lol so a backup system was brittle enough that it needs a guy constantly working on it? which implies I need to constantly update?

"eras" tend to not be so short lol

doesn't it still work?

Yes! But I'm assuming it will prevent me from upgrading to Postgres 19 in the future.

I'm not familiar with the internals, but is backing up that coupled to Postgres version? That feels so brittle to me.

You can of course take a SQL dump that is version-independent, but if you're serious about creating backups, you want to take backups of the actual on-disk format of the WAL, because that's more efficient and also the only practical way to get point-in-time recovery. (For the efficiency, you could alternatively also take ZFS snapshots, which will work independently of the Postgres version, but those also don't give you PITR.) The WAL format is a Postgres implementation detail and therefore tools wanting to read and write it need maintenance whenever the format changes (which can happen on major version releases).

it's amazing how freeing working an office job is. my personal projects don't have concerns such as monetization.

On the other hand I spent 25 years selling desktop software and never once had an annual review. I never had to submit an application for time off. I never had to ask permission for a dentist appointment. If the weather was good I could take the day off and go for a bike ride. I didn’t attend any scrum meetings nor did I have to argue about what framework to use with a PM who couldn’t code FizzBuzz.

yeah but i get paid to use the toilet in my own home

ig remote work is the best of both worlds

again?

You can just as easily take a static language dynamic - in userland.

I've interop'd with JS from Haskell and you can just go full dynamic property access. And gradually add phantom typed APIs around it.

Debugging Haskell and JS in the same stack? You kids are brave. And/or I'm a coward and a simpleton.

I debug in ghci mostly

console.log also still works fine

Yes but you must distribute in a way where it's trivial to link in another version of the library. So a single wasm blob is a violation.

And the beginning of the context window gets more attention, right?

don't the young usually pick up new tech faster?

really no: https://coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-compu...

My Firefox doesn't accept your https cert. Maybe check that out?

There isn't a cert.. https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=coding2learn....

archive.today suggests, there's never been (The only https returns 403 in 2015, the 2013 links are http) https://archive.is/https://coding2learn.org/

The domain has been mentioned on HN before (without TLS), this account seems to be just messing up the links (replace https with http to see the page)

Computers are old tech nowadays...

Only if they're interested.

I don't see that.

i feel like i'm being gaslit into believing that coding was ever hard or the bottleneck.

Typing and thinking in English is demonstrably slower than in code/the abstract (Haskell for me.)

And no, I didn't write English plans before AI. Or have a stream of English thought in my head. Or even pronounce code as I read and wrote it. That's low-skill stuff.

It's the opposite. Coding was, and is, still hard. If you don't believe me go do an Advent of Code challenge after day 15. LLMs have tricked everyone into believing coding is easy.

I'm confused though. I have never like spent hours at a time coding at my job or side projects. And yet I keep building stuff..

I tried LLMs because of AI fomo by my CEO. "Opus 4.whatever is a stepwise improvement - I am convinced all coders who don't go all-in on AI will be obsolete soon." Multiple times I tried. Every time Claude creates crap and I have to spend a bunch of time correcting it in a loop. Or basically scripting it. And it's like..I never spent this much time thinking or actively working before.

So I'm back to being natty and I am delivering more and have more time during the workday to spend with my wife and kid and video games etc.