Stefano

@stefano@discuss.systems
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Yet another professional in architecture and systems design.

and also...
👨‍✈️ Airplanes Pilot
🤿 Scuba Diver
🏃‍♂️ Runner

🇮🇹 Living in 🇬🇧

Thoughts and views are my owns

Websitehttps://stefanocislaghi.com
LinkedInhttps://linkedin.com/in/stefanocislaghi
StefanoJun 6
If you are in #london and wanna talk about #GraphQL then you want to join the London GraphQL Meetup https://guild.host/events/london-graphql-july-n9q9qd
London GraphQL July | Guild

Jul 1st 6:00PM: Come and join us for the Summer edition of London GraphQL; Two talks on the most up-to-date GraphQL topics interspersed with

Guild
StefanoMay 30
Let’s promote a new app for #aviation geeks https://apps.apple.com/app/id6744141393
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StefanoMay 29
JordanMay 26

Happy 50th birthday, cron! Thanks for remembering all of our jobs for us 😎

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron

#cron #unix #linux #birthday

StefanoFeb 16
Guess I am obsessed by #primenumbers 😂 I always try to have a room which is a prime number. 1901 is both a prime number for the floor (19) and for the room.
StefanoFeb 1
Way too many companies talk about #innovation. They claim they do it. They are unsure what's that. Innovation is a broad concept, I agree, but it's about changing price or upgrading your laptops. I can't really stand with those talk about innovation, just because it's a nice #buzzword.
StefanoJun 8, 2024
Martin FowlerMay 29, 2024

FINAL §

Juntao Qiu finishes his article on data fetching patterns for single-page applications. This last pattern is Prefetching, which involves fetching data before it's called for in the application flow. Although this can mean data is fetched unnecessarily, it reduces latency should the data be needed.

https://martinfowler.com/articles/data-fetch-spa.html#prefetching

Data Fetching Patterns in Single-Page Applications

Five patterns to help Single Page Applications fetch data from remote sources

martinfowler.com
StefanoNov 27, 2023
#graphql community on mastodon seems nonexistent
StefanoNov 26, 2023
The time you discover that you forgot about your mastodon but also #raycast has a trouble with the auto. @dan is it all ok with #oauth? I unfortunately just get a generic error
StefanoMar 21, 2023
“I have been doing it for ages” is probably the worst #anti #pattern in #softwaredevelopment
StefanoMar 20, 2023
That feeling of taking out #twitter from your #github profile
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JordanMay 26

Happy 50th birthday, cron! Thanks for remembering all of our jobs for us 😎

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron

#cron #unix #linux #birthday

Show threadIznogoudMay 26
@thedarkener no AI, no bullshit, just 50y getting the job done
Show threadKevin Karhan May 27

@iznogoud @thedarkener cron deserves a "50 years of loyal service" ribbon!

  • Sadly only natural persons can be honored that way…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Merit_of_the_Federal_Republic_of_Germany
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:GER_Bundesverdienstkreuz_2b_BVK_50Jahre.svg

#cron #unix

Show threadpecet 🦒May 26
@thedarkener Cron syntax still sux though
Show threadJordanMay 27
@pecet Agreed 😅
Show threadPeter KreftingMay 28
@pecet @thedarkener At least it is easier to cron syntax get right than getting #systemd timers to do anything useful 😃
Show threadgluttoMay 26
@thedarkener
Remembering 50 years? I can't remember what I just typed!
Show threadhendrikstierMay 26
@thedarkener @nblr real talk: how did you get reminded?
Show thread41402-nyanMay 26
@thedarkener 50 years and I still can't remember it's syntax.
Show threadHaelwenn /элвэн/ May 26

@a1ba @thedarkener Heh I just have this at the start of my crontab files as a cheatsheet:

# field values # ----- ------ #-minute 0-59 # +-hour 0-23 # | +-day of month 1-31 # | | +-month 1-12 # | | | +day of week 0-7 (0 or 7 is Sunday, or use names) # | | | | + command
Show thread41402-nyanMay 26
@lanodan @thedarkener I'll take it, thanks
Show threadCysio ​May 28
@a1ba @thedarkener @lanodan also https://crontab.guru
Crontab.guru - The cron schedule expression generator

An easy to use editor for crontab schedules.

