christophilus

Honestly, I just validate that it has an @ and then let it through. The actual sender (mailgun, or whatever) can do the dirty work for me.

Better than nothing. That’s the same problem every package manager has.

Downloading OpenBSD and going off-grid. How about you?

Yes. It’s just more bike shedding. Write helpful comments if you care about such things. Example: https://www.sqlite.org/src/timeline

That’s been talked about ad nauseam. It’s nice to talk about something else for a change.

Failing news headlines soar after AI takes over reporters jobs.

An exponent on $1T isn’t unlimited, but it is an uninvestible thesis in my book.

My videos would consist mostly of: “Chris is cursing msbuild again.” “Chris is losing a table tennis game to Mike again while he waits for the build to complete.” And so forth.

The dark fiber of our time?

I find codex superior in speed and equal in quality, so it’s my preference. But Claude Code made prettier UIs last time I tested. Codex produces Microsoft-grade UIs. Very enterprise and ugly unless I actively steer it.

Dunno. I did C++ GUI programming back in the day. It wasn’t hard. It would’ve been hard to get light/dark mode and responsive design right, probably, but in my (albeit fuzzy) memory, it wasn’t any harder than building nice web applications. The hard part was just stupid C++ nonsense that Rust and Zig and other nice things are finally here to put out of its misery.

Claude Code won't let you do that as root. Codex's equivalent is perfectly fine, though.

It reminds me of my younger self when I encountered inexplicable behavior in my own software, “I think I found a bug in Firefox!” … “Oh, nope. I forgot to add an event handler.”

Claude Code has gotten so bad about this that I’ve stopped using it for code reviews. I may look into wiring Claude up to Codex as an alternative LLM just to compensate.

I think the issue is that I’m running Claude Code in a container so it sees that it is root, and becomes a lot more cautious. Not sure, though.

Ha! Speaking a language that everyone understands.

They get more human by the day.

I totally agree, but I'd go further and argue that slow implementation of new features is itself a desirable trait. It's one of the reasons why why I like both Go and Clojure.

This is the job of a tool like go fmt. Obviously, it’s good discipline to indent, but I wouldn’t choose this as the deciding factor for picking a first programming language.

No, I didn’t. It occurred to me that I should, but I ran out of time. It’s been a hot minute since I last wrote Clojure, but it was by far my favorite codebase to read out of this experiment. It’s a great language.

I ran a little test with Go, TypeScript, Clojure, F#, Haskell, and Rust. Token count was roughly in the same ballpark, but it used the fewest for TypeScript, then Go. The rest required a bit more. Clojure always won in terms of lines of code though, generally coming in at 1/2 the size of the Go or Typescript solutions.

Not true. I know very fit, very skinny triathletes who have sleep apnea.

I just hate how many dependencies you have to pull in for a typical Rust project vs Go. As far as Go being an ugly language, there are some interesting wrappers that put lipstick on that pig such as https://lisette.run/

But personally, I don’t mind Go at all. I’ve even begun to prefer it for some things. That may be Stockholm syndrome, though.

I don't rebase. I just merge and resolve the conflicts. Nowadays, I just have an agent do that for me, and move on with my life.

That would be ok in a non-globalized world. In our world, any country that implements those laws will see a lot more offshoring.

Time will tell. I predict this is just the same 20 year pattern of: people on the internet are irate about $latest_thing, and everyone will move on to some other hot topic.

I just use Codex/Claude Code in one window and Neovim in another and navigate around using Niri’s keyboard shortcuts. I much prefer it to VS Code on a traditional desktop in almost every respect.

That said, I never tried copilot.

“Flee to the fields” is a great read, too.

I’m no Microsoft fan, but they are pretty good at long term support of enterprises. Way, way better than Google from what I can tell.

I’m 100% willing to believe it based on Google’s track record.

This entire thread illustrates why you don’t want Google in any critical part of your business. AWS, sure. Azure? Maybe. I’m not familiar with Azure, but if I have to pick one, it’s AWS.