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by rikthevik 2y ago
I'm very impressed by the recent developer experience improvements in the python ecosystem. Between ruff, uv, and https://github.com/gauge-sh/tach we'll be able to keep our django monolith going for a long ti
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by rikthevik 2y ago
> they provide a standardized interface for all those low-cost manufacturers and get paid by them As far as trends in IoT goes, I feel like Tuya is mostly positive. I bought some cheap smart plugs at Costco and the default app was worthl
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by rikthevik 2y ago
Beautiful art direction to be sure. But let's be real, it's Super Metroid. :)
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by rikthevik 2y ago
> the ability to move across tracing providers It's a nice dream. At Google Cloud Next last year, the vendors kinda of came in two buckets. Datadog, and everyone trying to replace Datadog's outrageous bills.
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by rikthevik 2y ago
Agreed. Running docker-compose and postgres-alpine works just fine.
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by rikthevik 2y ago
I think you're missing the point. I want to develop on postgres and test on postgres because I run postgres in production and I want to take advantage of all of its features. I don't understand why a person would 1) develop/t
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by rikthevik 2y ago
> But there should be very few of those if you're using a framework that abstracts away the database. But I really want that database-specific behaviour. :) PostgreSQL does so many amazing things (recursive CTEs, jsonb, etc) that ac
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by rikthevik 2y ago
This is why I think cross-training is so important and I should do more of it. Even something relatively minor, like doing the Advent of Code in elixir (nim last year) has made my python significantly easier to reason about. If you quit mut
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by rikthevik 2y ago
I totally agree. It's like we've forgotten what browsers and HTML are meant to do. Back in the day we used to rail on Flash websites because while they looked nice, they weren't accessible to screen readers etc, sites weren&#
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by rikthevik 2y ago
> The code is allowed to continue after it has logically bugged out. I'm a big fan of asserting preconditions and making it clear that we are getting into a bad place. I would rather dig through Sentry for an AssertionError than pro
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by rikthevik 2y ago
I've never used Maple for work, only for survival. We had a Calculus for Engineers textbook that was so riddled with errors I had to use a combination of the non-Engineering textbook and Maple to figure out wtf was going on. Bad textbo
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by rikthevik 2y ago
One of my advisors saw Pink Floyd play Dark Side in its entirety in London in the 70s. I can't help bringing it up every time I see him.
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by rikthevik 2y ago
Clothes are an important part of how we communicate with each other. It's an important part of the human experience, right up there with art and music. By having this opinion (and I assume dressing plainly) you are sending your own mes
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by rikthevik 2y ago
-30 reporting in
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by rikthevik 2y ago
This is fantastic stuff, building these machines out of odd primitives. They kind of remind me of blind SQL injection attacks. When you can inject SQL, but can't view the output, so you use things like `pg_sleep()` to get a low-fidelit
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by rikthevik 2y ago
You sound so sure. Can you elaborate?
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by rikthevik 2y ago
Praise for everybody!
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by rikthevik 2y ago
I'm intrigued to try it. I wonder how much it overlaps with Gammel Dansk, which my cousin describes as "it's a like a cinnamon stick threw up"
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by rikthevik 2y ago
Fantastic. I'm very impressed with Simon Willison in general (what a dynamo) and this in particular.
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by rikthevik 2y ago
Yeah dude. There will be a next thing. “Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclo
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by rikthevik 2y ago
British Columbia mandates winter tires on highways going through the mountains, and chains for trucks. I wish other provinces would put in similar mandates, because it's a bit of a clown show on the roads right now in Saskatchewan.
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by rikthevik 2y ago
I'm not sure if you ended up in Saskatchewan, but it kind of sounds like you did. The highways in Alberta are quite a bit better and it's a relatively abrupt change.
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by rikthevik 2y ago
And pretty reasonable if people are plus or minus a few timezones. Working cross-continent is absolutely brutal.
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by rikthevik 2y ago
I'm fine with it. If people want to belittle something, either we aren't trying to solve the same problem (sure) or they're actively turning people away from what could be a serious advantage (more for me!) If the cost of swi
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by rikthevik 2y ago
We are all blind to ourselves. I feel like I should get that tattooed on my hand, next to one saying, "It's not about you."
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by rikthevik 2y ago
Exactly. The guy I'm thinking of has a small number of very happy clients and he can choose who he wants to work with. It's funny that at the high end, it seems like things get easier. You don't have to haggle over an hour or
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by rikthevik 2y ago
Yeah, it's tough to know who can actually deliver. I know one guy (a consultant now) who I would trust to Navy SEALs parachute into almost any technical problem and come up with a real solution. Any part of the stack, from building a p
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by rikthevik 2y ago
Does that invalidate the project's many years of good work? Which distro would you use instead?
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by rikthevik 2y ago
> 95% of your project even if the main interaction loop is done in react The trick is to be very honest with yourself (and team) about how much complex front-end UI the application actually _requires_. Using React where it isn't nec
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by rikthevik 2y ago
If I remember correctly the engine in the Mazda Millenia was a Miller cycle engine and did something unconventional like this. Props to Mazda for trying new stuff. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazda_Millenia

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