Thanks! Now my girlfriend has dumped me because I ruined her cast iron pan.

Proper decorum demands also removing your pants

That’s why I hate X.99 prices.
Just make it 4.50, 4.80, 4.90 or 5.00

Sounds like a project manager that can talk to engineers…

It’s pretty much just does it.
Default settings are good.
I think you can dial in stricter block lists, but might have issues with some websites.
But you can pause PiHole for 5 minutes, allowing you to do what you need to. I think there is even browser plugins to give you an easy toggle button

If there is ever a way to continue any process without agreeing to terms, services, data processing etc: that’s my default action.
I’m not going to check a checkbox unless the form forbids me from continuing without checking it - at which point, I figure out what the checkbox wants

Yup. parseInt is for strings.
Math.floor, Math.ceil, Math.round or Math.trunc are for numeric type “conversions” (cause its still a float)

You are probably underestimating your abilities.
People that worry about overestimating their skills mostly underestimate their skills.

If someone says they are “good” at something, I take it to mean competency and some enthusiasm.
They might make a mistake, but they won’t (or at least will rarely) make it twice.
They know how to find the solution to something within that domain of knowledge. It might not be the best solution, but it will be a solution that works.
They are also aware of what they don’t know in within the domain. So, they can do C++ but know they can’t do embedded programming. Or they can do C#, but know they can’t do game dev.

And I would take them at their word for that, until they prove otherwise.
If they are below where they claim their skill is, I would try to help them learn (unless they show no interest in improving).
If they are above where they claim, I would tell them this.

It’s always hard to judge our own skills.

Cutting out swaths of code and features - without breaking other code and features - is not a small task.
It’s probably more time consuming and complex than just continuing to update at a slower pace.

And it CAN fix all your problems. But that doesn’t mean you don’t have to fix the problems yourself.
Which is often more than I can deal with. Thankfully - so far at least - all my problems are problems other people have encountered and have documented (and - in many cases - contributed to various projects to get the fix to more people)

Chisel, Rathole, an SSH tunnel with port forwarding, a VPN with port forwarding.
Keywords are “self hosted tunnel” or “reverse proxy over VPN”.

Run a VPS for like $5 a month, your local reverse-proxy tunnels out to the VPS, and your VPS forwards port 80/443 over the tunnel to your reverse-proxy.

Damn experts, what do they know?

I’d be careful with that if you don’t properly notify them first.
They might decide to make your life hell by demanding the car back after you’ve given it away.

Yeh, basically.
The project I’m working on is a lot of typescript. And a part of it is a bunch of nodejs admin/management stuff.
I’m using Commander at the moment and it’s… Fine.
Thought I might try a terminal/text user interface.
I found this ( https://www.npmjs.com/package/ink ) and it looks good

Windows XP error “duhhn” sound.

Unless there is some new revolutionary tech, things like the ESP32 have no driving factor to become obsolete.
If you are relying on BT/WiFi/LoRa then there is a possibility of RF frequency regulations changing.

But it is already an overpowered device for the majority of its applications and it’s cheap

\ instead of / is really annoying.
I recently had to do a template variable replace is batch, resulting in a JSON config file for another program.
A bunch of paths and stuff. And the variables I was substituting in were also used in batch cmds.
It was a pain figuring out when and where to escape or not-escape backslashes.

Proxmox is a great place to start. It has a nice web ui, it’s easy to install, and has loads of useful features for running VMs.
You can easily run windows or whatever Linux VMs you want.

Before spending big money on a beefy server that may or may-not do what you want, I’d suggest buying a cheap NUC (intel N100 nucs are cheap, and have an iGPU).
Then you can follow one of the many tutorials out there about Proxmox, Windows and GPU pass through.
Once you have a windows VM working, you can play around with remote desktop stuff, and see if it is responsive/suitable - things like Apache Guacamole or Rust Desk can make for a very nice end user experience with a bit of extra upfront config.

If remote desktop stuff isn’t working for you, you could try buying some used Crestron NVX from eBay. Can’t remember the exact model, but they are about £160.
They have very little latency, but they will saturate 1gbe so need a home-run to the same switch (or 10gbps+ trunk links between switches).

Once all that is feeling good, think about other services you want and get them running on the (starting to get overloaded) n100 nuc.

When you have everything feeling good, then you can invest in a beefy machine with all the bells and whistles.
Considering the n100 is for learning, with the idea of rebuilding the entire server: document what you do!
There will be lots of trial and error along the way, and you will mess things up. So make sure you take lots of notes about what you do to configure things, and take snapshots of VMs before you start tinkering with them.

Wouldn’t it be better to have highly available storage for the git repo?
Something like Ceph, Minio, Seaweedfs, GarageFS etc.
Cause git is file system based.

Censoring*

Censure is like a harsh criticism