I consume most of my video/audio informational content at 1.5x or faster. It wasn't FOMO or that I felt unproductive. I just felt that some of the content was going too slow for my thought process and leaving me kind of hanging, waiting for the next bit of information so I could continue coming up with my conclusions about the topic. But if I'm slower that day or feel that the topic is too dense, I don't mind at all slowing it down or even pausing it.
To me, it just feels like when I scan some text with the eyes looking for the juicier parts or hooks that I most care about. Speaking of which, I much prefer to consume content as text than audio or video. I can scan, seek, pause, think, go back at will without fiddling with any controls.
Assuming we're in the unscientific realm, and that scientificity exists on a spectrum, I'd say the parent comment is more scientific, because at least it provides a description of a logical causal chain (collagen is a protein, we digest proteins indiscriminately, therefore ...).
Provision is a script I've grown over years of building small production systems on Debian and Ubuntu Server. It handles security basics, relies on system tools so you're locked to any cloud solution, installs common software, and is _mostly_ safe to re-run if you mess anything up. If you have suggestions or battle scars with similar projects, I'd love to hear it. Cheers!
As far as trolls go, I consider these fairly benign, as their behavior actually promotes something good; we got hit with such a lawsuit, and all of a sudden a11y became a big thing as our CEO didn't want to give a dime to those 'greedy assholes'.
This is exactly what happens. Especially if your voice is in the minority
Or you’re the only one. You’re seen as a trouble maker. We all know what happens to trouble makers when margins are on the line.
I just stab them in the eyes and then say "now you'll care about blind people," then calmly walk away. Works every time. /s
In all seriousness, I ask something similar to the above: "Would you feel the same way if you got in an accident that left you blind for the rest of your life?" Sometimes this moves a few people to your side. I don't want to be the only one, but I do care about accessibility. I care a lot, for personal reasons. But like you said, you don't want to be the minority trying to support minorities.
I think there are some laws which require a certain degree of accessibility for at least government websites. And if your big company deals with government, they'd better think about that.
But you did spend time learning unix, nginx, bash, CGI, SQLite, etc.
Sure I can agree these tools are worth learning, I'm just pointing out it's not the same thing. Netlify allows you to setup a static website with data collection, e-mail dispatch and whatnot all without code and much faster.
But the customer that needs that is arguably better off on Squarespace. Most modern point-and-click platforms let you build arbitrary forms with mail services.
Netlify wants developers to live and breathe microservices that they meter to developers. In order to get the benefits, you have to change DX, which the entire JAMstack community has been doing for a decade or so. The downside is now putting stuff on the web is often needlessly confusing and forces you to be dependent on a middle man.
> But you did spend time learning unix, nginx, bash, CGI, SQLite, etc.
True, and it's been a rewarding decision ever since. For a corporate or a community Netlify or similar JAMstack content management systems might make sense, but for a indie developer? I don't think so.
Although it may work brilliant minds in the Perl community such as Lincoln Stein and Randall Schwartz spent a significant amount of their career in the late 90s hunting down all the edge cases you're probably unaware of and produced CGI.pm. You can still learn a lot about CGI from this module but your exposure to vulns will be that much lower with something tried and tested.
I've been hosting small and mid-sized web sites and applications for years without a hitch using my own script, written from reading it up online. It might not work exactly as is for you but perhaps can offer some reference: https://github.com/corenzan/provision
Should whether an application is running or not be a concern to you? Why would you ever want to actually quit an application?
Granted, I understand that in reality the app might be misbehaving, hogging resources and whatnot and that the underlying OS isn't perfect and we should absolutely have control over how our hardware is utilized, but from a UX PoV I think the notion of a running process isn't of interest to me unless I am developing software.
If I close a window, I just want to get it out of my way. I only leave things running as a workaround to the possible slow cold start the program may present.
> and doesn't allow the developer using it a choice in those matters.
I never took "opinionated" software as "no configuration". For me it's always been "custom defaults". It might provide some configuration, it might not, but what makes it opinionated is the fact that the defaults are not generally applicable, but rather tailored for a specific use case.
To me, it just feels like when I scan some text with the eyes looking for the juicier parts or hooks that I most care about. Speaking of which, I much prefer to consume content as text than audio or video. I can scan, seek, pause, think, go back at will without fiddling with any controls.
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