problems’ of its own ;)
-
This an example of the kind of conclusion you don’t want to jump to. Material Design may be a good stand-in, but it is ultimately a one-size-fits-all solution to a problem (yes, a real one 😉) that is inherently case-by-case. It helps developers speed through UI design; it does not solve UI design. As much as Google may want you to believe that convenient untruth.
-
-
-
As someone that is currently migrating/migrated mvc/applications to an Spa/rest platform, once a competitor in the same field does, in order to offer the same front end features/“experience” , e.g heavy JS front ends with lots of different libraries, an Spa is just easier than maintaining multiple JS scripts via templates. It also means you can have a solid rest backend and change the fronted as required.
I personally use angular for front end code and there are some great tutorials and articles that help/guide users towards server side rendering on larger applications (works well at enterprise level) . Currently it is just easier to use/create an Spa that not (when using lots of JS libraries), it’s not the most enjoyable of experiences, but… Users want features and others want a clean/maintainable/lts/supported code base.
-
I don’t even have to read this to up-vote it.
-
You might still want to read it and maybe reconsider that upvote. That article goes all over the place, stating its thesis that blockchain hype is the new NoSQL hype, that the NoSQL haters were right, that both of those terms are vague enough to be meaningless, and conclues that blockchain is a very exciting technology and that we should all join the author’s company VMware to work on it.
¯\(ツ)/¯
-
-
-
After 2 years my experience with Vue has been positive. I’m still confident it was a good decision to move my team from React to Vue. Not because Vue is better, but because it is a better fit for us.
Why though? These comparisons of libraries/frameworks that amount to “differences of technical details” are not worth writing. Did the author have some problem that couldn’t be solved with React and could be solved with Vue? That would be worth hearing about. I’m talking real business-value-added problem solving. Not “the syntax is nicer”. If I was employing this author and read this article, I would feel like the migration from React to Vue had been a waste of company resources.
-
Well ultimately they are both Javascript frameworks, so what you can do in one you can do in another, the whole idea of a framework is the syntax in which you interact with it to the base language. As such, some things will be easier in framework X and other will be easier in framework Y. In my opinion you have the Angular way to solve JS “framework projects”, then the React way, Vue sits a bit in the middle (if not closer to React).
-
what you can do in one you can do in another
If I’m already using a tool that can do what I need it to do, why would I invest in a new tool? And I don’t mean to reduce things to “it’s all JavaScript so you don’t need a library”. React, Angular, Ember, Vue, etc., are compelling to me to the degree that they enable a developer/organization to deliver useful software. But if React and Vue are compelling to the same degree, I’m not sure there’s anything to talk about.
-
-
Author here.
The article was getting pretty long already and I didn’t want to get into those points.
Did the author have some problem that couldn’t be solved with React and could be solved with Vue?
There were 3 major paint points for us with React. That was in 2015-2016, at the end of 2016 we moved to Vue.
-
JSX is ok for JS devs, but terrible for designers that work with HTML and CSS. We tried to solve that using a Wix library called react-templates but it introduced its own set of problems.
-
React Router was cumbersome compared to Vue Router. For example if you need to access the router from a component you needed to create a HOC. We also hit a bug that could only be solved by using
setTimeout()with 0 delay. We quickly found that the React Router team was not very welcoming to feature requests or bug reports, to put it mildly. Vue Router in comparison made a lot more sense and was much easier to deal with. -
Managing local state compared to Vue is tedious. We considered moving to MobX, which is what a lot of React guys are doing, but at that point I gave Vue a try and it was immediately clear that it was a better fit for us.
If I was employing this author and read this article, I would feel like the migration from React to Vue had been a waste of company resources.
We didn’t rewrite our React projects to Vue, if that’s what you are implying.
-
-
-
I never really understood the sabayon distribution, its Gentoo for people that can’t install it, or don’t want to spend the time to. For the people that just want to save time, that’s great, but usually Gentoo users, don’t want anything but the bare essentials there use flags have pulled in on there chosen packages. As an ex Gentoo user (probably around 2006-2008) I remember the forums and irc channels just being packed with sabayon users who had installed it, then running into to problems when emerging something else.
