functional_dev

The backtracking implementation in jq is really the secret sauce for how it handles those complex filters without getting bogged down

right, attenuation is particularly bad with Starlink because it operates in the Ku and Ka bands... wavelengths are small enough to be scattered by individual raindrops

Yeah... attacks like LogoFAIL hit during the DXE and BDS phases when the firmware is acting as its own 'mini OS' before the handoff

Easier to comprehend here - https://vectree.io/c/uefi-firmware-architecture-principles

yeah, Nim is great for that... much easier to explain to others than C or Zig especially for math code

I agree its unenforceable by design unless they control the OS

This 'self vs non-self' logic is very similar to how plants prevent self-pollination. They have a biological 'discrimination' system to recognize and reject their own genetic code.

Here is a breakdown - https://vectree.io/c/plant-self-incompatibility-logic

Here is a technical comparison to show how Knowledge Distillation works for on-device AI. It has visual maps for the Teacher vs Student models and explains things like 'Dark Knowledge' - https://vectree.io/compare/apple-intelligence-vs-knowledge-d...

It's very confusing topic. I rendered this visual map to show how SRY gene is the 'trigger' for development, not just having the Y chromosome. It helps see the signaling steps where things like AIS or XX syndrome happen: https://vectree.io/c/y-chromosome-genomic-signaling

You might like these too:

High Output Management (Andrew Grove) https://vectree.io/c/high-output-management-andrew-grove

Never Split the Difference (Chris Voss) https://vectree.io/c/never-split-the-difference-chris-voss

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Robert Cialdini) https://vectree.io/c/influence-the-psychology-of-persuasion-...

Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products (Nir Eyal) https://vectree.io/c/hooked-how-to-build-habit-forming-produ...

Thinking in Systems (Donella Meadows) https://vectree.io/c/thinking-in-systems-donella-meadows

To be honest, I'm a total introvert. I've spent my career as an IC, but I’m trying to transition into being an "Architect" of systems that people actually value and pay for.

The biggest hurdle for me isn't the code. It's talking to customers. I’ve always been told to read The Mom Test, but I’m a visual learner and usually too busy building to sit down with a business book.

I used Vectree to generate a schematic for the book’s core framework (the "juice") so I could understand the filter process at a glance. It turned out to be a perfect example of why I built this:

https://vectree.io/c/the-mom-test

If you’re like me and want to understand a methodology or a complex system without the 200-page commitment, this is how I'm using the tool myself. I'd love to hear if this visual style helps you "get" it faster too.

You can download PDF of it as well!

https://vectree.io/pdf/c/the-mom-test

Building a cheaper alternative to Twilio Voice Intelligence. Record phone calls, transcribe, generate AI summaries, enable semantic search over transcripts — $0.30/hour vs Twilio's $1.50/hour.

Stack is 15+ Go microservices on k3s. Cross-lingual semantic search is fun. Spanish query returns English calls with no translation code.

https://audiotext.live/

It's probably SRI. I disabled "Email Address Obfuscation" in Cloudflare. It was probably misfiring.

Thanks for follow up!

I suspect this is cloudflare doing some auto-minifying. It injects the "integrity" tags and something does not match. I will try to turn it off.

Thanks again!

That is strange. Just tried it on Firefox (Desktop), and it loaded fine. Any tips how to identify what is the issue?

What browser are you using? It loads up for me fine. Could you help me to debug that, please?

Could be both. I have used LLMs quite heavily on Rust (at work) and Haskell at leisure. And it is much harder to MOVE FAST.

English is not my first language, and you nailed it. I used LLM to "polish" it. Probably too much. But I am open for questions if you like :)

You are technically right, that is not a functional language. But it borrows many things from functional world :)

Author here. I’m a huge FP snob (Rust/Scala) so using Go for this project kinda hurt at first.

But as a solo founder, I needed speed. The main thing I learned is that LLMs write amazing Go code. It's so simple and boilerplate-heavy that the AI almost never hallucinates.

Ended up building a distributed audio ingestion system that undercuts Twilio by like 80%.

Happy to answer questions about the architecture or other things.