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/dev/null: social network for developers

43 points mnapoli 1 hour ago 61 comments

ersind 1 hour ago | parent

Looks good!

JaceComix 1 hour ago | parent

Which part looks good? The <50 words or the YouTube video?

I'm not saying this isn't a good idea or that people don't want something like this but... There's nothing here?

sidrag22 1 hour ago | parent

yep im confused, i see a handful of words that signals almost nothing other than there is potentially something behind the login gate. then an 8 hour video... im not just gonna jump into some random 8 hour video without any context, just as im not about to signup for something with no context for what it really is.

TheChelsUK 1 hour ago | parent

Very good idea

muslimpeacepriz 1 hour ago | parent

Shouldn't that domain be dev-null.social instead of 'shell'? Dorks.

ajjenkins 1 hour ago | parent

It would be nice if the website had more information about the platform before you create an account.

ersind 1 hour ago | parent

This was done only in two days, there are important pages missing.

embedding-shape 1 hour ago | parent

> This was done only in two days

So not at all ready to be seen? Maybe we should all flag this so it can re-appear once someone spent at least a bit of time on making it proper and ready for public consumption?

mystifyingpoi 1 hour ago | parent

Does this excuse the main page missing any information what this thing even is? Come on.

mnapoli 1 hour ago | parent

Fixed! Check out the website it shows content now, no landing page anymore

ajjenkins 8 minutes ago | parent

Much better now, thanks!

I would describe the website as “twitter for developers and uses your GitHub account for auth”. It’s a simple concept, but I think using your GitHub account to sign in is a great idea and a meaningful differentiator. Good luck!

cyanydeez 1 hour ago | parent

conceptually, just sounds like a place you go when you don't want anyone to hear, see or think about you.

brabel 1 hour ago | parent

A dream developer experience.

probably_wrong 1 hour ago | parent

I have a petty complaint: if you name your social network after a core Unix concept, then why make your users login exclusively through a Microsoft subsidiary?

stephenlf 1 hour ago | parent

Is this a real question? If so, here’s a real answer:

GitHub is the single most widely adopted, developer-specific OIDC identity provider.

If it’s facetious, then WSL BABYYYYYY

OtomotO 1 hour ago | parent

Guess I am simply not invited to the party then.

Or I am not a developer after all.

Identity crisis intensifies

pitched 1 hour ago | parent

The dev in /dev/null is device, not developer. So you’re not a device but you can still be a developer.

fatty_patty89 1 hour ago | parent

>Is this a real question? If so, here’s a real answer:

>Let's all be willing docile salves

This is how you sound

pants2 1 hour ago | parent

Nobody's forcing you to use that website

mystifyingpoi 1 hour ago | parent

Why does this need OIDC at all? Basic email + password account is like 1-2 prompts away.

bigwheels 1 hour ago | parent

Maybe spam concerns, but your point remains valid.

hobofan 1 hour ago | parent

Because effective anti-spam account measures are not 1-2 prompts away.

saghm 1 hour ago | parent

And having those passwords leaked is probably only another 1-2 prompts away

ASalazarMX 53 minutes ago | parent

I guess at some point developers will have to prove they're serious developers by exposing their GitHub profile.

Edit: it's part of your profile already, better vibe code some random ideas to farm some GitHub dev credibility.

ranger_danger 47 minutes ago | parent

I don't think a github profile (or any specific activity therein) should be a prerequisite for being considered a 'serious developer'.

ASalazarMX 40 minutes ago | parent

I am of the same idea. Requiring online, public repositories, specifically in GitHub, doesn't cover all developers. It covers many of them nowadays, so there's that.

sandeepkd 1 hour ago | parent

How does publicly published PGP based login sounds?

retromagik 1 hour ago | parent

Based on the branding, I think their target demographic assumes the dev in /dev/null is short for "Developers"

joshuat 1 hour ago | parent

dev = developer

bin = trash

ASalazarMX 56 minutes ago | parent

It's a cute name, but considering how combative developers can be about naming, I think it should have been more clever than cute.

If 'dev' is developer, 'null' makes me think it's for worthless developers, or for things that developers don't care about.

pitched 1 hour ago | parent

GitHub is a social network already. You’re logging into one social network with another social network. And I’m complaining about that fact on a different social network. What has the world come to?

