mspencer712

@mspencer712@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NFS: stale file handle in contaniers after snapraid sync⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What have you tried?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As a BBS era kid, I know you’re not trying to simulate the whole thing right now in the comments section. I’d say: you would have done fine, in any era. People talk, they share methods, and you would’ve picked up whatever you needed.

  I think it’s just a common sort of nightmare, worrying about being unprepared, dealing with the consequences of lack of preparation.

  I recommend the first few minutes of Jason Scott’s The BBS Documentary, for an overview of how people communicated in the pre-internet days. Especially if you imagine yourself a telegraph operator chatting with neighboring stations in the 19th century or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your approach for understanding a big codebase?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Start early in the commit history, see if you can understand the general shapes and concepts the project was using at the start.

  Then sort of binary-search your way forward in different sized jumps and see how quickly you can get to present day without sacrificing your sanity. Completely at least.