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by zachwill 23d ago
One gallon of almond milk requires 1,600+ gallons of water (likely much more — given some estimates are each almond requires up to 3 gallons of water). US almonds are almost entirely grown in California and consume 1.5T to 2T gallons of the
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by zachwill 1mo ago
Big fan of Windmill here! Use it heavily. The way you guys integrate seamlessly with Bun/DuckDB/Postgres/Python is just fantastic. Keep up the great work, Ruben!
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by zachwill 5mo ago
It’s a very good post — and I do agree with the main ideas. It’s pretty remarkable how good writers like Scott Alexander and others are able to consistently pump out good writing, especially when the key does seem to always comes down to cl
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by zachwill 11mo ago
Thanks for this! I had been meaning to mark a phantom notification as read — and this snippet came in handy.
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by zachwill 1y ago
We’ve similarly had a lot of success with self-hosting Windmill.
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by zachwill 1y ago
Super insightful. I hadn’t been able to articulate the same feelings. Even as Next seppukus itself, people will likely just fall back to React on Vite… This is my exact read on the situation, as well. I’m not sure if anyth
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by zachwill 1y ago
This is really well done!
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by zachwill 1y ago
I tried Deno for awhile — the ability to run Jupyter notebooks was a cool idea — but I’ve been Bun-only for around a year now. It’s just significantly faster and easier to use.
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by zachwill 1y ago
Congrats, Tom!
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by zachwill 2y ago
I’ve been primarily a Python developer since 2012 and recently switched to uv. The ability to manage dependencies, venv, and multiple Python versions makes it best-in-class now. It really is a fantastic tool.
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by zachwill 2y ago
As someone coming from the Python data science / Jupyter side: holy crap this is lightning fast. Kudos! Very impressive work.
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by zachwill 2y ago
An insightful comment! Had never drawn those parallels before -- great call.
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by zachwill 2y ago
Holy crap, that Mac OS 9 one is fantastic!!!
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by zachwill 3y ago
Examine.com does something similar for health related studies, and I've found it valuable in the past.
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by zachwill 3y ago
Note: I haven’t worked with PDF bank statements. My current solution is pdfplumber → GPT-3 API. I played around with a few different options, and this is personally what’s worked best for my use cases.
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by zachwill 4y ago
Frank Howarth is an absolute gem: https://www.youtube.com/@frankmakes I've been following his woodworking channel for 10 years — and I have no interest in woodworking myself. I've never come across someone who is
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by zachwill 4y ago
Interesting read! Crazy that it was basically 3x increase/decrease in productive hours. Wouldn't try this myself, but found it interesting nonetheless @sberens.
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by zachwill 4y ago
Huge fan of Streamlit — I've used it a ton at work — and HTMX + Django is my preferred method for building larger sites. Cool work!
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by zachwill 4y ago
I was similarly going to recommend HTMX — think the ease-of-use and beginner-friendliness is exactly what OP is looking for. (The Rails comment mentioning Turbo is basically the same thing as HTMX, so feels like a few of us are in agreement
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by zachwill 4y ago
Garry Tan has the best career advice: https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1377661970178973696 My best career advice: at every job you should either learn or earn. Either is fine. Both is best. But if it
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by zachwill 4y ago
Great article, Marius! I can absolutely relate to this.
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by zachwill 4y ago
Portland Trail Blazers | Full-Stack Developer | REMOTE OR ONSITE (Tualatin, OR) We are looking to add a talented Full-Stack Developer to our Basketball Operations team. Help contribute to the development of tools and systems to automate and
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by zachwill 4y ago
grugq recommended The Blacktongue Thief a few months ago, and it was fantastic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29670545 Since then, I've read several of the author's other books — and recently I've be
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by zachwill 4y ago
Great work on this — love the website demo!
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by zachwill 5y ago
Very cool! Great story.
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by zachwill 5y ago
This is actually an excellent explanation that I’d never thought through before. Totally makes sense. Rarely would you see “the whole” of your whole Dunbar group + a few hundred more — so makes sense why it could turn into such a cesspool.
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by zachwill 5y ago
Mochi is great!
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by zachwill 5y ago
Nice work on this library! Hadn’t come across it before. I’ve been using Streamlit quite a bit the last few months and really enjoy it. Have a few ideas in mind for incorporating plost after going through the sample app and seeing the event
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by zachwill 5y ago
You’ve done an unbelievable job, Mike!
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by zachwill 5y ago
I do this too — and feel like “throw-away code” is a great moniker for it!

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