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by ljm 3y ago
I wish I could use Hue's silly RGB colour loop mode over this now, but it's still hidden behind a labs experiment. (Connecting to HomeKit via Matter has actually been smoother than using the Hue app)
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by ljm 3y ago
In the last few places I worked we dropped Yarn for pnpm. Did the job and now dependabot can understand it too, on github. Corepack is a nice addition to Node to make it easy to install a package manager but it's also an unwelcome laye
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by ljm 3y ago
You can generate TS from an OpenAPI spec and then create type-safe mocks of network calls. Basic mocks and fake servers run the risk of falling out of sync and giving false positives, or just being outright wrong to short-cut some of the wo
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by ljm 3y ago
I think having stronger employee rights such that a company's leadership can't increase their own compensation disproportionately to that of the average employee. A CEO earning 350x the average worker in their company suggests tha
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by ljm 3y ago
If you wanted a quick and easy dynamically served website then you could just as well do it in PHP and rsync your changes over.
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by ljm 3y ago
Shareholders and investors always want more while becoming more risk averse over time, so a company loses the ability to innovate and then switches its focus to squeezing the customer. Not to mention the cohort in product, design and engine
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by ljm 3y ago
From another perspective, I think designing and building your own programming language is an incredible way to gain depth of knowledge and not simply breadth.
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by ljm 3y ago
Roads in the US aren't as safe to cross - you wouldn't take a shortcut across a dual-carriageway in the UK and that's just 2 lanes in each direction. Walking is just an afterthought really, until you get into certain areas li
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by ljm 3y ago
Nobody calls it '12 factor' anymore but we still adhere to a generic set of principles as a result (since 12-factor predated docker and kubernetes in the mainstream). - Logs as a stream: yep, just write your logs to STDOUT instead
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by ljm 3y ago
That’s actually pretty clean in terms of being self documenting.
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by ljm 3y ago
I used DynamoDB as part of the job a few years ago and never got single-millisecond responses - it was 20ms minimum and 70+ on a cold-start, but I can accept that optimising Dynamo's various indexes is a largely opaque process. We ha
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by ljm 3y ago
I'm not saying annotations are bad though, I'm saying Spring's over-reliance on them makes the code harder to follow. Some of those annotations are actually done at compile-time via Lombok, which makes it even harder to know
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by ljm 3y ago
I never hated Spring, I got used to working with it. I found the annotation-based approach to configuring classes really opaque though, and it was hard to understand how to configure things because those were also magic annotations, and the
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by ljm 3y ago
I haven't had that comms issue with Google but I have to say, even though I prefer GCP to AWS in terms of user friendliness, it is far too often the case that you find exactly the solution you need only to learn it's deprecated in
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by ljm 3y ago
I've had similar difficulties and it seems like Terraform is basically a content-addressable system, where the directory tree is part of the addressable content. The addition of `moved` is welcome but I feel like it was a huge mistake
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by ljm 3y ago
Yeah, that and sometimes the WSL session takes forever to boot up (a good 10+ seconds for the first time, for me). Once it's working it's fantastic. I don't know what it is with MacOS, unless they're subtly animating key
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by ljm 3y ago
Kitty's my daily driver on Mac (when I'm not using eshell, anyway), but on the Windows side I am actually pretty damn impressed with Windows Terminal over WSL2. I don't even bother using graphical mode on emacs in WT/WSL
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by ljm 3y ago
I have one but getting it to work over WSL2 is a challenge
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by ljm 3y ago
It almost defeats the point of versioning on networked/web APIs really. On the one hand you have library code that is semantically versioned, and for good reason those versions are immutable so if something changes you have to pull dow
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by ljm 3y ago
Every time I spin up a box by hand (which isn't often), I'll set up a sudo user with my SSH key, then drop out of the root shell and log back in as the new user. Only then will I disable root login and password auth over SSH and s
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by ljm 3y ago
Outside of dependencies, application code is basically 1.{infinitely_incrementing_integer} How many application APIs expose v2, v3, v4? You just append to v1 and add proxies to map old APIs to new ones.
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by ljm 3y ago
I think, perhaps, that declaring oneself a benevolent dictator on a project that is more or less a proposal still is just jumping the gun a bit. Any project needs good leadership, of course, and at the start that leadership is going to be c
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by ljm 3y ago
It’s Jean-Luc Picard from Star Trek: The Next Generation.
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by ljm 3y ago
Text-based versions are much better for accessibility. A screen reader or text to speech software can describe a textual representation of a diagram much better than your WebGL equivalent on a zoomable canvas.
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by ljm 3y ago
Deno is just trying to compete with other JS/TS SaaS with this. Vercel/NextJS has a KV service now; Cloudflare has it; in other cases it's Firebase. I contend that this is not actually forward thinking, but monetising Deno as
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by ljm 3y ago
I would hope the author of the post corrects this, "I wanted to fix it differently" is not even close to "I like my version better." It's still a bit crap to not get proper credit, but it's not fair to put word
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by ljm 3y ago
You might have some success if you run the build before deploying it (provided you use the same arch as the droplet). It's not going to give you a lot to work with and Puma's default config will take up most of it. A 1/2GB bo
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by ljm 3y ago
I see conventions like that as an acknowledgement that Rails often gives up purity in favour of simplicity. It makes this decision quite often, primarily because it works for Basecamp, but also it keeps the mental model simple, especially f
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by ljm 3y ago
I used to think it was fine to take someone else's contribution and then create a total rewrite of it in my own branch and merge that. Or to go into someone's PR and push a rewrite into a new commit on Github. At least in the latt
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by ljm 3y ago
What does ‘minimal’ even mean though? Code is code - either you pull it down as a dependency or you write it yourself, it all executes the same in the end. The minimal/zero-dep solution will have have bugs that have already been fixed

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