People who actually write Rust without AI slop:
What are your favorite glue libraries? The ORMs, etc you like to reach for?
I want to write structs and then put them in a database with very little duplication or hand-wringing.
I'm sure nothing is perfect but I'd love to know what professionals are actually using
A reminder that Afro Celt Sound System slaps
Photography / Videography nerds:
I'm in the market for lighting fixtures. What are your preferred brands?
- I'm mostly looking at continuous lighting for versatility
- I assume I'm looking at at least one monolight and probably a big ole LED panel
- my first few shoots are going to be wood furniture, in a studio-ish space, if you have any pro tips
I'm walking into the Mecca B&H later and open to all feedback! Budget is TBD but probably under $1k if I can.
Overwhelmed and grateful for everyone's suggestions and repostings! Here's a summary of everything suggested so far. Please read the thread if you're interested, folks have lots of helpful thoughts
**Books**
**- The Death and Life of Great American Cities** - Jane Jacobs
**- A Pattern Language** - Christopher Alexander et al.
**- Happy City** - Charles Montgomery
**- Streetfight / Street Fight** - Janette Sadik-Khan
**- The High Cost of Free Parking** - Donald Shoup
**- Books by Melissa and Chris Bruntlett** (incl. *Curbing Traffic*)
**- Walkable City** - Jeff Speck
**- Cities of Tomorrow** - Peter Hall
**- The Transit Metropolis** - Robert Cervero
**- How Infrastructure Works** - Deb Chachra (@debcha)
**- Hidden Systems** - Dan Nott
**- The Works** - Kate Ascher
**- Palaces for the People** - Eric Klinenberg
- **Better Buses, Better Cities** - Steven Higashide
**- Human Transit** - Jarrett Walker
**- How Railways Will Fix the Future** - Gareth Dennis
**- Life Between Buildings** - Jan Gehl
**- Bo-miljø** - Ingrid Gehl
**- How Buildings Learn** - Stewart Brand
**- 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School**
**- The Rietveld Schröder House** and **Rietveld: The Architecture of Gerrit Th. Rietveld**
**- Making Space: Women and the Man-Made Environment** - Matrix
**- Gentrification is Inevitable and Other Lies** - Leslie Kern
- **There Are No Accidents** - Jessie Singer
**- The Missing Middle** - Daniel Parolek
**- De architectura** - Vitruvius
**- Invisible Cities** - Italo Calvino
**- Practical Engineering** - Grady Hillhouse
**- Carlos Moreno's book** (15-minute cities)
**- Books on Village Homes, Davis, California**
**- The War on Cars book**
**Accounts to Follow**
- @BrentToderian
- @TheWarOnCars
- @notjustbikes
- @citynerd , @OhTheUrbanity , @canadiancivil
- @NickZander
- @debcha
- https://urbanists.social
**Podcasts**
- urbcast
- Gareth Dennis's railway/engineering podcast
**Design Guides**
- NACTO design guides (https://nacto.org/publications/design-guides/)
Hey @1password, long time customer and advocate here.
To be super clear, willfully supporting someone who posts publicly about insane, unfounded white supremacy theories like White Erasure is a deal breaker for me.
I'll happily dump my family plan and migrate everyone I know to a self-hosted solution before giving you another dime if that's the road we're walking down.
Tl,dr: DHH's conduct remains reprehensible, and supporting him financially and willingly remains equally reprehensible. I won't remain a customer if this is the trajectory of your company.
Are there Urban Planning folks on Masto?
I'm slowly allowing a childhood interest in architecture and infrastructure to grow.
If you have any book recs, whether they're pop culture favorites or foundational educational texts, I'm all ears!
If there are any photographers here using Linux I'd love to learn more about your process!
Right now I'm just dumping files and then going through with RawTherapee but I can't help but feel there's gotta be a better way.
I get pretty irrationally mad at Connecticut trying to claim it's the Pizza state.
In addition to working with RAW I'll also be working with 4K video for the first time.
Are there any great Linux OSS tools for working with the Sony formats of video?
Getting back into photography, got a beautiful used Sony a7c ii.
Now it's time for the photog/linux nerd crossover:
What are our favorite OSS Lightroom replacements?
Same question for the upcoming #hope26 con
Who do folks follow / read to hear about the best parts of #defcon?
I am desperately trying to restart my habit of reading.
I'm searching for something digestible, intellectually stimulating, hard to put down.
I'm open to both fiction and non-fiction.
Book nerds, help me get back into it!
Just purchased a domain so you KNOW there's a cool idea I'm going to abandon.
I'm validating some ideas and I need your help!
Where do you keep your family tasks / to-dos?
I want to implement a few more providers for my thermal printing to-do solution and want to make sure things are sufficiently generic in their approach.
I have 5 days as solo dog parent, and more free time than I should.
Share your favorite immersive, time-sucking games.
I won't limit it by genre! I want your dungeon crawlers, your 4x games, your city builders and build tweakers.
No decade too old or new. Help me waste my time
I have the same smoothie every morning and then lunch is a toss up.
The intersection of all of the needs I'm learning to meet boils down to this:
I need routine, and I need novelty baked into that routine.
The dishes get done when I pop my headphones in and learn something.
Electronics folks:
What's the best tool for reading voltage on a USB port?
My current need is reading a USB-A port to check how much power it's getting.
I can imagine getting a more capable tool for other use-cases if it makes sense to do so.
Open to all opinions and suggestions!
Today I refactored my little receipt printer a bunch. Moved all the printer related work into a core crate, added a provider pattern for weather and tasks.
Now I can pull tasks from Linear API, or a text file. Starting to think I have something pretty useful here.
