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Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity
Original EnglishAs a one man IT department, in 15 months I reduced my annual budget from $2.3 million to $600K, cleared up 500 old tickets, and …
Four Eras of JavaScript Frameworks
Original EnglishMaybe it would be easier if this was 'it' when I started learning as sometimes it's difficult to forget and relearn.
Ask HN: Do you use an optimization solver? Which one? Do you like it?
Original EnglishThen at FedEx, in a rush I wrote some simple software that produced nice fleet schedules and literally saved the company.
Unison Cloud
Original EnglishFor example, by spending a few hours I made the basics of an end to end testing library that emulates HTMX with local function calls.
Show HN: Caddy-SSH
Original EnglishI've used this server but not from this machine. FIDO resident keys solve this (you can extract the resident key to a new client from …
A BSD person tries Alpine Linux
Original EnglishEven discounting hardware support, I run into so many things where BSD is consistent because in part because it doesn't exist there.
Linux on Apple Silicon with Alyssa Rosenzweig [audio]
Original EnglishMost of the software that ships works, but actually I've run into a number of bugs on stock.
Show HN: Teable – Open-Source No-Code Database Fusion of Postgres and Airtable
Original EnglishMeanwhile, batch operations pose a significant challenge for database compatibility, but we see this as a necessary investment.
Volt: A Ruby web framework where your Ruby runs on both server and client
Original EnglishIn Rails, I use Pusher, a paid for service because it's just easy to use and iterate.