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Someone built something useful and you complain that it's "nice looking"? Consider reframing your feedback.

Your information diet. Social media. Gossipy and negative people. Mulling over old failures/regrets/slights etc. The mind is easily pulled along by negativity and outrage... as can…

That's where the modern meaning of "digital circuit" etc comes from as well, the discrete/jointed nature of the digits (ie fingers). (Source: I read it a long time ago and was fasc…

You have to be extremely careful when you set up a dev container, lock down file access, do not give the agent the power to start other containers or "docker compose up", restrict …

"didn't want to talk about it", absolutely. "dissolved metaphysics entirely", absolutely not.

Great news and a long time coming!

The tech world knows this. They are raking in money off of these scams. People with a rudimentary moral compass leave, those without stay, which makes it even less likely that indu…

I've seen several Mac users have the same experience: going all-in on nix-darwin and then getting frustrated. But nix-darwin is one of the worst ways of getting into Nix, because i…

The way I do this is I task the agent with writing a script which in turn does the updates. I can inspect that script, and I can run it on a subset of files/folders, and I can git …

This is going to be very good for Gleam IMO. Having a super-easy on-ramp for using Gleam in Elixir projects will let people experiment with implementing eg more complex business lo…

You're a hero!

> There's no such thing as an individual conscious self that persists over time True. But then again, there is nothing that persists over time. Entities with enduring identities - …

Wonderful podcast all-around!

The Swedish, rather short-lived but very influential, magazine Pop voted There's a Riot as the best album of all time in 1994. That list had a huge effect on a whole generation of …

Out of JB, Sly, and George Clinton, Sly's my man.

My current preference is to use Elixir and its great ecosystem as the shell for my project, and implement the core business logic in Gleam.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measles:_A_Dangerous_Illness > "Measles: A Dangerous Illness" is an open letter written by the children's writer Roald Dahl in 1986 in response to ong…

Lovely!

Excellent! This scenario has a precursor in Philip K. Dick's "Ubik" (1969). It's just a sub-plot there, but the parallels are striking.

Scala is known for being multi-paradigm and quite complex, with competing factions promoting different Best Ways of Doing Things. Gleam is designed to be small and simple with a si…

Wow, I remember discovering your page in the late 90s. Never thought I'd find it again!

Any particular macro system you have used or created? If so, did you use an existing pre-processor, or just coded something up from scratch?

With a partitioned table you can painlessly remove old rows. Of course, you then have to maintain your partitions, but that's trivial.

TypeDb is a practical Datalog-based database system [1] (with a different syntax). TerminusDb is a project in a similar vein [2], but actually an RDF store at its core. If you want…