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niels_bom

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    Comment #48907866

    lazygit can already reword

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    Comment #48305393

    Nothing bad has ever happened from privatizing well running government orgs either.

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    Comment #45555950

    MitchellH also talks about this in some interviews he gave about Ghostty.

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    Comment #43513195

    [flagged]

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    Comment #42778027

    Here’s the talk description: https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4507-infu...

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    Comment #42654253

    I think most people don’t have access to supermarkets tho.

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    Comment #42647647

    And that’s why you talk about it and agree on stuff. I call that being a professional.

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    Comment #42647635

    The need is quite widely interpretable though. I worked on a Drupal site once where somebody had put business logic and database querying inside of template files. Just because you…

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    Comment #42647580

    Expecting a developer with 4 YoE to be able to handle a messy legacy codebase by themselves is a suboptimal business decision I’d say.

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    Comment #42057749

    Referenced strongly in 2024’s The Substance.

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    Comment #41923700

    The biggest reasons for me to use the clean architecture are faster testing (most logic is in functional code) and most changes having impact in a small number of files only.

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    Comment #41849603

    Quite a funny commercial imo. I do wonder if getting commercials for big software releases is gonna be a thing from now on.

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    Comment #41688123

    In Amsterdam close to Sloterplas (lake in the West) “aggressive Moroccans”.

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    Comment #41296000

    Typo: “meats the eye”

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    Comment #41295989

    How do y’all filter out survivorship bias in articles like this? I can imagine 50 other people with the exact same experiences but then having worked for companies that ended up fi…

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    Comment #40574266

    tldraw.com is also excellent

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    Comment #39775902

    If I have todo items that are 10 years old it’s a sign I don’t really care about them. For (PKM) notes it’s a whole different story.

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    Comment #39749878

    It might also be people not willing to admit that they don’t know how to optimize website performance. And if you have a somewhat complex web app it can be complicated, especially …

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    Comment #39712765

    Capitalism is so weird sometimes.

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    Comment #39600889

    I think there are valuable positions to take in between “let’s manipulate the DOM by hand” and “React Server Components, NextJS and the kitchen sink”. I personally think there’s gr…

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    Comment #39547196

    I’m familiar with lock/freeze files but that’s not what I’m after.

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    Is there a linter for Python "dependency definition files"?

    In Python there are multiple file formats for defining dependencies: - [`requirements.txt`](https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/reference/requirements-file-format/) - [`Pipfile`](https:/…

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    Comment #39275629

    Would you say it's slower than file IO too?