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by zabil 5y ago
For my project I use eleventy with markdown and commit to github which then deploys on netlify. To make it very easy to navigate the documentation it's integrated with docsearch(algolia). All of this is free for open source projects.
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by zabil 5y ago
I recently move to London. Whenever I post pictures of the river everyone points out how murky it looks. I was quite surprised to read that it's cleaner than how it looks. I always hear disbelief whenever I say it's cleaner than w
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by zabil 5y ago
Congrats for turning 12! Starting using golang 6 years ago and it's been so easy maintaining our projects and upgrading to the latest versions. Cheers to the team.
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by zabil 5y ago
Not unprofessional at all. From your description there is an issue with your current workplace culture. Bad work culture affects mental health and personal life. It's important to take care of yourself. If your workplace is not willing
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by zabil 5y ago
Thanks for the references. Apologies for not explaining that well. I wasn't generalising about all patterns rather about using GoF patterns with a cookie cutter approach. Atleast, I am sure made that mistake.
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by zabil 5y ago
Good design and OOP avoids using GoF patterns while coding for many reasons. One is that they do not map well to the domain and the other is they are difficult to TDD or test. They are really tough to use too if you plan to publish your lib
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by zabil 5y ago
Great work, especially the comment navigation. I find it much easier to view the comment threads and scan top level comments.
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by zabil 5y ago
This is really cool. I wonder if this can be used to simulate pianos, rhodes and wurlitzer sounds.
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by zabil 6y ago
> However, what is often overlooked is the psychological impact this can have. Absolutely. It's hard to explain this. I maintain a mildly popular open source project. There's a strange dread when I think of reading my Github no
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by zabil 6y ago
+1 to the Amethyst and the Xmonad style tiling with where the focus is on a main area and there are options to switch windows to main aread and cycle layouts.
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by zabil 6y ago
> - Native support for keychain + fingerprint Been using Safari for almost a year now, and this is one of my favourite features.
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by zabil 6y ago
Glad to see this approach to testing, especially making sure the website is accessible. XPath and CSS selectors not ideal for testing as they tie the tests to the implementation of the page. Looking forward to using this.
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by zabil 6y ago
> It's ironic that how until something is promulgated by or studied by a western university it is discredited. I don't think it was discredited. It's just making the case stronger using science. I believe this will keep ha
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by zabil 6y ago
> If I use Entity Framework Core I also love the in-memory provider (or SQLite in-memory), which gives you a very well faked database context for unit tests. This approach easy to setup, however I found that it slows down unit tests espe
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by zabil 6y ago
> Thousands of students are all trying to get a low effort contribution in to have an extra line of "experience" on their resume and a T-Shirt from a western Silicon Valley company as signaling? Judging by the poor quality of t
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by zabil 6y ago
Agree. Even with it's quirks, I found the trackball/trackpoint my earlier Thinkpads useful and ergonomic. Scrolling, clicking should be a part of the keyboard ergonomics design IMHO.
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by zabil 6y ago
I use a MacBook pro and I really want to use a split keyboard for better ergonomics. I tried a few, however I feel that I need lift my arm to use a trackpad (external or the one on the mac) or a mouse, whereas on the mac I don't have t
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by zabil 6y ago
> Without more data, I bet this is the second case. If the online reviews are false the Hotel is in their right to accuse him of defamation. I've been to Thailand many times too, mostly to Krabi (for the climbing). And like many, I
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by zabil 6y ago
I grew up in Kerala (the place the robot is demoed). The method you mentioned is tough in a densely populated place like mine. Palm trees grow in our yards. A human needs to climb the tree and drop the coconuts carefully to avoid breaking t
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by zabil 6y ago
Great read. Especially the point about developers vs users. Programming langauges and IDE's have an effect too in my opinion. I've found myself and other team members refactoring much more when using OOP languages. Design is very
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by zabil 6y ago
> There's something really strange about it: it fits so snugly on my wrist, so warm, yet spartan; it simply just feels good. Totally agree. And it's great utility because of this. You can use it while playing, sports, music and
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by zabil 6y ago
Major IT companies in India get a lot of revenue from maintainence projects and there is usually no scope for making major changes or innovating there. The time and material billing for these make it quite attractive from a revenue point vs
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by zabil 6y ago
I maintain an open source project written in golang that's test runner with an html reporting plugin. I can use this feature to bundle the report template, css, js, images file with the plugin to make download installation and use of t
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by zabil 6y ago
I am glad with just one album (in his lifetime) Jeff Buckley is on the list.
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by zabil 6y ago
From my experience, easily testable code (this means applications and interfaces) is stabler and easier to maintain. By testable code I mean code that's either easy to test or write tests for. I see a lot of tests retrofitted assuming
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by zabil 6y ago
I am such a big fan. Ecstasy of gold in the final scene of the good bad and the ugly was so good.
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by zabil 6y ago
Here's what's worked for me * Filter users, carefully choose whom to engage with. They must be needing and using what you build. * Most of the users fit a persona so you need to engage with a subset of the type. * Do not create an
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by zabil 6y ago
IMHO, frameworks also distill experience, documentation, community and spirit. It allowed me to switch languages and eco-systems easily, collaborate and talk to like minded people. I'd generally be uncomfortable working with teams who
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by zabil 6y ago
An earlier article referenced on hacker news talks about how procrastination is about managing emotions not time. It changed my perspective. I now prefer habits and rewards over tools and methods.
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by zabil 6y ago
I work full time building open source products. My company is kind enough to sponsor me and my team. We work on a lot of other projects (many of them using our open source work) so the revenue comes from elsewhere. If you just want to focus

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