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Honestly this is still a great way to deploy apps and still some of the best DX there is, IMO. Costs a crap ton for what it is, but it is nice.

I don't think complexity comes just from the number of tools, but the disparate things you "need" them to do. Redis, Vite, large CSS toolkits -- you're learning a bunch of large co…

I mean, I think the problem with SPA-like client-side approaches are that there aren't any that have felt _good_ with Rails, let alone great. Absolutely true that not every app nee…

Lapis is very cool, but I really struggle with a lack of examples and pre-built solutions for some things. Leafo's itch.io is built with it and I maintain snap.berkeley.edu. A grea…

I believe cloudflare has quite a bit of Lua in some of their products (there's some very good Nginx lua integrations and variants like Openresty).

Agree, especially because it'd be nice for projects that use LuaJIT if you could swap the versions as needed.

I love JS and Ruby, and I spent a bit of time maintaining a web app in Lua. There are parts about the language I really enjoy. I like dynamic languages; I don't run into type issue…

I have a close friend, who's an Azure dev -- uses his MS laptop for work, his phone for everything else. And I do mean everything - taxes, trip planning, etc. It's not just crazy k…

I've been wondering about this... It definitely doesn't feel great to be on the receiving end of something auto-generated. But a "unique" message is at least more interesting to re…

Oh I think they are! Gruber is by no means alone in his praise. And the technical details are impressive. (Plus the 14" and 16" are fantastic improvements.)

No I read it that way too.

Guard clauses are great, and when used appropriately clean things up. This is pretty much my only use of the pattern. (Ending boolean-returning methods with a ? is also a great con…

Yeah, it's not usually an issue in practice. But I do see students get confused trying things out...and it's likely because learning in an interpreter doesn't often look like "real…

There's a bunch of things to pay attention to in Ruby. I wouldn't say these get too hairy, but they trip students up for very understandable reasons. * `a ||= b` is not just `a = a…

In that case -- I definitely agree Ruby usually gets out of way. It's often my go to for hacking on something, unless it's data science-y. I'll mention: implicit returns, return if…

Comparing Apple Silicon and x86 as the difference between having modern plumbing or not...not exactly where I expected the review to go! Gruber's hyperboles can be entertaining for…

This is a valid point, but definitely a misleading title.

More productive is really hard to say... But I personally prefer Ruby to Python. For smallish scripts, I really like Ruby's backticks for easily executing shell commands. And I fin…

The fact of the matter is that it wouldn't even necessarily need to increase tuition. The UC system is a $50bn/yr enterprise. Lecturer salaries are a tiny amount, and really only a…

This is true, but it also sucks if we assume "part of a career path". That means there's virtually no teaching-focus career paths in the UC system which is terrible for basically e…

That's really not quite true. There are thousands of lecturers in the UC system, and many thousands more where it is a career choice. Because tenure track is simply just not possib…

I would honestly say that you should consider this! If you think you'd enjoy teaching at a place like Berkeley and have experience, there is a need! https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/…

The salary is as high as it is in part due to the Union -- but the UC starting salary for lecturers regardless of discipline and location is around $60K. But computer science is in…

"Entry level" is tough to define. Perhaps entry level for Berkeley, but these are positions which still require an advanced degree and a good bit of teaching experience.

Not sure how common it is in the US, but at Berkeley the cafeterias are not free. They are a bit cheaper, around $9 for lunch if you prepay, but $13 if you don't! To be honest, I d…