I can’t applaud the installer enough as I remember it used to be very easy/efficient to use, however as an ex portage user I didn’t personally enjoy entropy. I would have thought it would have been better to just maintain a Gentoo installer and entropy package separately. I remember back in 2006(ish) Gentoo released a live CD installer (which was awful) and then Sabayon came out with one (I think either just before or just after) that worked perfectly.
Anyway, it’s great to see this project is still around and doing well.
-
-
There are people who would like to use perks that emerge/layman gives them (first class access to application’s source code, build process, etc), or would like to learn Gentoo, but don’t have knowledge or will to install it properly. I’ve used Gentoo in times of Penium4’s and I liked it very much, but the duration of
revdep-rebuildwas simply horrible, updating Firefox or OpenOffice was something that needed to be scheduled over night. So I understand that some people would like to have a system that’s prepared for them, and use Gentoo’s tools for the customization of software they are interested in customizing.
-
-
-
I don’t mean to be rude, but python 3 has been around and the preferred python for Web development for some time, the fact that the migration needed to make a blog post is a bit over the top.
I personally switched all my django projects to pyramid over 5 years ago now, mainly for as the post suggests, the ‘django’ method of development is heavily influenced by lots of third party plugins, which causes dependency hell come upgrade time. And (from my experience) you may only need 10% of the plugins capabilities in your application. And usually what would break these plugins wasn’t python, it was djangos framework code.
For a company so reliant on a Web front end, I would have seriously considered swapping out third party libraries some time ago, but that’s just me.
Anyway, the point to my rant is that python 2 - > 3 is in reality (for this use case, Web) a daily non trivial task. Hence why one year at PyCon everyone was talking about it (in angst of the upgrade) and next year no one was, (because, in most cases, even for large projects its only a day, or two, max).
-
inactive-user
5 years ago
|
link
| on:
January 1st, 2020 Annouced as Official EOL Date for Python 2.7
So this means whatever you write in python today, you will have to re-write it again in 8 years ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Python#Version_release_dates
Maybe tools like 2to3 make it easier though…
-
Guido has shared this article stating that no more breaking changes are expected in the future :
a 4.0 will presumably still happen some day, and the premise of this article is expected to hold for that release: it will be held to the same backwards compatibility obligations as a Python 3.X to 3.X+1 update.
-
This is a great news!
-
-
Basically none of the Python community wants to experience the 3.0-style backwards compatability issues again (this includes core developers).
Something that might get lost in the noise, but 3.0 in particular broke a huge amount and there was relatively little concern for having code that could run in 2+3. But after the feedback they had introduced stuff back into 3 (like allowing the no-op
u'..') and made it easier to run both-version-compatible code. So 3.0 was especially broken.Guido has said that any compatability breakage nowadays would happen piecemeal, and with more care to this issue. Presumably it would have been something like “string literal changes” in one release, “urllib changes” in another release, etc. Instead of forcing all changes all at once.
-
-
-
I am still new to python, so this is more of a clueless question than a statement like olivier wrote.
So as I understand it, it might have been the case 8 years ago, but as edudobay points out, what comes will be much better.
-
When I migrated 8 projects from python 2.7 to 3.4 (few years ago now) it only took me about a day, it really wasn’t as painful as it was made out to be. Before any big changes are planned the documentation usually suggests ways to structure current code that won’t break future releases.
-
Then I understand what lead me to thinking this: I have seen a quite large code base (glue between daemons and an API) wait till the latest minute (now I guess) before to switch from 2.5 to python 3.
-
-
-
I understand what lead me to think this (as answered to crookey).
-
-
I’d be suprised if they were to actually include a switch, which would any python2 interpreter just immediately quit whenever it’s started after 1/1/2020. But guessing that they won’t do that, I’d suppose that most people will be allowed to keep on using the interpreter, even if it isn’t maintained anymore.
-
-
-
The whole Python 2/3 debacle is why I gravitated to Ruby, which has its own set of warts.
So what are the lessons learned?
-
Incidently, the reason I moved from Ruby was the 1.8 era where I think there was also a rails 2/3 upgrade at the same time, wasn’t fun. Lesson learned is the one of the biggest obstacles of our job is unsupported software, be it a library or a language, as long as it works and solves your problem, it’s not the end of the world.
