Any practical use cases come to mind? Could you actually interact from Excel cells with Linux userspace, e.g. running a cell's value through a bash script as if applying a formula?
Does it scale for large monorepos? That's where CMake hits its limits. With tremendous effort we switched to Bazel, which has brought down configure+build times to less than 1/10.
Haha, true. I just recently wanted to make a quick and dirty page that would calculate the middle point of a bunch of coordinates and then show it on a map. After contemplating how to get started I remembered that the server is running mod_php. 10 mins later and the (ugly as heck) page was working. The map stuff was client-side JavaScript from GitHub, the coordinate calculation were less than a screen page of PHP (of which most was HTML and CSS).
My little Xmas project: Using BOINC client, nvidia-smi and a little bit of Python to turn my PC into a space heater, putting "free" electricity to good use.
I had that working for the last year or so, for the exact same reason. But for a few weeks now my wine'd Chrome can no longer access any page, as if it can't access the network or something. Tried reinstalling it, but that didn't help either. Any ideas?
Internet is technology. It's a blurry line... When mine come up with creative ways to circumvent Internet access restrictions (e.g. use mobile phone as hotspot for the laptop, because for that I had set a limited time window in the router) I'm happy to see a future hacker on one hand, and really pissed on the other hand because I seem to have ended up in an arms race.
I believe the introvert/extrovert divide also plays a role here. Some people in general can't be alone or they feel their energy is draining (extroverts), whereas others - I guess those who love to dine alone - feel their batteries recharged during alone time.
I like the article. The architecture bit I'm not so sure about though. I wish in my company the architects actually did more thinking and especially talking / negotiating with all the other architects of adjacent components. That would really help. Instead they work hard to fix minor problems and build walls in between the components... or yet another middleware-generator-middleware-wrapper.
Wow, it's still alive. I remember when, as a student, I ran the shared apartment's DSL Router with fli4l from a floppy disk in a Pentium 90 for a while. I think the Internet connection was 768kbit/s downlink and we considered it decently fast... 2003-ish.
Nice write-up :) I'll probably adopt some of these fancy new tools like nginx or munin (that you call old) some day... still running good old Apache + php, postfix, dovecot, irssi, ... I think my box (in its various reincarnations, first as dedicated server, then as VM on a bigger dedicated server that I shared with friends, and now as cloud VM) has been running since ~2005. Now I feel old ;)