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by tdfirth 5y ago
Thanks for sharing this interview. I've seen about 10 minutes so far and I'm hooked. I just love learning about lives that are/were so different to mine.
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by tdfirth 5y ago
Yes that comment is where I first saw it, thanks for reminding me. Thanks for those pointers and the link to your dotfiles too. I will check that out and maybe steal a couple of ideas!!
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by tdfirth 5y ago
I've been using this bare repository approach for a while. I forget where I first saw it, I'm pretty sure it was on HN but it was not this project. I do like it, but I have a few minor issues. The first is that I have a habit of r
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by tdfirth 5y ago
Second this. I'm pretty happy writing code in a plain old text editor much of the time, without most IDE features. One thing I just can't live without, however, is a code formatter. Formatting code by hand is tedious and repetitiv
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by tdfirth 5y ago
Thanks for the recommendation, that does sound good and I'll give it a go.
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by tdfirth 5y ago
That's really interesting, thanks for sharing. I did not have the pleasure(?) of working in the industry back then, as is true of most developers these days. Do you hold out hope for a similar transition to a better local development w
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by tdfirth 5y ago
Ah that's a good idea - I have actually played around with that. When they released support for running lambdas with container images I used it to have a go at making a custom lambda image. I didn't join the dots up for this use c
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by tdfirth 5y ago
Ha, I'm glad my simplification did not fall too short! I did wonder with regards to the IP address. If you had a VPN set up for access to a VPC and ran the lambda in that VPC then that would be another option I think. You would just ne
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by tdfirth 5y ago
> I think one of the biggest mistakes people make when developing Lambadas is designing them differently to normal software. That's probably very true (and I'm probably quite guilty of it!). Thanks for your suggestions, that do
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by tdfirth 5y ago
Hey, thanks for the link. It does look quite good - there was another comment where someone had a home-brewed set up that did something fairly similar. I'll check it out!
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by tdfirth 5y ago
Thanks for these suggestions, they seem pretty solid. I'm particularly keen on the idea of capturing requests/events for use in mocking. It would be quite a powerful workflow for running integration tests. I shall do some research
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by tdfirth 5y ago
I wasn't referring to cost as, yes, it's definitely cheaper to just rent some servers. The operational overhead of provisioning them, configuring them (and so on) is really difficult for a lot of teams though.
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by tdfirth 5y ago
I have considered it, yes, and there are a couple of projects that make the HTTP aspect of lambda easier, it's true. However running HTTP requests through lambdas is just one use case for them! For other kinds of events there doesn&#x2
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by tdfirth 5y ago
To check my understanding, you basically deploy a place holder lambda which proxies events to your dev machine? That's pretty neat if so, I might have to try that out. Are there any downsides to this approach do you think? Thanks for y
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by tdfirth 5y ago
I thought Vercel was for building static sites/backends, or would it also work for generic AWS glue code? (e.g. run this lambda when the bucket changes).
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by tdfirth 5y ago
I am not alone then at least! The particularly annoying thing is that I feel like N isn't even that high. Even 2 or 3 things interacting is a pain (unless it's stuff like RDS or just a plain old container of course).
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by tdfirth 5y ago
That's interesting, thanks for the recommendation. I have heard good things about cloudflare workers too and the local dev setup you've described sounds quite good. Am I right in saying that they serve a somewhat narrower use case
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by tdfirth 5y ago
This made me laugh, thanks. If I'm honest, I do find AWS in general fairly high friction at times but it's way better than renting servers directly I think. It's the only cloud provider I've really worked with to be hone
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by tdfirth 5y ago
I haven't tried it yet, no. It always struck me as being focused on making deployment quick/easy rather than on creating a good local dev workflow (i.e. the same workflow I currently have but a quicker cycle time). This never real
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by tdfirth 5y ago
That sounds really neat, I must admit I've never written a single line of c# although I keep meaning to give it a go. Maybe this is my moment... I'm using python mostly atm. I've played around with go/node too (both of w
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by tdfirth 5y ago
Oh that does look quite interesting, I hadn't heard of that. Thanks for the tip. As you say, it only does the 'host lambdas locally' bit though. If you wanted to do stuff like test the interactions between lambdas, or test th
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Ask HN: Does anyone else find the AWS Lambda developer experience frustrating?
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by tdfirth 6y ago
I think this fits what you are looking for: http://www.rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code There is a listing of 'tasks' (explore > tasks in the topnav) and each one features submissions in many different la
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by tdfirth 6y ago
Here is a fairly old documentary about 'Johnny' von Neumann: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2jiQXI6nrE He was a myth even in his own lifetime but parts of that film hint at the man. It features interviews with m
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by tdfirth 6y ago
Like just about everything in life it is more nuanced than that. There is a time, a place, and a market for both opinionated and highly configurable software. Claims that one is better than another can only ever be opinion. The title aside,
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by tdfirth 6y ago
Interesting analogy to TS (which I'm also a fan of). I hadn't really thought about it like that but I think there is truth to it. As you say, the fact is that we've got all of these standards that can't be be changed wit
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by tdfirth 6y ago
I'm currently working on a PaaS product called fold.sh (very early days). One thing I'm using that I've seen crop up on this thread is tailwindcss... I've not used it before but I'm really enjoying it so far. It&#x2
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by tdfirth 6y ago
Hey, sorry that I didn't really try to explain the bindings. Climb_stealth said it all really but here are some extra bits. The first one is a normal mode binding (the n in nnoremap). yiw copies the word you are currently on (without s
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by tdfirth 6y ago
Those are very creative use cases for fzf, I had never considered doing something like that. My usage of it probably counts as quite basic. That said, I use it constantly. I just love the feeling of real time interaction it gives - it is we
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by tdfirth 6y ago
This comment really made me chuckle. I did enjoy reading the suggestions on the other thread, but not many were entirely... practical (edit for spelling)

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