chrisweekly

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by chrisweekly 26d ago
Cool! S an avid reader, Whispersync is one of the things that keeps me paying Amazon/Audible. Competition and viable OSS alternatives would be great!
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by chrisweekly 27d ago
"completely" LLM generated? Hard boundaries there simply don't exist for most workflows, and I suspect if they did, it'd be at the expense of things ~nobody would want to give up.
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by chrisweekly 27d ago
Simple enough to script someth to do just that.
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by chrisweekly 27d ago
Great approach - I'd add a key one: "Who else should I talk to / who is (regardless of title) effectively responsible for X?"
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by chrisweekly 28d ago
Zed still has a lot of rough edges. A month or two ago I couldn't believe that a basic feature like code folding was just completely broken.
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by chrisweekly 28d ago
Hardware requirements?
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by chrisweekly 28d ago
I don't like htmx. Compared to component-based approaches, its template / DOM / HTTP-fragment contracts are harder to share, type-check, version, and compose. Application behavior is distributed among: - Markup attributes
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by chrisweekly 28d ago
I highly recommend the book "Deep Simplicity" by John Gribbin.^1 It explores precisely this topic: the emergence of unexpectedly rich, complex behaviors from very simple rules given feedback and sensitivity to initial conditions.
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by chrisweekly 28d ago
Yeah; how many times in 24 hours can one vigilante commit acts of thinly-narratively-justified but actually-illegal torture without audiences clueing in?
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by chrisweekly 29d ago
I love this idea. I also just checked out your blog (jerf.org) which also has some gems.
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by chrisweekly 29d ago
Hmm, I'd define that as "deprecated", not "obsolete". Many extant H2 deployments are stable and performant, and if they're eg fronted by an H3 CDN, the migration ROI might be questionable. /$.02
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by chrisweekly 29d ago
By what definition is HTTP/2 considered obsolete? Are you suggesting it's been supplanted by H3? (FWIW I agree w/ your objection to the "httpx2" name.)
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by chrisweekly 1mo ago
IMHO equating commits and PRs puts undue pressure on the scope and quality of a given commit, adding potential for unnecessary stress and eliminating the benefits of an additional buffer / layer for aggregation of changes. A PR represe
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by chrisweekly 1mo ago
rewolves? EDIT: ah, "resolves" typo. was v curious about python's mysterious "wolfing" aspects
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by chrisweekly 1mo ago
Fastmail is awesome. Happy customer for many years. Zero problems.
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by chrisweekly 1mo ago
How does this compare to "smolvm" microvms from https://smolmachines.com ?
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by chrisweekly 1mo ago
Sure. No real disagreement here. (See also my replies to peer comments here.)
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by chrisweekly 1mo ago
What models do you use in your work?
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by chrisweekly 1mo ago
I hear you. "Choose boring tech" is a reasonable default stance. IMHO, designing resilient systems in anticipation of change, and finding ways to incorporate the best of what's new, is the nature of the game and what helps ke
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by chrisweekly 1mo ago
What kind of work have I done? All kinds of webdev and SWE-adjacent roles since the late 90s. Startups, scale-ups, SMBs, huge enterprises. FT and contract / consulting roles (w/ titles containing words like "Principal",
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by chrisweekly 1mo ago
> "Sometimes all students need is to see what caring looks like to ignite it in themselves." Excellent point, well expressed. (Also, IMHO the sarcasm in your final sentence detracts from your comment.)
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by chrisweekly 1mo ago
"honest", "real", "genuine" -- wat.
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by chrisweekly 1mo ago
> "only use things that have been around for at least three years" Yikes. I can understand the desire to mitigate churn, but following this advice would be career suicide. Trying new things is essential.
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by chrisweekly 1mo ago
I wonder how necessary/useful this is, in light of the amazing smolvm microvms from https://smolmachines.com . (Not snark, not affiliated, just happy and impressed with smolvm and genuinely curious.)
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by chrisweekly 1mo ago
see also "smolvm" - the awesome microvms from https://smolmachines.com
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by chrisweekly 1mo ago
> newfound prohibitions on “write in this writer’s style” that explains a lot. but do you have a decent citation?
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by chrisweekly 1mo ago
Yes. MDN and caniuse.com are great. See also https://webstatus.dev and https://web.dev/baseline
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by chrisweekly 1mo ago
Great advice and PoV. One nit: I recommend against the filename "DESIGN.md" for architectural invariants, in light of the emerging use of that filename for UI / design system / CSS tokens (colors, fonts, typography, etc)
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by chrisweekly 1mo ago
"causing" -> "costing", right?
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by chrisweekly 1mo ago
I think we're on roughly the same page. Long emails are problematic. Realtime meetings or (possibly but not necessarily near-realtime) chats in a dedicated channel can and do solve email's problems.

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