#justworks — Public Fediverse posts

I just confirmed that my provincial government - Saskatchewan - is still using a piece of software that a colleague and I at a long-out-of-business company obtained from another government (it was developed in-house there) and extensively customized for them... 25 years ago.

It's in use all over the "new" overall Government website. They've put some shiny new CSS on it when integrating it into other pages, but the source still shows what the backend is doing.

(a) this is funny, in a blast-from-the-past way.

(b) this is also an illustration that software, properly designed and implemented, doesn't need constant churn just to "keep up". It doesn't need to be rewritten from scratch every 3 years because the developers or management has CADT syndrome. It doesn't need to be "updated" to give it a new "framework" because ooh, shiny shiny. It doesn't need to be lifted and shifted to "the cloud". It doesn't need to be backed by Google or Amazon or Oracle or anyone else.

It's Perl, a database, and a webserver, on Linux. And it Just Works.

#software #engineering #design #implementation #SoftwareDevelopment #stability #StableSoftware #CADT #shiny #JustWorks #ItJustWorks #SoftwareThatWorks #Perl #database #webserver #TheCloud #TheClown

I might be a bit of a Ubiquiti fanboy. Their gear usually #JustWorks, so when they started selling NAS boxes I assumed I needed one in my life. (I mean, I really didn't.  I have gobs of actual servers for file storage.)

TL;DR: I didn't. And I actively dislike it.  Like a lot.

The UNAS-2 is extremely limited. I knew that going in. It's a file box and little else: no Docker, no app ecosystem, none of the flexibility you'd get from a Synology. Fine. What I didn't sign up for:

→ The iPhone backup is flaky and just… stopped, throwing "UniFi Endpoint and UNAS Not on the Same Network." They are, provably, on the same network.  Nothing changed.
→ To reach it from my phone I have to use the UniFi Endpoint app. The one that also wants to babysit my door cameras?!
→ Time Machine backups are technically possible, after a fight.  I haven't won that fight.  I gave up.
→ And I swear the thing bumps itself off the network on the regular.

Sigh. At least it has a cute screen.

#Ubiquiti #UniFi #UNAS #homelab #selfhosting

Gentoo Linux: because who doesn't love spending New Year's Eve compiling their entire OS from scratch? 🎉🔧 Let's celebrate 2026 by pretending Gentoo is still relevant, while the rest of the world enjoys systems that just work™. 😂💻
https://www.gentoo.org/news/2026/01/05/new-year.html #GentooLinux #NewYearsEve #CompilingFromScratch #TechHumor #JustWorks #HackerNews #ngated

How is there not a simple #pwsh command to sync the #intune management extension on a windows box?

Another case of #Microsoft making at best 75% of a full featured product

#sysadmin #powershell #windows #mdm #ime #justworks

I thought I did this one last year, but it turned out I didn't :mastomoji:. So this year, let me ensure I'm participating! Because it's the month of #libreoffice!

Why do I love it? Because it meets all my office needs, is #free, #opensource, and #privacy friendly. I'm using it for private use and work, and despite my colleagues using MS Office I never had issues.

Oh, and because my grandpa took years before he even realised he didn't use MS Office. Because it #justworks and is so #easy to use.

So if you wanna hire someone who’s good on a team, is mission oriented, and is used to having a high bar. Hire someone who worked at Justworks. Engineering, operations, product, customer service (incredibly high-quality customer service) they’re all good.

If you see Justworks on their resume, give them a second look.

#justworks

Az Apple Január 27-én 15 éve indította el a Books (anno iBooks) appját és szolgáltatását. Azóta nem sikerült megoldani hogy a reading list normálisan synceljen eszközök között iCloudon keresztül. Tegnap telefonon hozzá adtam egy könyvet, iPadre mai napig nem sikerült átjutnia. Többször ki-be kapcsoltam a Books iCloud syncet mindkét eszközön, hátha triggereli a syncet de semmi. #JustWorks #TwiceAsAmazing

@georgespolitzer honestly switch games have had this experience for me recently too it's been really great, even with the official takedowns it #JustWorks

@gernot I was trying AirPlay Receiver, seems like it neither works with hotspot over the air, or hotspot over cable.

