andrewzah
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The best way to reach me is by email: zah@andrewzah.com.
My website and blog: andrewzah.com. I write about programming, language learning, and traveling. I have been studying Korean for ~4 years now.
My code: https://github.com/andrewzah. Currently remotely employed by Open Source Systems.
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I tried Baikal but Radicale was much easier to use and set up. It’s been solid for the last two years for me. That said I try to avoid self hosted services written in Python, especially if they use Django. I’ve had…
Yep, comes from “soyboy”, a pejorative for more feminine men. The term came about from soybeans having phytoestrogen.
Politicians don't have the right to be on a private website. They already have official channels to communicate. Twitter has every right to ban Putin, or Trump, or Duterte, etc.
The fact of the matter is that the US is laid out in a way that cars are necessary for most places. Even if you actually get people to vote and participate in their local politics, that does not change how things are…
I wouldn't say it's terrible but prometheus & grafana have a learning curve for sure. It's a question of do you want a pull-based architecture (prometheus) or a push-based one (influxdb). Grafana is just a frontend that…
I've been using apple maps for probably 3 years now and for driving it's great. Both for local navigation and driving from the east coast to ~michigan/illinois. My family still swears by Waze, though. The only thing I…
Who is “we”? It’s not surprising or creepy that people focus on what they actually can control. None of us realistically can change the fact that America is built around roads. Not everyone can work from home. People…
I can’t speak for everyone but I make enough money that messing around with e-mail spam is not worth it, when I’d rather be playing my instruments or whatever. I do my email through my registrar (gandi) so I don’t have…
I don't think the average router would be able to run much of anything, not to mention how insecure the average router is since people don't update them. Mastodon is very resource heavy, I couldn't get it to run on a…
To my eyes this is way harder to read than traditional notation, which really isn't hard to learn and works well for most music (and non-12TET music). It's hard to see if a note is on a line or just above/under it.
If this concerns you so deeply then write to your representatives to enact legislation. The kid did nothing wrong as it stands now since anyone can look up that data apparently. I doubt private flying will become that…
Crystal has local variables. I didn't mean to imply that ruby & crystal are 1:1 drop-in replacements, but there are a great many similarities. Enough for me as a ruby/rails dev to start on crystal projects with…
What semantics is crystal lacking? Obviously it's not a 1:1 replacement as the ecosystem is different, gem management (shards) is different, etc. Crystal also has union types and concurrency. For people who want a…
There essentially already is a statically typed ruby: Crystal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_(programming_language)
No. The parent comment’s viewpoint is fine, whereas your absolutist viewpoint is not helpful. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter are what you make of them. There’s nothing to “present” if you don’t mindlessly scroll but use…
I find it interesting that snapchat still is used by young people and not really by older people. I remember using it about 10 years ago in highschool, and then college, before I kind of went to nothing and then…
"he best parts of Twitter are amongst professional circles where people use their real names" Real names don't mean anything. Facebook/Twitter/Instagram have people with real names and there's still disgusting behavior…
Cube 2: Sauerbraten is fun and it uses very little resources. The game and engine are open source. Other than that I can’t really think of anything other than good clones like OpenTTD or crappy clones like minetest.…
The question here is: so what? Valve makes a lot of money from the steam store. They’re not going anywhere. There are competitors like gog games that sell them without DRM. You download the games anyways so I’m sure a…
It’s a pretty famous quote and he’s correct. Steam has DRM aspects but is pretty seamless. It is entirely way more work to look for cracked games and download those than to just buy it on steam.
I assume that these projects took time and effort, but the finished results look to me like a half-baked render, like someone just forgot to finish the job. I'm not a fan of much of Le Corbusier's works, if any.
The exterior of the Notre Dame du Haut is simplistic, not beautiful (although the slope of the roof is nice). The interior design is striking in its layout, but overall both are ugly due to the materials used. This…
Yes, SMS usage is quite frequent. I use some other apps for groupchats or talking to foreign friends. It depends on your social circle, I have groupchats with SMS, GroupMe, Matrix/Element, and Kakaotalk. In Korea I…
Really nice site. It (and this thread in general) is motivating me to start writing again. I used LaTeX a lot in college, and I use a similar program now called Lilypond which is the same idea but for sheet music.
Here’s my personal site: https://andrewzah.com/ It’s statically compiled with Hugo. I switched from Zola due to lack of asciidoctor support. My focus is on minimalism, loading fast, and utilizing semantic html design…