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by gwking 4d ago
You can download Xcode 27 RC now from https://developer.apple.com/download/applications/ .
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by gwking 15d ago
I switched to using Codex for the last two weeks, and while the prose has been better, there have been a lot more technical oversights. I'm now having fable review codex commits and it finds deep issues. I'v also done the reverse
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by gwking 20d ago
I'm so pumped for v8!
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by gwking 1mo ago
I meant does the rare SQLite bug tend to manifest in litestream for the same reason it showed up in Tailscale.
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by gwking 1mo ago
I wonder if this also affected litestream disproportionately, because litestream also inserts itself into the checkpoint process.
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by gwking 1mo ago
I wonder if making the index uppercase is strictly better in this sense, or if both upper and lowercase have chars that take more bytes.
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by gwking 2mo ago
I have one weird trick for people who are exploring this vein. I last opened an Xcode project about five years ago so I could be way behind the times. Having spent many years fighting with Xcode professionally, I was thrilled when swift bui
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by gwking 2mo ago
I've been working on a wrapper harness that runs claude as a separate user named `agent`. I tried this about a year ago and couldn't get it to work because of OAuth and the keychain, but took another pass recently and claude had e
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by gwking 3mo ago
The grocer on my block is so tiny that I hit the max zoom before it shows up. If you pan around fiddle I can occasionally get it to appear, but it effectively does not exist according to google maps.
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by gwking 4mo ago
The suitability of Litestream for production disaster recovery is also an open question in my mind. I used 0.3.x for several years and when I tried to upgrade to the 0.5.x series there were runaway disk usage problems that would have cause
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by gwking 4mo ago
The simple answer is, I choose to use Python because I am productive with it. I get a lot done compared to the other languages I have tried. Performance is almost never the limiting factor in my work, nor has it been for the vast majority o
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by gwking 5mo ago
Interesting that "verb" does not appear in the posted article. I immediately thought of Yegge's kingdom of nouns blog post, which is 20 years old last month! I read it a long time ago and it made an impression on me. https:&
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by gwking 5mo ago
I’ve casually experimented with this in python a number of times for various hot loops, including those where I’m passing the chunk between c routines. On Apple M1 I’ve never seen a case where chunks larger than 16k mattered. That’s the pag
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by gwking 6mo ago
I tried this with Claude code on macOS. I created a new agent user and a wrapper do run Claude has that user, along with some scripts to set permissions and ownership so that I could run simple allow/deny commands. The only problem was
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by gwking 6mo ago
My understanding is that many extension modules are already written to take advantage of multithreading by releasing the GIL when calling into C code. This allows true concurrency in the extension, and also invites all the hazards of multit
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by gwking 6mo ago
From one “old guy” to another: PJ = private jet Diamond hands and to the moon are crypto trader slang Makes me laugh answering this question, because the meaning is all there if you skip over all the meme words.
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by gwking 7mo ago
I wrote a very rudimentary schema and automatic migration system for SQLite. One problem that I ran into recently was deploying changes that spanned two migrations, because the tool doesn’t know how to step through commits to do successive
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by gwking 8mo ago
For the record, I started using Xcode before it was called that and people have said this almost every year since. As I recall there was a big hit to its quality when they converted it to obj-c’s short lived garbage collection, and it felt
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by gwking 8mo ago
Speaking for myself, managing a team of 3, the simpler management interface on Hetzner compared to AWS is a major professional advantage.
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by gwking 8mo ago
This may be outdated because git’s defaults have improved a lot over the years. When I first used git on a team was in 2011. As I recall, there were various commands like git log -p that would show nothing for a merge commit. So without ext
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by gwking 9mo ago
I’ve idly wondered about this sort of thing quite a bit. The next step would seem to be taking a project’s implementation dependent tests, converting them to an independent format and verifying them against the original project, then conduc
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by gwking 9mo ago
I appreciate the even tempered question. I’ve been using mypy since its early days, and when pyright was added to vs code I was forced to reckon with their differences. For the most part I found mypy was able to infer more accurately and fl
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by gwking 9mo ago
I jumped through a bunch of hoops to get claude code to run as a dedicated user on macOS. This allowed me to set the group ownership and permissions of my work to control exactly what claude can see. With a few one-liner bash scripts to rec
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by gwking 11mo ago
My first programming "job" was a sort of summer internship when I was 14 for a family owned company called Signature Systems (signature.net). They are still in business. Their product is an operating system called Comet, that if I
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by gwking 11mo ago
One tidbit that I don't see mentioned here yet is that ATTACH requires a lock. I just went looking for the documentation about this and couldn't find it, especially for WAL mode ( https://www.sqlite.org/lockingv3.ht
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by gwking 11mo ago
The servers are always beefy and the software is always blazingly fast. Blazingly beefy is my new joke trademark.
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by gwking 11mo ago
I have never seen the word “partition” used in this way before. Hard to search for examples because unrelated computer graphics articles about surface partitioning dominate. I did find this: Partitioning is the distribution of a solute, S,
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by gwking 11mo ago
Speaking only for myself, and in all sincerity: every year, there is some feature of the latest CPython version that makes a bigger difference to my work than faster execution would. This year I am looking forward to template strings, zstd,
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by gwking 1y ago
I’ll second this, and add that docstrings are becoming ever more useful as modern editors learn how to show them inline when I hover over a symbol. Starlette lacks docstrings entirely and it’s a real miss in my opinion.
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by gwking 1y ago
I paid for a subscription to both cursor and zed, without configuring any different LLMs or other options as far as I recall.

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