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hackers.town: 2023-04-27 Thu 00:38
Tried a little #PixelArt and it was okay until I got fancy with copy and paste. Ah well. It’s all a learning process.
hackers.town: 2023-04-27 Thu 13:23
Every click in the AWS dashboard a little anxiety spike as I try to figure out whether this service is the one that’ll bump my bill from five cents to $1,500
hackers.town: 2023-04-27 Thu 16:11
What do you mean I can’t use em-dash in my IAM Role Description? What kind of ham-headed skullbuggery — if you’ll pardon my fictionalized colloquialisms — puts that kind of limit in what is ostensibly a field containing descriptive text?
hackers.town: 2023-04-27 Thu 16:23
@kusuriya I’m assuming some sort of ASCII-ish constraint at the schema or possibly even the database layer itself. I get it TBH. You can smell the duct tape any time you get near AWS, and on a quiet day I swear I still hear the whispering ghostly voice of their old Bob the Builder tool when I look at some of the report setups.
hackers.town: 2023-04-27 Thu 16:24
okay anyways got #SiYuanNote synchronizing through AWS S3 so yay
hackers.town: 2023-04-27 Thu 16:26
@kusuriya Oh did they finally phase the C macro layer out? Kudos to them!
hackers.town: 2023-04-27 Thu 16:29
@kusuriya Nice. I contracted ~2004 and ~2008, both times for Perl code that was gonna get phased out any day now.
Second half of the first contract was fiddling with the catalog pages, which in 2004 still had that new-roll-of-tape smell.
hackers.town: 2023-04-27 Thu 16:37
@mjgardner For Unicode? Yeah, their lack of progress there has possibly moved from technical debt to institutional tradition.
hackers.town: 2023-04-27 Thu 16:41
@mjgardner without asking @kusuriya to rattle against his NDA or anything, I’m gonna guess that the Perl that got phased out? It was the nice P5 code I helped with, to be partially replaced by the language of the week.
The guts that have been there since day one? Load-bearing tech debt, implemented in whatever felt like a good idea in 1996 or so. Too many parts depend on it and its quirks to really fix it.
hackers.town: 2023-04-27 Thu 16:59
@kusuriya @mjgardner I believe that was what’s known to some as “pillow talk”
hackers.town: 2023-04-27 Thu 17:13
Main reason I got myself set up with SiYuan again is their DIY sync via S3 or WebDAV works quite nicely across desktop and mobile. The rich text interface and data history are a nice touch, too.
hackers.town: 2023-04-27 Thu 19:36
@nhan Well I tend to bounce around. I keep a core set of notes as markdown files, and shove them into whatever PKM looks shiny this week using Perl and / or Pandoc.
Using SiYuan is pretty straightforward. For folks who live inside China, the paid sync service is probably pretty good. They haven’t extended that service beyond their border yet. Probably figuring out how and who would host.
DIY sync is not noob-friendly, but if you can work your way through setting up an AWS S3 (or compatible) bucket, it costs whatever the bucket costs. There are free options, but even more fiddly.
hackers.town: 2023-04-27 Thu 19:37
@nhan I’ll be checking my AWS billing dashboard regularly, but it looks the cost part will amount to less than $1.00 USD per month.
hackers.town: 2023-04-27 Thu 19:42
@nhan Finally: I started paying attention to SiYuan again because they’ve been encouraging English-language documentation for core and plugins. That simplifies things one heck of a lot, but at the current pace it could be a year before I can recommend it for the merely curious instead of the foolhardy.
Unless they live in China in which case I’d strongly encourage it :finn_smile:
hackers.town: 2023-04-27 Thu 20:49
My favorite recurring character was Hypno Owl 69
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