We need a six-fingered version of this image. I’m guessing it’ll get a lot of use next year.

Baconator Aero was the best design trend.

Same here. I’m the only user of my services, so if I try visiting the website and it’s down, that’s how I know it’s down.

I prefer phrasing it differently, though. “With my current uptime monitoring strategy, all endpoints serve as an on-demand healthcheck endpoint.”

One legitimate thing I do, though, is have a systemd service that starts each docker compose file. If a container crashes, systemd will notice (I think it keeps an eye on the PIDs automatically) and restart them.

Thanks, this is a great explanation. I’ll try doing &> /dev/null & tomorrow. I’d like to find the simplest version of this for recommending to other people.

Thanks for the suggestion; I tried both of these things and they do hide the output, but it doesn’t make the post-receive script actually exit early. So git push still takes a while to finish.

I think this might have worked, except the ssh key I’m using for git has a password on it. So it does return to the terminal right away, but the git push command in the background is stuck waiting for me to type my password.

Finding cheat codes for Sega Genesis games was my introduction to the internet. It was so fun getting to tell other kids at school about cheat codes that you knew about for their games.

These days I don’t, mainly because they don’t seem to have them anymore, and also because if I’m not enjoying the game with its base mechanics I have plenty of other games in my backlog that I can check out instead.

I was just thinking “Hey, this kind of looks like Dark Messiah.” And then he kicked an enemy off of a ledge and I thought “Oh it’s 100% a sequel to Dark Messiah.”

I’ve always thought it was both. I’m definitely no expert on Metroidvanias, since I’ve only played the one (if Dead Cells counts as one). I actually thought the term “Metroidvania” was about the movement and combat – today I just learned that it’s about the exploration and finding things. You do at least have to do that in the bank level, if I remember right. And the castle level.

The only one I’ve played is Dead Cells, and it’s fantastic. I haven’t even bought any of the DLC, the base game is already endlessly replayable. I also listen to the soundtrack at least once a week.

I definitely want to get around to playing Hollow Knight and Animal Well at some point.

Wait…you can just do that?

I don’t think that is true, but I certainly like the idea of it being true.

Linux nerds literally only want one thing and it’s fucking the idea that your full disk encryption will pay off one day.

Literally the only thing we miss out on when ditching Windows.

Interesting! I hadn’t heard of this before, I’ll have to check it out.

M+ 1m has been my daily monospaced font ever since I found it, which is about eight years now. I don’t see it come up often when people talk about monospaced fonts.

These look great, I love the diversity of art styles on display here.

The title “The Adventures of Gary Pretzelneck” cracked me up. :D

This is making me want to replay this game. I don’t really remember much about the story of this one, but I do remember than the slow motion mechanics were much better than those of the first game.

Peter Thiel gives himself blood transfusions with the blood of younger people in order to slow the aging process. It is a procedure that scientists call “not working.”

That was a great interview, thanks for doing it! And I bet the devs enjoy getting to talk about this kind of thing. There are plenty of blog posts about what new features are coming out in open source projects, but very few interviews like this one.

It’s cool how everything right now is still (mostly) focused on translating x86 to ARM, but how we’re starting to hear talk about native ARM. I’m guessing that there won’t enough of a push for that, though, until Linux ARM PCs become more popular. I’m definitely looking forward to that.