[holgerschurig]

> I didn’t care to investigate further

and

> my best guess

and

> and presumably other things?)

and

> maybe there’s a bunch of Python code running inside a transaction

Basically, this article has no substance. The author didn't bother to learn anything, didn't look things up. And is then wildly guessing, sometimes wrong.

This is BTW the reason why (as a Debian user) if I search something Linux related and a Ubuntu forum pops up, I don't even open that anymore. Sure, Ubuntu is similar to Debian, but the amount of wrong guessworks in these forums is hefty. I however usually open the Arch Wiki pages, despite Arch very != Debian. But the articles there are written by knowledgeable people.

[simonw]

Julia Evans is an extremely knowledgeable person.

She's also one of the best out there at demystifying technology and helping people understand what solving problems actually looks like.

This article doesn't pretend to be a world expert's take on using SQLite. The clue is right there in the title - "learning a few things about running SQLite" - which sets expectations right from the start.

The wider message is consistent throughout all of her writing. You can do this stuff. Here are simple practices to show how to figure out problems and build your knowledge. You don't have to know everything, and you certainly don't have to pretend to know everything. Sharing what you've figured out so far, in as clear a way as possible, is a virtue.

[maccard]

I actually think the article is great - it shows the experience of someone who is a good approximation of a smart user that uses the tech. The posters focus is clearly on running the website, and these are the sorts of things that trip up everyday users that don’t spend their day in these tools.

Off the top of my head, yesterday in work I used 2 programming languages, 2 build systems, a cloud provider, a secrets manager, a very intricate framework for client server communication in both languages, plus my VCS, editor and CI tool. That’s a fairly typical set of tools to use for one feature for me, before you go into the weeds of OS versions, specific runtime versions, databases, reverse proxies, caches, and the domain logic!

If I went deep on every single thread exposed to me, I’d never get anything done, so I have to choose my battles just like OP has done here

[rmunn]

The Arch wiki is one of the best Linux-related resources out there. I used to look things up there all the time back when I was running Mint (which is basically Ubuntu under the hood). Ironically, now that I'm actually running Arch I think I'm looking things up on the Arch wiki less often than when I was running Mint.

[argamasa]

Don’t tell me you you found a load bearing seam. Honest take, the blast radius of that footgun muestra have read impressive before it was posted