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by rednafi 2mo ago
I am all for using LLMs to generate value but a little more editorial review can't hurt. > The quieter but bigger change: the classic encoding/json (v1) package is now backed by the v2 implementation under the hood. This is fan
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by rednafi 2mo ago
Now that no one cares about JS frontend framework, we moved the drama over to JS tooling written in other languages. One reason I find deno nicer is that the node creator is solid isn't a slopperoo yapping about LLM induced quasi-produ
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by rednafi 2mo ago
Not relatable. "Internet is not real, and strangers' opinions don't mean anything" is an ethos that I have been religiously following for as long as I can remember. Also, I do a lot of things offline. Read physical books
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by rednafi 2mo ago
It's all tradeoffs. Fully monomorphized generics tend to blow up compile time.
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by rednafi 2mo ago
It's a bunch of things. LLVM is one of them. Zig moved away from it for reasons.
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by rednafi 2mo ago
I'd be curious about the runtime cost of the extra lookup in case of Swift compared to Go.
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If you won't carry the pager, maybe don't push to mainline(rednafi.com)
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by rednafi 5mo ago
Nah made the same comment on r/golang
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by rednafi 6mo ago
Go syntax and the Go runtime would be the perfect combo for me. Oh well... I love Rust for what it is, but for most of my projects, I can’t justify the added complexity. Sure, there are a bunch of things I miss from the Rust world when I’m
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by rednafi 6mo ago
It's super satisfying to search for my own blog on an indie aggregator and finding it there already.
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by rednafi 6mo ago
This is great. But I’ve bookmarked at least 10 of these aggregators over the years, and I never revisit any of them. Partly because I don’t have the time to browse and discover new content. I also don’t read the blog spam from prolific writ
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by rednafi 6mo ago
Europe doesn’t do software better - not because it can’t, but because it can’t afford to drop the GDP of a country to build a single app like some of its US counterparts can. It might feel performative to some people, but Europe just doesn’
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by rednafi 6mo ago
"Their experience is different from mine; therefore, they haven't worked in big tech" is a bit reductionist. While it's true that in large companies you typically have much less agency than you think and sometimes have t
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by rednafi 6mo ago
IDK why these vacuous corpo tropes appear on the front page of HN every now and then. Sounds like exactly what a quasi-technical, management-leaning staff engineer would say. Sure, in the end we work for these faceless, meat-grinding machin
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by rednafi 6mo ago
It's great that they are recreating much of the fundamental software stack using LLMs. But if you're going to 'vibeslop,' at least do it in a language other than JavaScript. I struggle to understand why anyone would want
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by rednafi 6mo ago
I'm not bored of the technology per se but the people around it. The yappers, doomers, and the shills are insufferable.
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by rednafi 6mo ago
I dream of a SQL like engine for distributed systems where you can declaratively say "svc A uses the results of B & C where C depends on D." Then the engine would find the best way to resolve the graph and fetch the results. Y
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by rednafi 6mo ago
Damn. I got a bunch of idea around atproto from this comment. Also found out your blog. I wish digging out human written blogs wasn't such a chore. I like the idea of blogs but their discoverability sucks big time.
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by rednafi 6mo ago
I follow this religiously. The process of posting is manual but it works fairly well if your intention is good and you're not blog spamming in different forums. But I intentionally haven't added a comment section to my blog [1]. M
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by rednafi 6mo ago
Go binary says hello. No VM overhead. Everything is statically linked.
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by rednafi 6mo ago
We have vibe leadership mills where AGI-pilled leaders are driving their companies into a death spiral.
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by rednafi 6mo ago
There is literally no reason to write it in a JVM language in 2026 when better options exists. Either Go for simplicity and maintaininability or Rust to get the most out of the machine works. Also, it'll be hard for them to lure good p
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by rednafi 6mo ago
Mandatory read by Peter Norvig - even more relevant now https://norvig.com/21-days.html
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by rednafi 6mo ago
I come from a developing country where the only OS people know is Windows. Macs used to be too expensive, and Linux didn’t have any of the applications people would use (read: pirate) for work. Typically, college students and teachers would
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by rednafi 6mo ago
Ha ha I wish. Then both corporate and your coworkers hate you. Also, there is no point in asking questions when you know that they just yoloed it and won't be able to answer anything. We have collectively lost our common sense and reas
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by rednafi 6mo ago
The world could use one less "how I slop" article at this point. This reminds me of the early Medium days when everyone would write articles on how to make HTTP endpoints or how to use Pandas. There’s not much skill involved in ha
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by rednafi 6mo ago
Yep and now we are encouraged to use AI to review the code as well. But if shit hits the fan then you are held responsible.
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by rednafi 6mo ago
If you run a loop alongside the agent and make PRs that are tractable, then there isn’t much difference. But to me, it seems like we have collectively lost our minds and think it’s okay to make a 10k LOC PR and ask someone else to review it
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by rednafi 6mo ago
I also work at a huge company, and this observation is true. The way AI is being rammed down our throats is burning out the best engineers. OTOH, the mediocre simian army “empowered” by AI is pushing slop like there’s no tomorrow. The expec
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by rednafi 6mo ago
True at Doordash, Amazon, and salesforce - speaking from experience.

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