alexmingoia

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by alexmingoia 4y ago
I love this :)
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by alexmingoia 4y ago
We'll still use that 0.5% for something else, right? It's not as if power generation (and emissions) will be reduced.
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by alexmingoia 4y ago
Why is that? To be clear the lack of “shared” dependencies does not necessitate code duplication. By shared dependencies I’m talking about languages (Haskell for example) where only one version of a library can be used, which results in the
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by alexmingoia 4y ago
Use a modular view/component, or a class using tailwind's @apply directive. It's the best of both worlds.
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by alexmingoia 4y ago
Can you give an example of why you need non-terminating semantics? Programs can still be run "forever", if they are run for each input while maintaining terminating semantics for deriving output. Abstractly the Turing machine is i
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by alexmingoia 4y ago
No higher order functions means that you cannot make a function that takes another function as input or returns a function as output. I would prefer a programming language to be simple, only allowing functions which transform finite input t
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by alexmingoia 4y ago
The diamond dependency problem is easy to avoid: Only allow namespaced/qualified includes, no shared libraries. There is no need for a package manager if the runtime does the work of resolving all includes, and these references have so
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by alexmingoia 4y ago
Databases are useful. Look at Datalog and SQL and you're looking at a language that does very useful stuff without user-defined types, higher-order functions, recursion, etc.
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by alexmingoia 4y ago
- One executable that is the runtime, accepting one argument: the source code file. - No linters. Code is auto-formatted. - No modules. Includes can be namespaced/aliased. - No package manager. Include by Git URL with tags. - No type a
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by alexmingoia 4y ago
It doesn’t have to be either or. Provide a toggle for the user to choose their preference.
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by alexmingoia 4y ago
You don’t have to have a passion. It may be more helpful to understand “do what you love” to mean “don’t spend your time doing something you hate or living for other people”.
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by alexmingoia 4y ago
I use https://sumi.news (I made it).
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by alexmingoia 4y ago
Nope, they are not your iCloud password. Keys for E2E items are kept on device and then there’s a process to join a signing circle for syncing. What this means in practice is to sync you need to allow your new device to be accepted into the
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by alexmingoia 4y ago
Nothing, as far as I can tell. End-to-end encrypted history and tabs, and recent versions with iCloud+ use encrypted DNS and VPN (iCloud private relay) that uses encrypted forwarding so ingress servers can’t tie your requests to a destinati
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by alexmingoia 4y ago
Their iCloud security page says “Safari History, Tab Groups, and iCloud Tabs” is end-to-end encrypted. So they store history to sync across devices but the keys are only on your devices. https://support.apple.com/en-us/
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by alexmingoia 4y ago
Safari history and tabs are end-to-end encrypted: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303 And Apple provides iCloud+ members with a VPN which does not tie browsing history to users by separating ingress and egress tra
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by alexmingoia 4y ago
Yeah, it's a separate file. But because I'm using tailwindcss, the HTML actually has a huge number of classes. I'm not sure how much that matters with compression though.
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by alexmingoia 4y ago
I should add that this depends on your subscribed sources. My page is ~13KB today, but it could be up to ~60KB if you have a lot of headlines. Most of the HTML is actually tailwindcss classes repeated for each headline. I wonder how much si
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by alexmingoia 4y ago
https://sumi.news HTML is ~14KB when transferred with compression. The CSS is ~30KB. I could probably slash that in half if I optimized.
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by alexmingoia 4y ago
What I did when I started was respond to job postings and offer the same contribution as an hourly service, using a weekly retainer of 10-20 hours (remote). It worked well. Companies are desperate for good engineers. I found they'll al
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by alexmingoia 4y ago
Software can’t be delivered on time (it can).
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by alexmingoia 4y ago
https://sumi.news – it’s cool because it’s made for skimming, not doom-scrolling. It’s only headlines grouped by day and source.
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by alexmingoia 4y ago
Ah, I didn’t know that. I’m not sure I consider that “great support.” It looks relatively new, and from the blog post it seems the spec is still in proposal and development stage. It’s not implemented in any of the chat clients either. Exc
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by alexmingoia 4y ago
Ah TIL. Matrix can be used to setup a WebRTC session between two participants. But that looks like pretty rudimentary. Do any chat clients use this? I thought Elements used Jitsi.
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by alexmingoia 4y ago
Me too. At least you can use VoIP numbers with Signal. You can also get a prepaid SIM anonymously, use it to create a Signal account, and then not use it. So there wouldn’t actually be any cell network activity tied to the phone number.
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by alexmingoia 4y ago
Also worth pointing out that Jitsi isn’t a standard protocol (AFAIK), but an open-source library. Matrix, the protocol, doesn’t actually have support for video/voice chat.
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by alexmingoia 4y ago
I don’t keep a to-do list. I keep most ideas in my head. When I have development time I choose the most important feature, imagining it was the last feature I could develop. I wireframe the UX, and when I’m satisfied I implement it. I test
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by alexmingoia 4y ago
This is known as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_trust
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by alexmingoia 4y ago
I wouldn't offer anything for free, but more than once I have offered a 100% money-back satisfaction guarantee for the first week or two of a new contract. This has helped particularly clients that have not worked with a contractor bef
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by alexmingoia 4y ago
While I’m just a small one-man shop, I use Haskell for https://sumi.news Anyone else using Haskell to run a SaaS?

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