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fittomon Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city

It's absurd, but he partly reflects on that himself: "But more than anything, it was therapeutic for me. Some mindless entertainment. I'm not a big TV watcher. It allowed me to detach from the realities and the pressures of life."

fittomon A decade of Docker containers

try searching for 'Rory Sutherland: What If Petrol Cars Were Invented In 2025'

fittomon URLs are state containers

I completely agree. In fact, I believe URL design should be part of UX design, and although I've worked with 30+ UX designers, I've never once received guidance on URLs.

fittomon Cerebras Inference: AI at Instant Speed

It is mentioned in the post:

> Traditional LLMs output everything they think immediately, without stopping to consider the best possible answer. New techniques like scaffolding, on the other hand, function like a thoughtful agent who explores different possible solutions before deciding. This “thinking before speaking” approach provides over 10x performance on demanding tasks like code generation, fundamentally boosting the intelligence of AI models without additional training.

fittomon A Netflix for Film Geeks?

You don't have to. Click the "web" link on top of this page, and then click the first google result.

Update: oh sry, you meant the movies...

fittomon Unethical Growth Hacking from YayView

> Friend list now only returns friends who also use your app: The list of friends returned via the /me/friends endpoint is now limited to the list of friends that have authorized your app.

source: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/changelog

fittomon Ask HN: Did you implement a lunch picking app at your startup?

In Berlin we have a small startup based on this idea. You can subscribe to our newsletter and we send you the daily menu of the restaurants in your area every day. With forwarding this e-mail to your colleagues, all of you can select the favourites using the up-vote buttons in the email. You can track the votes on the website, but you will receive a summary about the results as well. Give a try if you in Berlin: https://www.halb1.de/

fittomon Istanbul: A JavaScript code coverage tool written in JS

Great tool, perfectly fits to the node.js ecosystem, lightweight and fast.

However in case you use co-mocha[1] to test your generators, istanbul won't work properly, the generators in the reports are shown as uncovered. Therefore I made a mocha fork[2] and directly applied the changes from co-mocha to the source (instead of monkey patching); it solved the problem.

[1] https://github.com/blakeembrey/co-mocha [2] https://github.com/tfitos/mocha