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This is the concept of Simple vs Easy https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38768107

There's a WKUK comedy sketch that fits this story pretty well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fibDNwF8bjs

A few years ago I set up a ublock filter to hide the next/more buttons on hacker news and reddit. It works great because I can still get my news fix, but I can't scroll endlessly. …

I think that particular issue was addressed in the recent Clojure release [ https://clojure.org/news/2024/09/05/clojure-1-12-0 ] ("Clojure developers can now invoke Java methods ta…

Also check out https://github.com/D-Star-AI/dsRAG/ for a bit more involved chunking strategy.

Check out agenix-rekey[ https://github.com/oddlama/agenix-rekey ], it has the ability to set up secret generators.

Reminds me of Planck's principle: > A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually d…

Related: https://yamlscript.org/

>> In practice, they are a niche endeavor used by a bunch of hackers and computer science nerds. I don't know anything about federation, but what you said basically describes the I…

My point is that there is nothing about functional programming, specifically the "Data structure + Algorithm" style, that makes it unsuitable for building complex applications like…

Data structure + algorithm is a valid way of building large programs. That is basically how Clojure is designed, and it works pretty well for big applications. Functional programmi…

>> other languages have radically different tools and practices that lead to far fewer footguns Can you share any examples of these different tools and practices?

I've used Tabula for many years, and it works great. Use it for converting PDF invoices from specific supplier for import into our system. Changed a task that took about a day each…

Regarding your long lines issue - from your description it sounds instead like an unicode issue which I also ran into a while back. What happens is that your main programming font …

I've used Zerotier for several years now, and it does feel that the stability on mobile has improved in the past couple of months.

The free version of Foxit PDF Reader allows you to upload a signature image and add the signature to PDF documents. There is a Linux version. https://www.foxit.com/downloads/

One thing that has tripped me up with this workflow in the past is that you lose context - the code you copy/paste and execute in the repl is not evaluated in its module/namespace,…

This is completely unrelated, but I remember your blog about dotnet development. I followed it about 10 years ago and remember when you started with RavenDb. I haven't done any dot…

I think it is worth reading his explanation [1] of why he built this. He doesn't really seem to be scaremongering, just that he identified a risk that he thinks has a high likeliho…

I wouldn't classify those emails as spam, as spam is unsolicited bulk email, ie untargeted emails going out to a large amount of people. Personalised unsolicited email or any other…