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  • Debian.

    It’s stable. Everything has support for Debian. I’m comfortable with Debian. Also everything that is not available as a deb-package goes in a docker container.

    I run a bunch of Minecraft servers, the *arr stack, and pihole on a single NUC.

    I also have a VPS. Also Debian. It is my VPN gateway for my home network (tinc is nice) and everything that needs to be public facing (minecraft proxy+a website that I host for my sister).

    My work laptop + gaming rig is LMDE which is also Debian.

    I’m not so much a Debian fanboy but my tinkering days were in the past, if I would still have the time I would probably run something cool like Arch or NixOS. Now I just want something that works.

    Oh yeah, my media player is a Pi with LibreElec. Write to SD card and you’re done :)



  • I’m not here to recommend a NUC (because I don’t know), but a thing about the Pis: I have several, some have been constantly running in some form ore another for 10 years, and I have had 0 issues with overheating or SD-cards. Also I only use the official power supplies.

    The Pi 4 and 5 have heating issues, so I added passive cooling to them (if I would do heavy tasks like transcoding I would add active cooling, but that is not my scenario).

    They are reliable little machines :-)

    (Also they are limited in CPU and memory, so I also have a NUC. It’s an official Intel so not the kind you want ;-) )


  • Okay, sure, do fast. Then:

    • I’ll add a refactor task to the backlog filed under “tech debt”
    • please confirm again that you know we are still behind on security updates and that you’re ok with it because you are responsible for how I spend my hours
    • I’d like more time to spend on bugs before we lose customers.
    • Also I won’t touch that buggy part without taking the time for a rewrite because we did it “fast” per your request and it’s so hard to maintain now that it becomes a time sink on every minor change
    • I know we are under time pressure right now, but as a stakeholder I request we plan a few sprints for improving reliability of our product
    • It’s not “fun” to work on our code. We might lose developers if we do not address this. We both know the good coders will have no problem finding a new job and you’ll end up with the bad ones.
    • Either that, or plan for loss of personnel and the extra time we need for the hiring process and the loss of developer hours







  • I entered the world of Java a few years ago, there were already memes about eclipse back then, so I was prepared to prefer Intellij.

    I tried both. Intellij is much more polished, it had some annoying bugs too, but the selling point for me was that eclipse was (is) really good at syncing every change directly to wildfly. This is a huge timesaver. The maven to eclipse plugin I think?

    I’ve tried with jrebel but it’s not as quick and reliable as with eclipse.

    I am fully prepared for a solution where Intellij is better so please let me know, but no one in our organisation (which has about 50 devs) has found it.