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by alex-moon 1y ago
I realise this isn't the most thoughtful comment but I hope the intended spirit comes across when I say, sincerely: ha ha yay (clapping hands)
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by alex-moon 1y ago
This is depressing to be sure, but rest assured there is a long history of middle management being "the buffer" between upper management and everyone else. It's a common trope in TV shows and such. I think one of the most imp
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by alex-moon 1y ago
I think this is a real problem though I haven't got a lot of specifics to pull together into a comment just yet. Let me say a bit about what I mean though - I'll turn it into a blog post when I've got it more together. I rece
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by alex-moon 1y ago
Cool! I'm also not 100% sure, have only done a handful of posts. I would definitely put "Show HN" on a link to the demo app or the Github repo - and wait for the mods to correct me :D
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by alex-moon 1y ago
Oh wow! This is a huge honour, thank you so much! I definitely started writing a "lol HTMX is shit" post, but it just wasn't honest. HTMX is incredibly powerful - I am a fan of what you all have done with it. This attempt on
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by alex-moon 1y ago
Definitely - I think what's really interesting is that there is clearly a kind of "attractor" which all of these frameworks are pulled toward. That's kind of mainly what I was trying to aim at with the blog post - MESH i
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by alex-moon 1y ago
I remember seeing this on the HN front page a while back! I subsequently forgot all about it, of course. Helps to see it again a second time, especially with the new context - I might give it a try next, see how I go. Thanks for the reminde
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by alex-moon 1y ago
Ah, possibly - the way I think about Show HN is it's for links to a codebase or demo app. There is a demo app linked in this article but it's not the link posted to HN. The Guidelines explicitly mention "blog posts" as n
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Mesh: I tried Htmx, then ditched it(ajmoon.com)
253 points by alex-moon 1y ago|183 comments
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by alex-moon 1y ago
Or indeed "Find Repeat EDits" or fred for short.
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by alex-moon 1y ago
Back when I was teaching myself Spring circa 2015 there was this one guy called mkyong who literally just did Spring tutorials - his site's still online at mkyong.com[0] - and while I did occasionally use Baeldung and the Spring docs,
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by alex-moon 1y ago
A while ago, I was having an intense and heated argument with a good friend in the Finance sector about whether AI would replace jobs. I informed him that AI can only do something repeatable, "already solved problems", or what I c
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by alex-moon 1y ago
The Atlas of the Universe was an immensely valuable resource when I was making the SpaceWalks series: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLul2c76M6HJySkSXYMoLXW9VC... During COVID, I had a lot of spare time and an aversion t
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by alex-moon 1y ago
I'm increasingly convinced that social isolation is the single great social ill of our time. I am not one for "respecting others' opinions" at all, make no mistakes, if someone believes something incorrect - or worse - t
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Glow-in-the-dark succulents that recharge with sunlight(phys.org)
3 points by alex-moon 1y ago|0 comments
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by alex-moon 1y ago
You're absolutely right - I explained my reasoning poorly. Let me try again: a README.md marks a conceptual project root. It's a way of flagging to developers: "The code in this directory builds, deploys and/or runs sepa
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by alex-moon 1y ago
There is a very famous experiment which has been reproduced many times - I don't know if this is the original: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10437101/ - where you can measurably impact how much str
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by alex-moon 1y ago
Yes. Yes! Like Amelie with the photo booth guy. She has to find the officer in the hologram. But there is a twist! Maybe he's in a wheelchair now, pushing papers behind a desk. Or he's been disfigured beyond recognition in a horri
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by alex-moon 1y ago
As a human dev, can I humbly ask you to separate out your LLM "readme" from your human README.md? If I see a README.md in a directory I assume that means the directory is a separate module that can be split out into a separate rep
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by alex-moon 1y ago
One pedantic nitpick: the heat death of the universe is at least 10^100 years away, many many orders of magnitude longer than 200 billion (or 2x10^11) years. Overall though lovely stuff - I was already largely aware of all of this but it&#x
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by alex-moon 1y ago
This is my view on it too. Antirez is a Torvalds-level legend as far as I'm concerned, when he speaks I listen - but he is clearly seeing something here that I am not. I can't help but feel like there is an information asymmetry p
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by alex-moon 1y ago
Lovely stuff. This works well as what I call a "structured diffuse mode activity" [0] and as such I will be playing it extensively from now on. I also like that it has a big gaping security hole in it - I think the world generally
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by alex-moon 1y ago
The reason Wayland users might be more likely to opt into telemetry is because they see Wayland as "developing" and therefore needing that user data for development purposes. I have no idea what the incidence would actually be, bu
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by alex-moon 1y ago
I use Wayland! I like it a lot and I think that it's a sensible way to take window management in the 21st century. However, it's clearly not _mature_ yet (which is understandable - it's very new!). My use case specifically is
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by alex-moon 1y ago
I relate to so much of this. So much. First: the job which involves mostly burning code - so satisfying, I wouldn't call that my dream job, but that element of the job is one of the most rewarding for me - when it's my code, anywa
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by alex-moon 1y ago
"I don't have X problem. People who say they have X problem are the type of people you have to walk on eggshells around." Imagine how your comments would sound if X were something like racism or unwanted sexual advances inste
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by alex-moon 1y ago
100% agree. I leave negative reviews on any app with sound that doesn't give me the ability to mute it.
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by alex-moon 1y ago
Smartphone notifications. Every now and again I turn off DND because I'm expecting a call, and every time I turn it on again soon after - the continuous barrage of pinging noises makes the phone unusable. I have notifications turned of
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by alex-moon 1y ago
These kinds of write-ups are so key to driving adoption of a new technology. I'm still not super interested in HTMX but this write-up has done a lot of the work already toward nudging me that way. Well done!
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Koalas vs. Crows: An evolutionary theory of software(ajmoon.com)
39 points by alex-moon 1y ago|3 comments

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