Using http.server is my go-to sanity check method if my configured my network firewall correctly or not.

Which book?

That’s a good one lol, love it when a textbook has some humor.

TIL. Damn.

Reminds me of the how early the covid policies were based on age-old misconceptions about aerosols.

To be fair, the more podcasts, the more competition in making podcasts more high quality, the more quality podcasts I can listen to, the more reason I have to do boring chores or exercises.

Yay to podcasts.

I don’t use screw drivers enough to know what these are for. But from a programmer’s standpoint, punishing people to deviate away from standard may cause more harm than good, no?

Suppose it’s easier/cheaper/more effective to deviate a bit from standard, why should I be punished to do things a bit differently?

Trump’s grazed in the ear, inches away from death. That’s sick, man.

Thanks for the explanation.

Literally buy me a coffee and deliver it straight to my house.

But open-source doesn’t always mean working for free, nor does it mean people do it for purely ethical (or socialist?) reason.

There are lots of reason why open-source is attractive after discounting ethics and money. I imagine being credited for being a major contributor to a popular open-source project would mean better job opportunity in the competitive tech job market. The gig doesn’t directly offer you money, but it does gravitate the right company that has the money to fund your work they find very valuable. In a sense, this isn’t that far from how capitalism work – credits are due to the people who brings most value to the society, whether the source of the software are open to all or not.

This is of course a very superficial statement to make, but I remember Eric Raymond wrote about this in more a detailed (and more convincing!) manner in The Cathedral and the Bazaar.