Tablaste

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[–] Tablaste@linux.community 2 points 12 hours ago

My goal last year was to rank in the top 100 of my country.

I'm proud to say I'm nowhere near it. There's others who have taken the challenge, and I'm all for it!

[–] Tablaste@linux.community 4 points 13 hours ago

It reminds me of the PowerPoint my company had.

It was this graph showing how many tech people they have since 1960, and the numbers kept multiplying.

How they rated tech people was someone who works behind the computer. So yeah, as we gain more employees, we tend to put them behind computers to do work?

[–] Tablaste@linux.community 2 points 13 hours ago

Joplin. I have it as a sync server. But have it tucked away in a cloud server for the times when I'm traveling so j always have a way to access data in case my phone gets stolen/confiscated.

[–] Tablaste@linux.community 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

This is pretty neat!

https://storyteller-platform.gitlab.io/storyteller/docs/intro/what-is-this

Sounds like you need both the audio and the ebook to make it work?

I typically only have one or the other.

[–] Tablaste@linux.community 21 points 1 month ago

Lots of comments here saying it feels like work. And yet all the simulator games exist? People literally build rigs on their living room to play Truck Simulator games.

I don't work with rest apis enough and looks great. My only concern is that like everything I do, I end up building a UI and automation. Which might be the point!

[–] Tablaste@linux.community 43 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"excessive promotion", right.

You're doing great work.

[–] Tablaste@linux.community 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I went back to school in my early 30s.

I have a coworker who went back in his 40s and is changing careers (from tech lead to management). And another who is nearing 50s who just wanted that piece of paper. (IT guy who wanted a fine arts degree)

 

I tested 12 LLMs — 10 running locally and 2 cloud-based — to assess their accuracy in generating alt-text for images.

I have 10,000 photos on my website. About 9,000 have no alt-text. I'm not proud of that, and it has bothered me for a long time.

 

Before we get into extreme server side rendering (XSSR), we have to talk about normal server side rendering (SSR). This comes in two flavours, which I'm calling old-school and new-school.

Old-school SSR involves having a server which uses some logic to create the HTML of the web page on-the-fly. For example, you might hit /users/39, and it might give you the details of user 39. These details might be from a database, or they might come from somewhere else. The important part is there's no corresponding 39.html on the disk. The HTML is created dynamically by the back-end server. On the front-end side, there's no JavaScript or other logic required to render the page. As a result, once the page is loaded, there's no ability for it to be dynamic.

New-school SSR is similar to old-school SSR, but it does involve a bit of front-end JavaScript logic.

[–] Tablaste@linux.community 4 points 2 months ago

I'm pretty sure they assumed if you bought their service, you have the competency to properly set it up.

And I proved them wrong.

[–] Tablaste@linux.community 3 points 2 months ago

Ah not to discount devops, I mean that in a good way.

Devops made me lazy in that for the past decade, I focus on just everything inside the code base.

I literally push code into a magic black box that then triggers a rube goldberg of events. Servers get instanced. Configs just get magically set up. It's beautiful. Just years of smart people who make it so easy that I never have to think about it.

Since I can't pay my devops team to come to my house, I get to figure it all out!

[–] Tablaste@linux.community 33 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I shared it because, out there, there is a junior engineer experiencing severe imposter syndrome. And here I am, someone who has successfully delivered applications with millions of users and advanced to leadership roles within the tech industry, who overlook basic security principles.

We all make mistakes!

[–] Tablaste@linux.community 11 points 2 months ago

Haha I'm pretty sure my little server was just part of the "let's test our dumb script to see if it works. Oh wow it did what a moron!"

Lessons learned.

[–] Tablaste@linux.community 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

The latter. It was autogenerated by the VPS hosting service and I didn't think about it.

 

Background: 15 years of experience in software and apparently spoiled because it was already set up correctly.

Been practicing doing my own servers, published a test site and 24 hours later, root was compromised.

Rolled back to the backup before I made it public and now I have a security checklist.

 

I was interested in building something like this.

 

As an open source project, our website never had to "convince people" to use Electron, so I never took the time to actually explain why I'm betting on web technologies to build user interfaces or why I prefer bundling a rendering engine.

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