Richard Lindhout

@jamonholmgren 100% agree. Also people with very strong opinions I have met did write some of the most ugly and inefficient code. bUT iT hAs INterFacES AnD DesIGn pAtTerns

By the way, I'm like 10 years past the point where I care that much about particular syntax and coding patterns. I like to share ideas I have, and I don't get too married to convention. I've seen "best practices" that would *never* change, up and change, in my 32 years coding.

@skeptrune Yes: shankhadeep.dev/blog/bun-rust-…

does anyone know if the bun rust rewrite is faster than the previous zig version?

Switched from iTerm2 to Ghostty. Iterm2 was using 60GB with 1 empty terminal 😆

@TwinkleKiraTwt Scam!!

@jarredsumner Did Mythos or Opus do the rewrite?

The plan for tomorrow: dogfood Bun’s Rust port on Claude Code internally and start writing the blog post

@GergelyOrosz Use package managers which don’t randomly build stuff from deps like pnpm and bun

Supply chain attacks are happening left and right with npm, PyPI and so many other places. It seems to be getting worse, everyone agrees. But what can you do about it? Some thoughts on possible approaches (all have tradeoffs). What did I miss? And what vendors actually work?

banger articles you should read

MongoDB is lowkey the best database fuck you and your SQL

@pbertrand_dev @levelsio Ok cool I have my company for too long already since 16 so probably not applicable to me 😅

@RichardLindhout @levelsio so i didnt include the whole calcuation because its irrelevant to an international audience / the point but : WBSO 15979 + WBSO starter 7996 = 23975 in deductions which is roughly 14-15k usd

Of my European friends - one is burn out for years getting paid by the government to sit at home and not work (free money) - one is building an app for people to use AI to apply for subsidies (free money) from the government - one is building an app to get emission credits (free money) from the government - one is trying to get subsidy (free money) for building this app below Entire economy built on free money from the government

@levelsio Agree with you I guess they should just lower income taxes and remove all subsidies.

@levelsio You can say that because you are 'evading' dutch taxes in Portugal but we have to pay 50% so the WBSO is for me max 1 day per year where I just say what kind of innovations i make and i get some tax deduction on the already big income taxes

Worse than that though is you get the smartest and best people in your country not working on producing better products and services that can compete worldwide But instead they get really good at writing subsidy/grant applications to win free money and become dependent on it

@pbertrand_dev @levelsio De WBSO voor zzp'ers is een extra aftrekpost op je winst. Die €15.979 wordt van je belastbare winst afgetrokken, dus wat je daadwerkelijk "terugkrijgt" hangt er vanaf. Bij het lage IB-tarief (~36%) is dat effectief zo'n €5.700, bij het hoge tarief (~49%) rond de €7.800

@RichardLindhout @levelsio its a € 15.979 deduction

@pbertrand_dev @levelsio It’s not 15K it’s like 5 max its subtraction from taxable income not direct tax reduction. You mean ZZP WBSO right?

@levelsio I also got a WBSO grant (15k "free" money) I think its good, after all the taxes I paid, to get some back to work on innovation Better than the alternative, just paying high taxes and not getting anything back

Ok, I've explained it three times, so it's a thing I should post about. Evolutionary Engineering. It's the acceptance that all code will be mid (unless created by godlike, all knowing staff engineers with an eternity to plan the perfect codebase and another eternity to execute that plan). We are mortals with flawed tools and small minds. Show me any codebase made by humans, and there is the code equivalent of duct tap holding pieces of it together, no matter how enlightened the crew that built it. It is the belief that variation (non-deterministic expression) is expected and welcome. Mutations that aren't deadly or benign move the system in the direction of better fitness for purpose. It is the skills to build not code, but the environment in which code blossoms from other mechanisms. In this environment, all code starts as mid and is revised and mutated and shifted. The environment is deadly to mutations that do not serve the engineer's purpose. In this way, the program evolves in the direction of fitness. Will the end result be perfect? No. And the mammalian heart is flawed in a way that it is prone to failure, but only after the age of reproduction. Code rarely lives longer than a few decades. It doesn't need to be perfect. It just needs to do its job. And code that doesn't, needs to die in a fire. Folks I've met practicing this kind of engineering seem at peace with how engineering is changing, have a background in testing, and generally seem to enjoy creations built by agents that work

@s13k_ @arjendevos

Bottom line: SQLite on the cheapest shared-CPU Hetzner handles real prod load Realistic OLTP (70R/25U/5I): 3.9k ops/s, p99 = 710 µs, p999 = 2.2 ms = 14 million ops/hour on a $5 VPS with sub-3-ms tail ✅ SQLite is enough for most of us.

How often do you think about t̸h̸e̸ ̸R̸o̸m̸a̸n̸ ̸E̸m̸p̸i̸r̸e̸ SQLite at night? I ordered the cheapest Hetzner CX23 ($4.99/mo, Shared Resources tier) and did real-workload SQLite benchmark 🧵

@sseraphini I never use an IDE anymore, I use 5 agents at once, trust them a lot. Too lazy to code nowadays. Big difference in results based on application. Some stuff the AI is much better at.

Explain how you are using AI

@arjendevos Zullen we x lunchen binnenkort

@RichardLindhout vanilla php is echt insane, zijn producten zijn zo simpel dat het werkt maar zijn producten zien er niet uit ook

Can we get this guy in a competition with someone skilled to see who can build the most scalable solution fast

@arjendevos Depends I think you can easily scale to millions of users with sqlite but agree SQLite is a bit too low level for me as well there are better databases. But migration from sqlite to horizontal scaling would be easier than if you had a relational db I guess.

@RichardLindhout Migrations always suck, if you think about migrating later you can better do it right at the start imo

@arjendevos Toch is laatste php ook best snel maar tis meer file size waar ik error krijg haha. Tis wel echt one team only code. Dat is beetje verschil denk ik