You definitely should run it after updates.

It’s definitely AI generated. I suspect much of their portfolio is. See spec.md. Also, the committer’s username is “williamofai”.

Is it just me that hates this style of writing? It feels like it should be kept to linkedin.

what is it about it that you hate and that makes you associate it with linkedin? I don't hate it, but I feel the linkedin comparison. maybe because of the many linebreaks?

Devcontainers are great for me on windows and macos. What stack are you using?

I am on a Mac but I develop remotely on a VM, LSP is sometimes so slow, I want to shut it down.

I will say the FreeBSD handbook is such a breath of fresh air compared to other OS documentation. Everything is easy to find and well formatted. Same goes for the OS internals themselves. It's just a cohesive project altogether.

You're seeing the benefit of the cathedral model right there: a centralized, architected approach yields unified documentation, whereas the bazaar is inherently fragmented.

Back in college I spent some time translating portions of it to Russian. It was super easy to work with the project on that. I honestly have no idea if any of my contributions are still a part of it but I am really glad I did that.

same experience for me, I translated a few chapter to Italian while in university, I learned a lot and the translation project was super well run.

They did provide OS X Server at one time, but the market just wasn't there.

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

It wasn't an absence of a market. Those of us that had to manage OSX Server soon found out the software was marked by several high-profile bugs, technical debt, and a perceived decline in reliability. I migrated a large number of Macs to Ubuntu Server software. The hardware was great.

I fear the quality of macOS is deteriorating today in the same manner than befell OSX Server.

https://www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/apple-blasts-mac-os-x...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem

https://www.letemsvetemapplem.eu/en/2024/10/19/chyby-v-macos...

Mac OS X Server was..

.. macOS but with a utility to install apache/ldap/smtp/carddav and caldav.

very useful for a home server.

absolutely no benefit over Linux for the majority of the workloads it was designed to simplify.

It wouldn't really give you much unfortunately, certainly didn't run noticeably leaner.

(I think at some point "server" just became an .app that was available via the app store).

> very useful for a home server.

That sounds like a giant customer base, if paired with the right software for personal / small organization web publishing, blogging, and e-mail.

It's a shame that things turned out differently.

Right, but I could see an alternate timeline where OS X Server took off, and within a decade took a path similar to Windows Server (pared down services, headless flavor, etc)

Not very useful context considering that was before iOS development took off

I am not sure iOS popularity would justify macOS as a server. What would be the use case? It's not app development; that is done just fine on the standard desktop macOS. It's not backend; that is done just fine on Linux servers, even in Swift if that's your thing.

Builds

You don't need any feature from the old server OS for this, though. You just need your workstation to be on a network.

My workstation is ill-suited to be a CI runner, even if it is networked

Right. A way to rephrase this would be: what feature from the old Mac Os X Server is missing from the current macOS desktop to make it possible?

A network connected to what

Which Apple gladly sells their own Xcode Cloud infrastructure instead.

Yes. Somehow it’s actually even worse

> that was before iOS development took off

It was offered through the 2010s, iOS development had taken off by then, and the last release was in 2021.

In fact the number of unique apps available on IOS has declined since the 2010s

Keep it up. The more you let AI do it for you, the less knowledge you retain.

The software renderer did display many effects and even textures different. This video does a great breakdown:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npMujOQsjGQ

Never heard that. People call it SSMS.

Or "Management Studio". Never heard "SQL Studio" either.

I have looked at beancount and a few other double entry systems several times over the years. None of the applications I've found except for Microsoft My Money (Sunset Deluxe) has felt intuitive and not wasted my time. One of my accounts can't be imported via csv but other than that it is painless. I recommend it to people who just want a quick, free program for simple reporting.