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by rednafi 9mo ago
Yeah rounded border seems like a good idea. Also, weird, seems like I don't see the encoding issue on the segal's law.
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by rednafi 9mo ago
Thanks for the sub :) Yeah, the idea was that since RSS is still considered niche by the broader audience, those who are looking for it will probably find it just fine.
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by rednafi 9mo ago
Fair. For commercial sites and pretty much anything you want more eyeballs on, you need to put them on the social media.
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by rednafi 9mo ago
Fair criticism. I'm trying to find a way to present that without being obnoxious.
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by rednafi 9mo ago
How many times do you actually need to look at large JSONs? The cost of readability is too high, IMO. Personally, I don't spend much time looking at complex JSON; a binary format like Protobuf along with a typed DSL is often what you n
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by rednafi 9mo ago
I removed all the bullshit social media icons and made sure that the rss icon is the first thing you notice on the landing page[1]. [1]: https://rednafi.com
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by rednafi 9mo ago
I've used Twitter to publish my thoughts for years. In the beginning, I'd write multiple threads to get my points across. Then, when Twitter started supporting longer tweets, I started publishing essays and it got the job done. Bu
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by rednafi 10mo ago
It’s different for everyone. I love public speaking but tend not to over-rehearse. Also, I prefer smaller conferences and meetups than large sprawling ones.
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by rednafi 10mo ago
The biggest question is, can they even pay for half of the deals they have been making?
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No Shave November Through the Eyes of Face Detection(revontulet.dev)
1 points by rednafi 11mo ago|0 comments
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iPhone Ethernet Bridge on RaspberryPi with Ubuntu Server(revontulet.dev)
1 points by rednafi 11mo ago|0 comments
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Life Beyond Distributed Transactions: An Apostate's Opinion [pdf](ics.uci.edu)
2 points by rednafi 1y ago|0 comments
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by rednafi 1y ago
People are reading human-generated text, blogs, and artisanal content more than ever before. The whole point of consuming art is to appreciate the work that went into creating it. If something is generated without much effort, then what’s t
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by rednafi 1y ago
Oh, RFCs aren’t forgotten. Every FAANG and wannabe FAANG has some form of RFC writing and reading culture baked in. With AI, companies are forcing people to churn them out faster than ever. It’s gotten to the point where, to keep up with th
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by rednafi 1y ago
Despite using CTEs, I found the first query quite impenetrable. Could be because I don’t spend that much time reading non-trivial SQL queries. I’ve been mostly using the `pg_stat_statements` table (the second technique) to find out whether
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by rednafi 1y ago
I love reading about and occasionally tinkering with older text editors like vim, emacs, ed, acme, ex, nedit, and as such. For actual work, though, I’ve been using VS Code exclusively since its inception. Electron might be a bloated mess, b
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by rednafi 1y ago
Writing one off simple MCPs are quite easy but once you need to manage a fleet of them, it gets hairy. - Writing manifests and schemas by hand takes too long for small or iterative tools. Even minor schema changes often require re-registrat
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by rednafi 1y ago
MCP gives me early days gRPC vibes - when the protocol felt heavy and the toolings had many sharp edges. Even today, after many rounds of improvements, people often eschew gRPC and Protobuf. Similarly, my experience writing and working with
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by rednafi 1y ago
I literally don’t understand the rationale behind trying to bring down anyone aiming for a higher wage. I live in Europe, and 150k isn’t a moonshot salary here. Just because something isn’t the norm doesn’t mean no one should try to achieve
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by rednafi 1y ago
I don’t know where you are but 150k is decent at best in most US and Western European big cities. So if someone has a few years of experience under their belt, the expectation isn’t too complacent.
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by rednafi 1y ago
I’ve yet to find answers to these two questions: - If AI is making everyone so productive, why don’t we see that reflected in any existing productivity metrics? - Why do companies feel the need to introduce 996 when AI is supposedly making
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by rednafi 1y ago
I love this analogy of consultants parachuting into a project, doing the bare minimum, and passing the baton to the next person to maintain the mess. Leadership is buying into the hype and busy turning everyone into overzealous slopmongers.
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by rednafi 1y ago
Awesome to see you chiming in here. Just to set some context, I remember talking to Glauber and Pekka last year, right around when the Turso folks started toying with the idea of reimplementing SQLite in Rust. It’s a moonshot, but if anyone
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by rednafi 1y ago
Also, Rust needs a better stdlib. A crate for every little thing is kinda nuts. One reason I enjoy Go is because of the pragmatic stdlib. On most cases, I can get away without pulling in any 3p deps. Now of course Go doesn’t work where you
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by rednafi 1y ago
So far, the ROI has been much lower than expected. The hype certainly attracted a ton of investment, but aside from some code generation and summarization, I’ve yet to see any meaningful yield. The narrative claims that AI will make everyon
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by rednafi 1y ago
CV padding is a real thing. Too many engineers love joining moonshot programs at large companies. The reason - being able to play with cool toys with the least amount of accountability. Google has Google problems. So unless you are operatin
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by rednafi 1y ago
The appeal of experimenting with languages varies widely between academics and industrial practitioners. When you’re in the business of creating languages, exploration often takes on the character of an art project. However, as a trench-lin
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by rednafi 1y ago
The intention behind configuration languages is sound but there’s just too many of them. Not having a universally accepted one makes picking one harder. Also, migrating from one to another isn’t as straightforward. Plus, for database
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by rednafi 1y ago
I literally stopped writing Python for scripting a year ago - the distribution story was too painful. With LLMs, there's not much a dynamic language offers over something like Go even for quick scripting. Also, on a new machine, I coul
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by rednafi 1y ago
GPG is a big detractor, at least for me. Working with the GPG agent is usually a subpar, if not outright confusing, experience. I’d happily take a version that uses ssh-agent instead to achieve the same.

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