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oftenwrong · 2026-03-30T21:23:35 1774905815

I might be missing your sarcasm, but this is a common approach for large scale builds. Virtual filesystems are used to provide a pre-computed tree hash as a xattr. In a more typical case, you can read the git tree hash.

oftenwrong · 2026-03-21T20:41:19 1774125679

Surely the school streets are a great benefit for families, yes? That seems as pro-child as public space allocation could be.

oftenwrong · 2026-02-28T14:11:11 1772287871

>The browser extension doesn’t work half the time. In addition to being frustrating, that makes it a less secure system, as one of the benefits is that it only fills the password on the specified domain. A lack of reliability of the extension leaves people more vulnerable to phishing, since they have to copy/paste passwords out of the app.

This is my main frustration with it as well. It is one of the main features in my mind, and it often does not work. It seems to work for many sites I use on desktop (Firefox on Linux, Mac), but doesn't work well at all on Android (Android app and Firefox). I can understand if this issue is outside of 1password's control because it possibly is due to specifics of Android's APIs, but I would prefer transparency in the matter.

oftenwrong · 2026-02-28T13:40:07 1772286007

I have used savevers.vim for many years as a way to recover old versions of files.

https://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=89

It is comparatively unsophisticated, but I need it so infrequently that it has been good enough.

I do like the idea of maintaining a complete snapshot of all history.

This is a good application for virtual filesystems. The virtual fs would capture every write in order to maintain a complete edit history. As I understand it, Google's CitC system and Meta's EdenFS work this way.

https://cacm.acm.org/research/why-google-stores-billions-of-...

https://github.com/facebook/sapling/blob/main/eden/fs/docs/O...

oftenwrong · 2026-02-28T03:03:04 1772247784

https://github.com/mikehaertel/minrx

oftenwrong · 2026-02-22T04:39:43 1771735183

    #!/usr/bin/env java --source 25
    void main() {
        IO.println("Hello, World!");
    }

t-writescode · 2026-02-22T05:21:53 1771737713

Many of Java’s hatred comes from old Java. The rest comes from Spring.

oftenwrong · 2026-02-12T21:23:33 1770931413

Seems that the Google-style approach would be a good fit: mostly one codebase with a well-defined dependency graph, and build/test infrastructure that supports fast and comprehensive validation. This would seem to obviate the need for the catalog system described, but probably requires more investment in the build system.

oftenwrong · 2026-02-10T16:09:46 1770739786

This is one of the main problems I have banging my head on for the past decade, and many of the things mentioned, like Buf, Unison, and more, I only stumbled upon randomly on my own. It's refreshing to read an article on this subject simply because it's so under-discussed. I also wonder to what degree these problems have been solved within the high walls of the tech giants like Google and Amazon.

oftenwrong · 2026-02-05T17:54:29 1770314069

This is perhaps a bit different, but Fossil supports storing more types of written company artifacts in the repo:

>One notable feature of Fossil is that it bundles bug tracking, wiki, forum, chat, and technotes with distributed version control to give you an all-in-one software project management system.

https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/whyallinone.md

oftenwrong · 2026-01-24T15:19:04 1769267944

I have been doing this for decades. My files are in a sub-directory of $HOME. It also makes it very obvious when a piece of software does not treat your $HOME with respect.