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Hi all, hope you're enjoying the weather. If you wanted to build a website that was CRUD but required MINIMAL maintenance forever, what tech stack would you use? I am a hobbyist DevOps engineer but I don't want to do…

Hi everyone I hope you're having a satisfying Saturday. I was curious if there was a pattern to the kinds of work people enjoy in software engineering. Do you enjoy optimisation? Do you enjoy factorio? Do you enjoy…

Hi, I've been reading about Twitter's architecture and Facebook's TAO architecture. I am curious what database is best suited for the high fan-out write part? I really enjoyed this blog post:…

I am thinking of people like Raymond Chen, Joel on Software, Eric Sink, Joe Duffy https://joeduffyblog.com/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/ https://ericsink.com/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/…

Where do techies chat? I know there's eatonphil's discord and r/programminglanguages discord. Is there a HN chat or technical chat room that is very technical? Regards

Hi, Would this idea ever work? The code is open source but you are required to pay an amount of money if you earn money using the software. The price can be scaled, as a percentage and has a maximum cap price. Would you…

I am not talking about using ChatGPT or a model to write code. I am trying to think what I should code against that isn't an API that leads to an architecture that composes naturally and is easy to programmatically…

Hi everyone, I'm really curious what you want software vendors, operating system vendors, linux distributions, programming language maintainers/authors, mobile phone manufacturer, technology manufacturer, Google,…

Hi, I'm not sure if the software I want exists and if it shall ever exist but it's something I have always wanted. I think the nearest software that exists is Portainer. I use Terraform to bring up infrastructure and…

I read the post about being paid for open source and how they took a page from the SaaS handbook to create a pricing page and offer add-on services I feel getting people to pay for things is extremely difficult if you…

Hi everyone, I am curious what the going rate for advanced technical writing is. I tend to understand code by reading descriptions of algorithms and trying to implement them myself. This usually involves having a…

Could an algorithm similar to stable diffusion generate a scenegraph in HTML and CSS based on a prompt of a web page design?

Hi I am always on the look out for new hobbyist or power usages of computers. I know some people are interested in financial models and run their own smart trading algorithms. I am interested in database design and…

Hi all, I am curious what you all think other people should work on? Either you don't have the time to work on yourself or other reasons. Perhaps it's not your area of expertise and you want someone else to fix it. What…

I'm curious what problems people are having. Is it wrangling Kubernetes, servers. Is it the CI pipeline or is it straight up people problems. I'm looking for inspiration.