WSL2 with VSCode is really common. Windows Terminal is actually good. I use Ubuntu at work, and run Docker community edition and Vim. Firefox in the windows instance. Biggest issue is always the corporate firewall, good luck!

I think unix signals are a bit lacking for your use case now. I’d consider having the daemon also have a web interface that you could then have the web server message. You mention systemd also, so could also consider MQ message queuing or D-Bus. Getting these to scale across computers isn’t as simple, hence my http suggestion initially. HTTP should also then be OS agnostic

Hey, aren’t you that starfleet officer that started out a goofy ensign?

If ever there was a starfleet officer who loved Java. It would be Brad. Followed closely by Spock I suspect

Test Driven Development. The route to programming nirvana includes a stop at this station

If you don’t know, ask a stupid question to yourself. Then ask it again in a more intelligent manner to a rubber duck. Then a real person. One of these three will give you an answer

TDD is the answer to the second part. Seriously, just try it. Don’t do it for every task after, but do try it!

Notes, tickets, knowleadge bases, READMEs, well written code that is easy to understand, tests that are descriptive, ADRs. Nobody can remember it all, the hard part of programming is making it easy for the next change. Remember it’s likely to be you, be kind to your future self

And imposter syndrome never goes away. And this is a good thing - “don’t get cocky kid”. It does get lesser though, and then you get more responsibilities! But really, if you aren’t questioning why and what you are doing, how do you trust your past self? Embrace the imposter, realise we are all imposters to a lot of extents

LTS is supported!

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kernel

I honestly can’t believe it wasn’t curses based already

I use EndeavourOS btw

Great to see OpenAPI being even more embraced. It truly is fantastic for multi-team engineering

Looks ready for actual use now, rather than tinkering with. Package management was my biggest gripe (URLs are literally what it used before). I would like to see TS as the first class citizen however, with JS being deprecated essentially.

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Excel mostly, csv wasn’t much of a standard and thus it’s horrible to work with. We can fix that with a parquet importer and exporter!

Friends don’t let friends use csv in 2024. Excel needs a good parquet importer and exporter today. Ya hearing Microsoft? Quit pissing around with recall and build something useful!

Love the blackened thrash on steroids here, on the to see list for sure

Nah, just back to Gopher and 5k baud. As an aside: Gemini is pretty awesome

What would you replace it with? There are lessons to be learnt from the web, but to “fix” it is much harder

openSUSE worth a consideration. More frequent releases than debian, but still pretty conservative

This deserves an hour of reading. My first pass is a criticism too sadly. Addition is too trivial, and every example is pure - this needs a rubber meets the road example to really spell out the benefits.

Philip Wadler story for you though: he taught me first year at uni and his first lecture he rips open his shirt and proclaims himself “Lambda Man!” - Haskell was a fun first semester

Okular

Pandas. Python’s only killer library imo