@thomasfuchs not a brand, but I personally found "get a really huge one" to be a surprisingly-strong positive change. Partly because it got me to subconsciously keep random stuff further away from my moving hand, and partly because it was noticeable how much less attention it needed due to never hitting an edge.
@jenniferplusplus@malcircuit@frost monorepos are also pretty much all (gigantic) snowflakes, so stuff you learn in one doesn't transfer to any other repo (whether it's a monorepo or anything else).
If you learn to use package managers like a normal person, that knowledge works everywhere, including open source.
@jenniferplusplus@malcircuit@frost I have the displeasure of watching a company move to a monorepo, struggle with education, and then create tons of engineers who can't figure out how to do anything in open source despite needing to understand and modify open source libraries they use on a pretty frequent basis.
So they just *don't*, mostly. They hit roadblocks, have zero tools or experience they can use, and often give up or ship it anyway and label it as a known issue. :blobfoxnotlikethis:
@thomasfuchs I've even got scp aliased to it (with a few flags like for compression) because it does more, more easily, and more quickly, by default. It's just plain great.
I've got idiotically tiny scripts strewn all over to do small backups/copies and it saves me so much time and headache. E.g. it backs up my Switch screenshots in a couple seconds and auto-unmounts the SD card when done.
@thomasfuchs can I vote both them and cloudflare? CF does lots of neat stuff, but the sheer breadth of unencrypted data they have access to is terrifying, and they're unbelievably dominant.
Slowly figuring things out here, and staking a claim on my username on what seems like a good host.I do a bunch of Go (at work), a bit of Rust (for fun), deeply enjoy teaching and learning, and looove that I get paid to work on open source.