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The irony of the agentic/mimetic interview question is not lost on me. I wonder if it is on the hypothetical interviewees? Answering “agentic” is the most “mimetic” answer you coul…

I’ve come to believe a more depressing take: they _want_ to believe it, and therefore do. No disclaimer is gonna change that.

This hits at the true nature of the problem which has _nothing_ to do with Redis at all (which is a fine piece of technology written by a thoughtful and conscientious creator) and …

What was it about Elixir that you found dissatisfactory? I am currently evaluating Clojure vs. Elixir for a new project.

Feel free to contradict me with personal experience, but I actually posit that (like many interesting phenomena in life), the truth is exactly the opposite. The number of people in…

> If you can't isolate and articulate the problem without referencing your tech stack and tooling, or your explanation gets all muddy and convoluted, you haven't actually identifie…

This rings so true. I noticed a consistent level-up in my abilities once I started to seek the essence of the problem. I ask myself: “I start with this information. The desired out…

I am also hacking my own tool together for exactly this reason - multi-currency is one of those things that is absolutely essential if you need it, but is often ignored by a lot of…

I would also posit that this inclination towards individuals over institutions in the US extends to Central and South America.

This is a very incisive and insightful take and really distills some large cultural differences between Americans and Europeans down to its essence. Can I ask if you are American o…

I tend to agree. OP, if your motivations are largely economical, you're probably best off leveraging your existing skillset and experience. Sales is a very valuable skill, and engi…

Looks like a great tool. Thanks for sharing. Might consider using it if I start freelancing more, as I much prefer to support other small creators than big corporate software. Also…

The proposition of replacing the layered morass of node-based tooling (node, ts-node nodemon, tsc, jest, ts-jest, webpack, BABEL, 2 incompatible module specs, UMD insanity, 3 packa…

Not sure why you’re being downvoted, this is a very interesting history.

You might like Odin, it has a similar philosophy to Zig and supports swizzling: https://odin-lang.org/docs/overview/#swizzle-operations Matrix types are also built in: https://odin…

From a quick glance this could be the missing piece for going all in on SQLite for small apps. Most plug-in admins only work with remotely accesible databases like Postgres. How wo…

This is a really nice stack and what I’m using together with a colleague right now. Do you use the serverless functions available with Vercel/Supabase? If so, I’m curious how you c…