simonkagedal

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by simonkagedal 1mo ago
What state management solution(s) do you prefer?
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by simonkagedal 2mo ago
They should be toggles! Every now and then I will press the wrong button and will have to wait for the elevator to stop, open doors, close doors at a floor no one wants off on. I mean, I haven’t done the usability research, probably there a
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by simonkagedal 4mo ago
Sounds a bit like the idea behind shadcn/ui. You start from the generated components, but the idea is to fork the code. (Then they seem to also have added their own kind of dependency management thing to update components, which seems
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by simonkagedal 4mo ago
There are lots of good use cases for vibe coding (”never reading the code”), prototypes, various explorations and one-offs. I’ve done various kinds of migrations where I didn’t bother to review the code much, just the output. Possibly also
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by simonkagedal 4mo ago
But people claim that text is AI-written on the most ridiculous grounds, like using proper typography. You might be missing out on interesting stuff!
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by simonkagedal 4mo ago
Same. Meanwhile, I _read_ more code than I ever have.
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by simonkagedal 4mo ago
Furthermore, for the example given, it would have made a lot of sense to me to generate those article summaries on the backend. Once and for all, no need to burden each client device (which are going to need to download the content anyway),
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by simonkagedal 4mo ago
I would say yes, there’s a difference, in general. I would much rather leave the unsafe code to crates used and tested by many other applications, than have them in the application code itself.
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by simonkagedal 4mo ago
What really does not serve the reader any value is this comment now appearing on nearly every single HN thread. (And neither does my comment, sorry about that.) If you like the article, upvote. If you don’t, don’t.
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Small tools, shared with agents: a CloudWatch Insights example(skagedal.tech)
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by simonkagedal 5mo ago
In a possible defense of grandparent, whenever I pirate movies these days (seldomly), it would be not because I don’t want to pay, but either because I want the offline reliability or because I just can’t find it elsewhere. (The latter woul
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by simonkagedal 5mo ago
I like it when the two paradigms can be combined. Where you (or a non-developer) can set up a dashboard by point-and-click, but in the end there’s a source file that can be downloaded, revision controlled, deployed to different environments
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by simonkagedal 6mo ago
This is being addressed in the article. The service no longer does this, and he apologizes.
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by simonkagedal 6mo ago
Yes, I agree. It's been small enough of an issue for me to care (I have `~/.parallel/will-cite` set by my dotfiles repo, so wouldn't even see it on a new machine), but now I switched to `rust-parallel`. Picked that one b
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by simonkagedal 6mo ago
I think the link (now) points to the wrong line in the source code. I found it, though. Anyone understands why they do this?
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by simonkagedal 6mo ago
This page describes the behavior, "disables the automatic execution of postinstall scripts in dependencies": https://pnpm.io/supply-chain-security While this explicitly calls out "postinstall", I'm
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by simonkagedal 8mo ago
The limit of 16 rules is interesting. Where does that come from?
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by simonkagedal 8mo ago
The end of this article leaves me hanging. Did she manage to find the previously employed insurance lady so that she could thank her, or not? I need closure!
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by simonkagedal 8mo ago
Someone (maybe on this site) suggested to think of the bottom bars of the square brackets around the linked text to kind of frame the underline. Somehow worked really well for me, haven’t forgotten the syntax since.
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by simonkagedal 8mo ago
That is a very nice metaphor indeed!
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by simonkagedal 8mo ago
I applaud this project, “setting all the options”. I think it’s a really good idea to become close friends with the software you use all the time, and getting acquainted through the lens of configuration is one way. Messing around with stuf
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by simonkagedal 9mo ago
He commented on this here: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/13/training-for-pelicans-...
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by simonkagedal 10mo ago
Does “safe” here mean just “non-mutating”?
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by simonkagedal 10mo ago
Took me a while to realize that it is an actual thing, rather than used as a placeholder (“three letter acronym”)
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by simonkagedal 10mo ago
Me too, I still think it's cool. But while indeed easier-to-implement compared to SGML, it could have been yet a bit simpler. :) I once attempted to write a conforming parser, I remember it being a _lot_ of work to even determine well-
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by simonkagedal 10mo ago
Ah, I was perhaps a bit unclear – I didn't mean to comment on whether certain languages made the list or not, I enjoyed the thorough walkthrough of languages being used for configuration. I was more commenting on comments such as this
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by simonkagedal 10mo ago
The author seems to be using "markup language" as a concept basically synonymous with a configuration language, or something that is not a programming language. A markup language is a language used to "mark up" text with
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by simonkagedal 11mo ago
Regarding documentation, I’d love to hear you take on creating the CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md type of files using the tools themselves, typically via some /init command. I think Claude Code, Codex and Copilot CLI all have a similar thing
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by simonkagedal 2y ago
Yeah. There are many fun experiments one could do. Now I got this idea instead: what if it opened up on 07:39 PM on January 1st, but then the window moved forward 3 minutes and 56.7 seconds each day so that it was back on 07:39 PM a year la
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by simonkagedal 2y ago
It was a total brain fart though – I know what EST is and I know that my time zone is CET; just had some neurons misfiring!

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