tomconnors

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by tomconnors 19d ago
The world badly needs more options for running agents securely. I applaud you for making an attempt. But this landing page does nothing to win my trust. The copy is full of LLM-style language that is at best off-putting and at worst impenet
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by tomconnors 3mo ago
> You write the same plumbing for route params, request parsing, validation, and responses in handler after handler. None of it is hard. Enough of it becomes noise. As a human, I would have written something like: > You write the same
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by tomconnors 10mo ago
Cool stuff as usual, Anders. One of the nice things about running a networked DB is that it makes redeploying the application a bit simpler. You can spin up a new EC2 instance or whatever and once it's online kill the old one. That get
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by tomconnors 1y ago
I recently used c.a.flow for a program that reads files from s3, massages the data a bit, and writes to a database. The code came out very easy to understand. The challenges were: - getting back pressure right. You need to tune the buffers
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by tomconnors 3y ago
It's always frustrating to me that the order matters at all. I understand SQL can be complex to parse, but surely we are smart enough to come up with a parser that doesn't care whether FROM is before or after SELECT? HoneySQL lets
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by tomconnors 5y ago
The band Protest the Hero has a song about this event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNcGbAQgZIg
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by tomconnors 5y ago
This post could be summarized as "write as much of your project's tooling as you can in the project's main programming language and the project's main programming language should be Clojure" and I agree wholehearted
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by tomconnors 6y ago
Long ago, when Datomic was only recently released, I saw blog posts (not from Cognitect) claiming that Datomic's transaction log could be used to create a subscription system for arbitrary datalog queries. Basically "tell me when
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by tomconnors 6y ago
I've been guilty of this. Normally I like to blame CSS for all of my personal failures, but I think the definition of "overflow" is intuitive enough. I was hesitant to turn on visible scrollbars system-wide because I thought
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by tomconnors 6y ago
Fair enough, hitting that bug would have pissed me off too. On your last point, I agree that it still has a way to go. It's good for some (many?) production use cases now, as Nubank's success demonstrates, and hopefully with Nuban
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by tomconnors 6y ago
This seems like an excessively uncharitable read of the situation. I've never used Nubank's software, but I have used (on-prem) Datomic and I certainly wouldn't say it has bugs everywhere. In fact, in my (admittedly low-volum
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by tomconnors 6y ago
It sounds like Nubank might have the biggest Datomic installation in the world (2000 servers). This is exciting news for people like me who think Datomic is the most interesting database out there. Putting more resources behind Datomic migh
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by tomconnors 7y ago
A Picardy third can be heard at the end of Avengers Infinity War as Thanos watches the sun rise on a grateful universe.
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by tomconnors 8y ago
Everything Distributed Masonry does is very interesting. Wish I had more excuses to use your stuff at work. Storing all data forever in a single source of truth is awesome until regulation like GDPR comes along. Do you have plans to support
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How I Structured a Clojure(+Script) Application(tomconnors.github.io)
2 points by tomconnors 13y ago|0 comments