Anyone know of any companies/agencies that are looking for freelance technical writers, for blog posts and such?

Mainly within the areas of DevOps, CI/CD, Kubernetes, bash etc.

I wanted to create a GitHub organization called my last name. Since I have a pretty uncommon lastname, I was quite confident that it would not be taken. Turns out it is... And when was that user created who has taken my name? Yesterday...

Getting onto devrant after a long time away, and quickly got reminded that I should turn off the joke/meme category

As I imagine most of you do, I have a prettier plugin installed in my IDE. It just turned a 1000 line sql script into almost 6000 lines 🙃

Woke up to an email from someone, saying that a blog post (tutorial) I had made really helped them. It's always nice to hear that I've made something that helps people. But idk, there's something special about getting that feedback via email, maybe because it takes more steps to send an email..?

To the ones using GitLab CI/CD:

Is there a way to trigger a pipeline run on a specific commit? Like in a situation where you're deploying every commit to master into prod, and you need to roll back, but without reverting the commit history.

Holy fuck I'm tired of domain.com... I bought my domain with them about a year ago, and quickly I discovered how shit they are.

I can almost never access the console, the default view most of the time loads, although even that is incredibly slow. When the console loads, all settings regarding my domain are just loading. Every once in a blue moon I can actually access the settings and do something.

I got tired of it, and started transferring the domain to Cloudflare. That's where I messed up, and didn't know I had to verify the transfer twice, so the domain ended up expiring during the transfer process. Now domain.com has my domain completely locked down, pointing it to one of those 'expired' nameservers.

So three days ago I thought fuck it, I'll pay domain.com to renew the domain, maybe that'll get the domain transferred, or at least get my domain open again, so I can receive emails again, because in all my nerdiness I decided to set up a custom email using 'name@customdomain.com'. So I haven't been able to receive any emails for two weeks now.

Anyway, three days later the status of the domain is still 'pending renewal', and I can't for the life of me figure out how something like this isn't completely automated, and the domain isn't just working again.

So just now I decided to contact their live chat, and even they can't change the nameservers on my domain, and I have to be transferred to a specialist, who will then contact me by mail within 24-48 hours. Fuck I hate domain.com, and I'll certainly never buy from them again

As a newly graduated student, I searched incredibly hard for a job for 4 months. Now that I've got one, I'm being bombarded by recruiters...

It makes sense and all, but it's still a bit funny

Was really happy when I found out I was getting an XPS 15 for work, but no. After spending two weeks with it, I can honestly say it's a terrible laptop

Fuck domain.com. Their dashboard never works, and their live chat support won't even load

On my way to my first real job after getting my degree. This feels weird. Good, but weird

By an absolute coincidence, my birthday just got a bit better. A guy I know wrote on social media that he had some ram to sell for ~15 USD, 16GB DDR3 (2x8).

It just so happens that today I've decided to start using my old pc again, after a year and a half of no use, which just so happens only has 8GB of RAM DDR3 :D

This is why I love JS

To anyone with good knowledge of RxJs:

Should I be careful how many subscriptions I have open at a time? I'm specifically thinking about memory usage.

While obviously it's more, does it make a huge impact on memory usage, if I have 20 subscriptions active, compared to 2?

Me: explaining the FOSS project I'm trying to get started, to my parents.

My dad: So how do you get paid?

Me: what? No....

................. Are you actually kidding me?

Huh. Been using typescript for about a year. Had no idea it was made by Microsoft

Now that I've got most everything in my personal project working, I realize I need to rewrite everything... My code and infrastructure is absolutely horrible 😅

I'm not writing bad code. It's just a spike

Can't remember the last time I've been so happy about something I've made :D in my smarthome project, state is synchronized between devices with websockets, and everything can be configured via Json files :)

Switched back to windows again, and Holy crap development is so much faster! It certainly has to do with the fact that I'm using WSL2, but but I'm so excited for next year, when it's officially out.

Instead of waiting 5 seconds for nodemon to restart my application, it's almost instantaneous now

Just learned about event sourcing and CQRS. I think I'm in love

I'm developing a solution that is to be self-hosted, and currently using MongoDB. But I also want all information to be stored in JSON files, making it easy to move it to another system, effectively having to keep data synchronised between the files and a database.

This means the absolute only reason I use MongoDB, is because it's faster and easier to query. Considering it's a free and self-hosted project, does it even make sense to add a database into the mix at this point then? It's probably mostly going to be used by people who don't work in tech, but just have it as a hobby.

It's obviously going to be a subjective answer, but I'd like to hear peoples thoughts.

YES! worked out all the kinks, and now I can FINALLY start working on the project I've had in mind for the past year now :D

Been struggling for the past week to get a feature working in my personal project (which is the absolute core feature), and was just about ready to give up completely.

Quickly decided to see if it would work in Angular, and after a few tweaks from the default template it's working. Guess I'm not switching to React after all, even I did enjoy working with JSX

Anyone of any good alternatives to Web Components? I'm developing a system I'd like to be framework agnostic, but holy crapballs... Web components are a pain in the ass to work with.

I'm not really satisfied with any of the major smarthome systems out there, so I'm making my own and using it as a learning experience. What I've learned so far, is that I suck at naming...

Best thing I can come up with is EasyDIYHome....

I just remembered that when I was a kid, it was really popular to make personal websites with those simple website builders. Wanna know the funny thing? My parents wouldn't let me build my own website. Well look what I'm doing with my life now mom 😂

For the ones actually interested in WSL 2, I actually think it's pretty great after using it for a day:

https://medium.com/@ksiig/...

So yeah now that WSL 2 has been released to insiders, I can confirm that it is 'just' a virtual machine. However it's an incredibly lightweight one. Honestly it's just as responsive as when using iTerm on my Mac.

I gotta say I was hesitant about it being a vm, but they've executed it in a great way. My only problem with it at the moment, is that it only works as a host-only network. Would be nice to have the possibility of changing network adapter settings