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mannycalaveraon Training AI to Paint with Code

I love this, thank you for creating it!

this is awesome, thank you for making this. Such a neat little package - I love that there are no instructions. And the graphics are so simple and neat

mannycalaveraon SQLite the only database you will ever need in most cases

If WAL is enabled it's easy to backup your sqlite db by using VACUUM INTO <file>.

More detailed docs: https://www.sqlite.org/lang_vacuum.html#vacuuminto

mannycalaveraon Actix project postmortem

Evan Czaplicki (Elm designer) has a great talk about this issue "The Hard Parts of Open Source" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_4EX4dPppA

mannycalaveraon Actix project postmortem

I do not think these expectations are reasonable. This line of thinking is definitely the core issue of the problem.

mannycalaveraon Ask HN: What niche blogs are worthwhile to follow?

https://www.filfre.net/ for an amazing trip trough the history of gaming!

mannycalaveraon Contributing to the Mozilla code base

I'm a long time Firefox user but unfortunately Firefox has bad issues with performance/battery usage on MacOS. Multiple long standing issues are open. (such as https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1404042 - open for 2 years)

I love Firefox but I had no choice and had to ditch it on MacOS. It seems Mozilla does not have the resources to fix these problems.

mannycalaveraon Why Crystal is the most promising programming language of 2018

That's great and thank you for responding! I agree that the number of open issues is not a good indicator of project management. I was more worried about PRs being open in 2016, 2017 and still lingering - this in connection with a large number of open issues seemed like a possible red flag. But it may be just an issue of triage.

Keep up the good work!

mannycalaveraon Why Crystal is the most promising programming language of 2018

I've been keeping my eye on Crystal for a while now thinking about making the plunge and writing something production ready in it.

But I'm a bit vary as for the casual observer the Crystal project github (https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal) seems brim with unsolved issues (over 500 issues!) and stale PR-s (over 105!). I'm not sure if this is a sign of poor project managment, development stall or poor community engagement but still it leaves a bad first impression. Contrast this to elixir project page (https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir).

Maybe someone who is actively involved in the development of Crystal could shine a light?