News: Self-hosting in 2023, no more Alpine Linux, type constraints in 65 lines of SQL, Initial V, Minimal Gallery, the legacy of Visual Basic, tracking fake GitHub stars & Mastodon's 10M

Michal Warda on self-hosting in 2023, Martin Heinz will never use Alpine Linux again, Oliver Rice at Supabase creates type constraints in Postgres with just 65 lines of SQL, Aaron Patterson converted a BMW shifter into a Bluetooth keyboard that can control Vim, Piet Terheyden has been curating beautiful & functional websites daily since 2013, Ryan Lucas put together a history of Visual Basic, turns out it’s easy for an open source project to buy fake GitHub stars & Mastodon hit 10 million accounts.

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Featuring:

• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

Self hosting in 2023

• Why I Will Never Use Alpine Linux Ever Again
• Type Constraints in 65 lines of SQL
• Initial V
• Minimal Gallery
• The history and legacy of Visual Basic
• Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market
  • Changelog Nightly
• Mastodon hits 10M accounts

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Timestamps:

(00:00) - Intro
(00:28) - Self-hosting in 2023
(00:49) - No more Alpine Linux
(01:12) - Types in 65 lines of SQL
(02:01) - Initial V
(02:21) - Minimal Gallery
(02:38) - The history of Visual Basic
(03:02) - Tracking fake GitHub stars
(03:34) - Mastodon hits 10M accounts
(03:51) - Outro

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