ilovecaching

Looking for both advice and anecdotes on joining well known, large public projects. Some friction points I have discovered and would like to address: - Maintainers already have mature code and are far up the mountain of…

I've been looking into Lasik and PRK at 30 now that my eyes have stabilized. I do Jiu Jitsu so the doctor recommended I get PRK instead of Lasik as Lasik leaves a permanent flap that can be damaged by contact sports. My…

In college I did a month long experiment where I only used my computer's terminal emulator to do all my work. I wrote my code/notes in Vim, browsed the web with elinks, and wrote my emails using mutt. It was a great…

I am often wrangling hostnames in DCs, at my own home, in cloud providers, etc. and I'd like to find a program that can keep a database of these hostnames and metadata about them, make it searchable via the name or…

Specifically talking about the Docker Inc. released Docker. Seems like since they were sold all of their thunder is gone, and they left a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths with the moby split. I rarely see big…

I'm interested in hearing about how others organize the following: - Source code repositories (personal and work) - Extra git workspaces - Virtual machine images - Documentation and manuals - Books I've been iterating…

"“Free software” means software that respects users' freedom and community. Roughly, it means that the users have the freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. Thus, “free software” is a…

Kernels, browsers, schedulers, etc. often easily reach the 100k-1m+ LoC mark. What strategies do you employ to understand the high level architecture and begin contributing in a meaningful way? What tools do you use?…