Brantley Harris 🪐
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Brantley Harris 🪐
@deadwisdom
This place is trash. Leave it. @[email protected]
Beigetreten Ekim 2008
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Relatedly, it's really sad that the present didn't end up being Ruby, but instead its far less elegant, though more pragmatic, sibling Python.
It's truly an incredible language. Ruby code feels so alive that Python always felt truly dull and even genuinely brittle in comparison.
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> Building web apps in 2025 is like assembling IKEA furniture. There’s no full-stack [framework]… that ‘just works’
Pretty sure it’s always been that way. My first OSS project was to tackle this, back in middle school lol.
Anyway I guess that’s what Rails philosophically is?
Andrej Karpathy@karpathy
The reality of building web apps in 2025 is that it's a bit like assembling IKEA furniture. There's no "full-stack" product with batteries included, you have to piece together and configure many individual services: - frontend / backend (e.g. React, Next.js, APIs) - hosting (cdn, https, domains, autoscaling) - database - authentication (custom, social logins) - blob storage (file uploads, urls, cdn-backed) - email - payments - background jobs - analytics - monitoring - dev tools (CI/CD, staging) - secrets - ... I'm relatively new to modern web dev and find the above a bit overwhelming, e.g. I'm embarrassed to share it took me ~3 hours the other day to create and configure a supabase with a vercel app and resolve a few errors. The second you stray just slightly from the "getting started" tutorial in the docs you're suddenly in the wilderness. It's not even code, it's... configurations, plumbing, orchestration, workflows, best practices. A lot of glory will go to whoever figures out how to make it accessible and "just work" out of the box, for both humans and, increasingly and especially, AIs.
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@MichalZiulek Can I ask, what made you abandon zig for c? I would love to know your thought process.
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I'm writing game using C and D3D12. Today I've completed renderer for Nuklear UI.
github.com/michal-z/cgame
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@colinhacks LinkML -- It's basically about representing everything you could come up with.
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Is there a data format spec that's like JSON Schema but capable of representing a wider range of types?
Strings, booleans, numbers, null, objects, arrays (of course)
Fixed-width numeric types (int16, etc)
Date
BigInt
Symbols
Undefined
Bytes
Byte arrays/buffers
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Wanna know something cool, and gross that you should never probably do with the Web?
You can convert Web Components to primitives and do:
+<my-num val=3/> + +<my-num val=5> == 8
or console.log(MyEl) // 'Eight'
using [Symbol.toPrimitive]. Check it out:
#gist=64bc875cebc6ed20a76df10aa5710ed2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">lit.dev/playground/#gi…
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@argonautcode @WesternDigs Anyway, if you're interested in collaborating on that, dm me.
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@argonautcode @WesternDigs I see it as part simulation and part game, where you would let your organisms go and then edit them in batches of experiments, spending points to give them slightly different characteristics and then see which batches do well.
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YouTube
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While a whole bunch of stuff is down, I wonder if this is a good time to talk about decentralized distributed site monitoring? 😀
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*sigh* the tech bubble thinks that regular users give a shit about PWA not being available on iOS. do you donuts understand that non-dev ppl never add A WEB APP to their homescreen?! they only get frustrated when a website doesn't have a native app. ask your family and friends.
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@HowToDoInJava Thank you for restfulapi.net -- I am pointing devs to it as a way to understand good practices because no one seems to know, but they think they do.
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@hugs I wanted a cartoon whale SANS jizz looking water coming out of the top of it. It cannot do this.
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ChatGPT is the king of gaslighting. I'm starting to think it enjoys f'ing with its users.
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@RogersKonnor Huh. Yeah they should, but I bet there's something we aren't thinking about.
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@willmcgugan In data processing, you often make a system and it's fine, but then suddenly you get a 10x jump in data coming in. Now you're optimizing.
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Does anyone consciously micro optimise their Python code?
To put it another way, what use cases of Python really care about raw execution speed?
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Is this the end of tailwind as the default choice? github.com/facebook/stylex
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How would you solve this? 👇
You need to use an external API for a relatively small set of data, but don't want to exhaust API calls too quickly.
Brad Garropy@bradgarropy
I'm running a @remix_run app where I hit the @YouTube API on every load to fetch my latest videos. What's the easiest way to cache this information so I don't hit the daily quota?
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@antirez No, it’s different. It has a different approach. That’s okay.
As you understand Python you will find many of the decisions surprisingly mindful even if they go against your initial reactions.
I’ve always found those tools to be the most impactful.
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My tweet about Python inability to easily implement factorial in a native way was just an example. In the latest five minutes I could not:
1. use a list as key of a dictionary. Why?
2. use random.shuffle() with a string.
Lists and strings must have .shuffle() for good design.
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