And just because software is marked as unsupported, it doesn’t mean all the knowledge for X software projects also disappears over night.
Or we can just write everything in assembly.
-
No matter what tools you choose to use there are going to be things you don’t like about them. And that’s okay, you just have to pick a set of warts you can live with.
-
-
Interesting article, however to me this everything that is wrong with open source software, in the good old days (and still around 50% of the time now) open source software (and contributions) come around when people need to solve X problem, and opensourcng your work is a great way to help others, then usually if the code is found to be useful (or in demand) then contributors join in, and before you know it you have some code you wrote to help you out on a project, working for thousands of users in ways you never expected.
“Necessity is the mother of invention” is a very fitting statement for open source (in my opinion). Creating software for a problem you don’t have (or that doesn’t exist) seems very counter productive, this whole attitude of wanting to create an open source project for “Internet points” absolutely perplexes me. If you want to help the open source community there are thousands of projects that would love the help.
Marketing open source software? I mean put it on Github with a decent readme and a search engine will take your potential users there, however if you created some software for a problem that doesn’t exist, don’t expect too much traffic.
Testing is a good point, but usually in smaller scale open source projects (or single maintainers) you write the code to solve a problem you have, maybe there are a few tests, but to me if I found a piece of software that did what I wanted, and had no tests, I would just write my own tests, we have so many users of open source software now that just seem to moan or log issues when it doesn’t work for them, when in reality they should be sending pull requests (or diffs if you took your dinosaur to work) saying “hey, cool project, I used it but noticed you had no tests, I creating the following, hope this helps”. However, I can count on my hand the amount of times I have seen pulls/diffs like this.
I have gone off on a bit of a tangent, but hey.
-
What part of the OP, exactly, implied that open source today is all about “Internet points”? Don’t you think that’s just a tad bit uncharitable of you?
I also think your thoughts on testing for small single maintainer projects are way off the mark. I wouldn’t be able to maintain the projects that I do if I didn’t have tests. There would just be no feasible way. I would probably need an army of clones of myself working in concert to do it.
I think basically everything else you said is off the mark too, speaking as someone that has been involved in open source since 2003 or so. I remember the “good old” days before Github, accessible CI, emphasis on docs and testing, etc., and frankly, we are in a much better state nowadays. I mean, those days sucked. Hard.
-
-
Could you unpack that? All of those things seem beneficial with respect to sustainability.
-
-
If your goal is to release something that others use and to incorporate feedback from others, then testing, documentation, distribution and all that stuff improves the sustainability of the project.
If you’re just looking to throw something over the wall and don’t care whether anyone uses it, then don’t polish it in the first place?
Like, isn’t this whole thing trivially solved by just asking the simple question, “What problem are you trying to solve?” Instead, people seem intent on bantering about “Internet points.”
-
If your goal is to release something that others use and to incorporate feedback from others, then testing, documentation, distribution and all that stuff improves the sustainability of the project.
This is contrary to every small OSS project I’ve ever seen. I’m speaking mostly of single person projects. Perhaps you are thinking of large, multi-person projects, e.g. Rails, Rust, etc but those usually have full-time people paid to work on the project. That’s the key bit to sustain it: a paycheck.
-
Perhaps you are thinking of large,
Uh, no, I’m not. I’m speaking from my experience maintaining mostly small single person projects in my free time.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
wanting to create an open source project for “Internet points” absolutely perplexes me
I think it’s money that has entered the equation, and “internet points” are just an indirect means. An upside is that now there’s an additional incentive to make things. A downside is that now there also is an additional incentive to advertise.
-
-
An interesting quote I stumbled upon last week “The ‘s’ in IoT stands for ‘secure’ “ - quite an apt comment I thought. The whole nature of “IoT” is connectivity no matter the costs, users for some reason see the benefit of having their fridge connected to their home WiFi, but the vendors (as a majority) never release a firmware patch or update in the wake of new vulnerabilities, this was apparent earlier this year with the findings of KRACK.
Vendors now are too interested in shipping a working product, as opposed to a well tested extendible product, because they want to force you to buy new products when yours gets old, or if they add a facetime feature so you can facetime your groceries from work. No wonder so many people struggle for money these days, people just get sucked in.
