[HN Gopher] /Uses: A list of /uses pages detailing developer set...
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/Uses: A list of /uses pages detailing developer setups, gear,
software, configs
Author : petecooper
Score : 155 points
Date : 2023-07-06 09:47 UTC (13 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (uses.tech)
(TXT) w3m dump (uses.tech)
| KnobbleMcKnees wrote:
| Hugged :-(
| skilled wrote:
| I extracted all the external links in each of the /uses pages and
| there are about 3,200 unique external links in total. I also
| checked each domain whether it's alive or not (expired) and
| surprisingly only 2 domains were expired - that's a pretty good
| result.
|
| As far as the site itself goes, it's too impractical the way it
| is made now. It would work way better if people formatted their
| /uses page in a specific format that could then be pulled by this
| site and viewed directly. Otherwise, it's a link farm that you'll
| get bored of browsing very quickly.
| karaterobot wrote:
| Is this meant to be a directory of people who are looking for
| work? If so, that's fine, I guess. If not, be aware that it feels
| like one.
|
| If I made one of these for myself, it would be completely out of
| date in a year. It's almost like setups, gear, software, and
| configs are ephemeral and don't describe a person very well.
| gtirloni wrote:
| Edge functions for hobby projects are awesome, until your project
| gets featured on HN's front page. I'd love to see a postmortem
| about the cloud costs.
| LocalPCGuy wrote:
| I'm guessing he'll (Wes Bos) bring it up on Syntax.fm, the
| podcast he does with Scott Tolinski. They've talked about this
| site before and I would be surprised if they don't bring this
| up and discuss how/why it failed and any plans for changes to
| avoid it in the future. As it's a little hobby site for him,
| not sure how much in the way of resources or money he really
| throws at it.
| dotnwat wrote:
| How do I stop the animated icon in the chrome tab? It's cool, but
| very distracting to keep the tab open.
| 50 wrote:
| alternatively, see https://usesthis.com/ - "a collection of nerdy
| interviews asking people from all walks of life what they use to
| get the job done" ongoing since january 2009
|
| some somewhat notable interviews have been submitted before:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=usesthis.com
|
| e.g., aaron swartz[1]:
| https://usesthis.com/interviews/aaron.swartz/
|
| 1: his reference of using the MPW 9 font led me towards the
| discovery of the monaco 9pt bitmap font - curious if it's still
| around
| beezlebroxxxxxx wrote:
| Another one is https://workspaces.xyz , although it's more
| interesting to see the actual spaces where some people work.
| Some are hilariously clean and staged, while others look like
| they were taken mid escape with a go-bag. Unfortunately they're
| becoming more like a way of marketing tbh, but the sheer amount
| of posts on it are interesting nonetheless. (The number of
| people working in crypto is also hilarious.)
| mattl wrote:
| I did one a few years ago.
| https://usesthis.com/interviews/matt.lee/
|
| Glad to see they're still doing them. My stack has completely
| changed since.
| 0ct4via wrote:
| You should consider asking if they'd like an update! I'm sure
| they'd love to see how things have changed in the past ~6
| years, and readers would enjoy it too :)
| mattl wrote:
| Good idea! I'll reach out
| bjornasm wrote:
| I had a period where I read every interview there, it was so
| cool to read about peoples tech stacks. I kind of fell off as
| it seemed like it ended up being more interviews with non-tech
| people than tech-people which removed some of the interest and
| utility for me. Got to revisit that site.
| 50 wrote:
| i tend to find the non-tech interviews the most interesting
| for the remoteness of the tools so to speak, e.g., coming
| across tools like https://www.wonderdraft.net/, a fantasy map
| creation tool, and thinking it's rather neat
| beezlebroxxxxxx wrote:
| I find them interesting too because tech people tend to
| just all have the latest and greatest hardware, while a lot
| of non-tech people are getting by on bizarre clunkers and
| set-ups which have more novelty value.
| dazzawazza wrote:
| Anyone who is, or knows, a guitarist will recognise the
| pointlessnes of this fetish for "gear used".
| rgoulter wrote:
| It can nice to hear about ideas which are practical
| improvements, and which others can benefit by.
|
| e.g. I don't think trackballs are anywhere near as popular as
| they deserve to be. (Albeit, with trackballs, showing off is
| pretty much limited to 'look I have a good one').
| 0ct4via wrote:
| What does this offer that isn't already well-established at
| https://usesthis.com ? -- aside from /Uses having a hideous
| design, that is...
