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deathtrader666··on Background Agents
Beautiful work.
deathtrader666··on Microsoft’s original source code
Shouldn't it be "valiant" ?
deathtrader666··on Goblin.tools: simple, single-task tools to help neurodivergent people with tasks
ClickUp already has this integrated natively. Such a lifesaver!
deathtrader666··on GitHub Copilot is now available for free
M1 MacBook Pro is sufficient for a Qwen model.
deathtrader666··on Elixir/Erlang Hot Swapping Code (2016)
Would love to know more how you go about it.
deathtrader666··on Procrastination and the fear of not being good enough
I always remind myself that even the celebrated works supposedly have glaring holes in them. If they can get popular and be cherished, then my work too doesn't have to be "water-tight" at all times.
deathtrader666··on Outsourcing Cost Boeing Billions (2019)
The original article on Bloomberg with the same title - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-28/boeing-s-...
deathtrader666··on I Hope Rust Does Not Oxidize Everything
>>> don’t think there is a BEAM compiler backend yet

I think there's something close - https://caramel.run/manual/

deathtrader666··on Merging Remix and React Router
Hey I star projects just as a way of bookmarking them..
deathtrader666··on Create More, Consume Less (2021)
>>> spent 8 hours flicking through Instagram and TikTok, binge watching TV, and ordering food for delivery.

That's surfing / grazing.

deathtrader666··on A response to "Erlang – overhyped or underestimated" (2010)
Or someone could read it as the Ericsson management not really understanding the capabilities of their own internal tools, and must've read something up on Java or .NET in an HBR article.
deathtrader666··on CSS Is Fun Again
Webflow and Plasmic seem to have taken up those spots.
deathtrader666··on Lazarus IDE 3.0
Would be cool to have a Lisp backend with a Pascal GUI
deathtrader666··on New scalable, fault-tolerant, and efficient open-source MQTT broker
Long-running mission-critical stuff has been written in Erlang and running on BEAM since decades now.
deathtrader666··on Tata Consultancy Services ordered to cough up $210M in code theft trial
Professionals in the software service industry have mastered the art of saying "shit has hit the roof" without any shit.

This, combined with "never saying no" and "never give bad news", has twisted simple communication behaviours.

deathtrader666··on Hacking ADHD: Strategies for the modern developer
Kinda like requiring to climb a cliff when you require knee surgery..
deathtrader666··on Tell HN: Automatic fraud detection is making my life hell
HSBC does send them over email and SMS, and in-app notification as well.
deathtrader666··on The Economics of Programming Languages [video]
Prezi was where Elm was conceived / sponsored.
deathtrader666··on Ash Framework
All I would say to Zach, other than appreciating his efforts on this, is to not give up, and to be in it for the long haul. The Elixir community needs a different flavour of making webapps other than Phoenix.

It was a bit dishearting to see drab[1] development stop once Phoenix Liveview took over the mindshare.

[1] - https://github.com/grych/drab

EDIT --

Sorry - adding in that drab's author suffered a major health issue - https://github.com/grych/drab/issues/205#issuecomment-795137...

deathtrader666··on Atlassian cripples’ Jira automation for all but enterprise customers
E will also conduct award ceremonies and invite the suits - "Best Practices Journey Award 2023".

O will have a virtual hackathon broadcast on their self-hosted Jitsi.

deathtrader666··on Show HN: I built a dataset of 25k+ Gumroad products to spot market opportunities
There are many who make their fortune selling shovels rather than going digging for gold :)
deathtrader666··on Ask HN: What are some well-designed websites?
Probably the best investment by the gov that's paying off in spades.
deathtrader666··on Internet-connected cars fail privacy and security tests conducted by Mozilla
Android Auto has already changed its home row buttons three times since 2019..
deathtrader666··on Former VP Claims Salesforce Lied About Software Capabilities: 'It Was All a Lie'
redirects to draw.io now
deathtrader666··on Elixir – Why the dot when calling anonymous functions?
Rescript
deathtrader666··on Britain Is a Developing Country
Yes, the numbers quoted by the article's author for that company (or for that role in general) don't make any sense.
deathtrader666··on Ask HN: Does Anyone Like GraphQL?
It would be cool have Phoenix controllers feeding the LiveView, and also generating a JSON API.
deathtrader666··on Why I Use Elm in 2023
Has the Elm community finalised a canonical way to work with Elixir Phoenix?
deathtrader666··on Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?
1300 as per 1Password.. and must be 500+ in my old Firefox account that I didn't bother exporting.
deathtrader666··on Functional Programming with TypeScript's Type System
>> if there were a hypothetical much better alternative to Typescript. Like ReScript ?
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