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I've been playing around with crystal for years, and absolutely love it (I'm a full-time ruby dev using Sequel as an ORM). I wish I had more time to spend with crystal. Kemal (refe…

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” ― G…

That's going to change this fall: https://algorand.foundation/the-algo/algo-governance

I agree, and I can't believe more people haven't mentioned it here. I am not going to rehash what anyone can read at the linked site, but it seems like an absolutely great project,…

I tried Strava, but it just wasn't detailed enough for me. I ended up finding smashrun.com. Granted it's only for running, but it's phenomenal. I've been a subscriber for years now…

One thing I've found useful when listing tables that you can't exactly remember the name, you can use wildcards. \dt cust* will list all tables that start with "cust". It works wit…

I can't figure out how to get it configured as a pager (in postgres). I've been using pspg set in my .psqlrc. I changed it to \setenv PAGER 'vd' and I just get a big chunk of text …

I started using (and subscribed to) Inkdrop[1] after recommendations here and have been very happy with it. Yes, it's $5 a month, but it automatically syncs (encrypted locally firs…

I actually started binding my CAPSLOCK key to F5, and I have F5 set as a tmux attention key, but I've never had too much problem with left pinky finger hitting escape.. A side bene…

Living in Florida, and being married to a wife who considers the presence of cockroaches a dealbreaker for living together, I've managed to keep a roach-free home for several years…

It's actually towards the middle of the article I linked (in italics). Search for "So what ARE they worried about? I wrote a little story to show you"

Your comment totally reminds me of an article Tim Urban wrote in 2015 about the dangers of AI (Mr. Urban, if you are around these parts I absolutely love your writing!!). Within th…

That is a phenomenal article about timezones in general that apply to any database, as well as a great explanation of features specific to postgres. It is interesting that a timest…

There's a really cool way to do this that I learned about with ruby here https://gist.github.com/O-I/3e0654509dd8057b539a Here's a quick demo class that shows the technique. It's a…

>>The Nurture Option. A well-trained bulldog can be a much, much better dog than an untrained border collie. And one person can accomplish this training with a dog in a few years. …

I think you're right. I run basically the same route every time (varying distances a bit), through a county park that's literally down the same sidewalk where I live. I also listen…

I can't download purchased MP3's from amazon's own site, I get "We’re experiencing a problem with your music download. Please try downloading from Your Orders or contact us." When …

I'm going to answer my own question - I tracked it down to a bug in lattice-core that occurred when it couldn't parse incoming JSON, and for some reason it killed the socket server…

I'm trying to get this demo working on an extremely inexpensive plain VPS (running Debian 7), and I'm getting "WebSocket connection to... failed: Invalid frame header". Is that wha…

I answered this on a different thread, but I've specifically designed things for this scenario. The framework has a class named WebObject. Once instantiated, it stays persisted on …

Yes, you are completely right. It should have been titled "Realtime-first development with Websockets".

Short answer, I don't know. I don't know that they'll disappear, they are just so efficient. That said, lattice is completely event-driven. The #on_event and #emit_event methods ac…

Author here...Well, I started down the websockets path because of how awesome I found crystal to be. I wasn't intending to do this a few months ago, it just sort of took on a life …

I haven't explored that a lot, but my thought was that the amount of setup/teardown for polling goes away, so it's at least an order of magnitude (guessing) better. I have written …