nobleach

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by nobleach 3mo ago
I think people see the "pricing" and are turned off. The base is completely free! Some of the ecosystem is not. The big selling point for me, is the size of the library. HTMX and Alpine are a bit larger. The downside for me is nee
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by nobleach 3mo ago
We just watched this movie last night (as a tribute to Sam Neill). I loved all the SGI hardware. Although the Irix FSN file explorer scene made me cring. It was excurciating watching Lex navigate. On that era of hardware, midnight commander
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by nobleach 3mo ago
Yes, I've always heard it used in this context. I really believe the other use is because someone misheard "service", and it stuck.
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by nobleach 3mo ago
The JS version of the book (I still bought it when it came out) is just weird. It has you writing JS in a non-idiomatic way that you'd never see (nor should you be the person introducing) in the industry. SICP teaches a very LISP-y way
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by nobleach 3mo ago
This is why it's so awesome watching David Malan teach Harvard CS50 (free YouTube videos). His presence, knowledge and overall enthusiasm for the topic are outstanding. If more of my college courses had that level, I'd have been f
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by nobleach 4mo ago
It's been long enough that I have nothing but rose-colored affinity for the dBase III, FoxPro and CA Clipper apps that I used to work on. In the early days, my company looked at Harbour ( https://harbour.github.io/ ) as
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by nobleach 4mo ago
I'm sure now that they've right-sized the org, the leftover engineers + AI are really gonna grind out the best features. We should be seeing 10x any day now.
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by nobleach 4mo ago
I use Claude at work and Kimi for side projects. My org has LiteLLM and Kimi 2.5 enabled but it rarely works, so Claude and GPT are my main tools. I actually enjoy Kimi more as it feels like a dev in a job interview. Watching it reason thro
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by nobleach 4mo ago
Yeah in this case, I needed to pop up a <dialog /> and take some form info, persist it via POST and then show the result of a "used" card/token. So there just wasn't a lot of need for libraries. I'm from
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by nobleach 4mo ago
Recently I had to migrate an old SpringBoot app that had a React front-end to a new cluster. Not wanting to mess with super-old dependencies, I opted to rewrite it on a new version of Java/SpringBoot. When it came to the frontend, I pa
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by nobleach 4mo ago
So far the place where I've seen "more code being written" having a postive effect, has been in paying down tech debt and reduction of overhead. We've rewritten services (bringing multiple microservices back under moduli
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by nobleach 4mo ago
I've loved Vite from the moment it was public. I also tried Snowpack back in the day. (fun story that Fred "fks" went on to create Astro after Snowpack didn't gain traction). The fact that we can "just forget it exi
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by nobleach 4mo ago
Sounds like something that a browser like Brave was built to combat. I haven't visited the site in question but for a lot of the ad-heavy sites I do visit, I jump over to Brave to deal with the nonsense.
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by nobleach 5mo ago
And to bring it full-circle, this is the exact same thing I run into with Go. When I mention how nice it is that Lang X has feature Y, someone is quick to point out that either, "You can BUILD that in Go" or, "You don't
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by nobleach 5mo ago
I read Hacking Exposed around that time period. Up until then, my only "hacking" experience was with AOHell and everything that came along with that. It was interesting, but I wasn't really into the idea of trying to use Cred
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by nobleach 5mo ago
I'm gonna have to dive into a rabbit-hole! I was working on an ESRI Shapefile to GeoJson converter back in those days. But D3 and Leaflet were such cool tech! MapBox too. Linking SagaGIS with PostGIS to do pre/post wildfire analys
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by nobleach 5mo ago
We used this extensively when I worked in this space (2010 - 2014). My favorite addition was using https://github.com/topojson/topojson to add arcs. That cut down on quite a bit of points to represent curves.
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by nobleach 5mo ago
Were you expecting "Got hacked, BRB"? I'm sure that page is their default circuit breaker.
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by nobleach 5mo ago
I get that folks love a good Linus rant. But as someone who's been at the end of that style of "feedback", nothing can be more humiliating or demotivating. Certainly there are contributors that are making "rookie mistake
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by nobleach 6mo ago
That wasn't my experience at all. I had a recruiter screen where she asked me some technical questions. I then had a longer discussion, then a code screen, then an arch-deep-dive. The entire process was very professional and EVERY pers
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by nobleach 6mo ago
Yeah, that's really the hard part of contracting. I was in my 20s and was certain I HAD to win every bid to keep feeding myself. I took longer than I should to realize that 3 worthwhile jobs is far better than 10 hassles. All clients r
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by nobleach 6mo ago
"My nephew makes websites, and he's 14... I could just have him do it" - Every client of mine during my contracting days. It took me way too long to reply with, "Oh that's great news! I wasn't sure of my availa
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by nobleach 6mo ago
Alright, you and your sibling reply have me wanting to look at it. I wrote Scheme/Racket when I was going through The Little Schemer and SICP. I'll buy a common lisp book. Any recommendations?
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by nobleach 6mo ago
...in an imaginary world where we're still writing code, yes. It's a musing, not a directive.
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by nobleach 6mo ago
I'd settle for the Result/Option containers. Kotlin does have ArrowKt to attempt to achieve all the functional goodness of Scala. I think for my needs though, I'd appreciate Rust's "Result".
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by nobleach 6mo ago
I still install it and play with it for a bit every other year. I really appreciate that it's held true to its own core. Yes it works with Wayland now, but it's still using its e-foundation libraries. I still wish I had screenshot
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by nobleach 6mo ago
No, I realize that. It doesn't stop me from having my "perfect language wishlist". The author calling out "perfectable" is what got me thinking. What language would I choose if I were able to "perfect" it
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by nobleach 6mo ago
oh yeah absolutely. The moment you start blowing up Go with features (for example) the speed decreases dramatically.
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by nobleach 6mo ago
The perfect programming language has: - The compile speed of Go - The performance of Go - The single binary compilation of Go - The type system of Kotlin - The ecosystem of JVM (packages for anything I could dream of) - The do
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by nobleach 6mo ago
Heh, Ormond Beach first, then Flagler - Palm Coast (FPC - go, fight, win!)

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