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by davepeck 2y ago
I took this course ages ago, along with the follow up Crypto II. Dan is a great instructor, and his courses helped fill in a number of gaps in my knowledge. Highly recommended!
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by davepeck 2y ago
Is anyone else running into problems with Cloudflare? All I see when visiting the leaderboard is a Cloudflare error page saying "Please unblock challenges.cloudflare.com to proceed." But as far as I can tell, challenges.cloudflare
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by davepeck 2y ago
Related: executeprogram.com is an excellent learning platform that combines spaced repetition with interactive lessons targeted at professional developers.
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by davepeck 3y ago
That rings a bell although fuzzily: as the new kid from school, I was pretty disconnected from the politics of the moment. I do seem to remember that the MineSet team departed en masse, but IIRC that departure roughly coincided with broader
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by davepeck 3y ago
Yeah, the O2 definitely was too expensive for what it was. And while it was the least cool and powerful of the lineup by far, as a recent college grad, it was still the coolest computer I had ever had on my desk. ;-)
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by davepeck 3y ago
Yeah, makes sense. I’m also in a phase where I get to start a lot of new low-stakes web projects, so I’ve made a point of adopting at least one new-to-me tool for each. I love typescript, and am generally happy with modern front-end tooling
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by davepeck 3y ago
MineSet, their data mining and visualization package.
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by davepeck 3y ago
I was there near the end. First, as a summer intern in 1998, and then in 1999 as a full time engineer on what is now Google's Mountain View campus. SGI had always been a dream company for me. I'd first learned about them in high s
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by davepeck 3y ago
To me this is a valuable write-up because it (a) clearly describes paper cuts accumulated when building with unfamiliar tech and (b) showcases how much nonsense developers are willing to tolerate in the name of "new" or maybe &quo
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by davepeck 3y ago
Yeah, I started poking at Vite to see how much work it would take to build an island-architecture-for-preact tool on top of it. It looks doable. Out of curiosity, when you're building a mostly static site that might want occasional isl
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by davepeck 3y ago
I dig Astro and use it to build my blog and several other tiny mostly-static sites. I'm not sure that the hosted database service fills a need I have but, in general, supported SQL integration seems like a useful addition. As an aside:
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by davepeck 3y ago
Hackers love to question the truth but refuse to countenance bullshit. The downvotes here seem to be catching bullshit quite well!
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by davepeck 3y ago
Fun stuff! The underlying `swtl` library is itself pretty interesting. Note the use of `delayed(...)` in the blog's example code: a promise in a tagged template. SWTL's `html` allows for this (I think the blog's example follo
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by davepeck 3y ago
I'd recommend that you start by learning React without Django. You can make a little tic-tac-toe game that runs in your browser using just React -- no need for Django, provided you don't want to save the state of the game to a dat
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by davepeck 3y ago
See also Nadia Eghbal's (IMHO definitive) work on the economics and sociology of open source software, "Working In Public": https://press.stripe.com/working-in-public
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by davepeck 3y ago
I choose between Django and Litestar these days. I wish I had a hard and fast rule for the choice, but it's something like: - Litestar if I know with certainty (a) the thing I'm building is and always will be a tiny service and (b
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by davepeck 3y ago
I always think of Tom & Ray's in Damascus, MD as being the most legit Maryland fried chicken I've had. Granted, it's also the only place I'd ever heard the term until today. :-) (I gather T&R recently changed o
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by davepeck 3y ago
I like Neal.fun's "Internet Artifacts" page on the Morris worm -- it presents the full code in an amusing form. https://neal.fun/internet-artifacts/morris-worm/
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by davepeck 3y ago
This assertion is not supported by the text of Biden’s Executive Order. There are a number of requirements placed on various government agencies to come up with safety evaluation frameworks, to make initial evaluations related to open weigh
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by davepeck 3y ago
Absolutely love my 14” M2 pro and use it daily for coding. Perfect size/weight for the backpack, and endless battery at the local coffee shop.
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by davepeck 3y ago
> The key here is that none of these depend on the language model injecting factual information into its output. This feels like an under-appreciated insight. There are lots of valuable (and in some cases previously difficult, expensiv
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by davepeck 3y ago
Thanks, that's helpful. Amazon famously built the company with OBIDOS, a monolith; these days, backend microservices abound — as do what we’re calling here microfrontends, although my understanding is at AMZN they are granular not just
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by davepeck 3y ago
"Microfrontends" is a new term for me. Are there specific frameworks that embody the concept (and if so, where on GitHub would I look)? Is it more of a broad architectural pattern?
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by davepeck 3y ago
At least today, my experience is that Pyright is faster, flags more issues, provides better error messages, and (alas for Mypy) has fewer bugs. I hope this will change over time as Mypy matures, but there you have it. When using Pyright in
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by davepeck 3y ago
Back in the early 2000s, when I was a wee new SDE at Microsoft, there was a shared whiteboard down the hall from my office on which someone had scrawled: "STRONG TYPING IS SO 90s!" That missive stayed on the board for over a year.
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by davepeck 3y ago
Serious practitioners are permitted to have fun and/or use goofy memes.
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by davepeck 3y ago
Thanks for Distill. The approach you took (specialized URL routes and custom management commands) is simple and elegant.
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by davepeck 3y ago
Explosion is an old school machine learning company by the people who built the spaCy natural language library. They’re serious practitioners whose work predates the “hype-train” you’re concerned about. The blog post might be worth a gander
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by davepeck 3y ago
Lots of interesting links; thanks! Here in Seattle, Rover (a $1B+ market cap company) also uses Django extensively. As do lots of interesting local startups.
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by davepeck 3y ago
It’s a good one. Simon Willison calls it the “baked data pattern” — where a read-only copy of your data is checked into your repo alongside your code. [1] (And, just to tie the threads together, that’s the same Simon who wrote the OP we’re

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