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by srhtftw 2y ago
> being oncall forces the quality of software to improve. Only when it's the managers that are on call.
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by srhtftw 2y ago
A mere listing of ingredients or contents, or a simple set of directions, is uncopyrightable. https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ33.pdf > ... aa recipe that creatively explains or depicts how or why to perform a pa
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by srhtftw 2y ago
Although I'm not a fauna user, I like studying databases and query languages. I've followed them since Jepsen¹ reviewed FaunaDB 2.5.4 back in 2019. While their FQL looks useful, I can't imagine using a SaaS-only proprietary q
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by srhtftw 2y ago
I've voiced my opinion on this before¹. The problem is on-call is an essential and critical part of a managerial role, but toxic to those in a developer role. Managers must be on-call to ensure the appropriate people and resource
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by srhtftw 2y ago
Git-Heat-Map¹ does something similar to this. It's not open source but I found it easy re-implement the core algorithm² as a learning exercise in React. ¹- https://github.com/jmforsythe/Git-Heat-Map ²- https:&#x
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by srhtftw 2y ago
* You've spent so much time critiquing nil values in Lua tables that you could have rewritten the entire language by now. Maybe in 2025? * Your perfect tech stack exists only in your comments - a beautiful utopia where everything is ty
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by srhtftw 2y ago
> Famious last words. These weren't his last words, but Jim Gray had this to say about this so-called "antipattern". Queues Are Databases (1995) Message-oriented-middleware (MOM) has become an small industry. MOM offers qu
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by srhtftw 2y ago
Here is a Tampermonkey¹ script I've used for some ime to make HN look the way I want it to (plain white background). It should be easy to adapt for a dark preference. It also adds a "bookmark" at the top of each page which
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by srhtftw 2y ago
> Gotta be honest, I find the idea of a bootable backup disk to be defective Well, having relied on a similar product (Carbon Copy Cloner) to keep a bootable backup in addition to time machine backups for myself and members of my family
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by srhtftw 2y ago
> locals can no longer be used before declaration There's a lot I like about Lua but it so happens that a few days ago I spent longer than I'd like to admit debugging a trivial typo for Advent of Code day 5 that would have been
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by srhtftw 2y ago
At last, a voice of reason amid the vulgar crowd. I've held several management positions where I've carried a pager. At one employer I helped keep trading databases operational in 7 time-zones on 3 continents. At another I hel
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by srhtftw 2y ago
Happy user of Andrew Moffat's https://sh.readthedocs.io for over a decade.
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by srhtftw 2y ago
Indeed. Prince¹ is good but not free and doesn't support CSS grid. ¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_%28software%29
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by srhtftw 2y ago
Where lies the land to which the ship would go? Far, far ahead, is all her seamen know. And where the land she travels from? Away, Far, far behind, is all that they can say. - Arthur Hugh Clough
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by srhtftw 2y ago
It has the feel of the fractal craze of the late 80's and the goofy websites of the 90's and I have yet to see an AI-generated image that improved the quality of a post on a subject other than AI-generated imagery. To me it's
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by srhtftw 2y ago
I don't believe anyone has done that yet in the way I think you're thinking for Effect-ts - i.e. something which would give effect execution a kind of location-transparency. That said, the person who built the ZIO project which in
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by srhtftw 2y ago
Indeed both Zod and Schema are great with Effect.
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by srhtftw 2y ago
I've used Effect-ts for a little under a year. It's great for workflows with clear points in the logic where things should happen and it provides more sophisticated (i.e. powerful but harder to master) tools like Fibers and Stream
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by srhtftw 2y ago
Indeed. The bay area was a better place before google compensation priced everyone else out of it.
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by srhtftw 2y ago
https://penpot.app
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by srhtftw 2y ago
Quality is a process that begins with management. How they value it is revealed by the actions they take in cases like these. It's unfortunate OP wrote plenty about their displeasure with the candidate but failed to tell us anything a
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by srhtftw 2y ago
Would https://docs.daos.io/v2.4 make sense for your use case (assuming affordable and available) ?
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by srhtftw 2y ago
Reminds me of https://github.com/8byt/gox which I bookmarked when working with Go but never got around to using.
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by srhtftw 2y ago
Amtrak can be fun but service can be highly variable. A few years ago my wife and I took an Amtrak from Oakland to Chicago with a brief stop in Colorado to visit a hot spring. We weren't impressed with the menu on the first leg of the
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by srhtftw 2y ago
SyntaxError: expected expression, got '?' index-ZK7vbils.js:37:3451
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by srhtftw 2y ago
alias vim emacs
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by srhtftw 2y ago
Mary visits every monday, just stays until noon period.
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by srhtftw 2y ago
> In fact, we could have used Datalog to achieve our data goals — but that would mean we have to build our own Datalog implementation, backing data store, etc. We don’t want to do that. Surprising that creating a whole new language made
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by srhtftw 2y ago
Things that make my mac more usable for me in no particular order: visidata - https://www.visidata.org just - https://github.com/casey/just ripgrep - https://github.com/BurntSushi&#
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by srhtftw 2y ago
An Inconvenient Truth (2006)

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