Intellijs build in HTTP client is good enough for me to use it for my testing purposes and even for short one-off thing I previously might’ve done with curl.

No, I blacklisted the whole industry and will not take any job there.

I started in defense, but I would now after 15+ years not do any work in defense or gambling or trading. It was a good experience for me though, taught me a lot, but I wouldn’t do it again now.

I got to say, this is only true if interaction is actually better in person. For me I’m not sure that is the case. I also do not participate in all social calls that my company set up, but I am always available for 1v1 video calls with my colleagues.

I was at the office 3 times last year and that is plenty enough for me and my team.

Oh, I forgot one thing:

sorry, but it wasn’t you who did it.

This sounds like you want to prove something. That you can do it better than the maintainers of the library. That you can solve hard problems on your own instead of relying on other people.

That’s all great and sometimes it’s good to do hard things on your own and make sure you could do it just in case. But it’s not always necessary to do everything yourself and learn every lesson yourself. It’s a valid way to build on knowledge and work of others to achieve your goals.

This assumes that I could implement something as well as the maintainers of the library I use. I agree that something trivially should be implemented on your own, but if there is special knowledge required (the obvious example is cryptography, but also something like HTTP requests) I rather rely on a widely used library than my own code that I now have to maintain and check for security issues instead of just updating the dependency version whenever a CVE is published.

Also if there is. A client by an API provider for my language, why shouldn’t I use it instead of rolling my own?

Another example is a framework like React or Angular or Svelte, which brings along a whole lot of dependencies. Sure, I could not use something like that and write everything from scratch.

But where is the value of all that code to customers? If I want to roll my own HTTP server up from the sockets, I can do that as a play project. But not using libraries for a real world project to solve business needs is a bit of an odd take.

Anyways, that’s enough of a rant. Have fun in the replies. 😎

Me too, but this looks like a good replacement. The docker setup of wallabag also was a bit of a pain for me, but this looks pretty straightforward and doesn’t need redis, S3 API and a bunch of other plumbing. Will give it a try later.

That’s why your color your production windows red.

Always a good idea to base decisions on 10 year old information.

I’m running https://www.arqbackup.com/ to Storj and Synology on my desktops and plain NFS copy on my server.

I’m hosting my own email for several years now with https://docker-mailserver.github.io/docker-mailserver/latest/ which supports all the useful things like SPF, fail2ban, postgrey, sieve, spamassassin. I’m not hosting at home, I rented a server with a hoster which I also use for other services.

It’s pretty unremarkable, mostly it just works. I do have more spam than with gmail because I have to feed all spam to spamassassin myself. I also had one issue with larger attachments where I had to modify the maximum size, but that was also pretty easy using https://docker-mailserver.github.io/docker-mailserver/latest/config/environment/#postfix_message_size_limit

I recently modified my setup to support DMARC and I occassionally check if I can improve something via https://mxtoolbox.com/. But other than that I never had any issues, never looked back.

This looks great. I was looking at Watchtower again a few days ago, but I don’t want to auto update my containers, just get notified for updates. I usually just keep the RSS feed of the project in my feed reader, but diun looks like a proper solution. Thanks!

Miniflux also supports content manipulation https://miniflux.app/features.html#content-manipulation. I use this to download and clean up articles for some feeds. There are also filter and rewrite rules https://miniflux.app/docs/rules.html and a way to rewrite article URLs fetch the original source for paged articles (like on Heise.de) or replace with text-only version (like NPR).

I decided to not use tt-rss after discovering how that developer treats others. I don’t want to be involved or support someone like that.

I’m using https://miniflux.app/ and I’m very happy with it.

But why would you as a user stay on that instance?

If you start seeing ads and you don’t want to, you move to another instance. If all instances start to serve ads and you don’t want to see ads, you have to start your own instance.