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by zellyn 6mo ago
I was so sad when Google shelved their Sabre replacement. Could have run the whole industry.
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by zellyn 6mo ago
Ah, that makes sense. Thanks for the details. I see now that your article basically had all the information I needed to figure this out if I’d thought a bit harder! Also, nice work: this makes the world just a little nicer!
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by zellyn 6mo ago
Does SQLite not have a lemon parser generated for its SQL? When I ported pikchr (also from the SQLite project) to Go, I first ported lemon, then the grammar, then supporting code. I always meant to do the same for its SQL parser, but pikchr
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by zellyn 7mo ago
If you can incorporate Quamina or similar logic in there, you might be able to save even more… worth looking into, at least
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by zellyn 7mo ago
I love this. Nice work! It’s fun to look at your code samples, have absolutely no clue what any of it means, and think about just how many non-English-speaking programmers must have felt that way looking at our all-English programming langu
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by zellyn 7mo ago
See also: https://wokwi.com (ESP32 equivalent) [Edit] Which also does Arduino.
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by zellyn 8mo ago
For those arguing that humans rely on vision alone, one additional argument: If a leaf lands on your windshield, you can look beside it or move your head to see around it. If a leaf lands on a camera lens, it blocks it. A pair of cameras mo
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by zellyn 9mo ago
+1 yo wanting to see the cognition logo with contrast. It was set up as the target, but no payoff! Lovely article, and the dynamic examples are :chefs-kiss:
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by zellyn 9mo ago
Please, start a blog! Hugo + GitHub hosting makes it laughably simple. (Or pick a different stack; that’s just mine.) Even if you’re worried it’ll be sparse and crappy, isn’t an Internet full of idiosyncratic personal blogs what we all want
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by zellyn 9mo ago
Thank you! I’ve always procrastinated tracking finances, but as a programmer who believes in reproducible builds, this just clicked. I just downloaded a bunch of qfx and csv files, and got Claude Code to do this. Took an hour to create the
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by zellyn 9mo ago
trifling.org is an entire Python coding site, offline first (localstorage after first load), with docs, turtle graphics, canvas, and avatar editor, vibe coded from start to finish, with all conversations in the GitHub repo here: https:&#x2
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by zellyn 10mo ago
I’m horribly biased but I think it’s a combination of: (1) knee-jerk reaction to similar-looking but low-value comments, and (2) most people not having played around with LLM coding agents and messed around with their own agents enough to i
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by zellyn 10mo ago
I’ve long thought it would be unsurprising if we eventually found evidence of certain kinds of telepathy. It would just be too damn useful, and tuning up one exquisitely complex magneto-electro-chemical instrument in close proximity to anot
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by zellyn 10mo ago
Guess it beats doing it every 250ms for every topic…
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by zellyn 10mo ago
I enjoy the [GoL -> our “reality” -> outside-the-simulation] comparison. It really drives home how unlikely we would be to understand the outside-the-simulation world. Of course, there are other variants (see qntm's https:/
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by zellyn 10mo ago
The Developer Voices interview where Kris Jenkins talks to Ryan Worl is one of the best, and goes into a surprising amount of detail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgzmxe6cj6A tl;dr they write to s3 once every 250ms to sa
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by zellyn 11mo ago
Ditto on my MacBook Air
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by zellyn 11mo ago
It feels really simple, and Ansible feels like… a whole thing. I’m probably just going on vibes here, though!
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by zellyn 11mo ago
This is my annual plug for the little-known bundlewrap: https://bundlewrap.org It hits a really nice sweet spot, letting you automate things, without making everything too complex. Recently, I've taken to just asking Claude
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by zellyn 1y ago
What weird shadow-universe do you inhabit where you found Python developers telling you the tooling was just fine? I thought everyone has agreed packaging was a trash fire since the turn of the century.
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by zellyn 1y ago
I once tried to start enumerating gate types for Trinary. In binary, with two inputs, there are 2^2 = 4 total possible inputs (00, 01, 10, 11). Different gate types can give different outputs for each of those four inputs: each output can b
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by zellyn 1y ago
https://sandstorm.io
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by zellyn 1y ago
ps I still miss the alternate universe where Kenton won the open source deployment battle :-)
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by zellyn 1y ago
Agreed. There was a point where I thought AMIs would become the unit of open source deployment packaging, and I think docker filled that niche in a cloud-agnostic way
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by zellyn 1y ago
It definitely has LLM vibes…
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by zellyn 1y ago
I recently had an interview like this. Felt like half the answers I gave were of the form, “You can do scaling/sharding/partitioning thing X here, but once again, for an internal app I’d try really hard to avoid doing any of that”
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by zellyn 1y ago
> the MacRumors home page crashed after some scrolling I know there’s a ton going on, with GPUs and rendering and all kinds of things, but I guess because Rust’s memory safety and “no null pointers!” are so constantly hyped (especially i
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by zellyn 1y ago
Oh nice! I play Loopy while listening to podcasts or sometimes watching Netflix, and the bugs causing right edge to require double long-hold and left edge to require fanatical precision always drive me nuts, so this is very welcome! Any way
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by zellyn 1y ago
The California Memorial Stadium is built directly on a fault line, right?
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by zellyn 1y ago
If you do decide to wait longer, be aware that there are hilarious differences geographically. When we had our first kid in SF, the other dads pushing swings were around the same age as me (fortyish). Moving back to Georgia… oh my god, the

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