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by kgilpin 5y ago
What are the odds this is a single developer code base? It’s ok to have a mess, when it’s your mess. It’s other people’s messes that are the problem.
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by kgilpin 5y ago
We dogfood our own tool, AppMap ( https://appland.com/docs/how-it-works.html ) which records executing code into JSON files and then turns that data into interactive diagrams and analysis. We also think Mermaid is a grea
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by kgilpin 5y ago
I'm working on this, for Ruby, Python, and Java - https://appland.com/docs/get-started.html - would love to get your feedback.
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by kgilpin 5y ago
Indeed. The problem is not with the diagrams, so much, as with the requirement for people to draw them. The code is the source of truth and the only true representation of the program. There is value in diagrams - but that value is highest
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by kgilpin 6y ago
I spent a few months on Zoom tying knots under the camera. I have busy hands. Now I know quite a few knots by heart.
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by kgilpin 6y ago
I found JSON path to be so, so weak and limiting. Missing powerful axis traversals like xpath has, and also has very confusing semantics (the filter condition also changes the output???). I hoped to find jq as a gem/module/library
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by kgilpin 6y ago
Thanks for posting us. To get beautiful, interactive diagrams generated automatically from your Rails or Spring app, try our VSCode extension https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=appland.... Setup time is jus
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by kgilpin 6y ago
My airplane has a 1950s era engine (Continental O-300), which is able to run on automotive fuel (“mogas”). However, mogas is not much available at the airports. If there was a way to obtain it, I would use it. But it’s almost never an optio
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by kgilpin 6y ago
Well to be fair, transferring information instantly was pretty great even in 1997.
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by kgilpin 6y ago
Bitcoin is valuable because of its value?
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by kgilpin 6y ago
How can Jack Ma belong to the Chinese communist party, and also own a huge company? Does communism not mean what it used to mean any more?
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by kgilpin 6y ago
Discussion of technical debt always seems to devolve into an augment about what technical debt actually is. Are there specific patterns of code behavior, metrics which can be derived from analyzing code, quality scores that are non-controve
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by kgilpin 6y ago
Do people find that leverage points, as described here, are well known for large code based, or are they difficult to identify, track and manage? “... three most impactful points are interfaces, stateful systems, and data models.”
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by kgilpin 6y ago
I would like one of these with rudder pedals instead of a foot rest :-)
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by kgilpin 6y ago
For the first version we used Mermaid, but in order to make it more interactive it’s now custom d3 code. It uses many of the same dependencies as Mermaid, for example graph layout.
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by kgilpin 6y ago
Hi, if you are working in Ruby or Java, you might be interested in my project which is called AppLand ( https://app.land ). AppLand dynamically draws visualizations of web services, code paths, and SQL queries. The information is
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by kgilpin 6y ago
The approach that I am taking is to narrow the ERD to a specific context, such as a single HTTP server request route. When the specific tables and relationships are rendered for just that route, a manageable amount of data is presented. Thi
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by kgilpin 6y ago
People need to enjoy the outdoors in order to care about preserving it.
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by kgilpin 6y ago
The point is that the type of a local variable can almost always be inferred based on what it’s assigned to.
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by kgilpin 6y ago
You can build and sell experimental aircraft. Here’s a marketplace of them: https://www.barnstormers.com/category-18671-Experimental.htm... However, there are many commercial uses which experimental aircraft are not approve
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by kgilpin 7y ago
How about the fact that they have modern radar? :-)
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by kgilpin 7y ago
I’m cleaning out my garage to build an RV 12, a popular type of two-seat single engine home built airplane. Putting time at home to good use! https://www.vansaircraft.com/rv-12is/
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by kgilpin 7y ago
If an aircraft can’t glide or autorotate then I don’t understand how it can be safe at low altitudes. Because whole plane parachutes (BRS) have a minimum altitude required to open successfully, and that altitude is a lot higher than anyone
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by kgilpin 7y ago
Dead astronauts can’t complete the mission.
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by kgilpin 7y ago
I don’t think it would be too long before the aliens evolved away from the need to spin. There would be so many advantages to adapting to zero G.
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by kgilpin 7y ago
“Wizards” also sounds kind of Windows 98 :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizard_(software)
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by kgilpin 7y ago
Most of the GA fleet is still vacuum powered for backup.
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by kgilpin 7y ago
In an emergency, all the other traffic will be cleared out of the way.
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by kgilpin 7y ago
Maybe the best case scenario is a small modern plane flying a Rotax 912, making about 24 mpg on standard auto fuel.
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by kgilpin 7y ago
A typical single engine piston plane might fly at 130kts burning 10 gallons of aviation fuel (100LL) per hour. Or, roughly 15 statute miles per gallon. More efficient options are available on modern planes. Most of the fleet is old though.

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