elliotlarson

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by elliotlarson 6mo ago
I feel like this is a pretty big fumble for Anthropic. I don't mind waiting 30 minutes or so for a service that's having issues. But, around the 2 hour mark, I start researching alternatives. I think like almost every other dev
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by elliotlarson 2y ago
Elixir compiles to Erlang, I think.
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by elliotlarson 2y ago
Yeah, I had heard about Renovate supporting Bun. I guess I was reluctant to start working with another 3rd party dependency management system when I already knew how to setup and use Dependabot, and I assumed Bun support was coming soon-is
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by elliotlarson 2y ago
Bun seems really compelling. I tried it out for a couple of small example projects and I like the speed and the fact that it combines package management and a JS runtime. However, I use Dependabot on most of my serious projects. I know w
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by elliotlarson 4y ago
I really like using Tailwind. But I mainly only use it for personal projects. I have some design and front end development background and I feel comfortable creating a design system from scratch. But, for professional projects I pretty m
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by elliotlarson 4y ago
Even for a Teenage Engineering product, I have sticker shock over this and their field mixer. They're nice products, but the premium is so high. I mean, I kind of get it. Their original OP-1 remains the top selling synth after 10 ye
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by elliotlarson 4y ago
Yeah, I have a BlueBox and it works great. You can also add tactility with an external controller like: https://intech.studio , and you're still in the ballpark of like half the price of the TE mixer. I mean, I still want
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by elliotlarson 4y ago
Lol. Yeah, sorry. I'm not sure how well it works on mobile. I kind of wasn't sure if anyone would ever actually see it.
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by elliotlarson 4y ago
More of a landing page than anything, but... https://elliot.la
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by elliotlarson 5y ago
I agree with @tinco. If you're doing Ruby development that is not Rails, you probably want to create a gem with Bundler. I'd check out their documentation on the subject which has some good information: https://bundle
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by elliotlarson 5y ago
I find comments like "I've been using <the tool> forever and never noticed <this> problem" a little annoying. But, I fall into this camp here. I'm not trying to dismiss other people's criticism that th
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by elliotlarson 5y ago
Yeah, no kidding. Nap seems like an ironic name. Punching up the contrast a bit would be a good idea
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by elliotlarson 5y ago
Okay, well figma one out and get back to us
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by elliotlarson 5y ago
I totally agree with this. This may be an unpopular opinion, but I feel like Electron is really helping here. I've been a Mac user since 2003, but built an Ubuntu based desktop recently. The fact that I can run Figma, VSCode, Slack,
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by elliotlarson 5y ago
It would be cool to see a comparison between this and existing libraries like p5.js.
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by elliotlarson 5y ago
I started messing with Heroku back when they were trying to be an online Rails editor. When they started getting more seriously into hosting I was relieved to have a company dedicated to making Rails hosting easy. But, every time I tried
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by elliotlarson 6y ago
Ah, okay. Those are fair points.
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by elliotlarson 6y ago
I don't know. It's so easy to just create a random Gmail address and forward email from it. Maybe this makes it easier, but Gmail is one of the few Google products that I feel pretty confident will be around for a long time.
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by elliotlarson 6y ago
I don't think that's entirely accurate. Lots of Rails users went the SPA route the second stuff like Backbone came out. Wycats was big in the Rails community at this time and he spearheaded Emberjs. The Shopify guys were (and ar
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by elliotlarson 6y ago
I realize he had bigger, more mainstream roles that he'll be remembered for. But the most iconic for me was, Blair, in The Thing.
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by elliotlarson 6y ago
Right. I've been a long time vim user and I don't really use the escape key while vim-ing. I use ctrl+c.
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by elliotlarson 7y ago
As a long time Ruby developer I frequently hear older developers talking fondly about their experiences working with Smalltalk long ago. When I saw this post, I was curious enough to watch a video just now by a respected Ruby dev (who&#x27
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by elliotlarson 7y ago
Yeah, to me it's noticeably different. But, like I said elsewhere, I think I might be a resolution snob.
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by elliotlarson 7y ago
This is the first thing I noticed when I opened it up. Whoa, fuzzy text, no retina support? I'm guessing this isn't important to the Pharo developers, or at least, it isn't a top priority for one reason or another. I guess
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by elliotlarson 7y ago
You're not alone. Stripe has been working on adding types to Ruby with their static type checker, Sorbet: https://sorbet.org/ . This seems to have a bit of momentum at this point. Assuming it continues in popularity
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by elliotlarson 7y ago
As dgellow and kawsper pointed out, Rubymine is a good IDE, or Intellij with the Ruby plugin, which is functionally the same thing. Also, vim support for Ruby is amazing. Tim Pope has dedicated a chunk of his life to ensuring this (thanks
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by elliotlarson 7y ago
I’m excited about this work. Having a faster Ruby would be some wonderful icing on the cake. But, for me, using Ruby (and Rails) has always been about optimizing for developer hours over system performance. IMO Ruby is not a race horse,
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by elliotlarson 7y ago
"All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die." - Rutger Hauer in Blade Runner
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by elliotlarson 7y ago
It's pretty rare that I watch a movie on Netflix these days. I pay for the original content they produce and some of the documentaries that end up there. For my purposes, there is enough content along these lines to justify the expen
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by elliotlarson 8y ago
Right... sorry. I didn't make my point very well. What I was trying to say was that this is sort of an ORM, which makes sense to me. I see a need for that on the front-end. I see your other comments about how this isn't exactl

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