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by neilyio 4mo ago
I couldn’t resist a quick Google search for this. “Mary Jackson is a world-famous African-American sweetgrass basket weaver. In 2008, she was named a MacArthur Fellow for her basket weaving.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by neilyio 7mo ago
Delightful metaphor, I'll be looking everywhere for a chance to use that now!
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by neilyio 2y ago
This whole place only stands up because of dang. Someday (too) soon, AI moderators will be all we have to keep the peace in our forums... and dang is our most precious training resource. I'm grateful he's so transparent in explain
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by neilyio 2y ago
A lot of comments on this thread seem to feel like the “why” of this matter is settled with an answer of “The men have more experience and are working higher-level jobs. Therefore, they receive higher pay.” This is not the equilibrium we ar
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by neilyio 2y ago
Very happy to see more tools like this. There is so much potential for interactive tabs and sheet music with YouTube videos. I only found out about https://www.soundslice.com recently. I'm not sure how it managed to evade m
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by neilyio 2y ago
You'll want to reserve ahead on a weekend! They have strict capacity limits, which is why it never feels too crowded. I'm amazed at how many of us in Los Angeles live here for years and skip this place. It's one of the most b
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by neilyio 2y ago
Would you be open to mentoring someone curious about doing so?
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by neilyio 2y ago
What a place we live in where someone can see "policing and prosecuting" as "basic government functions" rather than "community building".
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by neilyio 2y ago
This seems like a pretty low price to pay for the huge upsides of safer rides and potentially lower car ownership, on top of the more comfortable experience discussed elsewhere here.
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by neilyio 2y ago
I use shell scripts left and right for all kinds of things in my regular dev workflow. Running tests with various configurations. Complex tmux layouts. Syncing non-got data. I could go on and on. Common Lisp would be an incredible asset fo
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by neilyio 2y ago
It features a time-travel database, if that helps! https://biffweb.com/p/xtdb-compared-to-other-databases/
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by neilyio 2y ago
Clojure has some very expressive destructuring syntax as well: https://clojure.org/guides/destructuring
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by neilyio 2y ago
I see your point here... I was addressing to the feedback loop during development time. Babashka works well for Clojure in a Unix tool pipeline. It's also possible to compile your JVM Clojure program yourself to a binary with GraalVM f
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by neilyio 2y ago
Seconded. I'm also a big fan of Aphyr's "Clojure from the ground up" series: https://aphyr.com/posts/301-clojure-from-the-ground-up-welco...
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by neilyio 2y ago
When you get into REPL-driven development, the JVM startup time (which is often under a second for me anyways) is a total non-issue. You don't continuously restart your program to see changes or run tests. You can refresh all your stat
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by neilyio 2y ago
I use Helix [0] myself, which has tree-sitter based commands for moving + selecting up/down/forward/back by expressions. These are built-in and require no configuration. It's surprisingly excellent! Sure, the "langu
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by neilyio 2y ago
HoneySQL is so, so good. It does for SQL what Hiccup did for HTML. Once you start writing with those, it's hard to remember there's any other way.
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by neilyio 2y ago
Check out Biff, it's very thoughtfully made: https://biffweb.com
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by neilyio 2y ago
Soon there will be! https://jank-lang.org
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by neilyio 2y ago
I agree. It's a breath of fresh air in the Clojure world. I'm grateful to thoughtful builders like yourself and borkdude for bringing the language to new heights.
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by neilyio 2y ago
I'll second that the popular tooling, while powerful and reliable, its just not user friendly. The official Clojure CLI, for example, is just plain confusing, and that's most people's first impression to the entire ecosystem.
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by neilyio 2y ago
And when you're ready to take the fun to the web, look no further than Biff: https://biffweb.com
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by neilyio 2y ago
I'm an advocate for Clojure, and while I believe that the usability speed bumps are more than made up for, I completely agree with you. The awkwardness of Clojure's errors, REPL experience, and build tooling is a dealbreaker for m
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by neilyio 2y ago
If you are new to Clojure and would like to experiment with it in a way that is immediately useful, I highly recommend the Babashka runtime for scripting [0]. It's very fun, approachable, and one of the more polished parts of the Cloju
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Ask HN: What are some words that you learned on Hacker News?
16 points by neilyio 2y ago|29 comments
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by neilyio 3y ago
I'm feeling a similar disappointment here, although I'm sure this was carefully considered by the Tailwind team. I've been working with a fully Rust-based web stack, and it's been such a joy. Tailwind compilation causes
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by neilyio 3y ago
I think Helix by default binds `Ctrl-[` to return to normal mode. That was more convenient for me, especially as I remap my caps-lock key to CTRL system-wide.
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by neilyio 3y ago
This book has been one of my favorite reads of the year. Thank you for it. I'm not sure why so much of this thread takes offense to your work. HTMX has been transformational for me. I'm grateful that you persevere.
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by neilyio 3y ago
This is obviously a baseless and naive comment, and I'm glad others have stepped in to call it out. This whole thread is filled with noise like this. The fact that there are so many strong opinions from people who demonstrate an embarr
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by neilyio 3y ago
I think a lot of us reach for Jinja-style templates so it feels a little more like we're writing bare HTML. But they're of course still just templates, and they need a build step before they become valid HTML. So it's true, i

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