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by rednafi 2y ago
Computers have sharp edges, and people often throw hissy fits when things break. Manufacturers infantalize consumers to dodge lawsuits. Then companies like Apple take it too far by building walled gardens where devices don't have prope
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by rednafi 2y ago
There are plenty of us. Before AI, it was blockchain and web3. Before that, it was virtual reality. Before that, it was 3D printing. Before that... you get the idea. HN has always reflected the latest hype train. It's always been that
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Programming in Lua (first edition) (2003)(lua.org)
96 points by rednafi 2y ago|61 comments
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by rednafi 2y ago
Nushell is awesome. Too bad the incompatibilities are still a bit too much for me to use it as a daily driver. It’s easy to blame the tool, but sometimes the problem space is inherently complex. With limited time, building the right abstrac
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by rednafi 2y ago
Could you elaborate on this a bit? > But for a software engineer, the amount of programming feels low. It's more like creating quick scripts. I feel like it’s the other way around. When I worked as a data analyst (before transitioni
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Pydantic v2.10(pydantic.dev)
2 points by rednafi 2y ago|0 comments
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by rednafi 2y ago
Not the entire blog, just a single page, yes.
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by rednafi 2y ago
I use Cloudflare R2, which is free for up to 1 million writes and 10 million reads per month with no egress costs. I also use Hugo and GitHub Pages for their simplicity. I wrote about this setup here[1]. [1]: https://rednafi.com&
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by rednafi 2y ago
This reads like slop for some reasons; even to my non-native brain.
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by rednafi 2y ago
I use social media in a write-only manner. I keep it around for two reasons: - I write blogs and share them there. On multiple occasions, I’ve received job offers in my inbox. Job opportunities from acquaintances on Twitter are far better t
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by rednafi 2y ago
PESOS is pretty good. I was aware of POSSE but not PESOS.
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Ask HN: What should we call the pattern of polling and rebuilding a static site?
2 points by rednafi 2y ago|2 comments
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by rednafi 2y ago
This pattern of: 1. polling for external changes somewhere 2. updating some pages on a static site (by incorporating the changes from step 1) and rebuilding it is incredibly powerful. It allows us to make a static site behave almost like a
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by rednafi 2y ago
Yeah, the whole point of this is tracking the progress of something, not vanity interaction. This is why I decided to leave it out of the main RSS feed to avoid spamming readers.
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by rednafi 2y ago
This is true in general, and despite not being in a position to make big sales happen, I still get at least 3–4 requests per week for these kinds of calls. I understand that in a world dominated by noise, you have to create more noise to ge
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by rednafi 2y ago
Exactly. I used to go for Just and Go Task as Make alternatives, but not anymore. LLMs are great with Make syntax, and Make is everywhere.
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by rednafi 2y ago
This also happens with tools you have to use but don’t get much payoff from—like internal tooling. At work, we have a shitty in-house feature flag service. It breaks all the time and is super finicky. Learning it properly doesn’t really hel
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by rednafi 2y ago
But it sure makes it more memorable. I would’ve called it GitHub Actions effect.
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by rednafi 2y ago
IDK I feel like Go suffers from this a lot. I have seen a lot of Gava, Guby, and G# over the last few years. It happens in Python a lot as well. Some people just love to write Java in Python and the new type hints make it even easier.
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by rednafi 2y ago
DHH and friends have recently been evangelizing it like there’s no tomorrow. Simon Willison has been bullish on SQLite for the last six years. The Go community is pushing out tools like Litestream and LiteFS. Plus, people at fly.io, especia
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GopherCon UK 2019: Daniela Petruzalek – Fun with Pointers [video](youtube.com)
2 points by rednafi 2y ago|0 comments
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by rednafi 2y ago
This is nice. At work, we use Datadog for logging, and I have previously used CloudWatch, Splunk, and Honeycomb. Among these, only Honeycomb makes implementing canonical log lines [1] easier. I want arbitrarily wide, structured logs [2] wit
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by rednafi 2y ago
I love how sqlite just keeps popping up every now and then. Folks at Turso DB are also doing some super cool stuff with Limbo and LibSQL.
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by rednafi 2y ago
I discover stuff like this every day, and it’s delightful. Sure, reading the manual would’ve saved me from the surprise, but it’s incredibly difficult for me to read them unless I have a specific goal in hand. I found out about hashmaps in
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Go Developer Survey 2024 H2 Results(go.dev)
1 points by rednafi 2y ago|0 comments
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by rednafi 2y ago
I’m surprised this obvious marketing BS made it to the front page. Didn’t they do the same thing before with Blockchain and real-time databases?
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by rednafi 2y ago
All of these issues are kind of solved by uv. It took the Python community a long time to realize that Python isn’t a great language for writing Python tooling. uv solves the bootstrapping problem, and its resolver is infinitely faster than
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Databases Will Be Free(turso.tech)
1 points by rednafi 2y ago|0 comments
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by rednafi 2y ago
It’s the same as how soldiers were trained to de-anthropomorphize their enemies.
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by rednafi 2y ago
> Let’s ignore how AWS S3 still charges you $23/TB/month—1.6x the price of buying the physical disk outright every month—and then charges you egress fees on top for every byte you actually download. But this is an article about

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