But he is right

Because it rewards stupidity.

Reject them

Vibe engineering is what vibe coders think they do.

- Post about self hosting and how centralization is bad - Uses a centralised service for VPN: Tailscale

Name a more iconic duo

Eh, I can see your point. But Tailscale is a very different kind of centralized. It's just fancy, more convenient Wireguard at the end of the day. If I wanted to move away from it, it's pretty easy. Moving off of something like Google Photos however, was much harder in comparison.

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The convenient part is having a public IP address to connect to from anywhere. You would need either exposing your home infrastructure to the internet or a cheap VPS.

Not that hard to solve, but it's an extra hurdle in the setup for something as critical as the networking to connect to your stuff from anywhere. I just think everyone is over-reliant on Tailscale when it's pretty obvious they'll rug-pull as soon as they run out of VC money to burn or get acquired.

So, it's convenient... for now. A future migration is inevitable when using Tailscale, and I prefer to solve problems once.

Trendiest post is from the developer saying "Mastodon is dead", four weeks ago, 12 replies.

Sure bud.

You make it sound like they claim subreply is the thing that might have killed mastodon. The full post is:

Mastodon is dead. Most people have migrated to Bluesky or Threads.

Thank you for the context. It’s important and often overlooked.

...and completely wrong, as evidenced by simply googling the words "fediverse stats", which will show you no meaningful change one way or the other.

Most of their other posts on the front page also aren’t exactly charismatic (or plain childish). A good early warning sign to stay away from that place!

USA is in that final season that producers wanted but nobody asked for.

I prefer to have a “scripts” directory with each script being a separate executable, maybe a comment on top of each script. Discoverability is just looking at the file system with any tool you’re used to.

Both Bash and Python are a given anywhere. I use Bash for simple stuff and Python for the complex stuff. Thanks to each script being a separate file, I can mix Bash and Python, but using only Python is very valid.

Same applies for questions that display “bad” ideas. “How can I resolve this problem in a for loop… that I’m using to build a SQL query that trusts user input”.

Give the solution and the reason why it is a bad idea.