You can follow, star, favourite and comment on things, you get a feed where recent updates on stuff/people you've interacted are listed, you can customise your profile page with snippets about yourself, a photo, a status, contact info and add whatever else you want (including more photos, images, charts etc) in markdown. It now has discussions which are essentially a forum.
It's as much a social network/collaboration tool as it is place to store your code these days.
This looks great, definitely going to take it for a spin tomorrow.
I'm pretty happy at the moment editing in vim invoked from psql with \e - which has been my setup for way more than a decade now, but I do miss isql (Query Analyzer) from SQL Server 2000, which was just about perfect.
I took it for a test spin just now and I'm impressed. Some notes:
- to get it to run (on Fedora) I had to manually installed python3-keyring first
- connected with ease, that part is really smooth
- I like the ability to easily flick through the tabs on objects and see the relevant data
- took me a while to work out how to create a new query, expected to be open a query window then save the file rather than create a file/query at once (unless I'm missing something)
- usually I want to query first and only save if needed
- UI is really nice, fits in perfectly
- would be nice to be able to collapse/hide the file chooser in the bottom left when I'm not using it
Also, and I understand it's probably a pile of work, but a graphical view of explain would be amazing. This isn't a feature request, I'm sure there's plenty of other stuff that needs attention first :)
Thanks. To be honest I'm going to start using it already. I think being able to easily open a new blank query is the main thing. ctrl+n. That's how I start most of my investigations.
I use Excalidraw extensively at work. For me, it's really close to perfection.
It has an excellent UI, selections work way better than Lucid or Figma etc, the sketchy look makes it clear designs are rough and not blueprints, it's private and loads instantly.
The one negative is that it's a pain to get the multiplayer self-hosted version running.
Yeah, Excalidraw is really nice diagramming tools that I frequently used as well on my day-to-day works.
For the self-host, finally I build the solution myself so I can self-host Excalidraw and several other plaintext diagramming format while still able to working with my peers using realtime collaboration.
The company where I'm contracted retired Excalidraw in favor of Lucid and, while I understand that big companies are going to go with big, enterprise-y solutions, what went from a weekly "sketch something out to help with communicating my ideas" turned into "once every few months I begrudgingly document something".
Excalidraw is excellent for low-friction sketches.
I also have a standing desk, and my desktop computer is still on the floor. That way I can just route all the cables to the back and then under the desk to my PC. Looks very clean as well.
I use my 2019 X1C 7th Gen daily and it's been the best laptop I've owned by a mile. Never skipped a beat.
I immediately switched it to Fedora and everything worked out of the box except the fingerprint reader which started working a few weeks later after a firmware update (also handled effortlessly/perfectly within Gnome - and it still gets updates!)
Starting in the CompuServe era, and ending in about 2001, I was a voluntary member of the MVPs for Windows programming. You would get swag, including a full MSDN subscription. My reason for joining this and for otherwise posting hopefully helpfully on forums was to lower the barrier to Windows programming.
I was idle vis-à-vis this by about 1999, and was excluded from the benefits as a result.
Then I posted on several threads within rec.autos.bmw and I got an extra year or two of benefits.
Because it comes 'free' with an Office365 subscription. Embrace (<<you are here), extend, extinguish.
It's usually 'management'. The same management that won't pay for developer tools (including Slack) because 'why do you need that when you can do 95% of your work in VSCode?' It's also usually the same sort of management that can do 95% of their documents in... VSCode and markdown. Or LibreOffice.
Having been in the position, on a corporate Active Directory network it very much easier to roll out Teams than anything else. It works fine at the kind of internal video calls that companies spend their days on.
Yeah or 80% even so they can sound cool and quote the pateto principle. Which isn't meant as an excuse to not bother to do the 20% at all but they use it as such.
I don't think M$ does much dogfooding. The kinds of issues I encounter being forced to use their pan-awfuly for work makes me very skeptical of this idea.
… when it works. And if you never have to change camera or microphone settings.
> and calendar integration.
The little notification that pops up telling you your meeting is about to start based on your calendar? The one you better not click in the first 5 or so seconds it's there, because then you'll end up with an error message that tells you absolutely nothing, have to go back to the chat, and try again?
Same reason MS used a Perforce fork instead of Source Safe. Because the dogfood tastes terrible.
One of the executives at the late, great, Sun Microsystems once dunked hard on Microsoft by saying, "At Sun we don't make dogfood. We prefer to refer to it as, 'flying our own airplanes.'"
It's not. It's an independent company, that's most likely going to IPO soon. Microsoft was reported to be in talks to acquire Discord at some point, but that never materialised.
It's as much a social network/collaboration tool as it is place to store your code these days.
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