| dunno7456 wrote:
| Application Error
|
| w@https://uses.tech/build/_shared/chunk-BLEU733H.js:1:723
| vo@https://uses.tech/build/entry.client-2LPQTYSQ.js:6:19484
| Pi@https://uses.tech/build/entry.client-2LPQTYSQ.js:8:3153
| Xa@https://uses.tech/build/entry.client-2LPQTYSQ.js:8:44792
| $a@https://uses.tech/build/entry.client-2LPQTYSQ.js:8:39726
| Zf@https://uses.tech/build/entry.client-2LPQTYSQ.js:8:39657
| br@https://uses.tech/build/entry.client-2LPQTYSQ.js:8:39515
| Ui@https://uses.tech/build/entry.client-2LPQTYSQ.js:8:35905
| Zu@https://uses.tech/build/entry.client-2LPQTYSQ.js:8:36715
| pn@https://uses.tech/build/entry.client-2LPQTYSQ.js:6:3250
| ba</ue/<@https://uses.tech/build/entry.client-2LPQTYSQ.js:8:34235
| ranting-moth wrote:
| This guy uses stacktraces.
| wavemode wrote:
| Live site's down for me. Use this instead:
|
| https://archive.ph/51fPZ
| diffeomorphism wrote:
| Question as a non-dev: many devs there seem to use only laptops
| and often even relatively old ones; no desktop workstations or
| high power servers in sight. Is that common? Or is that selection
| bias of that website?
| gtirloni wrote:
| No powerful workstations or server under the table? That's
| pretty common.
|
| Unless you're training an AI model or compiling Chromium all
| the time, there's very little need for a super powerful
| computer (by today's standards).
|
| You could have many VMs and whatnot, but that's not _common_.
| monsieurgaufre wrote:
| If there's a real need for a high powered computer, most people
| will just connect to a server or whatnot to do the calculation
| there.
| nfriedly wrote:
| It looks like this site is experiencing issues, but I believe
| this is the same data: https://github.com/wesbos/awesome-uses
| oneeyedpigeon wrote:
| Looks like this site needs to /use a more scalable backend...
| pcthrowaway wrote:
| This is really fascinating.
|
| Mostly because I never heard of the "/uses" convention.
| Unfortunately it's impossible to google to learn about it. Does
| anyone know where "/uses" originated?
| gtirloni wrote:
| Same here. I know people have posted about their setups but
| didn't know `/uses` was a thing.
| tiim wrote:
| I'm pretty sure it originates with wes bos (wesbos.com) , the
| person that also created uses.tech
| ttepasse wrote:
| You may also be interested in the /now convention:
|
| https://sive.rs/now3
|
| https://nownownow.com
| mindcrime wrote:
| Found this:
|
| https://dev.to/nickytonline/do-you-have-a-uses-page-5b82
|
| and
|
| https://dev.to/nikoheikkila/show-your-own-uses-page-160j
|
| and
|
| https://github.com/wesbos/awesome-uses
|
| and
|
| https://heyfirst.co/blog/lets-share-your-setup-in-uses-page/
|
| Not a lot of history that I see at first blush, but I didn't
| look terribly hard. FWIW, Google "uses page" turns up a few
| other results as well.
| em-bee wrote:
| i thought this was some kind of API where you could share
| your uses tags in a standardized way like other distributed
| social features so that other sites can aggregate them and
| show them like uses.tech does.
|
| but this is just a static site that will accumulate a lot of
| stale data once people lose interest to maintain their
| entries.
|
| it would not be so hard. a uses.txt on your website listing
| tag and description.
|
| and a curated list of urls to all these uses.txt files that
| are periodically scanned for updates.
| the-printer wrote:
| I like https://hackerstations.com/.
| cellularmitosis wrote:
| Hmm, clicking on the buttons doesn't seem to do anything?
|
| Edit: oh, I see, the changes happen off-screen, "below the fold".
| ranting-moth wrote:
| I bit like a modern version of the .plan file displayed when the
| user is fingered.
|
| http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/P/plan-file.html
| acheong08 wrote:
| "when the user is fingered" ?
| pcdavid wrote:
| Yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_(protocol)
| gtirloni wrote:
| The Internet was more innocent back then :)
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_(protocol)
| mindcrime wrote:
| Don't forget Finger's more modern cousin, WebFinger![1]
|
| [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebFinger
| technothrasher wrote:
| Was it? We used to giggle about "fingering each other" way
| back in the early 90's, ask the Internet Oracle filthy
| questions, and compare notes on the Purity Test while we
| waited for all the uuencoded parts of our dirty pictures to
| download off the local Usenet server.
| em-bee wrote:
| at the time we used to giggle, now we complain about it
| being obscene.
| nmz wrote:
| I'm not complaining, I want to go back to the internet
| being a silly place, instead of an increasingly hostile
| and damaging to mental health (and sometimes lives).
|
| BUT that ship has sailed.
| decremental wrote:
| [dead]
| redleader55 wrote:
| We were harder to get offended, not more innocent.
| anildash wrote:
| You mean "more willing to ostracize and marginalize those
| who point out obnoxious or harmful behavior", I think.
| Now everyone who can't read a room has an entire
| infrastructure helping convince them they're a martyr if
| someone points out they're acting like an asshole.
