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by davepeck 2y ago
Yeah, absolutely. LLMs work best for code when both (a) there's sufficient relevant training data aka we're not doing something particularly novel and (b) there's sufficient context from the current codebase to pick up expect
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by davepeck 2y ago
I see less "painting as a luddite" in response to statements like this, and more... surprise. Mild skepticism, perhaps! Your experience diverges from that of other experienced devs who have used the same tools, on probably similar
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by davepeck 2y ago
Cow Clicker 2025, Professional Edition. So good.
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by davepeck 2y ago
I always enjoy reading Maggie Appleton's blog posts: https://maggieappleton.com And I always learn from the very deep signal processing fun on Absorptions: https://www.windytan.com
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by davepeck 2y ago
PEP 750 started its life in part as a result of learnings from pyxl [0], which used some clever hacks to add a JSX-like syntax to Python. In the end, my instinct is that t-strings are the better more generic feature to add to the language i
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by davepeck 2y ago
To add some color to my comments: I also believe in your approach and I admire the work you and your team have done. To sum up my entirely unoriginal opinions: 1. Mastodon has far better usability than any other Fediverse software I'm
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by davepeck 2y ago
Yes, of course; that was clearly the high-order bit. But even if it was dominant my hunch is it was unlikely the only factor: Bluesky also rapidly outgrew Mastodon, without a Meta-like advantage.
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by davepeck 2y ago
I think of Django's templating system as a great tool for a previous era. I'm hopeful that PEP 750 [1] gets accepted and a modern ecosystem of template engines emerges in Python-land. For the moment, I tend to use in-python builde
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by davepeck 2y ago
Yeah, absolutely. Despite its growth, IMHO Mastodon is still a usability mess in the sense that a typical user will find it needlessly complicated compared to any alternative that is perceived as equivalent. The confusion starts early, wi
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by davepeck 2y ago
Alas, this is par for the course in the Fediverse. Mastodon is the only ActivityPub-using social network I'm aware of that has broken away from this. (Maybe Lemmy, to some degree?) Social networks that focus on people and user experien
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by davepeck 2y ago
Yes! I’ve had my eye on it but haven’t had a chance to use it (yet).
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by davepeck 2y ago
Beautiful. And: it’s exciting to see more mass timber construction in the PNW. Closer to home for me is the University of Washington’s Founder’s Hall: https://www.archpaper.com/2022/10/lmn-architects-completes-u...
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by davepeck 2y ago
I really like Astro: 1. It's the most flexible yet easily configured static site generator I've used to date 2. It's reliable. The docs are well maintained and, mirabile dictu, the real behavior of the system matches its docu
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by davepeck 2y ago
It's a genuine tragedy. We were members. It was a fun and interesting place to go to with kiddos every now and then -- particularly on a rainy day. Kids could goof off or, if interested, actually learn. And it was a great resource and
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by davepeck 2y ago
Rectangle (OSS), Moom, and Magnet are all good options if you want to go beyond what Sequoia supports. I've used Moom for years and particularly like its behavior when external monitors are added/removed.
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by davepeck 2y ago
Peewee never quite got there IMO, and it hasn't kept up with the times (modern asyncio, etc.)
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by davepeck 2y ago
I may be the wrong person to answer, alas. I nearly entirely avoid the machinery of web components. With the stack above, I typically write small classes that derive from HTMLElement and implement a couple key callbacks (usually, connectedC
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by davepeck 2y ago
I'm excited to see more projects like Rio exploring the full-stack python web dev space. There are definitely categories of users for which the approach makes sense. --- For me personally -- and I'm guessing for a bunch of other H
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by davepeck 2y ago
Sleep apnea detection is coming to the series 9 too.
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by davepeck 2y ago
If you've already got k8s set up and you're comfortable with it, I'm not sure that Dokku offers much? But... wow. For my single non-k8s server at home, Dokku makes getting stuff running behind HTTPS about as simple as I could
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by davepeck 2y ago
Third party tools (mypy, pyright, etc) are expected to check types. cpython itself does not. This will run just fine: python -c "x: int = 'not_an_int'" My opinion is that with PEP 695 landing in Python 3.12, the type sys
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by davepeck 2y ago
“X is unsuitable for large projects” when there are many readily discovered existence proofs to the contrary (including but not limited to $1B+ businesses, massive communities, deep thoughtful and disciplined engineering spokespeople, etc.)
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by davepeck 2y ago
Always nice to learn about new Seattle startups. Curious who funded you?
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by davepeck 2y ago
Yeah, the lack of HTTP/2 support has been a long-standing issue with Heroku. They just shipped HTTP/2 terminated at their router [0], and have it on their roadmap [1] to support HTTP/2 all the way through. But it seems like
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by davepeck 2y ago
Yes, completely agree; I'm equally surprised by the poor DXes. (And: bugs. I'm also surprised by the kinds of issues I run into on some of those sites in my list -- problems that, even if not show-stopping, feel like revealing ind
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by davepeck 2y ago
Mostly that I don't have enough experience working with Astro on things that are more sophisticated than "interesting CMS-backed blog or publication" to really comment. Secondarily that there are plenty of tools, some quite v
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by davepeck 2y ago
I do, as do several startups I advise. Despite interesting competition, my feeling is that the Heroku of 2024 remains... Heroku. I feel this way even though -- depending on how you segment -- the list of "interesting" competitors
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by davepeck 2y ago
I think Astro is great for building small mostly (or entirely) static sites. It doesn't assume that you're building a blog, but it's plenty flexible enough to support it. This said, blogs feel like a nice sweet spot for Astro
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by davepeck 2y ago
25 years last month. Hand-spun HTML on day one; cobbled-together scripts for the next many years; Jekyll once it hit 1.0; today, Astro. It feels like a real "moment" where people are reconsidering blogging and personal domain nam
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by davepeck 2y ago
The OP seems targeted at devs who are already quite familiar with Temporal and are interested in using the new Python exposure. FWIW, as someone who has never previously encountered Temporal, and has only a vague sense of the specific probl

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