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kodeninjaon Show HN: From dotenv to dotenvx – better config management

How would this work with application-specific Intellij Run/Debug configurations? Would this require switching to a "Shell Script" configuration, thereby losing debugging capability etc?

kodeninjaon Show HN: Open Interpreter – CodeLlama in your terminal, executing code

This looks very cool! Trying it out now.

Question: Is https://open-procedures.replit.app/ absolutely needed for OI to work?

kodeninjaon Sundar Iyer's First Open Address: Co-Accused in Cisco Caste Discrimination Case [video]

Sundar Iyer, in his first public address post his court case, outlines how he, his co-accused Ramana Kompella, and 50+ of his Cisco co-workers were deliberately, wrongfully and maliciously targeted by the California CRD (aided by Equality Labs) in the now infamous Cisco caste discrimination case.

California Policy Center's whitepaper on corruption at CRD: https://californiapolicycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/0....

Do checkout https://castecon.com/ and https://castegate.org/.

kodeninjaon Apache NetBeans 15

Been out of touch with it, but, IIRC, NB's plugin story used to be pretty top notch (hot reload and all). Better than Eclipse and IntelliJ.

Geert W used to write a lot of good articles on doing cool and interesting things with NB, and user stories of how it was being used at different companies to build internal tools. Their GUI builder was pretty sweet too, IMO.

Glad to see it's still around!

kodeninjaon Apache NetBeans 15

Oh boy! Now, that's a name I haven't heard in a looong time :).

kodeninjaon Build Pong in Your Terminal with Go for Some Reason

In Tamizh, "pongo" literally means "go" :).

kodeninjaon Sr Manager at Google Resigns After Dalit Activist Disallowed from Giving Lecture

Interesting. Why is this being downvoted? Have I mentioned anything factually incorrect or irrelevant here?

kodeninjaon Sr Manager at Google Resigns After Dalit Activist Disallowed from Giving Lecture

For anyone (specially non-Indians) here interested in understanding what's really going on, I strongly recommend reading the book "Breaking India", by Rajiv Malhotra.

https://www.amazon.com/Breaking-India-Malhotra-Aravindan-Nee...

Equality Labs is a known offender.

https://cohna.org/repurposing-hate-and-hinduphobia-the-uc-da...

kodeninjaon Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash

Big Andian bug.

kodeninjaon Ask HN: What bits of fundamental knowledge are productivity multipliers?

Developing a good memory.

kodeninjaon PDM: A Modern Python Package Manager

What are the fundamental limitations to python/pip supporting the installation model of npm, where multiple versions of a dependency can happily co-exist?

kodeninjaon Emojimix

Seems kinda relevant!

https://tikolu.net/emojimix/%F0%9F%A4%A7+%F0%9F%8C%8D

kodeninjaon The Toit language is now open source

Is Lars Bak no longer involved with Toit?

https://toit.io/company/about

kodeninjaon This word does not exist

  upperchatter
  up·per·chat·ter
  excessively cheerful and energetic talk.
  *"upperchatter of an older, less energetic crowd"*

  a word that does not exist; it was invented, defined and 
  used by a machine learning algorithm.

kodeninjaon Windows 11: Just say no

This happens on Spotlight as well.

kodeninjaon Windows 11: Just say no

Not been on Win for a long time, but isn't Win 7 generally regarded as the best/most stable?

kodeninjaon A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design

Ivermectin (marginalia): https://search.marginalia.nu/search?query=ivermectin+

Ivermectin (Google): https://www.google.com/search?q=ivermectin

The difference in the overall _thrust_ of the results is remarkable.

Very interesting! Thanks for building it.

kodeninjaon Show HN: Time travel debugger for web development

Thanks!

kodeninjaon Show HN: Time travel debugger for web development

Congratulations! This looks super interesting!

How are side effects (mutating HTTP calls, cookie creation, other I/O) handled?

kodeninjaon An Unbelievable Demo

Like pronouncing "and" as "eeyaand".

kodeninjaon It's probably time to stop recommending Clean Code (2020)

Related to the topic, would folks here recommend some OSS codebases that they've found be a pleasure to read/understand?

For balance, perhaps in both statically and dynamically typed languages?

Thank you!

kodeninjaon Pulumi 3.0

Pulumi looks super interesting!

Is there a tutorial out there that demonstrates using _just_ the Pulumi SDK, perhaps in a CI/CD setting, to deploy a simple service to Kubernetes?

Many thanks!

kodeninjaon Java Is Underhyped

Sorry, but _nobody_ Maven.

kodeninjaon Unironically using Kubernetes for my personal blog

I developed a simple wrapper around vegeta, called vajra, that can be given the URL to a file containing test URLs (in vegeta format), a target QPS/duration, and then easily run a load test.

Gets deployed as a k8s `Job` via GitLab (can be scheduled/on-demand), with a simple script echoing back the vegeta status every 1 minute. Jobs don't yet support automatic cleanup, so another simple GitLab job deletes the job from k8s upon completion. The execution log is anyway available in GitLab/Kibana.

All in all, an extremely simple way to run load tests against a service deployed in k8s.

What grew as a personal utility is now being used by many teams for quick load tests.

kodeninjaon Eclipse IDE 2021-03

What's a super-minimalist Eclipse configuration that's just good enough for Java development?

kodeninjaon Thonny: A hassle-free Python micro-IDE

Built on Eclipse, or just leveraging the LAF?

kodeninjaon Tabloid: The Clickbait Headline Programming Language

WHY I LOVE THIS--I've never laughed so hard while reading an HN post.

Great job!

kodeninjaon Why I Moved Back from Gradle to Maven

Probably unrelated, but Java really needs to fix its Classpath Hell issues. On so many sufficiently large Java projects, you end up descending into the inclusion/exclusion madness with your build files because your app is inheriting `log4j` from 50 different libraries. Or the infamous xerces hell[1]. And fixing that in maven is not pretty :(.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11677572/dealing-with-xe...

kodeninjaon Announcing Flutter beta 1: Build beautiful native apps

@bbreier this looks very interesting! Can you talk a bit more about how your overall _dev_ experience was, working on Flutter? How many times did you have to go _native_, where you had to create platform channels for features Flutter didn't already expose? How much code sharing, if any, were you able to achieve? Were there any corner cases you ran into?

Thanks, and good luck with the app!

kodeninjaon Show HN: A stop-motion video of an engine

This looks AWESOME, @alexmuir! Preordered :)!