ASalazarMX 55 minutes ago | parent

DM me and subscribe if you want an explanation.

ranger_danger 52 minutes ago | parent

FWIW DOS and Windows both have a null concept too:

  C:\> TYPE file.txt >NUL
  C:\>

28304283409234 19 minutes ago | parent

And for developers. Only a tiny percentage of the devs I know actually know what /dev/null is.

rvz 1 hour ago | parent

> No likes. No reposts. No algorithm. Everything else goes to /dev/null.

*Closes tab

aftbit 1 hour ago | parent

Just skip the whole thing and send your thoughts straight to /dev/null

stephenlf 1 hour ago | parent

Weird, especially because it DOES have likes.

wccrawford 1 hour ago | parent

No, it has stars. /s

sigh Yeah, that's really a bad look for them to claim no likes and then have something that is functionally identical.

mnapoli 1 hour ago | parent

Yep our bad, we fixed this, no landing page anymore

stephenlf 1 hour ago | parent

I signed up for TextLog a few weeks ago. I love the text-only social network, but their European infra meant too much latency for my US-based browsing. Maybe this will scratch that itch!

nailer 1 hour ago | parent

> follow people who write code, and commit plain text to a shared log.

Isn't that Twitter?

verdverm 1 hour ago | parent

Twitter is gone, isn't it? X under Elon is not a place I will ever hang out

Discord is where more dev communities are moving to

simonhamp 1 hour ago | parent

it's fully open source (https://github.com/nunomaduro/dev-null.sh/pulls) and received over 200 PRs in less than 48 hours

esaym 1 hour ago | parent

I am always so floored when I see a new thing written all in PHP. I always got crap for using Perl most of my life.

nailer 1 hour ago | parent

I can't see any of the content unless I sign in.

I don't know if I want to sign in, because I can't see any of the content.

satiric 1 hour ago | parent

I'm thinking of it a different way. In order to join a social media network these days, I need to have some assurance that it's going to be worth my time. They didn't provide any, so screw 'em.

simonhamp 1 hour ago | parent

it was supposed to be public. maybe it got reverted. the team were moving super fast

mnapoli 54 minutes ago | parent

yeah that's fixed

mnapoli 1 hour ago | parent

That's fixed

t1234s 1 hour ago | parent

Why do all these guys have "Soy Face" when you take their pictures?

ASalazarMX 44 minutes ago | parent

TIL soy face is the 'unmasculine' version of pog face.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/soy_face

antiloper 1 hour ago | parent

> Computah... build me a social network in PHP. Import the user's profile from GitHub, they shouldn't have to fill anything in. No likes, reposts or algorithms. Add a catchy slogan at the home page. Make no mistakes!

hk1337 1 hour ago | parent

> Failed to open page

I'm guessing that wasn't expected result.

lenerdenator 1 hour ago | parent

Devs need to be around actual humans in-person more, not less.

ASalazarMX 47 minutes ago | parent

I have the right amount of humans in my life, I don't want more. Online is great for me, for this use case.

deadbabe 1 hour ago | parent

/tmp/social would have been better I think. dev = device, doesn’t make sense.

hk1337 51 minutes ago | parent

I like it. I might steal that.

sp4cec0wb0y 1 hour ago | parent

Your posts have to be approved? Odd way to run a social network imo.

rafram 30 minutes ago | parent

Kind of makes sense for a small operation. Better that than miss something bad for eight hours because the admin (presumably singular) is sleeping.

caaqil 1 hour ago | parent

This is interesting: a. Developers on average are probably low on E trait in the Big Five b. Most users in the online developer communities (at least the ones who will be doing the "social" part, per the standard 1% rule of social platforms) loathe LinkedIn-style stuff, being asked to log in or provide PII. c. Most "social" services devs regularly use are for technical/utility stuff (GH, SO, subreddits) more than the social aspect.

If a, b and c are true, then this site is reinventing HN/proggit with forced GitHub login on top. NGMI.

ineptech 3 minutes ago | parent

Errant thought - I kind of hope that the actual social network for developers of the not so distant future looks more like a bunch of us separately building bespoke applications to serve files to each other.

> Dave: "Bot, add a folder to my personal data store with the pictures I took this weekend and share it with everyone in my poker group"

> Sally: "I see that I've gotten an email from Dave with a magic link conveying access to something. Bot, use this link to negotiate a key exchange with whatever weird app Dave cobbled together (ask his bot if you need help) and then log into my VPS and add a tab to my personal webapp to display the content he has shared."

That might be overly optimistic, but it doesn't feel that far off. It's kind of what Tim Berners-Lee build https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_project for right?