samsquire

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   by samsquire 2y ago

   Thanks for the interesting article. Is anyone not just me hesitant to run their own servers? I think about patching and it becomes a full on devops job to set up something safe and stay on top of upgrades etc. One idea Ive had is that if th
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   by samsquire 2y ago

   I agree with you, I perceive it to be really difficult to change existing code to fit new things in. There's all interactions between things. The source code of the widgets we use everyday - such as text editing or graphical editors ar
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   by samsquire 2y ago

   If you have a large body of existing code and you want to change its behaviour, you have to work out where to add your change, without breaking what already is there. My thoughts in this is to somehow create a system where additional rules
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   by samsquire 2y ago

   Thank you for this post, I enjoyed it. I like these kinds of posts, about wholesome satisfying work I found a similar feed to HN on https://bearblog.dev/ at https://bearblog.dev/discover/ that might b
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   by samsquire 2y ago

   Thanks for your reply. The JVM is a reliable stack. I used it at work on most projects.
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   by samsquire 2y ago

   Can someone reply me a mature stack that is extremely reliable and won't go away? That they're using. I had frequently thought that I would prefer to maintain a batch system than an online system.
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   by samsquire 2y ago

   where can I go to see the awesome things you're working on in your home personal computing? I like the GitHub collected archives of "awesome" that is lists of things that persons have created or done https://github
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   by samsquire 2y ago

   In early 2000-2007 I felt technology optimism (things like Digg, slashdot) about new websites and there was a hopefulness about new technology (file sharing) The spirit of new technology that "there is something new" and the &quot
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   by samsquire 2y ago

   I would like to benefit from big tech's security teams by hosting web forms and those various different kinds of site you suggest behind them and their teams! WAF + captchas + defence against bots I would rather not do the server handh
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    by samsquire 2y ago

    If you're looking for casual ideas what persons have ideas on then have a scroll through halfbakery.com they are inspired by problems that people foresaw.
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    by samsquire 2y ago

    Thanks for such a detailed article. In my spare time working with C as a hobby I am usually in "vertical mode" which is different to how I would work (carefully) at work, which is just getting things done end-to-end as fast as pos
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    by samsquire 2y ago

    So one shot transactions can check if every timestamp in every write and item inside the transaction packet depends on data that is before the timestamp of that particular monotonic transaction timestamp? And the pattern of including "
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    by samsquire 2y ago

    I enjoy writing tools. How do you feel about Kubernetes? It would be good to have some interesting tasks to do? I think the tools should do also much of the work. I actually prefer batch systems that are a simple execution of a program agai
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    by samsquire 2y ago

    We can all try make good content and share it but how would it be discovered?
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    by samsquire 2y ago

    One thing I have been doing is to create a directory called "debug" from the software and write lots of different files when the main program has executed to add debugging information but only write files outside of hot loops for
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    by samsquire 2y ago

    Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I am also agreeing that relational approach to in-memory data is a good, efffective thought. I recently compiled some of my C code with the sqlite database and I'm preparing to think how the SQL model
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    by samsquire 2y ago

    Thanks for putting the work into this. These kinds of software pipelines can be strangely satisfying to implement. The development style of thinking of stream processing and online algorithms It's also inspired by mapping and filtering
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    by samsquire 2y ago

    Thanks for sharing. I am curious: how low maintenance is this? Is this something that can be hosted for long periods of time without security interventions and updates? Is it fire and forget?
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    by samsquire 2y ago

    This document helped me learn the io_uring API. You can use io_uring with epoll to monitor eventfd to wake up your sleeping with io_uring wait for completions. I have implemented a barrier and thread safe techniques that I am trying to turn
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    by samsquire 2y ago

    CPUs and railway signalling come to mind. The low level uops (microops) of a CPU seem to be relevant. Openttd is another example of a game where you can implement train signalling.
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    by samsquire 2y ago

    I implemented split IO with io_uring, epoll and eventfd and my own thread safe comm pattern You can write to an eventfd to wake up io_uring listening on an epoll instance.
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    by samsquire 2y ago

    A word cloud could be a useful navigation technique if the words were clickable and the sizes of words could be customized. They could also link to other word clouds Generated and updated automatically
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    by samsquire 2y ago

    We need tools that process command line output and large files and create tables of contents dynamically based on rules of architecture or comments and allow efficient navigation. I need overlapping buckets or tags. I've been thinking
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    by samsquire 2y ago

    I greatly enjoyed this comment of yours daltonpinto. Thank you. I do not rejoice with code bases where every file has no logic or code in it but there are hundreds of methods and files with everything spread out. I have no idea how those pr
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    by samsquire 2y ago

    Thank you for sharing. I remember working with Html applications (HTA) on Windows back with JScript or VBScript. I am thinking of tools that would make navigating plain text long files useful such as simple table of contents generation or i
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    by samsquire 2y ago

    My side projects from 2012-2017 cannot be built or ran because of dependencies. My jsbin repo with lots of experiments cannot be ran anymore. But I have the sqlite database. I forgot to pin dependencies when I was working. It would take a l
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    by samsquire 2y ago

    Thanks for your reply. I think I am contradictory when it comes to software : I don't enjoy maintaining something that breaks all the time: dependencies, system upgrades, deployment scripts and things that aren't 100% working reli
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    by samsquire 2y ago

    I understand software better from words and diagrams than reading the code. Complexity is aided by having sturdy mental models - what you intuitively understand. And to see the truth clearly. To have humility: my code is probably ugly to ot
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    by samsquire 2y ago

    This is really helpful. Thank you. I would like to see some kind of query AST for this stuff in a query engine for semantics that its ops can be fused together for efficiency. For example, like a Clojure transducer.
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    by samsquire 2y ago

    Thank you for this post Janet. I think my technical perspectives have moved in a similar direction: keep things extremely simple with minimum moving parts. I maintained (automated upgrades) a RabbitMQ cluster and while it is powerful softwa