Same - Evolution offers one thing Firebird dosen’t - connecting to the work cloud Microsoft account!

We have had the opposite problem in the past. A cert provider requiring us to exist in certain international directories of companies took weeks of waiting around on bureaucratic red tape.

Then they didn’t even call us to verify our existance, place of business or anything (yeah, this was one of the big certificate providers a long time ago).

Their website was horrible, and their support wasn’t better.

LetsEncrypt though hasn’t failed me once since it was setup, and that is over hundreds of domains with thousands of renewals.

The Kame ipsec project (https://www.kame.net) has a turtle image which is animated if visited with an IPv6 address.

Not exactly that layout, but I can strongly recommend MessagEase. Also optimized for phone use.

First thing I do on a new laptop is remapping a key I won’t be using much to Insert, which I use all the time :)

Been using the Kensington Expert Wireless a couple of years now.

My go to smartphone keyboard is MessagEase. A few larger buttons instead of many small. You can get quite fast on it, and larger buttons means fewer mistakes.

What, no websocket-based realtime statistics for number of total, daily and hourly mistypings?

I’m using ed for small edits when I know exactly that only a certain line needs to be deleted, or a word changed.

I’m horrfied every day at work that copy/paste still is an issue. All my coworkers and customers are still struggling with copying some data, switching to another program, pasting it, switching back, copying some other data, and so on, especially when needing two or three data frequently.

In Windows, a (bad) solution is using win+tab, which literally no one knows about, much less uses.

In Linux (and should be in Windows too), it is trivial to implement buffers (say 0-9) to store and retrieve clipboard data for subseconds access.

Javascript/Preact/Lesscss on frontend with a backend written i Go, using Postgres for data needs. Sometimes with websockets in between if needed.

Author turned TCP/IP off on the server ☺

I have taken up the habit of being at work one-two hours before anyone else.

I get undisturbed, effective work done, and I leave earlier. More work done, more own time with family each day.

I’m still reachable through phone, add can fix most catastrophic problems from home, but that is so seldom occuring that it is OK, and collegues don’t complain about me not being in office after 15:00.

YAML here as well.

Configuration many levels deep gets so much harder for me to read and write in JSON with all [], {} and “”

Also the lack of comments… And YAML still is more used in software I’m using than JSON5, so I’d rather skip yet another format/library to keep track of.

My collegues wouldn’t appreciate my shell config in the root account, especially the vi bindings ;)

As long as /bin/sh isn’t pointing to zsh, you haven’t messed anything up. A lot of public scripts wouldn’t expect to be run under zsh.

If you write your own scripts, I’d say to use zsh, but start it with #/bin/zsh (or whatever resolves to zsh) to be explicit about the fact that it is designed for zsh and nothing else. Most scripts written aren’t going to be distributed to hundred of thousands of systems, but at most used in a handful of systems. No point in not enjoying some things zsh does better in scripts.

A lot of systems have other dependencies as well, and as long as a system which has scripts in it is specifing zsh along with other dependencies, I wouldn’t see the problem. zsh doesn’t take up much space or introduce other problems just by being installed.

As for the root shell, you can put Defaults env_keep += HOME in your sudo configuration. That will have sudo -s run your usual zsh with its usual configuration for interactive, daily use. Be aware of any config that shouldn’t be run as root.

sudo -i will still run the shell root is assigned in /etc/passwd, and everything run as root would function ar expected.

Depending on what one is doing, placing pv in between (usually with -s to specify size of data if known in advance) gives a progress bar, with speed and size of data passing through.

Say you have an SQL dump of 1048576 bytes:

cat dump.sql | pv -s 1048576 | mysql somedb

and now you know how far it is instead of just waiting :)

We’re using Ansible for a lot of stuff, with Semaphore as a frontend.

Semaphore has rudimentary support for CI/CD. We don’t need all the bells and whistles of something like Jenkins, and Semaphore is saving us from having yet another software to know and and maintain.

st from suckless all the way. Used it a couple of years now in conjunction with i3. I’m spawning a lot of terminals, doing a few commands and closing them often, so starting quick is a must.

Wrote a small patch that allows me to copy current directory from a terminal instance to primary selection with a keybinding. That allows me to quickly navigate to whatever directory that would be in another terminal or application.

If anyone is using specifically n8n and would like a small backup/change log, I could provide the workflow and the frontend code. A small change of n8n webhook URL is probably only what’s needed to get it running.