cytzol

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by cytzol 3y ago
Embedding your assets like this isn't always an improvement. For example, I work on a site with a Go server and static content pages, and I like that I can update one of the pages and see the change instantly without having to re-compi
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by cytzol 4y ago
> Why do you prefer having an app running (and owning the sole menu bar) when it has no GUI on screen? Here's a story from when I was using Windows for work after using Macs for ages. I had one folder in Sublime Text open, and I wan
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by cytzol 4y ago
I love Rouille: https://docs.rs/rouille/latest/rouille/
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by cytzol 4y ago
I found this "best practice" curious to read: > The standard net/http server violates this advice and recovers panics from request handlers. Consensus among experienced Go engineers is that this was a historical mistake. I
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by cytzol 4y ago
As a sidenote to your sidenote: I've noticed that the term "syntax" seems to have two different meanings nowadays. There's the technical meaning, namely "the rules that govern how characters are parsed into abstract
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by cytzol 4y ago
Looks like the application requires macOS v12, which is only a year old. What features does it require that means it can't be backwards-compatible? Is it a SwiftUI thing?
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by cytzol 4y ago
Sorry, I don't get what you mean. Could you elaborate or re-phrase?
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by cytzol 4y ago
> Programming is a means to an end, and the cost of using Rust (hiring, increased development time) is often not worth it. I agree with this. I learnt Rust before Go, and using Go makes me feel like The Oatmeal piracy guy[1]: "I&#x2
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by cytzol 4y ago
Like many things with Go, its approach seems reasonable and simple at first, but allows you to accidentally write code that looks right but is very, very wrong. For example, what do you think this code will do? delaySecs := 1 * time
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by cytzol 5y ago
Here's a reply to a comment from a few weeks ago, when someone asked the same thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30024805
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by cytzol 5y ago
Serious question: how do you square your third paragraph with your first? That is, if you're using Obsidian's features like [[square bracket link syntax]], or #tags, or inline images, aren't you effectively locked in to edito
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by cytzol 5y ago
> Just a reminder to everybody that Fastmail is an Australian company, and is therefore subject to Australia's TOLA / Assistance And Access. [...] Having your e-mail provider compelled to work against your interests is no joke
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by cytzol 5y ago
I use cURL a ton too, for when I want to make a one-off request, examine the response, and then throw it away. Here are some reasons why I'd reach for a tool like this: • I want the history of every request and response to be saved by
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by cytzol 5y ago
I tried the Electron version six months ago, and I wrote up its weaknesses here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28147305 EDIT: I just tried the latest beta, and I'm happy to say that scrolling the list is now muc
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by cytzol 5y ago
If you're using Make as a command runner or a "standard entry point" to a project, instead of using it as a build system that tracks dependencies between files, I highly recommend using `just` instead: https://gi
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by cytzol 5y ago
> My (limited) exposure to Java was quite painful because I had to deal with layers and layer of inheritance and abstractions that at some point made it very difficult to do what I needed to do. Hey — could you go into more detail about
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by cytzol 5y ago
I set up a non-public-facing IPv6-only web server last night, so the issues are fresh in my mind! I'm fortunate enough to have an IPv6-capable home connection, and the hosting provider I use (Scaleway) charges extra for assigning IPv4
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by cytzol 5y ago
I'd be really happy with that! Building the functionality of errcheck[1] and ineffassign[2] into the compiler — or at the very least, into govet — would go a long way to allay my worries with Go. I think the reason they don't do t
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by cytzol 5y ago
I like Go. It's useful for the things I need it for since it compiles fast into a single binary and has networking utilities in its standard library. I was used to Rust's error handling when I started, but I liked how simple Go&#x
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by cytzol 5y ago
I self-host Sentry, so it's feasible, but : • It's huge . If I run `docker-compose ps`, it lists thirty entries, one of which seems to have failed and exited. • With that hugeness comes CPU and RAM requirements. Sentry's
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by cytzol 5y ago
I stopped using Genius after their mobile-first redesign. I really enjoyed reading their explanations and meanings behind songs I knew, with the lyrics in the centre of the screen and the annotations off to the side. But now, the annotation
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by cytzol 5y ago
I agree that moving to Electron is not a guarantee that an application will be slower than it is before. Unfortunately, though, I tried it out and 1Password 8 is laggy — noticeably , awkwardly laggy — compared to 1Password 7. I wrote up my
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by cytzol 5y ago
> Could someone give a bird's eye view summary of why 1Password moving to Electron is bad? There are a couple of security risks associated with moving to Electron, but I believe the company has the resources to keep up with them. So
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by cytzol 5y ago
Thanks to using BBEdit for a decade now, I get bitterly disappointed whenever I re-open an application and it doesn't restore the windows and state it had when it closed. I've tried switching to both Emacs and Vim, but no amount o
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by cytzol 5y ago
I mean obviously the Command key is the Swedish Campground symbol: https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Swedish_Campgrou... And of course, the Option key's symbol is the diagram that Doc draws in Back to the
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by cytzol 5y ago
> The whole window system is very different from everything out there. The app does not die when you close the window. But that's one of my favourite things about it! I remember one time when I had to use Windows after being away fr
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by cytzol 5y ago
This post illuminates two ways in which users' expectations of computers have changed since the '80s, which is when this UX was designed: 1) Users don't deal with external storage nearly as much anymore, so the "disk i
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by cytzol 5y ago
> But since it’s trendy people try to apply it to everything. When people do things you don't understand, don't just say that they're just doing it because it's fashionable. Sure, they might be — or they have their ow
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by cytzol 5y ago
> What happened to my bicycle for the mind? The bicycle you pick depends on the problem you're trying to solve. You can divide up all programming languages into two categories: 1. Those that allow you to state your problem in terms
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by cytzol 5y ago
> People install things and click rapidly thru the startup screens. While this is true, and there are definitely cases of people not reading the text and accepting whatever, Apple has a long way to go here. On the payment screen, the tex

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