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Cake day: June 25th, 2023

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  • Hi, I’ve been doing TypeScript in my day-job and hobbies for six and a bit years now. I would not write JS in any other way.

    TS is also a superset of JS so all JS is valid (unless you turn on strict mode). So there is no productivity loss/learning curve unless you want there to be.

    In fact, a lot of people who think they’re not using typescript are using it because their editors use typescript definitions for autocomplete and JSDoc type signatures are powered by typescript.



  • I use Alpine Linux quite a bit, which is a Linux distro that doesn’t use the GNU coreutils or glibc.

    Also even giving GNU such a high level in the name on a distro like Arch makes little sense imo because other components like systemd are arguably much more important than one of many libc libraries you can optionally use and a bunch of coreutils you can also optionally use.







  • cronjob to restart the backend lemmy container

    Fair enough, that’d work. I run my database in a different pod to lemmy (I run this all in kubernetes), and I cannot restart that pod without causing an outage for a bunch of other things like my personal website. I ended up just needing to tune my config to have a maximum RAM usage and then configuring k8s to request that much RAM for the DB pod, so it always has the resources it needs.

    pictrs image cache is 250-300gb

    oof :(
    That’s what my custom lemmy patch was, it turned off pictrs caching. That’s now in lemmy as a config flag (currently a boolean but in 0.20 it will be on/off/proxy where the proxy option goes via your pictrs but does not cache). I then went back through mine and did a bunch of SQL to figure out which pictrs images I could safely delete and got my cache down to 3GB.


  • Interesting. I have some New Relic stuff setup with my cluster but most of that is just resource usage stuff. I ran out of RAM a while back so I’ve had to be a bit more restrictive about how many connections Lemmy can have to postgres db.

    There’s no progress meter and so far it has taken 2 days 😱.

    Uh oh. I considered updating to 0.5 as part of my 0.18.3-ish (I was running a custom fork I made with some image caching stuff that has since been merged in to real lemmy) -> 0.19.3 upgrade but I’m glad I didn’t.

    Thanks for the heads up. Are you migrating to postgres for pictrs too, or sticking with sled?






  • The Breville Bambino (Plus) with a nice grinder is basically an impossible value-to-money ratio to beat. Also remember to factor in a scale that’s accurate to 0.1g, a cheap WDT tool with thin needles (i.e. 0.35mm), and a dosing funnel to make the WDT not messy. If your budget is limited then you can skip the WDT tool I guess.

    I wouldn’t go for the Barista Express/Pro because the built in grinder is not very good. The “impress” version of the Barista Express could still be worth it if you’re not looking to make espresso a hobby and just want something easy that will make tasty drinks. I’d recommend joining the Espresso Afficianado’s discord server, which is where a lot of the /r/espresso long-stays moved to after the reddit API stuff. There’s a channel for beginners that can help you get started.