Might work with both devices on Wifi, but that's not an option on this train, it's crap for internet access.

Fell back to not charging the phone. Maybe the annoying loud people that made me want music will get off before the phone battery dies :)

Likely happening because I am on an older macOS, despite the generic "connection failed" message from AirPlay.

#JustWorks

I'm really quite upset that in 2024, I “had to”* create this simple #php server to get pictures from a test-#android I have to my #mac.

https://gist.github.com/gnyman/b5219f1b51a640dce08bcc1d5f3712bd

• no of course I didn't “have to”, there are ways and software but I don't want to install something or transfer it via a server on the other side of the world to get it 30 cm

#stupidlysimplesoftware #singleusetool #justworks

I may have called #Siri some names because of this 👀

Especially when I am tired and I just want something that #JustWorks https://mastodon.social/@christianselig/112168712303710182

@Haydar @ayushnix

The same here (openSUSE/MicroOS with Sway and Firefox from Flatpak). No problems whatsoever, #JustWorks .

Fore those on #macOS for whom "move focus to next window" does not work (there are *many* threads out there): Go to "System Preferences" -> "Keyboard" -> "Shortcuts" -> "Keyboard" and hold the option key whilst left-clicking the shortcut, then re-enter Command+`.

Suddenly it woks.

Apple. Because it #JustWorks.

@PanzerKern Google keyboard #justworks but I know swiftkey is popular too

The #SwiftUI view that I created (a while ago now) to render GIFs #JustWorks on visionOS, even as an attachment on RealityKit. And this is quite cool.

Project: https://github.com/igorcferreira/GIFImage

Whenever anyone says “Apple stuff Just Works™”, tell them you can’t use the backspace key in iCloud Calendar on Firefox.

Then laugh in their faces.

#apple #justWorks #iCloud #calendar #firefox #web #dev #trillionDollarIncompetence

@ska @djb

> The tinydns-data format has one key per domain, so you have to cycle through all records,
> and more lookups are involved to find the authority etc.

I've never had occasion to peek under the hood of #djbdns; it Just Worked and that was enough for me. So I'm a little surprised by that design.

I would have thought the key would be `<domain>-<recordtype>`, at least.

Fascinating.

#JustWork #JustWorks #software

I’m not exactly sure how they managed it but Apple have somehow disabled my backspace key in text fields when adding an event in the web version of Calendar on icloud.com using Firefox on Fedora Silverblue.

Of course, I could just be typing it wrong…

(Delete still works so I guess there’s still a workaround.)

#justWorks #apple #icloud #calendar #backspace #linux #fedora #firefox #web #holdingItWrong #justWorksTM

Just to say, that the #Elegoo Neptune 3 Pro what my mate @biglesp recommended to me just works when I want something #3DPrinted :) #JustWorks

Over a year ago I bought a little #miniPC and installed #PFSense on it to serve as a #router for my #homelab

I didn't hook it up right away, and I forgot the credentials I used to set it up, but I connected it to a switch and it #justWorks so I never bothered to fix it.

My #Netgear #Wifi AP needs updated and restarted all the time, but pfSense has been doing it's job ever since with absolutely no help from me.

Very impressive!

📣 Quick shout out to the free Transnomino app for #macOS - excellent and powerful tool for batch/bulk file renaming. #justworks

@michacard have a look at https://wiki.debian.org/MacBook for #debian....there might be more info somewhere for your specific model of macbook, which can be id'd with eg https://everymac.com/. Having said all that, you may find that #ubuntu #justworks....good luck!

The moment when your mouse cursor magically leaves the computer and shows up on your iPad. By itself.

#macos #JustWorks #ux

@Tekchip yup! good tag #justworks because that it does!