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by richeyryan 6y ago
I'm not saying anything about the actual tools here. I have an opinion of course but that's not relevant here. What I'm saying is most technical decisions require nuance and thought. If someone is presenting a thought without
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by richeyryan 6y ago
Good rule of thumb is to disregard any statement like "Literally never ever ... under any circumstances" irregardless of the supposed reputability of the person saying it. Its either purposely meant to be a hot take to rile people
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by richeyryan 6y ago
It sounds like you are talking about Caramel[1]. As far as I understand its serious enough but quite young. [1] https://caramel.run/manual/
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by richeyryan 6y ago
I totally relate to this. Even if you never "publish" what you write it has an effect of clarifying what you think. It also makes it possible to develop and refine your thinking because you have a point of reference. I wrote a pos
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by richeyryan 6y ago
Yeah, it worked well. I guess the problem you have is, once you're international, your clever name loses its impact. It was a common joke at the time Free Now launched that the taxis should be free alright.
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by richeyryan 6y ago
In Ireland the app went from being Hailo to MyTaxi to Free Now. Personally I loved Hailo. It became a verb and it was common to say "I'm going to Hailo now". Now it's "I'm going to FreeNow... now". It jus
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by richeyryan 6y ago
It's a Clojure-ism. The arguments are passed as a vector. https://clojure.org/guides/learn/functions
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by richeyryan 6y ago
Oh wow that's great to hear. Do you have any resources I could reference? A Github issue discussing the intended solution or something?
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by richeyryan 6y ago
I would say I have the same strengths as you. I kind of see it like a "mid-stack engineer" or "middle tier" like you say. It's a lot of data wrangling. It can happen on the "back" of the client or the &quo
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by richeyryan 6y ago
Don't let your ego become entangled with your work. If you work for someone else, always remember that you're hired help and they have the final say. It doesn't matter how small or flat the company is, unless you own it, you
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by richeyryan 6y ago
I rather liked Fish's zero config approach but I found their handling of the PATH very hard to work with day to day. Perhaps it was just my familiarity with having a bunch of statements to alter the PATH in a config file but it felt ve
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by richeyryan 6y ago
You're absolutely right, I see all the same things as you. I think there are a number of factors 1. Library authors optimize aggressively for the beginner. They specifically sell their tools as being all in one and you can do everythin
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by richeyryan 6y ago
Rails is basically just super Django. Its aims to be a similar proposition. If you find it too complex you should look at Flask like the other poster suggested. I'm working from the perspective that you want to get this over the finish
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by richeyryan 6y ago
You could build what you describe with literally any tech stack. You don't specify how much, if any, coding experience you have but this is the kind of thing you want to keep really simple. If you know a stack like Ruby on Rails or Lar
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by richeyryan 6y ago
I tried there and upvotes, replying to comments and editing comments don't work. I can't speak to notifications but I'll accept that they work.
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by richeyryan 6y ago
The parent suggested HN as an example of an application that didn't need a lot of client code. I think its still fair to say that it doesn't have many of the features that ordinary users have come to expect. Old reddit is a much m
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by richeyryan 6y ago
Hacker News is purposely utilitarian and that's fine but I don't think general audiences would tolerate it. You have to manually check if someone responded to your comment. I don't think its too unreasonable to say that most
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by richeyryan 6y ago
His website says he works with Clojurescript at his employer. I thought it was strange when I saw that.
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by richeyryan 6y ago
Surely this line of thinking has the potential to lead to "I know NextJS best so every problem looks like a NextJS problem" ? If you limit yourself to the surface area of one tool, you become reliant on the authors of that tool to
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by richeyryan 6y ago
The answer to your question is a big stonking depends. There are some skills and knowledge that are transferable across languages and ecosystems. Some companies are happy to find good talent that are willing to learn and will teach them the
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by richeyryan 6y ago
I know its a failure of Slack, which is why I responded to the parent
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by richeyryan 6y ago
I encounter it occasionally. Either broken or omitted features. Slack calls don't work in Firefox just because. Blurring out your background in Google meet isn't available on Firefox. Some utilities websites here, in Ireland, don&
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by richeyryan 6y ago
What is your argument here? That we already work with state machines implicitly in UI code so there's no point in making it explicit with a library? That Svelte's reactive mechanics are so good that it doesn't make sense to u
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by richeyryan 6y ago
I'm kind of resigned to it. There's places where I imagine I'll end up using it and others where I'll do without. Someone who talks intelligently about the strengths of dynamic languages is Rich Hickey. His talks challen
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by richeyryan 6y ago
In my opinion, state machines are the best solution when you have "any arbitrarily complex combination of states and transitions, regardless of the problem domain, language" to quote you. However most UI state patterns are not arb
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by richeyryan 6y ago
The transitions between states in the Svelte example are also completely uncontrolled and there is no guaranteed flow from state A => B => C. That is completely fine in many cases, most cases I would say. The problem is when you encou
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by richeyryan 6y ago
I had a look through that alright. Do you code in that style in work?
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by richeyryan 6y ago
Would the stuff you have on Github be a fair representation of your ideal way of writing a web UI?
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by richeyryan 6y ago
I'm curious about your approach to making UIs. Are there any libraries you do use? Do you use anything to render your view or do you construct the nodes and insert them into the DOM directly? Is your centrally available object an insta
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by richeyryan 6y ago
A couple of years ago I was a big advocate of ReasonML and went so far as to run a meet up. I honestly believed in the technical value of it and saw it as a better alternative to Typescript. At the time, the waters were muddy enough with Re

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