The things redditors mentioned are very good already. Primarily screenshots. Please, please always add screenshots to let me have a general idea of the UI.

I’ve read this mentioned many times. Is it really that bad XD

Syncthing is one of the best software I used. I use it to sync my notes.

separate the data-directory from the appdata-directory

Would you mind explaining more about this?

To me, good documentation is the number one thing that makes a selfhostable application good.

I agree. If you don’t mind: what are your qualifications for good documentation? Do you have some good examples of good docs?

A lot of stuff tend to end up trying to be too easy and you can’t scale up, or stuff so unbelievably complicated you can’t scale it down.

I see, it’s probably good to have some balance between those. Noted

No, I don’t want a second container for a database.

Unless you’re talking about using SQLite:

Isn’t the point of Docker container is to only have one software/process running? I’m sure you can use something like s6 or other lightweight supervisor, but I feel like that’s seems counterintuitive?

Shout out to Australians for making good music (King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard, Flume, and more).

Crumb is GOAT

Locket is my favorite EP from them

In FY24, Amtrak achieved the following key results:

• Ridership: 32.8 million customer trips, a 15% increase over FY23
• Ticket Revenue: 2.5 billion USD, marking a 9% increase year-over-year and the highest in Amtrak’s history
• Total Operating Revenue: 3.6 billion USD, a 7% rise from FY23
• Adjusted Operating Earnings: A 9% improvement to -705.2 million USD
• Service Expansion: One new train service was launched, with four additional routes expanded

Reminds me of this: https://kevquirk.com/blog/linux-elitism-again

This was my experience with personal projects too.

Unit tests hinder progress so much. End-to-end/integration tests are often flaky.

The thing is, I still want to test my own project, because it’s a good idea to validate whether or not your code works or not…

https://codeberg.org/silverpill/mitra

Ahh found one. Interesting name

What is Mitra?

Wikipedia is an internet gem

(already had a feeling that someone will say this)

I won’t delete my posts/comments because I want to be helpful, that’s it.

But if I prefer deleting my posts/comments, I will archive it instead.

I respect what r/ArtFundamentals did, and it should be an example: After reddit’s APIpocalypse, they don’t support reddit and decided to close the subreddit. But the advices from the subreddit wasn’t gone–in fact they actually archive it in their own website:

https://drawabox.com/r/artfundamentals/

That’s why when I left reddit I don’t delete my posts (even if those posts suck)

Bonus:

Is it true that you actually have to add a parking space as a building owner in US? lol

As a software engineer…

Don’t just say “just Google it”. Guide them to the documentation. Ask them about the detail of the question. If it’s an bug, try asking them if they can reproduce the bug.

This reminded me of the time I’m looking for how to do certain things in a software. I found a reddit post asking about the same issue and this is the reply OP got:

Here is the link: https://old.reddit.com/r/i3wm/comments/mupjsf/how_to_showhide_i3status_bar_taskbar/

Imagine. You search the issue you have. Found the ONLY reddit thread that talks about this, and the ONLY thread that talks about the issue have NO USEFUL ANSWER and, worse, the only reply is TELLING YOU TO SEARCH IT YOURSELF. This got upvoted too 😭😭😭.

Luckily, I found the solution (tbh the solution was there in the docs, but the wording wasn’t clear and it makes it hard to search) and I end up replying the OP the actual answer.

So, this is a PSA for the fediverse: be nice. It’s free.

While we’re still young, we have a chance to become a better forum.

Also possibly an unpopular opinion: you shouldn’t downvote a question, even if it was asked multiple times. Guide them to the answer instead

https://web.archive.org/web/20241112044540/https://suchir.net/fair_use.html

EV batteries fire + narrow place seems like the worst ever combo

How the heck is this project even approved lol