Evolving tools or their defaults should be lead to silent and unexpected experiences on stable distros.
A transition period with warnings and logs, changes and key differences at the top of the man docs and helpers to find, migrate or at least fail loudly. These are all important bring everyone along, and vital to transition a critical tool like sudo.
It’s exciting to see how low the barriers to fuzzing and formal proofs and higher verification standards like property based testing has become! It’s just a shame this LLMs are what it took, and even then adoption in the industry is slow.
I’d love to hear more about some limitations/tradeoffs of docker that you made at the time that you regret in hindsight. Was there anything that you wish didn’t get baked into the “default norms” for containers, or areas that would benefit from more attention and redesigns?
I’ve been following dagger and it’s been really interesting to see the evolution of the design, and new set of abstractions. There’s also nix which has seen popularity, with their approach of building layered oci containers.
file sizes in explorer is my pet peeve, it should be a builtin.
When I am coding and making small projects, I want to see the bytes.
I hate that everything is shown as "1 or 2 k".
and it is a hazzle to get access to and install of the mods that show bytes column.
It should just be an extra column available by default 'Byte Size'.
Or automatic column width. Or even setting the same column widths for all folders (try it, it's tough without 3rd party tools). Or the UI hangs with network folders. Or the search that never finds anything. I could go on...
As an approximation, you could use AutoHotKey to have the key press sent every 200ms when an Explorer window has focus. ;)
Personally, I wouldn’t want to have it automatically, because sometimes you have really long file names, or other columns that can get arbitrarily wide. There would also have to be a configurable maximum column width.
Nah no workaround. I'll take the hit until I can switch to something better on my work PC. Several decisions Microsoft has taken make it more likely that I'll invest the time. May as well try to un-Microsoft my org (at least to the degree I'm involved) while I'm at it.
You walk past a ministry office and notice that there is nobody at the door checking people entering, you walk in, you find an office door open, many binders on the shelves, nobody present. You read through the binders, pull out the drawers and see private info etc. You then walk out and send a mail about this. What do you think is going to happen?
The custom Github Actions approach is very customisable and flexible. In theory you could make and even auto approve bumps.
If you want something more structured, I’ve been playing with and can recommend Renovate (no affiliation). Renovate supports far more ecosystems, has a better community and customisation.
Having tried it I can’t believe how relatively poor Dependabot, the default tool is something we put up with by default. Take something simple like multi layer dockerfiles. This has been a docker features for a while now, yet it’s still silently unsupported by dependabot!
The refined github extension[0] has some defaults that make the default view a little more tolerable. Past that I can personally recommend Renovate, which supports far more ecosystems and customisation options (like auto merging).
A transition period with warnings and logs, changes and key differences at the top of the man docs and helpers to find, migrate or at least fail loudly. These are all important bring everyone along, and vital to transition a critical tool like sudo.
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