Show threadHaelwenn /элвэн/ May 28
@me @a1ba @thedarkener
> We created Cronitor because cron itself can't alert you if your jobs fail or never start.

That's false, setup an MTA on your servers and you'll get alerts when the cronjob fails (or when the commands printed something out, useful to check their work), as for never starts well, any monitoring tool should be able to monitor that.
Show threadCysio ​May 28

@lanodan @thedarkener @a1ba

> setup an MTA on your servers

yeah that's a tall order for some people

Show threadJonahMay 28
@a1ba @thedarkener 50 years and I still get regularly burned by accidental output from cron jobs. :-)
Show threadtomatoMay 26
@thedarkener i used systemd timers, never used cron
Show threadGilouMay 26
@thedarkener and thanks @mibh for his "modern" implementation (a "lot" more recent ;-))
Show threadPeter Jakobs ⛵May 27
@thedarkener dang, cron can't run jobs every 50 years!
Show threadAndreas RingdalMay 27
@thedarkener
Show threadJonathan CappsMay 27
@thedarkener 50 years of accidentally typing crontab -r
Show threadAndrewMay 27

@thedarkener A friend was at a conference dinner and sitting next to Paul Vixie. The MC introduced Paul and mentioned some of the programs he wrote, but excluded cron.

My friend leaned over and said something like "They missed cron, I use it every minute of every day, thank you!".

Show threaddragotinMay 27
@thedarkener wow, and not a single day of vacation. Not even on Jan. 1 st, 2000 😉
Show threadÖlbaumMay 27
@thedarkener It’s a common misconception that cron is 50 years old, because it’s its 50th birthday. In reality, for a very short period of time, someone accidentally wrote cron’s birthday expression with a * in the first column, which resulted in a birthday per minute until they realised their mistake.
Show threadJordanMay 27
@oscherler 🤣
Show threadmonkee May 27
@thedarkener I'm Jealous of cron. You only have to tell it once for it to form a habit ​​
Show threadJordanMay 27
@monkee 😆
Show threadDušan MitrovićMay 27
@thedarkener If only the syntax wasn't so arcane...
Show threadJordanMay 27
@dusnm Well good thing is, you only have to learn it once ;)
Show threadGunChleocMay 28
@thedarkener @dusnm I use https://crontab.cronhub.io/ to solve that problem
Cron expression generator by Cronhub

Cron expression generator by Cronhub

Show threadDušan MitrovićMay 28
@gunchleoc @thedarkener Eh, I moved to systemd-timers a while ago.
Show threadJoel Wirāmu, PaulingMay 28
@thedarkener
Heh
Show threadSr. Estegosaurio 🦕May 28

@jwp @thedarkener I love using timers, cron syntax is scary.

And tbh, in the end I am already using systemd for all my services and stuff so win win.

Show threadStefan Rother-StübsMay 28

@thedarkener

And for cron expressions

#cron #unix #linux #birthday

Show threadmbeddedDevMay 28
@thedarkener Cronjobs are really very helpful (and much much much much much more reliable and stable than the Windows Task Scheduler)
Show threadmkjMay 28

@mbeddedDev That might have something to do with the operating system each was designed for respectively. 🙂

@thedarkener

Show threadmbeddedDevMay 28

@mkj I know. But in a project we used the Task Scheduler a lot and even basic stuff like "curl <some url> every 30 minutes" led to issues.
But we had to use a Windows Server -.-"

And something like "do a task at <time>" should just work :D

Show threadMartijnMay 28
@thedarkener ahh, cron, computers doing stuff for you when you want it. Seems like it can think on it's own, just deciding to do stuff, so essentially it's the original large language model.
Show threadNiels MoseleyMay 28
@thedarkener I will celebrate in a timely manner
Show threadGaëtan PerraultMay 28
@thedarkener I think the only correct response for this is to create a cron job that posts an update to this thread every year 😄
Show threadxinit ☕May 28

@thedarkener I'm still interested in meeting the person or persons who introduced the -e and -r args to crontab.

I have questions.

Show threadاسماعیلMay 29
@thedarkener long live Unix tools and its culture.
Show threadTFed 🍉🌻Jun 8
@thedarkener TIL that cron existed and it was already better than i thought it could be