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Table locks can be a real pain. You know you need to do the change, but the system is constantly running queries towards it. Now days it’s a bit easier with algorithm=inplace and lock=none, but in the good old days you were on your own. Your only friend was luck. Large migrations like that still gives me shivers

Two things pop up

• I once left an alert() asking “what the fuck?”. That was mostly laughed upon, so no worry.
• I accidentally dropped the production database and replaced it by the staging one. That was not laughed upon.

Hah, even!

I really enjoy Mojeek. It gives you results you would not get anywhere else. I see high value in that

Been using Qwant for maybe a year or so. Recently found Swisscows too. I am not sure if Qwant uses their own index. I remember that they said that they were to create their own index, but the results looks suspiciously similar to Bing. Swisscows for sure runs their own index, and I find the results to be rather good

We all have different levels of insecurity. I think it’s common to not want to hurt the feelings of the ones we love

My mind was just blown. Turning off Javascript works, doesn’t it?

Speaking of LaTeX, I really recommend LyX. You don’t need to know any LaTeX to use it, and the result is always satisfying

Ctrl + Y shall paste, and nothing else!

HTTPie

Using pCloud and is very satisfied. One can buy life-time storage if one prefers that over subscriptions, and it seems to be on sale almost all the time

Yes! I just could not stop reading this book. Stayed up way too late. Easily worth it

I think this happens when there’s notifications from Slack in the notification center. For some reason it does not seem to sync. Clearing in the notification center is probably going to “fix” the badge counter

Blockbuster, simply because they (at least used to have) the best pricing, though the app is not very good. Now days I tend to use YouTube more since the prices on Blockbuster has gone up. This is probably a local thing. I guess prices probably differ between diffent regions.

The Brother printer I bought recently was easier to install on Linux than on Mac. I think that says something. Always works too

Over the years XFCE is the DE I’ve used the most. Kept getting back to it. It simply does a lot of things right. That does not mean it’s my favorite, though. There are plenty of good ones out there. LXqt is one I find to be excellent, but it does not get much attention. Enlightenment too, for that matter. Enlightenment feels like it comes from a different era, but it’s quite charming. That said, I think I’m finished with these “small” environments, and will be on KDE from now on. You get the “batteries included” experience, and things generally work very well together. Sure, maybe it’s a bit more resource heavy, but I can’t say I notice.

I use this one for all my work related notes. It’s simply great. Unlike many other note taking apps CherryTree is not made with Electron. So it’s both powerful and very light