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I have a hobby project on the side involving radio digital signal processing in Rust that I've been pure vibe coding, just out of curiosity to see how far I can get. On more than o…

I've had some success with a multi-threaded software defined radio (SDR) app in Rust that does signal processing. It's been useful for trying something out that's beyond my experie…

> Me too, but a more optimistic view is that this is just a nascent form of higher-level programming languages. I like this take. I feel like a significant portion of building out …

Overall I like the list. Some of the bullet points were stated a little more strongly than I was comfortable with. > People who stress over code style, linting rules, or other minu…

As someone who used Windows 95 when it came out, it struck me at the time as an off-brand Macintosh, making it feel kind of cheap (a feeling that never went away). I had also been …

I think there's plenty of scope for improvements like this. I haven't had the energy to pursue further improvements along these lines, but I suspect they could make it a better app…

My own purpose in using it is to be able to get back to any link that I've read or have potentially wanted to read at a later point in time. You scan see screenshots here: https://…

It's pretty manual at this point. The indexing is done by hand. The idea is kind of crazy, but I think it can be made to work, in the same way that Wikipedia is maintained by hand.…

I built a web app that keeps track of every link I ever find to be interesting. It allows for fine-grained topics (e.g., individual academic papers, or topics more specific than th…

A little depressing to see GitHub join the zeitgeist. Probably mandated from above by Microsoft. The next time I'm on a job search, I'll be de-prioritizing, and possibly even exclu…

I'm an experienced Ruby web developer, and I'm starting to learn Rust. You mentioned Java and Nodejs, but I still wanted to chime in on the topic of languages in web development mo…

Over the last decade I've had a similar thought and hope. Or at least the idea of working for an employee-owned and directed tech business (maybe on the model of REI?). Curious whe…

I recently watched this intro to the topic, which I found really interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnnacleqg6k

The kind of company I'm on the lookout for has definitely shifted over the years. When I was younger, the thought of working at Google and Amazon was very enticing. Then Amazon ado…

I had a similar reaction. Acquisitions can be a signal that there's a go-to-market strategy being pursued.

> That being said I never understood why would anyone want to use this language for web development On the backend, at least, Rust would be a significant improvement over Ruby, for…

I have the same habit and wrote a web app to catalog the links I come across: https://digraph.app/

> I do expect that even unreliable versions will be very useful tools for practicing lawyers, though. Agreed. It's like being able to call up a map on Google Maps for an area that …

Yeah, that's actually related to what I'm thinking of. The idea is a crowd-sourced and well-executed iteration on the old Yahoo! directory. https://blog.digraph.app/2020-06-13-demo…

I'm hoping that eventually we'll get around the idea of a crowd-sourced search engine (mostly manually curated) maintained in the manner of Wikipedia, backed by a solid user reputa…

For this reason, I have tended to rely more and more on recommendations from obviously real people these days, e.g., as found in comments on Reddit, or in the New York Times's Wire…

I tried helmfile, but helm state weirdness became enough of an issue that I investigated `kubectl apply -k` (which uses `kustomize`), and after I got it working it felt like a sign…