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by conor- 3y ago
For me the biggest unsung hero is the _stability_ There's something so liberating about finding code samples or documentation from 5-10 years ago and it is still the correct way to solve a problem. The lack of churn in the ecosystem me
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by conor- 3y ago
> I've never understood why people and to extend vim to try to make it half of an IDE. Because vim ships with any *nix machine and provides a consistent experience no matter where you use it. Vim is the DE part and people add plugin
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by conor- 3y ago
> In the meantime, I can just Ctrl+P and install what I need in vscode and be on my way in a few minutes. Vim's built-in package management means all my plugins are stored as git submodules that are installed alongside my configs. I
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by conor- 3y ago
DDG bangs[0] does this too but without the need to set up your own custom macros. [0] https://duckduckgo.com/bangs
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by conor- 3y ago
Ah, as usual if there's a complaint there's an open spec proposal for it. Thanks for sharing!
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by conor- 3y ago
Assuming an interview is a typical 30-60 min time slot is this actually a realistic ask? It seems pretty crazy to 1) get up to speed on a codebase and context in such a short amount of time to 2) then be able to actually develop against the
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by conor- 3y ago
I think DIDs[0] are an interesting idea for dealing with the problem of centralized registration in federated systems. It would be great to be able to create one identity that if I want to leave an instance and bring all my data with me to
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by conor- 3y ago
Perfect, thanks for the pointer!
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by conor- 3y ago
Yes I have. Mjolnir is not really suited for the problem I am describing because: A) you need to create an account for the bot and provide an access token (which is cumbersome to obtain). In Discord that type of moderation of users works oo
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by conor- 3y ago
The client-server API in Matrix doesn't really allow for the nested "server with channels" paradigm that something like Discord follows. There's the Spaces [0] API but it's not really meant for creating "server
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by conor- 3y ago
> Matrix is essentially a copycat of discord Maybe pedantic, but Matrix is a protocol that predates Discord by 6 months. Maybe certain Matrix clients are a copycat of Discord, but the protocol itself doesn't necessitate that.
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by conor- 3y ago
I'd suggest buying a laptop that has hardware with known support. System76 makes great laptops, Dell has Linux-compatible laptops, etc. or switch to a distro that will handle that configuration for you - Pop OS is a really reliable, ea
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by conor- 3y ago
One caveat of M1 is when you run into tools/apps that aren't built for Apple Silicon yet and end up in a rabbit hole of dealing with Rosetta. But otherwise the battery life and how quiet they are is incredible. For window manageme
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by conor- 4y ago
What's really fascinating is listening to Sean talk about his _process_ for preparing for his interviews in such a short amount of time. Listening to him talk, he really sounds like a hacker. He figured out a way to optimize preparatio
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by conor- 4y ago
10x being real or not aside, if there's a 1x-type they certainly don't do many of the things in this list in my experience and certainly not: >Writes code that others can read. >Reads the Docs. >Updates the Docs. In my ex
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by conor- 4y ago
I feel like hunting down drivers hasn't been an issue on Linux for any relatively modern machine I've run in over 10 years. If it really is something that you have had problems with, maybe try PopOS instead of Debian. The restrict
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by conor- 4y ago
You can do that today with Matrix and whatever client you want (albeit with much more friction than what was previously possible). There a bunch of bridges[0] available for pretty much any communication network you can think of and some peo
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by conor- 4y ago
I have a Bonavita one-touch machine that makes excellent coffee for a drip brewer - it simply has an on switch and a thermal carafe to avoid scorching your coffee with a hot plate and I've been using it daily for going on 3 years now w
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by conor- 4y ago
I recently had to start using MacOS for work after never using an Apple product ever. Between MacPorts packages, Yabai[1], and skhd [2] I've found myself able to achieve a close enough setup in terms of tiling WM + system keybindings t
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by conor- 4y ago
You pass the `--no-assets` flag when using `mix phx.new`[1] Also ime, there's not many good blog posts or guides around Phoenix that I've seen. The sort of de facto resource would be the Programming Phoenix book. It's well wo
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by conor- 4y ago
Sorry if it was unclear, I was specifically commenting about C# with regards to build, test, deploy cycle because I don't have much experience with Java. It's good to hear that it's not slow or cumbersome.
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by conor- 4y ago
With Go you can develop a web service with few to no external deps or frameworks, compile it into a single, static binary and then deploy it in a minimal distroless container. With Java and C# there's a lot of other fuss involved with
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by conor- 5y ago
Definitely worth trying. I used a software support role to get a foot in the door of the tech industry without any college degree, then used that was a way to learn whatever I could/display that I know how to code to get into a SWE rol