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For occasions like birthdays or Christmas where people want to give you gifts, I have always wanted to ask them to make donations to charities of my choosing instead. So I built an…

Thanks! Its true, many things are frustrating, like you say - bulk downloading. Yes DuckDB is amazing, and I use it in more than one of my projects. It has a lot of use cases for t…

A self-hosted, better browser interface to preview s3 files. This overcomes the limitation of the s3 console not allowing querying or viewing files beyond a certain size. It also g…

My making this web app had 2 motivations: - There are many non-IT teams in orgs who just want a preview of the data in the files or want to do some simple explorations. Frequently,…

For occasions like birthdays or Christmas where people want to give you gifts, I have always wanted to ask them to make donations to charities of my choosing instead. So I built an…

I was born and brought up in India, moved to the US at 27, but only now in my 50s chanced upon the amazing music that is qawwali. Till a couple of years ago I had no idea that such…

For occasions like birthdays or Christmas where people want to give you gifts, I have always wanted to ask them to make donations to charities of my choosing instead. So I built an…

This looks amazing purely from an engineer's perspective that wants to level up on something they have worked on for a while with enough understanding to build working systems with…

Good for you then. I myself have not come across the (loud/louder) TDD exponents advocating for using TDD in system/integration testing, they mostly focus on unit tests. If you can…

My experience is that TDD just ensures that the code is unit-testable. This can lead to more complex code when it need not be complex. I definitely write tests, but my default appr…

I have pondered this question before and I have seen people recommending "Philosophy of software design" by John Ousterhout, but my qualms with Clean Code is not that it needs a su…

You mean homogenous instead of heterogenous, right?

Thank you!

I use it on my 2015 Macbook pro. Its amazing how quickly you can get set up, kudos to the authors. Its a dog in terms of response time for questions, but that's expected with my ma…

Thanks for the talk link, it completely kept me engrossed and was a pleasure to watch! Addendum question: what is the state of database drivers for Elixir? Does it have mature libr…

You should look at the command `python -m venv`. Its built in, and is a breeze to create virtual environments. I guess it does not provide shortcuts for activation etc, but I am ok…

I thought one of the advantages of pyenv was that you switched to also creating virtual envs using pyenv and managed virtual environments with it too. Maybe not.

I used pyenv in my previous company. At first it was fine, but after a while with multiple versions of Python installed, things stopped working. The right virtual env was not activ…

Amidst all these great discussions, I would like to point out that this article really helped me get my head around a B tree and why its a great optimization on top of the Binary S…

On his website: https://mitchellh.com/zig

That's great to know. Thanks!

Sorry, thought it was a fairly familiar acronym. IC = individual contributor.

Mitchell is the only person I can think of who went through the cycle of tinkerer/IC -> founder -> CXO and then back to IC in his own company. Also, his writings on Zig has been tr…

Does a possibility of a Python API figure anywhere in your roadmap? Or am I missing the point here? Seems like it would be a smart choice to have one on the statically-typed side, …