And don't forget the venerable .NET Forms with its kilobytes of __VIEWSTATE

> kilobytes

cute

A couple other people mentioned ClearCase which has something similar if you use their NFS based thing, you could see file or directory history and info by accessing something like `foo.c@@/versions/5` (which isn't ordinarily visible when listing its directory). Pretty nifty.

Your workspaces were also copy-on-write from the base file revisions you were using.

We used Clearcase around year 2000 on HP-UX. I found it nice and powerful, but 90% of the developers did not understand it. Well, probably a similar statement holds for git.

I certainly didn’t understand it. We were using it up to 2019. A coworker set up a spec that would automatically mirror to the main codebase, unknown to me that was possible. I made a branch there, did some stuff, and then reverted. Little did I know I was essentially working on production. Broke a bunch of stuff and had to remember what I changed because there was no history. Point is it was too powerful for people that did and didn’t know how to use it.

DuckDB and Microsoft Access (!) have a PIVOT keyword (possibly others too). The latter is of course limited but the former is pretty robust - I've been able to use it for all I've needed.

PostgresSQL

"crosstab ( source_sql text, category_sql text ) → setof record"

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/tablefunc.html

VIA https://www.beekeeperstudio.io/blog/how-to-pivot-in-postgres... as a current googlable reference/guide

While not talked about on HN as much, the big corps doing monorepo use something like Perforce which has "protects" tables allowing very granular access control

WHMCS is probably the easiest batteries-included tool for the job, giving billing, management, and a customer support portal. These could be unbundled or reinvented but for your average hosting company there's no point in doing so.

It's C++ programs in a Userscript format, which are compiled with a bundled instance of clang. Windhawk shows diffs of version changes, and most programs aren't much longer than a couple dozen lines, so pretty easy to visually verify

It happens to me on many sites too, I'm not sure what causes it. Seems to mostly happen in Firefox iOS

Schwab supports Symantec VIP but there's a python package to emulate it, which will give you a regular TOTP setup code.

And it's not even all of the government, plenty of counties and even their departments have random domains leaving you wondering if it's just an elaborate phishing attempt

I love LINQPad and happily pay for the license.

My hope is that once he figures out the CLR host for Mac that he'll also come out with a Linux version of LPRun, since I want to automate some of my scripts on a cheap Linux VPS instead of a local windows scheduled task on my PC