| 867-5309 wrote:
| from tfl: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/F/finger.html
| doubled112 wrote:
| To solidify a sale, find and push a customer's hot buttons.
| there wrote:
| https://plan.cat/
| mxuribe wrote:
| Oh wow, you just got me hooked on a rabbit hole that i can't
| get out of - but in a good way! :-)
|
| I love these sorts of easter egg-like things! I mean, they're
| not really easter eggs. But this /uses page, the /now pages,
| the humans.txt file that someone else mentioned (which i also
| use on my personal website), and other similar "info
| broadcast" mechanisms are always so much fun...Because they
| provide a little trail of breadcrumbs of discovery about
| people in a neat, old school sort of way. I miss the
| internet/web of old, and this sort of thing brings all that
| fun back! Thanks for sharing!
| meetpateltech wrote:
| This is great site!
| 0xblinq wrote:
| Ahhh... lovely serveless cloud SPA crashing in your freaking face
| with a stack trace.
|
| We're being so cheated with all this marketing bullshit.
|
| Had you used a decent web framework you'd at least show a proper
| error page and get sent a notification about the problem.
| gochi wrote:
| You can also show a proper error page (or continue) through
| edge functions[1]. They just didn't set any up. So the chances
| of them also doing so in another framework and caring about
| being notified is slim.
|
| 1. https://docs.netlify.com/edge-functions/optional-
| configurati...
| 0xblinq wrote:
| You can do everything. Even if just using assembler.
|
| Popular web frameworks such as Laravel, rails or Django do
| this by default, and a ton other "small things".
|
| That's the point.
| pc86 wrote:
| Not everything needs to be a serverless SPA, that's the
| point.
| gochi wrote:
| Nobody is saying everything needs to be serverless. I'm
| addressing the point that going the traditional route
| doesn't negate the work required to implement a custom
| error page and handle rewrites on error.
| mikojan wrote:
| Yes they are and the promise cited as a justification is
| always "automatic scalability", "increased reliability",
| "decreased downtime".
|
| This is from the first google result on "Why move to
| cloud":
|
| https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2021/03/12
| /wh...
| pc86 wrote:
| I think a lot of people do advocate that everything be
| serverless, but at the very least the industry as a whole
| defaults to that. You now need a good reason _not_ to
| deploy bleeding-edge $FRAMEWORK SPAs to serverless edge
| cloud functions or whatever they 're called this month,
| rather than only using them when it makes sense.
| naikrovek wrote:
| yeah there's a lot of fashion trends that this industry
| follows and it drives me insane.
|
| by "fashion" I mean new, hot frameworks, architectures,
| providers, or anything which is chosen because it looks
| fun or might allow some resumes to be meatier. no one
| makes solutions for their problems anymore, they make
| problems for their currently-favorite solution.
| pc86 wrote:
| I've been guilty of it myself in the past but I'm
| increasingly getting to a point, especially for side
| projects that I intend to make a few dollars off of,
| where I just want to deploy a compiled-language site to a
| VM and point a domain at it.
| [deleted]
| wlkr wrote:
| Unfortunately, the link is currently unavailable, but from the
| title, it sounds similar to Uses This (https://usesthis.com/),
| which I find to be an interesting way of learning what tools
| people are using in different industries.
| swyx wrote:
| nobody asked but here is mine! https://www.swyx.io/new-mac-setup
| maybe i should switch it to a /uses URL
| thomasfromcdnjs wrote:
| I have this vague memory of a website where people could upload
| their bash scripts and more importantly a sort of primary setup
| script if you were booting up a fresh install.
|
| The idea being after installing your distro, you could
|
| > curl -sSL <script_url> | bash
|
| It was somewhat of a social network. (10-20 years ago)
|
| Am I taking crazy peoples or was this something...
| mgaunard wrote:
| running arbitrary code from the internet, what could go wrong?
| aerfio wrote:
| From description I understood it as a site for people how
| know what particular script does
| [deleted]
| [deleted]
| zanchey wrote:
| It's geek code in the cloud!
|
| https://web.archive.org/web/20090220181018/http://geekcode.c...
| KingOfCoders wrote:
| Crashed, but serverless!
|
| "This edge function has crashed"
| folivore wrote:
| Could you disable the favicon changing all the time? It's crazy
| annoying
| jakebasile wrote:
| I like the idea, but I'm a proponent of humans.txt [1] as an
| analog to robots.txt. I put one on my own sites.
|
| [1]: https://humanstxt.org/
| notorandit wrote:
| This edge function has crashed An unhandled error in the function
| code triggered the following message:
|
| The deployment failed while serving the request. Connection
| details Netlify internal ID: 01H4NGBNZ4NDV642KSK4XW6Y1Q
| _joel wrote:
| Maybe they need a setup that works themselves
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