>If contract broken, sue them. Why throwing a scene?

Haha! tell me about it.

A client of mine ended his contract in 2010, pretending he did not use my software anymore. He had the source because I had to compile on site for technical reasons.

A disgruntled employed called to tell me and my associate he was still using it. It took me 3 years to find a proof, lawsuit started in 2014, the expertise began in 2016 and ended in 2021. I have a first trial hearing scheduled Feb, 12 2026. Expect 6 to 12 months before a decision, and of course, an appeal after that.

The guy had stocked up 5 million dollars net when I stopped him with the lawsuit [0], he is using the money to pay well known lawyers to delay the procedure every which way.

I'm out largely over 100 000 euros in court, expertise and lawyer fees, plus the countless hours spent responding to the endless, senseless dribble their lawyers produce.

As far as I'm concerned, my services are now hosted by me, and failure to pay shuts down the service, it's in the TOS.

[0 : he subcontracted for a big entity. I would never had gotten that contract myself, lacking the thief's network; said big entity never replied to our mails about our software]

I meant to add that I don't advertise it and just invalidate the account. Omitted it for brevity.

There is also the long time friend you do a site for, with an agreed upon price. And he forgets to renew the bank transfer every year... for months.

GP seems to mean that if people cared about audio quality, they would not use bluetooth in the first place?

Audiophiles tend to have firm stances on what is acceptable or not, I find.

There are also some amazing cables available in the space. Especially the digital cables, they are really amazing.

A friend worked in an audiophile shop during his physics master and he'd swear the customer base was the most gullible bunch he ever saw... And mostly unswayable by rational arguments.

In any case someone ought to shear the sheep....

100% - most 'audiophile' wouldn't pass a blind test checking audio quality.

I suspect some of that disconnect is because hearing itself isn’t standardized. Differences in frequency perception, hearing loss, and training can make two people genuinely hear different things.

Of course people have different hearing, but the audiophile market is overflowing with snake-oil stuff like 'oxygen free copper' cables to 'acoustic resonator discs'. Nobody's proven any of that stuff results in better sound quality (or even different quality after you graduate from junk stuff to reasonable equipment). Seems like an awfully expensive way of experiencing the placebo effect to me.

I know someone who spent upwards of $10k on a single 3-foot HDMI cable that was 'infused with Peruvian copper'. He says it makes the colors "more true".

Interesting. Nice way to get headers quickly, I'll have a look.

Fun project I'm sure, but out of curiosity, is this something that you can monetize somehow? because the fun only goes so far.

I built an accounting app :

https://compta.libremen.com

Did not intend to at first, but having quit Windows, I had to replace the Access application I had built with an accountant friend of mine to manage my small business. Looking around the web, I could not find something I liked.

I ended up re-writing the thing as an SaaS for my own use, but then figured that if I'm using it, others might want to, and all I had to do was to add an 'id_client' field to the database. It turns out to be a bit more complicated than that, as users tend to come with different needs, and to think of ways of using your app you did not anticipate.

Also, when I tell an accountant that I wrote an accounting application, his eyes pop, his head tilts slightly, and he appears to be evaluating whether I'm the dangerous kind of crazy before ending the conversation. Must be due to the horrors they have to deal with all day.

It's a hard sell, revenue is closer to $500/year than $500/month, because I have very low fees and very small clients. But I take great pride in counting one accountant using it in his professional practice. It's also great fun to tune as the number of lines grows, however odd this may sound.

Hi,

When one clicks on 'Play tutorials', the text at the bottom reads :

>Start by follow the instructions

Should be 'Start by following the instructions', I believe?

Indeed! Thank you, fixed!

Strange, for me it's the opposite.

Just yesterday, I moved some 100 lines of code using a hash quite a few times from the main module to a function using a reference to the hash.

if %args is the hash holding the data, '$args{key}' tells me the value of 'key' in the main module.

a reference to the hash passed to the function is noted like so : '$args = \%args';$args->{key} tells me value of 'key'

All I had to do to adapt the code was to replace '$args{' with '$args->{', done by the time I typed the replace command in my editor.

Funny that it just makes sense to me, must be something with the brain's wiring.

>This was one of the big reasons, most of these enterprise coders wanted Perl gone

I see some people disagree with you, but reading this reminds me of this anecdote :

My brother has a very high IQ score, but poor social skills. He once found employment in one of the very early companies developing websites in our area.

There was a process requiring to manually check hundreds of links for validity, which took large amounts of time to do (as in several developper hours weekly), and was error prone at that. The details are fuzzy as this happened some 30 years ago or so, but essentially he found a logical way to do the thing without error in 15 minutes.

The other developers went on a rampage to dismiss the solution, for fear of looking like idiots, and even though the solution was provable, my bro go fired, and went on to become a mechanic. What a shame though.

So, your comment rang a bell.

Also : I make a living developing and maintaining a handful of custom made SaaS for small clients on a LAMP stack (Linux Apache Mod_perl Postgresql). Very thrifty.

Little money, but loads of fun as far as I'm concerned

I had to laugh out loud at this (by myself).

The amount of requests I get on my servers for WP related files is insane

> I have machines at these providers with 1000-1300 days of uptime

You did not say what system you use on them, but don't you need to reboot them to apply kernel upgrades, for instance?

Most of them run Debian (some have Windows VMs running on those Debian machines), while a minority use Ubuntu. I reboot them once every few years when I upgrade the OS, kernel, or migrate to newer machine types.

I run most of the workloads in containers, but there are also some VMs (mostly Windows) and some workloads use Firecracker micro vms in containers. A small number of machines are rebooted more often because they occasionally need new kernel features, and their workloads aren't VM friendly, so they run on bare metal.

Haha! we named our software Marica for "Management des risques et des contrats d'assurance" (we're a French company).

We have since translated the software in several languages. It appears that marica in spanish means something like queer in English when used against homosexuals, only _more_ derogatory amongst these macho people :-(