more importantly!!!!

if you HAVE a physical kindle you DO NOT need anything windows to let Calibre handle the conversion!!!

Calibre, your serial number, plug in kindle via USB and it reads directly from the device

I did not know this until this morning when I (again) researched it

6.4 terabyte #sqlite https://boyter.org/posts/searchcode-bigger-sqlite-than-you/

(I played with the vfs integration for ceph 2 years ago)

let's burn down a forest with the flagship model claude opus ultra turbo think super hard for a 3 line adding local links to a web page PR

some wise words about operations and reliability in this #haskell https://blog.haskell.org/a-couple-million-lines-of-haskell/ article which basically isn't even really about haskell

(it's really good you know the stuff we liked before and then bookmarked it even)

I've just now realized that monchichi is the labubu of my generation 😂

#slackware is still without systemd. and "current" really is current.

since minio basically closed - how is garagefs and seaweed going or is everybody using ceph?

there's this article about knuth and literate programming and word count with early unix shell tools which is echoing very much my sentiment or the article about "hello here's my awk script and it's 135 times faster than your hadoop cluster" and instead of really taking a deep look "what do you REALLY need" people are always "that never works in a PROFESSIONAL environment" and then you look at established companies and it's all dusty perl (or equivalent) in a dark corner running the business

at the end of the day I realize over and over

* knowing technology really well, knowing how "it" works is worth investing time
* you only need a handful tools and a few languages to build practically everything you want
* good documentation is worth it - reading it and writing it
* testing, validating, measuring - whatever you want to call it is worth knowing really well

this is an interesting article about LLM generated code (an sqlite rewrite in rust) and the difference between "it works" and "it's good". also interesting database stuff :)

https://blog.katanaquant.com/p/your-llm-doesnt-write-correct-code

I'm still envisioning a federated kind of peer-to-peer search engine where we share quality information with each.