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Rosano · 12w
less metadata, more feeling https://rosano.ca/blog/the-fivefold-path-to-falling-asleep/
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@nprofile1q... I usually fall asleep easily but I struggle to fall back asleep after waking up in the middle of the night. I finally found, after so many years of failing, something that works well. It's related to #4 "the mind". The key is that your "sleep" brain works like flashcards: constantly changing unrelated thoughts. This is very much unlike awake brain that holds lengthy continuous thoughts. So to help your brain get to sleep, make it do flashcards. Specifically: pick a word, any word, then for each letter of the word pick a noun that you can picture in your head. And focus on that picture for a few seconds. Then on to the next letter and word. And on and on.

I got this from a YT vid but I can't find it now sadly.
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A glitch or bug in MacOS's #WebDAV code caused it to write files as zero-byte length which in turn caused it to try repeatedly to write a file, which caused it to write 14,000 zero-length file to a rather important shared drive, and I will let you imagine what that did to my ability to get things done since that started.

It only wrote 14,000 files because I was able to shut down the NAS before it wrote more. The Mac refused to stop trying to write the file, and wouldn't even shut down.

Now I've been picking up the pieces for hours. And I still don't know what do to replace this shared drive because WebDAV is dead to me but I don't know what to use.

Technology is an exhausting shit-show sometimes.
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"It took me a long time to get started because I thought that self-hosting was complicated and unattainable for someone like me. Most guides out there are written by highly skilled people with a background in programming."

A self-hosting how-to written by someone who isn't a tech person first, is a rare thing. We need a lot more of this, and a more approachable stacks too.

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I finally got around to building ds-host for arm64 Linux. I tested it on a Raspberry Pi 4. The sandbox start time is around 300ms. A bit slower than I'd like but it's tolerable for such a cheap device. (My little Intel box where it runs in a VM shows about 150ms start time for the sandbox.)

The next release will likely be no code changes but official builds for arm64 and also MacOS.

https://dropserver.org
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If you were to design an online place where people collaborate on open source projects, what would it look like?

There are many clones of Github, but it's deeply flawed model. Issues are unmanageable. Pull requests are a pain.

What's the paradigm for collaborating on code that scales to medium-sized projects?

I want to hear your wildest ideas for managing issues and contributions at all levels.

#opensource #github