thomasfortes

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by thomasfortes 5y ago
Bootstrap is a fully opinionated framework, tailwind is far more versatile, it has his opinions, but they aren't set in stone in the way that bootstrap is. You can build bootstrap in tailwind, but you can't build tailwind with boo
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by thomasfortes 5y ago
Both are the new IE, one push features without caring about the rest of the ecosystem and the other refuses to implement standards without caring about the rest of the ecosystem. The end result is that the web right now has stuff that works
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by thomasfortes 6y ago
Brazilian dev with some experience in developing systems used across LatAm. Honestly, it is a mess... There are specific payment methods that are common in a single country where people prefer to use that instead of credit cards, as a resul
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by thomasfortes 6y ago
ReveryUI seems like a nice project that works similarly to flutter, unfortunately they aren't sponsored by a giant company, but I would love to use reasonml/ocaml instead of dart (which is in no way a bad language, I just prefer t
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by thomasfortes 6y ago
He was complaining a couple days ago in twitter that he couldn't buy a ton of expensive gpu machines on GCP as an independent researcher, but being John Carmack someone from google stepped up and fixed it for him.
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by thomasfortes 6y ago
I had to buy pens for white boards even though I was volunteering to help students prepare to university exams as a math/physics teacher, I wasn't getting a single penny and I had to pay for minimal resources because they were onl
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by thomasfortes 6y ago
Terraria speedruns have a NMA category (no major abuses) that have a set of rules defined by the community, if more games start to make 100% possible with glitches I can imagine these games adopting something similar.
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by thomasfortes 6y ago
> To me, this is a huge UX improvement for Elixir devs! That's awesome, I have a module that is a helper to inject data in a socket to use with liveview but the data that I need isn't present in the dev environment and mocking
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by thomasfortes 6y ago
Elixir does that too (more a BEAM thing to be more precise), the BEAM can spawn millions of processes without killing your server performance. But I agree with your main point, concurrency is hard if the language isn't built from the g
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by thomasfortes 6y ago
> And to add to this: yes I think cat ownership is very worth it. It's basically an on-demand pleasure source that you can use as long as you want, whenever you want. Just curl up into the soft kitty and feel him purring, awesome! I
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by thomasfortes 6y ago
That's when you set up dnsmasq or something similar and use your favorite dns server for most of the sites but a specific one for sites that will work better with it.
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by thomasfortes 6y ago
Just nitpicking, but devices that run the BEAM, not Linux, don't know what is the state of the project, but the GRiSP board runs erlang in the metal.
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by thomasfortes 6y ago
https://esy.sh can help with the tooling and package management. I don't mind writing dune files, but yeah, ocaml tooling is a bit lacking by modern standards...
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by thomasfortes 6y ago
Not really, most of the bundles are pretty small, in the 30/40Kb range gzipped, even smaller with brotli, the problem is when the user has to wait 5s to start using the site, waiting half a second to load the first page is ok, waiting
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by thomasfortes 6y ago
Yeah, it is perfectly possible to build javascript heavy websites without making them unusable until all is downloaded and processed... I'm rebuilding a site for a client and using a bunch of dynamic imports, if you don't touch a
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by thomasfortes 6y ago
I use the picture tag with a bunch of media queries to deliver optimized images for each resolution in websites that I build, resizing a 1080p image to only 200px width does wonders to mobile performance while keeping it perfect for full HD
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by thomasfortes 6y ago
I had one model from Asus, battery life was terrible and if you were doing anything remotely intensive it doubled up as a nice hand warmer... I know that these probably are solvable problems, but they left a pretty bad taste...
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by thomasfortes 6y ago
> there are kits to do experiments at home. For high school level, sure. But I can't see a sane way to let students handle acids like I did in chemistry labs during college, and physics labs have equipment that is too complex/e
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by thomasfortes 6y ago
There's a guy that managed to compile and run revery on android, I would love to have that as an option since I'm already familiar with ocaml/reason and only barely literate in Dart (and also prefer functional languages over
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by thomasfortes 6y ago
IE11 supports the figure element, so it is possible to use webp and have a fallback to the png or jpeg, but since I already use figure for multiple image sizes I will support webp with fallbacks for a while...
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by thomasfortes 6y ago
Not op, but for now spaces are lacking detailed stats, one example, if you want to build a saas and bill your users for the bandwidth consumed by their buckets you can't do that right now using spaces.
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by thomasfortes 6y ago
In erlang (in the BEAM vm to be more precise) you can update an application while it is running, it was a requirement for the language, even though these days it is a lot less common, its still possible. The way that the BEAM does that it i
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by thomasfortes 6y ago
It's not that typing is hard/impossible, it is that typing messages make certain operations in BEAM impossible (dynamic code upgrades). From the fingers of Robert Virding itself: https://elixirforum.com/t/how-
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by thomasfortes 6y ago
As someone that uses elixir for webapps and ocaml/reasonml for frontend work, I hope that https://gleam.run gets traction, seems like a nice BEAM language with types that is evolving quickly.
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by thomasfortes 6y ago
ReasonML is a pleasure to work with, and if reveryui gets momentum I will surely write gui desktop applications with it (I already use it to write compiled applications, under the hood is just ocaml).
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by thomasfortes 6y ago
Not touching on the reasons why the type system and hot code reloading are complex in the BEAM, but the hot code reloading dev workflows in other languages and the BEAM one are two completely different beasts. Erlang/OTP was designed f
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by thomasfortes 6y ago
Naughty dog (the studio founded by Gavin and Jason Rubin) is also home of the ICE team, a technology hub for Sony titles, I wonder if Sony saw the tech expertise culture in the studio and decided to put a team to handle psx dev tech with th
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by thomasfortes 6y ago
> It goes back to 1998 or thereabouts It goes way back, 1998 was when they open sourced it, the language was in development and use inside Ericsson since 1986.
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by thomasfortes 7y ago
Don't know about Europe, in Brazil spam calls are common but you can register your number in a consumer protection organ to say that you do not want unwanted commercial calls and if you keep receiving them the companies can be fined, f
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by thomasfortes 7y ago
Put the Brazilian INPE in this list too, it's sad that some people created an imaginary world in their heads where innovation comes only from private companies... When we're talking about physical sciences most of the work is done

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