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Oops, I Wrote a Database(dafoster.net)
4 points by davidfstr 5mo ago|0 comments
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by davidfstr 5mo ago
Good on Anthropic for giving an update & token refund, given the recent rumors of an inexplicable drop in quality. I applaud the transparency.
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by davidfstr 5mo ago
Wine for classic Mac OS? Amazing. Well done.
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by davidfstr 8mo ago
You should not be using Python types without a type checker in use to enforce them. With a type checker on, types are fantastic for catching missed cases early.
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by davidfstr 9mo ago
I intentionally avoid using us-east-1 for anything, since I’ve seen so many outages.
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by davidfstr 9mo ago
> If you didn't know, you can embed JavaScript into an SVG file. Oh yikes. I did not know.
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by davidfstr 10mo ago
I’ve been meaning to write this article for a long time @flexdinesh . Thanks for taking the time to share this technique for managing stacked diffs using vanilla git rebase!
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Issue counts always go up(dafoster.net)
2 points by davidfstr 1y ago|0 comments
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by davidfstr 1y ago
I have to take special effort to tamp down on duplication in AI generated code. For me it's not uncommon for AI to draft an initial solution in X minutes, which I then spend 3*X minutes refactoring. Here's a specific example for a
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Designing Software in the Large(dafoster.net)
96 points by davidfstr 1y ago|39 comments
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by davidfstr 1y ago
mypy is compiled using mypyc. It does not run as Python code.
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by davidfstr 1y ago
For HTML-in-HTML natively I use iframes and still remember how to use Frames & framesets.
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by davidfstr 2y ago
I find it amusing that the motivation for creating a complex font program that supports syntax highlighting internally is the desire to avoid a complex syntax highlighter JavaScript library. The complexity is still there; it's just bee
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Redis relicensing: Why is this a problem?(dafoster.net)
1 points by davidfstr 2y ago|2 comments
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by davidfstr 3y ago
Looks like this library is serious. Most of what I see can be written more succinctly using existing Python functionality: 1. Maybe -> Optional[T] 2. Result -> Union[SuccessT, FailureT] 3. Future, FutureResult -> concurrent
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by davidfstr 3y ago
WhatsApp is owned by Meta/Facebook
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by davidfstr 3y ago
> A better resource today would have to start with some radical choice such as whitelisting, if only to reduce the head-end costs of ingesting material. > It's tempting to imagine some rules like: no ads, no popups of any kind, g
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by davidfstr 3y ago
I’ve used 3+ text editors on macOS (BBEdit, Sublime, VS Code, PyCharm), and prefer Sublime for my day-to-day work writing Python/JavaScript web apps, mainly because of fast code navigation and relatively fast typing speed. BBEdit I sti
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by davidfstr 3y ago
I created a smart spreadsheet app for tracking any books, movies, or TV series I'm interested in watching which can automatically run web searches for sources to stream/rent/buy any item on the list (ex: Netflix, Amazon Prime
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by davidfstr 4y ago
> Servers can also be liability. You need to document, implement and maintaing hardening, have a process for regularly patching os and apps, […], have backup and disaster recovery procedures, regularly test the procedures, […] and so on.
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by davidfstr 4y ago
Personally if I was starting a project in the same space as Rails/Ruby I’d go with Django/Python instead. I prefer the “explicit is better than implicit” norm in the Python community over the “powerful yet mystifying magic” I find
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by davidfstr 4y ago
Several of the missing capabilities mentioned here can be done with 3rd party tools. * BetterSnapTool for window snapping and maximization (although I prefer Moom for better control). * Afloat to force a particular window to always be on to
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by davidfstr 5y ago
Neat. Reminds me of FileMaker from back in the day, which I believe still exists. <hot-take> More programmer-focused, less UI/normal-folk focused. </hot-take>
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by davidfstr 5y ago
For languages that don't give you a choice of signed vs. unsigned - giving you signed and sometimes arbitrary-precision integers - this debate is irrelevant. I'll put it in my same mental bucket of "things that I no longer wo
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Show HN: Crystal Web Archiver – a website downloader(dafoster.net)
1 points by davidfstr 5y ago|0 comments
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You might not need centralized continuous integration(dafoster.net)
1 points by davidfstr 6y ago|0 comments
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by davidfstr 6y ago
HN occasionally alerts me to the existence of new tools or trends that I can leverage in business. For example: * About 5 years ago I happened to read about the Material Design Lite library on HN which I then used for my then-nascent startu
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by davidfstr 6y ago
Well, if by “open source” you mean broadly any software available whose code is viewable on the internet, you’re essentially advocating for no projects that use “nonstandard” licenses to exist. That seems like a waste if there would be othe
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by davidfstr 6y ago
If you suppress any knee jerk reaction you might have against religious associations in the preamble, the actual restrictions in the “Permitted Uses” section seem fairly reasonable to me, if not with more moral restrictions than usual: htt
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by davidfstr 6y ago
No license is going to satisfy everyone in all contexts. For example I cannot use GPL at work (based on my own rules as team lead) but am open to it in personal projects. And other folks would consider having something NOT GPL licensed to b

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