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  • This is not inside any application, just a simple bashrc alias if I want to connect to a database to do some quick checks on my terminal.

    I have proper secrets managers when dealing with credentials inside code.

  • True, but I can only pick 3, and Berkshire Hathaway is the top one on the s&p500 that it's not tech.

  • If I was going for money and influence across different areas, maybe Google, Amazon, and Berkshire Hathaway.

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  • When dealing with PostgreSQL databases, I use pass as a replacement for ~/.pgpass.

    Like this:

     
        
    alias my_db='PGPASSWORD=$(pass databases/my_db) psql -h (...)'
    
      

    This means I don't have to store database passwords in plaintext inside the ~/.pgpass file.

  • You can get both qwant, duckduckgo, and Google with SearXNG, unless the instance you used had a config to not have them as an option...

    That's why I just prefer to use my own.

  • I see you like playing life on hard mode.

  • You can't stop now!

    I'm getting emotionally invested in this saga.

  • It's really hard to recommend something without knowing what you're interested in. And you only know what you're interested in once you start exploring.

    IT is really vast, and some positions do not require a lot of proper programming (besides some system scripts). My advice is to explore a lot of things, and narrow it down later down the line.

    With that in mind, if you never programmed before, I would recommend starting with python. It's easy to learn, there are a ton of resources out there, and it's almost the "lingua franca" in a lot of areas (since it's so popular). I'd say most developers these days are at least familiar with python, so that gives you a lot of options of people you can work with.

    The fact that it's so popular also means that whatever sub-problem you're trying to solve, most likely there's already a python library that does it, or some library written in another language that also includes python bindings.

    Can't recommend a specific book (since I've learn it a long time ago), I'd start by searching "best python resources site:reddit.com", and go from there.

    EDIT: apparently python can now be used inside Microsoft Excel. This might unlock some entry level positions to automate the admin workflow of a lot of companies (a lot of them heavily rely on Excel).

  • at least I experimented Idk, that’s the point I guess.

    That's absolutely the point.

    I've done most of my learning after messing up my system (or at least learnt the lessons that stuck the most).

  • Bollywood should start filming on-site.

  • You're not going to learn much from a phone app. Specially programming.

    "Learning apps" are mostly gamified gimmicks. If you never learned programming, you need a good book explaining the concepts of what you're trying to learn, a computer, a project, and the internet to search when you get stuck.

    I know it's the boring answer, but this is one of those skills that it's basically a lot of tinkering, exploration, and nose to the grindstone.

  • New tinder profile pic for when he gets divorced again?

  • Went with linode since it was reasonably priced and popular. But might move if something better comes along.

    I have all the server setup done with ansible, so it's super easy to reproduce everything in a new machine.

  • Ah fair enough.

    I started by having it on my laptop, and used it only there. Liked it so much that I'm renting a VPS around $5 a month to have it on all my devices.

    But to be fair, I'm also hosting other things on that VPS (SearXNG is very light), so it's multi-purpose.

  • What issues did you have with SearXNG?

    You could try to self host it, or even just run it on your local machine.

    Shameless plug on how to set it up locally, and how to set up custom filters (to block junk websites and redirect reddit to the old interface).

  • I subscribe to the top submissions on hacker news via RSS: https://hnrss.github.io/

    It's 99% tech, but every once in a while you get an interesting post from a blog about something else. I then subscribe directly to the blogs I want to keep reading.

    I've just been slowly curating my RSS feed for years. I like the high signal-to-noise ratio it provides me.

  • I guess it depends on what you want to use it for.

    If it's knowledge management (to manage your own personal notes), you might want to check out logseq.

  • SearXNG.

    It's a metasearch engine (aggregates results from several engines and feeds then back to me). It also filters out sites I don't want, and redirects Reddit to the old interface.