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Existenceblinks··on Go ahead, write the “stupid” code
To avoid writing stupid code since they will see qualified people put reason on why some codes are "garbage" (I'm not saying this).
Existenceblinks··on Go ahead, write the “stupid” code
> Fast forward to today. I’ve been doing a dive on JavaScript/TypeScript and different runtimes like NodeJS and Deno,

That's why. If all codes in a project are stupid, there's no stupid code indeed relatively.

Go read Linux kernel mailing list.

Existenceblinks··on WASM 3.0 Completed
i found assembly is easier to assemble from scratch (it's apple and orange but.). Most materials should exclude these tooling, mostly rust based tools. We should be able to write them by hands just like when assembly was taught. Compiler and assembly are separate classes. I think it's bad assumption that only compiler devs only care about wasm. It's compiling target, sure, but framing it this way will not broaden its knowledge.
Existenceblinks··on Offline-First Landscape – 2025
These topic and mentioned tools always fail to demonstrate how sync engine works in multiple players modes. And mostly only for backend written in TS/JS, worse it's only for using with 3rd service (which you couldn't put your business logic in here). The first thing i scan in these tools' docs are how they handle write conflict whose conflict is semantic level, not data exchange format level.
Existenceblinks··on Local-first software (2019)
Tried to adopt this last month at work, it failed. E.g. the mentioned Automerge, it has poor docs https://automerge.org/docs/reference/library_initialization/... and that left out a lot of question, it seems backend agnostic but have to figure out how to store, how to broadcast ourselves.
Existenceblinks··on Getting Past Procrastination
many such as cases, it's clear why. People hate doing task x, because it's not fun nor valuable to them, but need to do because of duty.
Existenceblinks··on My AI skeptic friends are all nuts
Ironically all nuts friends seem to be talking less, less defensive than other nuts friends who keep talking about other people not buying what they believe nuts.
Existenceblinks··on Progressive JSON
Thanks Dan. Yes, I agreed on the ui part, it seems to work in most cases. Some html tags have relation like `<datalist>` or `[popover]` attribute, but if we make all kind of relations trivial then it's benefit for sure.
Existenceblinks··on Progressive JSON
It's useless as data is not just some graphic semantic, they have relation, business rules on top, not ready to interact with if not all are ready, loaded.
Existenceblinks··on Show HN: PgDog – Shard Postgres without extensions
Looks neat, the first thing I search for in the docs is:

    Unique indexes  Not currently supported. Requires query rewriting and separate execution engine to validate uniqueness across all shards.
But still looks promising.
Existenceblinks··on OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB
Honestly, it doesn't need to be local, API is some 200ms away is ok-ish, make it 50ms it will be practically usable for every majority of interaction.
Existenceblinks··on My second year without a job
Indie startup (or just simply call it "selling app online") is not bad if your "capital is lower than $1M" AND "desirable MRR at $10k". You can beat $1M capital, 10% return .. by making $10k MRR SaaS instead.
Existenceblinks··on My second year without a job
Yep, 2024 market is considerably too good though. When he about to quit, I'd expect 8% yield (pessimistic) per year, so $6.4k/yr or $533/mo, that's "good" living quality in non major cities in Thailand. But to be fair, it's only good for locals, not for foreigners. And that $80k also needs to be invested 1 year before quitting.

It's doable for extending up to 3x of his runway.

Existenceblinks··on Two million checkboxes (written in Elixir)
tbh, the 2m app is more clunky than the OG 1m. Virtual scroll is very poor. Jump doesn't seem to work (it works just sometimes).
Existenceblinks··on Show HN: Million 3 – Optimizing compiler for React
I feel like this is all missing the points. The point is React is mid. Engineering metric is very strange these days. A guy has made your tool wicked fast, dismissed - fast enough .. wat?
Existenceblinks··on The web will be Vision Pro's killer app
I wonder at what point Vision Pro is highly portable that we don't have to care about small screen ui/ux. Excited for a fancy excel app on this device..
Existenceblinks··on Ask HN: Why isn't Phoenix/Elixir more mainstream?
Look at other languages, they all have their culture to make stuff. Elixir is my goto, but we haven't had the vibe of building/shipping things into the world.
Existenceblinks··on My solopreneur story
I mute all of these guys who have posted 10 times+ a day. If everyone doing this, there will be lots of garbage.
Existenceblinks··on My solopreneur story
I mute a lot of these accounts that try to farm me as their audience. I used to engage some, they just don't care to reply at all. And they are annoying real fast. Imaging you have 10 posts of garbage a day / influencer
Existenceblinks··on My solopreneur story
Tbh, this is very repetitive story .. seen 100 times before.
Existenceblinks··on My solopreneur story
And these accounts don't care about us at all, they only want to farm us. They don't even engage our replies.
Existenceblinks··on Show HN: Chrome Dev Tools Element Selector for Playwright and Scraping
How is this better than the Playwright's locator picker in debug mode?
Existenceblinks··on How to sell Elixir again
You have to provide how your view looks like, because a large part of memory consumption coming from diffs that server keeps. Each session will have their similar diffs.
Existenceblinks··on How to sell Elixir again
Yes, and it's almost impossible outside the US or EU.
Existenceblinks··on How to sell Elixir again
I bet you are in US or EU.
Existenceblinks··on TypeScript sucked out much of the joy I had writing JavaScript
General response to this is assuming the contrarians don't like type or see no type benefit. But there are those who love static typing enough to dislike Typescript. It's ugly and unsound, how could someone loves static type to death likes Typescript.
Existenceblinks··on Pursuing status will never bring true happiness
Yes, I'm about to say it's not a trap. It's a jail! Trying to avoid status makes your life quality worse, more restrict ways of doing things. It's narrower in all directions. It is a jail.
Existenceblinks··on Launch HN: Noya (YC W23) – a new kind of design tool
Looks almost right. This is quite close to what I keep in mind. At the end of the day let's creating html tags but as semantic shape visually. I don't think I would include spacing stuff like width/height margin/padding. Just plain visual utilities .. that can be composed in different ways to form a new type .. like ML style type. Hard to explain, just assume I'm shit talking.
Existenceblinks··on React.gg – An interactive way to master modern React
Oracle or SAP vibe to me. I shake my head every day on React code base. My personal js heavy project is so nice all logic functions are testable individually, the views are clean. All effects are at boundary .. no waterfall shits!
Existenceblinks··on Rust Is a Scalable Language
assembly/c/c++/perl/ruby/elixir/elm/js are "pretty ok" to me no matter how long I had written with. python is absolutely not ok to me .. always think "really?" I want to write it in another way, but it can't be.
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