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by niels_bom 4y ago
One topic I haven’t seen discussed yet is that an SPA style web app doesn’t just have JSON-API endpoints for itself but also for external systems, like an iOS app. When using HTMX or similar systems you’d have to create 2 end points for a c
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by niels_bom 4y ago
I would think that because HTMX == less JavaScript that there’s less of a need to test functionality. And the testing that remains will need a browser to be tested. Complex logic will still be written in JavaScript so then one can use regul
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by niels_bom 4y ago
A recent talk about this by Carson Gross: https://youtu.be/LRrrxQXWdhI
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by niels_bom 4y ago
https://kagi.com/
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by niels_bom 4y ago
Ah, they are extending the API: https://github.com/obsidianmd/obsidian-api/blob/master/CHANG...
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by niels_bom 4y ago
Tangent: the Dataview plugin for Obsidian makes it possible to query both the data and metadata of your notes using both an SQL variant and JavaScript and render the results in all kinds of ways. Powerful stuff. Whenever a product allows fo
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by niels_bom 4y ago
Tauri seems like a low to the ground competitor to Electron. Binaries start at a couple MB. Completely cross platform. Rust.
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by niels_bom 4y ago
I loved Excalidraw but I love tldraw even more. beta.tldraw.com. Also uses JSON as the data format btw.
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by niels_bom 4y ago
It’s in that direction, but I also think VS Code offers more and more flexible extension points. I was reading the plug-in development documentation [0] this morning and the ways in which you can extend Obsidian feels relatively limited. I
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by niels_bom 4y ago
Couldn’t these organizations be big enough to have different technical cultures from team-to-team or product-to-product? If that’s the case comparing FAANG to each other is like comparing Asia to Europe and then taking North-Korea and Portu
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by niels_bom 4y ago
Your comment is more interesting and deep than the article under discussion. Thanks!
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by niels_bom 4y ago
I remember something from the Changelog podcast that Github has a number of single- or two-person projects that are experiments but are then used by a non-insignificant amount of people. So then they choose to keep it on life support with m
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by niels_bom 4y ago
Who’s Keith Hoskins? Goodhart’s Law was made by Charles Goodhart :-)
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by niels_bom 4y ago
"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart's_law?wprov=sfti1
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by niels_bom 4y ago
Bing image search does not suffer from Pinterest-itis as Google Images does.
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by niels_bom 4y ago
Julia Evans is such a treasure. I’ve learned a tonne reading her stuff.
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by niels_bom 4y ago
As a programming teacher I think this is quite a fundamental thing to learn for new programmers. Even though lots of tutorials and books don't mention this explicitly people usually get an intuition for the difference after a while. Bu
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by niels_bom 4y ago
It's such a shame that quite a few farmers in the Netherlands have been weaponized by Big Ag. Especially the BoerenBurgerBeweging (farmer party) is straight up lobby money (1). Watching the media around farmer protest in the Netherland
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by niels_bom 4y ago
As a person with ADHD: I get very easily distracted if the tempo of a video is low. I use the “Video Speed Controller” browser extension to run most videos at 1.5 to 2x speed.
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by niels_bom 4y ago
I’d love to have a settings.json and/or a good API for changing system settings. Something like VS Code has. Currently I’m ductaping together crappy solutions with Hammerspoon and shell scripts to change the default browser or change s
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by niels_bom 4y ago
I always find it funny that short, not very interesting (imho) articles always get a tonne of discussion here on HN. Reminds me of Parkinson’s Law of Triviality, but that one’s for inside of an organization.
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by niels_bom 5y ago
Hey Melvin, small world ;-)
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by niels_bom 5y ago
Believing Google values privacy over profits is a bit naive I’d say.
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Winc Academy raises $3M to train 20k IT professionals in Europe(wincacademy.com)
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by niels_bom 5y ago
Maybe I live in a bubble but I can not remember anyone being offended about someone moving to an intellectual subject in a conversation, ever.
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by niels_bom 5y ago
Doesn't seem very active: https://github.com/spencertipping/caterwaul/graphs/code-freq...
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by niels_bom 5y ago
This talk by Richard Feldman about Roc (a new language) goed into why immutable does not necessarily mean slow and given enough attention can mean higher performance in certain cases: https://youtu.be/vzfy4EKwG_Y
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by niels_bom 5y ago
Great book. Great podcast by him as well: https://lispcast.com/category/podcast/
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by niels_bom 5y ago
As I understand evolution: life has no plan, goal, aim or intention. It’s endless amounts of parallel and random experimentation over billions of years. And this has led to biological structures that have certain tendencies that work well:
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by niels_bom 5y ago
Isn’t the difference with AI that viruses don’t have a “final goal” baked into them? I think the process that you’re describing is the process of genetically evolving-by-mutation life forms in general. So not specific to viruses. Human bodi

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