andrewl-hn

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by andrewl-hn 10mo ago
Same dude. After 20+ years at FAANG he probably has enough FU money to burn on AI for next few decades.
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by andrewl-hn 10mo ago
Meanwhile here I am at stage 0. I work on several projects where we are contractually obliged to not use any AI tools, even self-hosted ones. And AFAIK there's now a growing niche of mostly government projects with strict no-AI policy.
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by andrewl-hn 10mo ago
As someone who never saw Mad Max, Slow Horses, Cat’s Cradle, Breaking Bad and only saw Waterworld when I was a kid all the references in this post went completely over my head, and I just think of words used in there as their own terminolog
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by andrewl-hn 10mo ago
It's actually remarkable how with the success of TypeScript so many other dynamic languages switched to gradual typing. Erlang and Clojure were the early ones, TypeScript followed, and now Python, Ruby, and even Perl have ways to speci
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by andrewl-hn 10mo ago
> "a static type check is just a stand-in for a unit test." This is not an original argument. Rich Hickey made a similar argument in his "Simple made easy" talk in 2011, though his focus was on a fact that every bug t
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by andrewl-hn 10mo ago
Perhaps, their own hiring pipeline is suffering, too. With most companies out there cutting internships and hiring of people with no experience "because AI will replace them" for the past 2-3 years we probably having a large dip i
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by andrewl-hn 10mo ago
DDG has been around for a long-long time, and when it started Perl was an old fashioned choice but still very reasonable. Even if they moved to other languages they probably still have old bits of Perl code running somewhere. For about firs
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by andrewl-hn 10mo ago
Interesting how Japanese companies were pursuing these compact mobility solutions. One other example is Honda made two of them: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Motocompo in 1980s and - https://motocomp
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by andrewl-hn 11mo ago
Other parts were legendary, too. * They came with a mail and chat (IRC) clients, a download manager, a set of browser dev tools, and in the age of limited internet traffic all of that was smaller than a single download of Firefox. * Their d
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by andrewl-hn 11mo ago
You would think they would use Azure for CDN, but apparently not.
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by andrewl-hn 11mo ago
Autocorrect messed up my last line, should say: uv seems like a great tool, but I remember thinking the same about pipenv, too.
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by andrewl-hn 11mo ago
Honestly, given the constant rollercoaster of version management and building tools for Python the move to something else would be expected rather than surprising. I’ve seems like a great tool, but I remember thinking the same about piping,
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by andrewl-hn 11mo ago
I’ll be honest, while I have my doubts about the match of interests and cohesion between an AI company and a JS runtime company I have to say this is the single best acquisition announcement blog post I’ve seen in 20 years or so. Very direc
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by andrewl-hn 11mo ago
Also, AFAIK SmartOS / Ilumos has had a combat layer for it, too.
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by andrewl-hn 11mo ago
> no networking support Would something like Smoltcp be of help here? https://github.com/smoltcp-rs/smoltcp Great project either way! How do you decide which sys calls to work on? Is is based on what the user space
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by andrewl-hn 11mo ago
Probably if Mozilla didn't push for it initially XSLT would stay around for another decade or longer. Their board syphons the little money that is left out of their "foundation + corporation" combo, and they keep cutting peop
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by andrewl-hn 1y ago
Yeah, I realize that I was wrong about ligatures afterwards. The two plusses next to each other looked as if they are a single combined glyph, but they are in fact separate. I think this is the effect you were trying to reach, and it looks
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by andrewl-hn 1y ago
And some proof assistant languages and frameworks. For a second I was really excited there, but this is another font with “programming ligatures”.
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by andrewl-hn 1y ago
True, and 10-20 years ago this seemed like a transitional issue: the world of technology was new and humanity needed time to adapt. Today I feel like some of this should be taught at school. Stuff like what is a browser, what is TLS, what a
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by andrewl-hn 1y ago
I run my email via imap and haven't seen GMail web UI for at least 15 years. Apple does some minor changes to Mail app but generally they follow "if it ain't broke don't fix it" motto, and I really appreciate that.
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by andrewl-hn 1y ago
Has this actually been true, though? I admit I don’t write JavaScript much recently, but to me it feels like things have pretty stabilized. React released hooks in early 2019 before Covid, and after that things don’t really change much at a
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by andrewl-hn 1y ago
The article lists all flashy JavaScript proposals, and none of them are part of the language. Here’s what actually is new: https://2ality.com/2025/06/ecmascript-2025.html
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by andrewl-hn 1y ago
Arc browser famously had native parts of the UI done in Swift, which admittedly is not a lot: browser tabs, some popups and buttons here and there, a lot of their settings UI is rendered in HTML and is stock Chromium. Which is probably why
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by andrewl-hn 1y ago
There's already a very good bridge for Qt: https://kdab.github.io/cxx-qt/book/ In the linked article the author had trouble building Qt for windows and because they wanted to go through 40+ GUI libraries they
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by andrewl-hn 1y ago
From the list of features it is very similar / identical to JavaScript GC in V8 / Chrome, which honestly expected: browsers have been trying to one-up each other on benchmarks throughout all 2010s. Go GC is incremental, concurrent
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by andrewl-hn 1y ago
In similar way I once worked on a financial system, where a COBOL-powered mainframe was referred to as "Backend", and all other systems around it written in C++, Java, .NET, etc. since early 80s - as "Frontend".
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by andrewl-hn 1y ago
Zed Editor (built on top of GPUI) is opaque to screen readers, so I wouldn't have high hopes.
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by andrewl-hn 1y ago
Not really. This UI toolkit is based on GPUI library build by Zed editor team, and while they improve accessibility over time (like, improving contrast and stuff), it's opaque to screen readers. At the moment if you want to have good a
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by andrewl-hn 1y ago
Several reasons, really: 1. The main one: it's the cheapest region, so when people select where to run their services they pick it because "why pay more?" 2. It's the default. Many tutorials and articles online show it i
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by andrewl-hn 1y ago
Probably it helps that Sublime doesn't come with an AI agentic features, LSP, and a whole video-conferncing and screen-sharing client by default.

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