felipeccastro

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by felipeccastro 8mo ago
It might be the opposite. Python apps still get written despite the performance hit, because understandability matters more than raw performance in many cases. Now that we’re all code reviewers, that quality should matter more, not less. Pr
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by felipeccastro 1y ago
I've used XFCE for a 2011 laptop, it was about as fast as LXDE but better polished. Windows was unusable there, and XFCE made the computer feel brand new. Only the modern websites that would still cause slowness, but the OS was great.
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by felipeccastro 1y ago
I have noticed that static type checking often enables people to build systems more over-engineered than they could without it. It's not a coincidence that factory-factory-impl happened in Java, not Ruby.
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by felipeccastro 1y ago
The train of thought is “what is everyone using? I’ll use that too”
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by felipeccastro 1y ago
It's not just small typos, it's the ability to explore apis, the standard library, go to definition, quickly catch any error at the location it happens, not having to memorize large models and their field names, the list goes on.
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by felipeccastro 1y ago
I agree with all your points but last I tried, the VS Code LSP was terrible. It’s hard to justify a new language when even the basics of autocomplete, inline errors and go to definition don’t work well. Part of the reason was that any funct
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by felipeccastro 1y ago
And if keeping in local storage a list of all pages, you can create an index html automatically in a predefined format which makes it more of a database rather than loose documents.
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by felipeccastro 1y ago
Not sure why this was downvoted, but I’d be very interested in learning how well does pglite compares to SQLite (pros and cons of each, maturity, etc)
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by felipeccastro 1y ago
It is ironic how “rewrite it in Rust” is the solution to make any program fast, except the Rust compiler.
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by felipeccastro 1y ago
This. Making something super customizable is a lot harder to implement (code being too generic, hard to reason about and debug) and often presents a worse UX ("why are there so many options??"). Having the UX design team interview
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by felipeccastro 1y ago
https://anvil.works/ uses Python
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by felipeccastro 1y ago
Yes, but in practice, is the difference significant enough to matter? I’m genuinely looking to see if I’m missing anything when favoring Python type system over Go’s.
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by felipeccastro 1y ago
I’m assuming that Python code base didn’t have thorough type hints. What if it had? Would Go still feel safer? I know these aren’t checked in runtime, but Python type system seems more thorough than Go’s, so shouldn’t a Python code base ful
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by felipeccastro 1y ago
I’ve been having a different experience. Asking Claude to fix the bug again and again is annoying, so I’m still working on “pull pieces at a time, understanding each” so I do fix the bug myself when it’s faster to do so. In fact, the majori
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by felipeccastro 2y ago
The language and stdlib feel like a more polished Ruby, though I haven't explored it in deep. The tooling, last I checked, is what's behind - the interpreter didn't work for simple apps, and the LSP is slow and full of bugs.
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by felipeccastro 2y ago
Yes, I believe so because it uses global type inference. I would gladly add explicit types everywhere instead of this to use Crystal if it had decent tooling, because everything else about the language is really perfect.
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by felipeccastro 2y ago
Hey, just a shoutout that I love this platform, had a lot of fun playing several games with my nephews, high quality games with almost zero ads, kudos!
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by felipeccastro 2y ago
Our team considered Render but dropped for the same reason. We’re looking into Aptible right now, not as well known but seems focused on HIPAA compliance.
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by felipeccastro 2y ago
I like it. It’s an elegant solution and you can easily make higher order components from this.
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by felipeccastro 2y ago
That's not pedantry, that's clarifying, haven't thought like that before. Thank you.
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by felipeccastro 3y ago
I was curious about that as well. Since most services implement an email based Forgot Password feature, and 2FA tokens are also often email based, why isn't magic links the default approach now? Seems to be just as secure as password+2
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by felipeccastro 3y ago
Yes, with Solargraph. It uses type inference most of the time, and when it can’t guess the type, you can add YARD comments. Intellisense also works well (autocomplete).
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by felipeccastro 3y ago
There is often opposition - if the company I work for asks "what should we build the next app on?", React is the default answer that doesn't need convincing anyone, while SSR is much harder to sell (even when it makes complet
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by felipeccastro 3y ago
This seems an interesting approach, if sufficiently safe for most cases. What if, when creating an account and choosing a password, the app enforced very long passwords but suggested a default, random one like in your example? This would ha
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by felipeccastro 3y ago
Doesn't the WAL mode solve the high concurrency write situation? If it can't be relied on busy season, why the push for Sqlite in production?
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by felipeccastro 4y ago
Nope, but working with fewer/smaller dependencies (like Kemal) it seems more manageable. Also, the feedback from type system is much faster than the full build, so I've noticed I don't need to run the app to test every small
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by felipeccastro 4y ago
Have you tried Crystal? I got the same "oh, they got this right too" feeling about everything as well.
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by felipeccastro 4y ago
This VS Code might be relevant to what you’re asking: https://dev.to/ko1/rstfilter-vscode-extension-for-your-new-r... It prints the results of executing your code line by line, next to your source code.
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by felipeccastro 4y ago
Perhaps it’s not that they are boring, but fearful. I can’t recall a single time I mentioned these words in a conversation that weren’t abruptly interrupted with “there is no absolute truth!”. If the rebranding helps us calm down and think
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by felipeccastro 4y ago
https://pocketbase.io/ Seems very promising!

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