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I work on a pretty large BYOC deployment that we market as such, but is squarely in the "self-hosted" / on-prem model. We don't maintain any connection back to our environment and …

If anybody is reading this and wants to hire somebody with said Zig experience, call me. (Link in bio)

I'm not as interested in game development but I'm one of these web/cloud people who finds graphics work extremely therapeutic. I made a box move around on the screen with various e…

I haven't written any serious Rust in a while, but I assume there is some kind of lifetime annotation involved. The "objects" allocated in the arena have to be explicitly given the…

Zig still offers a lot of great additions that make systems work more reliable. Optionals and comptime are two helpful things C does not have, and there are plenty others. One of t…

He's not. > "There's a dichotomy being presented here where you have to either choose a "style guide" or a programming language feature in order to avoid bugs. The sleight of hand …

Andrew doesn't strike me as someone who does any marketing at all. He just wants to make the language he wants to use, and does it well. Sometimes its just right time, right place.…

Yep. He mentioned recently in his JetBrains interview he wants Zig to be a language for the next 50 years. Rushing 1.0 for the sake of signaling to the wider industry today would b…

Yeah or anybody who can still actually read code.

Sure. I'm just saying in the context where fully-managed SaaS was already decided not to be an option, and a customer is deploying vendor code in their environments, the update mec…

I agree that keeping things up to date is a good practice, and it would be nice if enterprise CISOs would get on board with that. One challenge we've seen is that other aspects of …

> So you're stuck debugging a system you don't control, through screenshots and copy-pasted logs on a Zoom call. This is very real. I work with a deployment that operates in this f…

On the streaming side, are you looking for Change Data Capture? https://docs.tigerbeetle.com/operating/cdc/

Did you try asking the model?

Spam bots.

> It's a type of team building, improves employee morale and humanizes management. All lead to improved productivity in the long term. Yes, but the important distinction is that it…

I agree to a point. Although, alcohol (when consumed responsibly) has a social element to it, so companies having a "beers on Friday after 4pm" just feels different than "here's ni…

Not allowed.

Yeah definitely something that would've been posted as a joke in a "HN front-page 10 years from now" kind of thing.

You turn it on, and it scales right up.

Unless you're doing OLTP. Then, TigerBeetle ;)

https://nickmonad.blog/ Trying to blog more frequently with shorter posts!

Narrowing in on background color is an extreme oversimplification of what Tailwind provides. I found it to be a great tool for working with CSS, especially for layout. Business via…

I agree with the sentiment that companies should help fund open source they depend on, but I think it's a stretch to say those business succeeded "only" because of Tailwind. It's a…

Gotcha. Thanks for clarifying! I guess I wasn't super concerned about the 'try' failing here since this code is squarely in the initialization path, and I want the OOM to bubble up…