Notices by Jan Lehnardt :couchdb: (janl@narrativ.es)

something something kubernetes at home

@mattly Funny, I’m coming to the same conclusion today cc @zkat

@anildash Do we have any reason to believe that once the power grabs have happened, things will not get closed down again?

@cwebber is that where tradwifes come from?

@cwebber it means beans

@mattly at least as a “this a tool you should know how to use when the task asks for it”

Also of note, they are all expert level developers, so they have an easier time spotting bad output.

But they utterly failed at being the good role models they usually are.

@mattly it’s essential for a modern developer’s toolkit.

@mattly but with nuance:

- Host 1 optimises for their own productivity, has been a solo / small team dev for over 20 years.
- Host 2 uses it to get a leg up with unfamiliar tech, but for ultimately low-hanging fruit that’s easily verifiable. Solo dev for 5+ years.
- Host 3 uses it to explore the existing solution space for a problem they know well.

I’d argue 2&3 could be solved with being part of a human community. Host 1 I cannot help.

FFS, my fav tech podcast (I won’t shame), who’s been LLM-sceptical so far just came out as “must have a paid code assistant subscription” across all hosts. Is nothing sacred? :(

Days since I had to clear up a misconception that would not exist without an LLM as part of my open source support volunteering: 0.

😤😤😤.

@schwa fucksakes. Last straw and all.

@tante @mattly will agree

The other second season I’m excited about 😊

@cwebber The averages are skewed because of CertificateAuthority George.

Just saw someone join a community slack and start using it like an AI chat bot and getting confused why nothing was happening. We are truly lost.

Gonna play this Andor (S01E05) clip whenever I’m asked why I’m staying away from vibe coding.

@cwebber mood or elaborate Good Friday joke or both?

Me: Hey I like ZFS.

Rando: I don’t know ZFS but it is complicated and there should be.a GUI and people should be warned off it.

Me: It is not and there are (with receipts).

Rando: [without taking a breath] ]also, I’m planning to use nixOS…

Me: …

#JustMastodonThings #ReplyGuyProblem

@mattly one thing that is turning me down is that I have to assemble components, with DD it’s their agent and their service showing me dashboards.

But I am intrigued by https://github.com/observablehq/framework and I want to see how hard it is to build a nice line graph component with time series controls.

Okay the time has come. I am a happy Datadog customer, but for various reasons™ I am now looking for a self-hostable free or otherwise not-usage-billed, alternative.

For those of you who have worked with Datadog and like their user interface, especially around building out dashboards, which solution that matches my intro criteria that you are happy with using instead of Datadog.

I have tried Prometheus and Grafana and their Dashboard building UIs leave me uninspired.