curtisblaine

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by curtisblaine 2mo ago
Logseq is a mystery to me. They used to have a web version that they discontinued to "concentrate on the product", and that's where they lost me. I assume they "concentrated" on the app and the desktop version, pres
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by curtisblaine 3mo ago
Nobody says that React is great (also) because it's industry standard. If you pick up a React codebase you instantly understand how a component renders, where its state is, what its effects are, which components render that component
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by curtisblaine 3mo ago
I see benchmarks for cold start, why there are no benchmarks for runtime performance Vs Node, Deno and Bun? (and quickjs et al.)?
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by curtisblaine 3mo ago
Many definitions of tool explicitly exclude body organs to draw a line between innate mechanisms that are inestricably linked to the body and objects used to extend one's innate physical or mental influence on the environment. The eye
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by curtisblaine 3mo ago
What is a good tool that's invisible? I'm genuinely curious. All tools I've used are either simple and heavily limited (so, not "invisible" because hard things are hard) or powerful but heavily specialized (so, not
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by curtisblaine 3mo ago
And some are more tied to the globalist and progressive-for-the-sake-of-progress views of their current founder. Why not let users pick their poison?
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by curtisblaine 3mo ago
> If A = −1: Read one keypress from the human operator and place a number representing it into slot[B]. (If no key is pressed, place 0.) > If B = −1: Display slot[A] as one character of text to the human operator. This is not well spe
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by curtisblaine 3mo ago
Do you mean traders set up buy or sell orders and they get matched when market opens? That's... Just how markets work normally?
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by curtisblaine 3mo ago
No. I want either: 1. The copyright infringement of big corpos fully justifying my copyright infringement in the face of law 2. The copyright infringement of big corpos being prosecuted in the same exact way as my copyright infringement w
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by curtisblaine 3mo ago
The only scary thought is that all these important operations don't have a plan B if prosemirror, a software they don't write, don't own and presumably don't pay, goes away.
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by curtisblaine 3mo ago
Maybe I'm stating the obvious, but nobody has any moral obligation to be inclusive in content they share on their personal blog, for free, and nobody should reasonably expect it.
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by curtisblaine 3mo ago
How do you bundle web workers that import dependencies? iirc the issue in esbuild for that is still open and users are manually building their workers as separate entry points, which is very fragile.
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by curtisblaine 3mo ago
@afavour if you need precompilation in CI can't you simply use... tsc?
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by curtisblaine 3mo ago
Don't we have `tsx` and `nodemon` (or the native Node reloader) for that? What are the DX gaps you see on the server side out of on-the-fly transpilation and reload on watch?
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by curtisblaine 3mo ago
I'm always curious of the use case when someone proposes Node code bundling. What's the advantage? Obfuscation in SEA?
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by curtisblaine 3mo ago
Normally "improvements" penalize group A to favour group B; if group A is the majority, they will outvote the "improvement" in any democratic process.
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by curtisblaine 3mo ago
What are the open source, easily hostable forum platforms available in 2026? I remember I looked at the oss web-based self hosted chat platforms not long ago and I found they were all either abandoned or had crippling limitations if you did
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by curtisblaine 3mo ago
As a brand new user, I see a lot of posts obscured by moderation. What I'm saying is that bsky is not only block lists: there's moderation applied without opting in to it, right off the bat. I created a new user just to try it,
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by curtisblaine 3mo ago
As a brand new user, I see a banner covering the posts. I didn't opt in to any list or moderation settings. Yet, some posts are hidden from my sight and I have to explicitly opt in to see them.
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by curtisblaine 3mo ago
That's not true though. If many people or the mods flag a post, other people cannot see it without clicking - it's covered by a banner. I have a new user on bsky, I never touched any configuration knob and by default I can't
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by curtisblaine 3mo ago
@phillipcarter: of course it's users (and mods) doing that, but in the end , if you open bsky today you see a single, huge, left-biased social media. If you look at Mastodon, you see at a lot left-leaning trans-and-furry-friendly inst
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by curtisblaine 3mo ago
My question was in good faith tbh; I see other protocols (Mastodon, nostr) not being really commercially relevant but being much more politically diverse than bsky. I was wondering why is that - is something inherent to the protocol (e.g. I
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by curtisblaine 3mo ago
"Censored" I mean "flagged", sure. In practice, they're all hidden from the casual user. But really, I'm interested on why ATProto was touted as revolutionary while in practice it powers a standalone heavily po
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by curtisblaine 3mo ago
#2 is very much used in high performance web apps, whenever you can't afford the overhead of message passing. I agree it's a specialized tool and normally you don't need it, but it's a misrepresentation to say "it&#
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by curtisblaine 3mo ago
You bypass GC by allocating pools of array buffers at the cost of low-level memory management.
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by curtisblaine 3mo ago
Worth noting that javascript has had workers, shared memory and atomics for years and that you can use them today. Look at this guy writing a lockless allocator: https://greenvitriol.com/posts/lockless-allocator The on
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by curtisblaine 3mo ago
To all the people saying "it's dangerous to add concurrency to javascript", javascript has already workers, shared array buffers and atomics. It's entirely possible today to start two or more workers, pass a shared array
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by curtisblaine 3mo ago
Worth noting it's not web devs pushing for React in the Windows start menu. It's PMs looking at the problem and concluding React is the least painful way to solve it (correctly or incorrectly, but I doubt they optimize for the sam
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by curtisblaine 4mo ago
I have a soft spot for Prince of Persia, but I have an even softer spot for Karateka, its (rotoscoped) predecessor on an ancient green phosphor Apple //e, a computer (and an age) where everything seemed possible.
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by curtisblaine 4mo ago
Technically Stonehenge is not an henge (even the term henge comes from Stonehenge) > Ironically, even though Stonehenge has an earthwork circle around it (the earliest phase of the monument), it isn’t officially a ‘proper’ henge, as the

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