#ossasepia | 2020-04-10

05:07

http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/ossasepia/2020-04-09#1024066 - heh, for fun and all that, I saw both approaches taken to the extreme indeed ("all in db!!" "all on disk!!"); extremes are extremes after all.

05:07

ossabot

Logged on 2020-04-09 17:57:03 trinque: I worked for a guy once that very much did believe everything was better off living in the database, including all that.

05:09

diana_coman

http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/ossasepia/2020-04-09#1024061 - jfw, note that billymg brought up the things that are accessible/changeable currently via the UI, under Settings; and I went and looked there yesterday - there are things such as blog title, tagline, date and time format

05:09

ossabot

Logged on 2020-04-09 17:40:05 jfw: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/ossasepia/2020-04-09#1023964 - this is true of course, "it's all just a bunch of ones and zeros anyway!" but I argue there is a meaningful distinction, similar to "code vs. data" even though code is a kind of data, and whether or not correctly realized as filesystem vs sql. Perhaps better put as presentation vs. content.

05:12

diana_coman

otoh looking at the current wp-config.php, it's short and sweet, with a bunch of configs for Wordpress to know where & what db it's meant to use; which yes, it's where it should be and fine as it is but I do NOT want to have in there now crammed all the obscurantist knobs from settings, no

05:15

diana_coman

jfw: in short, no, I am not pushing for some db-extremism, everything lives in the db, db config itself and circular definitions be damned; I am however pushing for keeping configs to a minimum, for moving indeed ALL content (that includes the blog title and the tagline(s), ffs!) and for NOT carrying blindly over "knobs and settings" just because "users are used to them".

05:17

diana_coman

for moving indeed ALL content to the DB*

05:18

diana_coman

(in principle I wouldn't even mind it all that much to move it instead all to the filesystem - the point is all in ONE place - but there are some advantages to choosing db over filesystem, at least currently so I'd stick with moving it all to the db)

~ 7 hours 29 minutes ~

12:48

feedbot

http://bvt-trace.net/2020/04/vsh-parts-67-handling-orphans-and-updated-keccak/ << bvt's backtrace -- v.sh parts 6&7: handling orphans and updated Keccak

~ 59 minutes ~

13:47

feedbot

http://trilema.com/2020/erik-and-other-stories/ << Trilema -- Erik and other stories

~ 1 hours 9 minutes ~

14:56

diana_coman

sonofawitch is my experimental bot in ~140 lines of code total (and no shitty flasks and whatnots); I'll let it hang around to see how it behaves; feel free to poke it I guess.

14:57

diana_coman

(it shouldn't reply to any pokings)

15:01

trinque

interesting! diana_coman written in what?

15:01

diana_coman

trinque: gawk

15:02

trinque

sonofawitch indeed lol