jannesan

I'd like to automate setting up Linux VMs with some minimal stuff like installing some packages, copying my dotfiles and updating some configuration like ssh and firewall.

I know Ansible is used a lot for this kind of things, but is there anything simpler out there for the kind of minimal setup I am looking to automate? I see Ansible is not getting much love, not sure why, but that makes me think folks here may be using different tools at least for personal projects.

Curious to hear everyone's thoughts

On my email that is just publicly used on my Github account I have repeatedly received marketing emails from the company behind Redpanda since 2021 without ever consenting to such and without any way to opt out. Replying to the email that I wish to not receive them has not helped. The newest email from this year has a “Not interested” button, so apparently they have learned a bit. Let’s see if it actually works.

I can not imagine this shady tactics get much love from developers, rather they probably turn away people from trying your product, at least for me this is the case.

I haven't followed the space with too much effort, currently I am only making use of ChatGPT to explain code snippets or ask questions about the Linux kernel source.

But by now, I bet there is already some better solution out there specific for the task of explaining large codebases, would love to hear what everyone here has tried out.

I do not understand the limits of LLMs, is it possible to have a model interpret a codebase it has not been trained on? How would one provide the source to it?

Django, Rails, Lavarel, Phoenix … Is static typing less useful in Web development? Do these dynamic languages enable better dev experience (than frameworks in statically typed langs like Spring, ASP.net)?

I have no experience in building big web apps and I would like to learn one of those big frameworks that come with a lot out of the box. Kind of curious to try Phoenix because Elixir seems fun and tooling around it seems good. On the other hand, I can’t really imagine not having types, so I’m thinking maybe I should try Spring boot with Kotlin instead (type system seems really nice).

Anyone has some thoughts on this? Not looking for general static/dynamic typing discussion, just want to know what makes a good web framework.