With regards to the article, TLS (and SSL) provide security between the connection origin and the destination, if your cheap device was rooted at another point, this becomes worthless.
-
I have always used an old school IBM mechanical keyboard, the latest trends seem to have keyboard layouts as shown in the article, does this actually improve comfort and feel better after 8hours of constant use? I was looking at trying one out, but none of my friends have one, and I don’t live anywhere near a place that would have one for demo. Thanks.
-
For me, the split keyboard was the largest improvement.
I blew out an arm on an IBM Model M, had to switch to kinesis, and now ergodox. The largest issue was that my wide shoulders meant my hands were turned outwards when on the keyboard, and that put strain on the inside of my wrists.
With my current setup, the distance between my F and J keys is twenty three inches (just checked), allowing my arms and wrists to relax.
-
This depends on your typing style, I think. For me the change to a columnar stagger and the change to using an fn layer for numbers and punctuation made a much bigger difference in comfort than going to a two-piece keyboard; I guess because of the reduced finger travel?
-
-
-
I would love to run OpenBSD on my servers, for some of the reasons noted in this article, high code quality and the desire to run a clean system, however these same reasons also make it not such a great choice. When you administer a server, you unfortunately need to install an obscure package, or a library that doesn’t have an openbsd package, and then it just becomes a pain. At least with FreeBSD I never run into these issues, I can build everything from source, or if I need one program that I don’t want to build, I can just install a binary blob. I really admire the OpenBSD project for its principles and what it does for the open source community, but as am operating system I don’t personally get on with it.
Also due to the scale in which FreeBSD is used commercially, as opposed to some of the other projects, you find more guides on line, so when you inevitably come across a ports build error (installing said obscure package) the solution is never far away.
-
I just started writing JS for our internal CRM and other applications, and although it doesn’t really bother me, I do find it strange how npm install (some package) takes so long, like I can build packages from source in FreeBSD quicker than I can install one module in npm. If the code behind this ever makes it to a local application, it would certainly be a big improvement. It probably only works in development though, as when bundling your applications, you may need a file that turbo hasn’t fetched, and depending on your builder picking this up, it could cause a few headaches/problems debugging production runtime errors.
Regardless of the above, the software engineering behind this sounds very impressive and it’s nice to see a startup actually solve a real world problem.
-
If npm speed is bothering your, I highly recommend trying https://yarnpkg.com/ – it can pretty much be used as a drop-in replacement for npm that just makes everything faster (and takes up less of your drive space)
-
-
I moved from yarn back to the official npm client when they released v5. npm currently also caches packages :)
-
-
-
-
crooksey
5 years ago
|
link
| on:
Geocoding Paradise Papers Addresses In Neo4j To Build Interactive Geographical Data Visualizations
Very cool, and I need to do something very similar for an upcoming project, this helped a lot!
-
I’m setting up my base station for amateur radio! I just got a power supply and antenna for my IC-7100, and I’ll be listening on the air soon.
-
-
It’s never too late! http://www.eham.net/newham/
-
-
-
-
Isn’t the best practice not to use node for server side code?
-
Works fine, modulo the edge cases of your business logic and its expression in JS.
-
-
-
I have just finished writing two Javascript Spa’s (my first time doing any JS work). These two applications save our business over 80man hours a week in what they can offer (opposed to our stock and expensive ERP solution). I have a third to write which will be replacing our old python/html powered CRM system with a full JS front end and separate backend (much like my recent creations) but I just need to decide whether to stay with the Python/Angular stack, or try another language on the backend and possibly Elm for the front end. The backend is 90% sql, so I really don’t see any immediate advantage moving from python (and sqlalchemy which makes maintenance and feature requests super easy)
It upsets me that there isn’t any mention of hosting your own server, as a web developer, I also maintain a traditional 6ft double server rack. It is insanely cheaper than running in the cloud, and unless you are running some form of social media or news platform, then I struggle to reason with people who spend so much money hosting everything in the cloud. I worked out that a new server costs us like $4,000 and for what we use, within 8 months, its cheaper than using cloud based services.
I still run failovers, load balances, redundant firewalls etc, I hate the word ‘dev ops’ but it seems to these days be the skill of navigating a html control panel, with a bit of scripting knowledge.