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Would love to hear about the most interesting automation you have created either at work or personal automation. Also what language did you use?

I watched the linked talk from Bryan Cantrill about how tough it was for him to submit a paper to Usenix and I wondered if anyone here had a different experience or just wanted to describe what the process looks like. I am considering helping someone submit a paper soon. Comments

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To be clear, I am talking about working proficiency. Able to create large, maintainable and “production ready” software that is understandable and idiomatic. Most programmers will learn that once they’ve tackled picking up their second language, that picking up any amount of future languages is relatively easy. There are exceptions to that, of course, but broadly speaking you should be able to transfer the...

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I am on the cusp (hopefully) of kicking off development of a fairly large and complex system (multiple integrated services, kafkas involved, background processes, multiple client frontends, etc…). It’s predominantly going to be built in rust (but that’s only trivially relevant; i.e. not following standard OOP). Here’s where i’m at: I have defined all the components, services, data stores to use / or develop...

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Hello! My go-to language to develop something that needs high performance has been C++. I do a lot of high frequency transactions, systems programming (implement tiny compilers/interpreters for domain specific problems and such), personal projects, etc. and I usually start my projects in C++. But it is increasingly looking like Rust can solve all the problems that C++ can without losing performance and while...

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Inspired by a recent post about email server software. The biggest hurdle to self-hosting email is large providers (especially gmail) putting your mail into spam regardless of whether or not you conform to the latest smtp standards (spf, dkim, dmarc, mta-sts), leading many to believe the large providers consider IP reputation as the most important signal for spam. Surprisingly many lobsters reported having no...

I’ve recently been experiencing terminal based games in Termux because I’ve always heard about them. One very neat thing is that I find myself actually using my imagination way more and it’s a feeling that I haven’t felt truly in a long time while playing a game. I’ve been enjoying rogue-likes like brogue or dungeon crawl stone soup, but Ive been expanding my horizons...

Moving house, and trying to set things up more properly this time. I had been running opensmtpd, but have heard questionable things about openbsd code, and it’s annoying to configure. Qmail seems nice in some respects—modular, configurable, secure, large patch ‘ecosystem’, etc.; my dad runs it—but last I looked into it it wanted to be djbbuilt and djbrun in a special djbway, which just...

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I’m aware of basic stuff like: make jobs idempotent/incremental try to keep configuration flags standard across jobs make data input/output artifacts apparent by passing them explicitly and/or logging their full paths eliminate toil (from the Google SRE book) try set up alerting in a way that avoids alarm fatigue But I can’t think of any specific resources that have practical advice on how to...

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