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by samwillis 1y ago
Local-first is the true server-less and your device is the real "edge". So much truth to this post.
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by samwillis 1y ago
There is now a great annual Local-first Software conference in Berlin ( https://www.localfirstconf.com/ ) organised by Ink and Switch, and it's spawned a spin out Sync Conf this November in SF ( https://synccon
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by samwillis 1y ago
I think a lot of the problems come from the fact testing stored procedures ventures into e2e testing land. You have to stand up infra in order to test them. There's not really been a simple way to unit test stored procedures as part of
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by samwillis 1y ago
I spent an afternoon vibe coding a game with them (10 + 6). We took it in turns describing what to build, and I did my best to explain that the AI was interpreting our instructions and writing to code. They could see the code changing and s
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by samwillis 1y ago
This would make sense if there was any indication that AR is going to happen. I would argue that there isn't even the faintest signal that it will. People do not want invasive glasses, even if they make them as small at normal glasses.
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by samwillis 1y ago
This is something I've explored as part of my work on PGlite. It's possible but needs quite a bit of work, and would come with some limitations until Postgres upstream make some changes. You will need to use an unrolled main loo
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by samwillis 1y ago
Awesome work Wey! Love that you're building this! I work on PGlite, we have an experimental WASI build that can run in a WASI runtime, it should enable dropping the Node requirement. It lacks error handling at the moment (WASM has no l
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by samwillis 1y ago
Two ways to make it: - know the total length of the tape, and when it's changed, and therefore predict the current radius of the roll - a small sprung variable resistor pressing against the under side of the role But that could be over
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by samwillis 1y ago
Hey! It was great to meet you at the conference, it's a great writeup!
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by samwillis 1y ago
No worries, it was a really great talk - one of the highlights of the conference for me!
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by samwillis 1y ago
Going to PGconf.dev, explaining what you are doing to the core devs, the problems you faced, and what you would love to have as feature in Postgres, is exactly the right way to go about improving Postgres. Blindly opening "PRs"
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by samwillis 1y ago
I believe the videos of the talks will be published at some point - I think "a few weeks" was mentioned.
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by samwillis 1y ago
The message of the talk was very much that you can scale to massive throughput without having to shard and having only a single master. Of course they considered it, but the tradeoffs didn't match what they wanted to do - plus they fou
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by samwillis 1y ago
I was at PGConf last week, and this was one of the most packed talks - a great insight into using Postgres, where most of the conference was fairly inward facing, with talks around the development of Postgres itself (pgconf.dev is very much
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Collaborative Text Editing Without CRDTs or OT(mattweidner.com)
284 points by samwillis 1y ago|79 comments
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Show HN: ElectricSQL Cloud – Postgres sync in 30 seconds(electric-sql.com)
7 points by samwillis 1y ago|0 comments
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Biologist whose innovation saved lives wins $3M Breakthrough prize(theguardian.com)
6 points by samwillis 2y ago|0 comments
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by samwillis 2y ago
I think this is a subset of the fifth (of the seven) ideals of local-first software https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/#5-the-long-now > Local-first software enables greater longevity because your data, and th
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by samwillis 2y ago
Cursor Compose (essentially a chat window) in YOLO mode. Describe what you want, get it to confirm a plan, ask it to start, and go make coffee. Come back 5min later to 1k lines of code plus tests that are passing and ready for review (in
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by samwillis 2y ago
I'm not American, but I'm very aware of the impact 18f has had from seeing the many posts on here of their work over the years: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=18f I'm also aware of at least a handful of hacker new
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by samwillis 2y ago
If you hadn't post this comment, I would have. Fireworks could have been Figma, it could have been the default platform every designer used. But Adobe didn't understand it, they saw it as a weird Photoshop competitor and shelved i
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by samwillis 2y ago
Yep, it's really disappointing they didn't decide to support it for localhost.
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by samwillis 2y ago
One area we have found Caddy invaluable is for local testing of APIs with HTTP2 during development. Most dev servers are HTTP1 only, and so you are limited to max of 6 concurrent connections to localhost. HTTP2 requires SSL, which would nor
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by samwillis 2y ago
The link is to their poweroutage.us, but they also cover Canada ( https://poweroutage.com/ca ), the UK ( https://poweroutage.com/uk ) and the EU ( https://poweroutage.com/eu ). For some reason th
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by samwillis 2y ago
s/autistic/artistic I violated my own rule of always re-reading a post 5 min after posting it...
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by samwillis 2y ago
It should be easy for a human at TfL to make an assessment on something like this, see the autistic and technical value, and offer a free but heavily restricted license to the developer. But is suppose many organisations just don't g
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Postgres UUIDv7 and per-back end monotonicity(brandur.org)
2 points by samwillis 2y ago|0 comments
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by samwillis 2y ago
Unit tests work well with PGlite, at least in the TS/JS world where it natively sits at the moment. You can have a unique Postgres instance for each unit test that's up and running in just a few ms. It's possible to use PGlit
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by samwillis 2y ago
Sadly HN has stripped the fragment from the URL, see page 268: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015055216876&se...
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Punch (1844) predicts LLMs: "The new patent novel writer"(babel.hathitrust.org)
3 points by samwillis 2y ago|3 comments

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