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Would the JVM ecosystem almost be a working example of this? Since there are a variety of languages with editor integration that all compile down to the same byte code, it feels pr…

I made a CLI tool called kilojoule that is similar to jq. I addition to the normal suite of JSON manipulations, it also has support for a couple of other file formats and can call …

TikTok?

If you don't have access to COPY if the postgres instance is managed, I've had a lot of luck with encoding a batch of rows as a JSON string, sending the string as a single query pa…

I love that writing LLM-friendly docs is just... writing good docs. There's a ton of overlap between accessibility work and preparing things to be used by LLMs. I wonder if an unin…

There’s a straightforward way to reach this testing state for optimization problems. Write 2 implementations of the code, one that is simple/slow and one that is optimized. Generat…

Not high level but a RTO policy seems like an easy way to downsize without having to fire people now that interest rates are higher.

I'm finishing up reading Cadillac Desert, a book describing the history of dam building and irrigation project in the US. It goes deep into all aspects of irrigation projects from …

I get the feeling that most most projects tend to become more like databases as they grow in complexity. How did you realize that a project you have worked on was slowly becoming m…

My take is that dicts are fine as long as your code is well tested. Yeah, dataclasses and frozen classes have much better typing support, but if you code is mostly reading and writ…

I remember when that popped up on my screen in college. Fun problems. There was one where you derived the page rank algorithm, but they framed it as radioactive decay. Definitely a…

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I agree with most of you points, but the one that stands out is "push for unit tests over integration/system tests wherever possible". By integration/system tests, do you mean test…

WHich has a more powerful processor, the gameboy or the raspberry pi?

I'm working on a python script that downloads web serials as ebooks. It's set up to check if a new chapter has been posted, and if there's a new chapter that finishes a book, it ou…