It’s the right idea but it also puts the burden of enforcement on teachers that are already over extended, especially in schools where behavioral challenges are more prevalent. Great in a scenario where students are compliant, and a nightmare in environments where they’re not.
I don’t have a solution to that problem, but I also think it’s important to acknowledge it’s not all sunshine and roses.
I’m saying this as a person with close friends in Oregon school systems, based on the experiences they’ve shared with me.
I’ve been using caddy, very easy to set up reverse proxies, and it generates a local root CA you can install on your machines at home so you get SSL for free. Nothing you couldn’t also rig with nginx, I just enjoyed the simplicity
I’ve got pihole running so that’s my home dns server, I have custom domains with a home-only TLD (I think “.internal” is cleared for use now?). So something like https://plex.homecloud.internal can load up plex, I can only assume jellyfin could do the same.
I’ve actually been using ZeroTier instead of tailscale for external access and I’ve been very happy with it, but I know lots of people love tailscale and I’m sure it’s great too
They’re definitely not totally different, it’s still programming. I’m competent in both and have occupied both roles in my career, but more importantly I’ve worked with people much better than me in both areas :) They were more similar than they were different.
I do agree with you that there are skills specific to each layer of the stack and they don’t all cross apply. You definitely don’t get to be good at backend and then magically be a strong frontend engineer! But I think a good backend engineer has a bright future as a good frontend engineer and vice versa, should they choose to pursue a different branch of our discipline.
This made me grin and I love that it did. Sometimes our profession can be a little short on whimsy and I think projects like this are actually really important! I’m looking forward to using this :)
Most of them are OSS so you could make a real impact if you spearheaded this! Some buy-in on some sort of standardized install process from the top projects could go a long way if you decide to pursue.
I’ve had enough success with using docker images (lots of projects provide them) that I don’t feel the pain acutely, but there certainly is some bespoke fiddling with every one. To me that’s part of the self-hosting experience, but I know plenty of people that don’t self host because of it, can’t blame them.
Advent of Code is fun, I like having fun! I have no shortage of challenges and things to be proud of, but when I’m old I don’t want to look back and realize I didn’t take the time to find little moments of joy along the way.
Everyone’s different, and it sounds like AoC isn’t for you, but remember not everyone is you :)
I’ve been using Kagi full time and I like it a lot. It’s been worth the price.
I expected to like lenses and favoring/blocking specific domains. What I didn’t expect was how much their “Quick Answer” would change how I search.
I’ve been “AI hesitant”, in general the chance that an LLM will hallucinate makes these kinds of tools more trouble than they’re worth for me personally. In Kagi’s case, though, the individual facts it states in the quick answers have citations linking to the site it drew that information from.
Here’s what I’ve found:
- it’s been accurate most of the time, but not 100% (as expected)
- citations are pretty accurate most of the time
- every so often the citation links to a page that seemingly doesn’t back the claim in the quick answer
Unsurprisingly, I don’t trust the AI generated quick answer in isolation, what it does do is let me scan a few paragraphs, find the one that answers my question most specifically, and visit the sites it links to as citations for that piece of the answer. This saves me the time of clicking through the top $N results and scanning each page to find the one that seems to answer my query most directly. It’s like a layer on top of the page rank.
I remember using Google the first time and being impressed how the top answers were so much more relevant than Yahoo, it was a huge time saver. Now I find myself wondering if the “quick answer” citations will prove to be a similar jump in accelerating my ability to find the right web page.
It also makes me wonder if their own page rank algorithm could incorporate the quick answer output as an input to a site’s rank? That would be an interesting experiment!
I don’t have a solution to that problem, but I also think it’s important to acknowledge it’s not all sunshine and roses.
I’m saying this as a person with close friends in Oregon school systems, based on the experiences they’ve shared with me.