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I am all for using LLMs to generate value but a little more editorial review can't hurt. > The quieter but bigger change: the classic encoding/json (v1) package is now backed by th…

Now that no one cares about JS frontend framework, we moved the drama over to JS tooling written in other languages. One reason I find deno nicer is that the node creator is solid …

Not relatable. "Internet is not real, and strangers' opinions don't mean anything" is an ethos that I have been religiously following for as long as I can remember. Also, I do a lo…

It's all tradeoffs. Fully monomorphized generics tend to blow up compile time.

It's a bunch of things. LLVM is one of them. Zig moved away from it for reasons.

I'd be curious about the runtime cost of the extra lookup in case of Swift compared to Go.

Nah made the same comment on r/golang

Go syntax and the Go runtime would be the perfect combo for me. Oh well... I love Rust for what it is, but for most of my projects, I can’t justify the added complexity. Sure, ther…

It's super satisfying to search for my own blog on an indie aggregator and finding it there already.

This is great. But I’ve bookmarked at least 10 of these aggregators over the years, and I never revisit any of them. Partly because I don’t have the time to browse and discover new…

Europe doesn’t do software better - not because it can’t, but because it can’t afford to drop the GDP of a country to build a single app like some of its US counterparts can. It mi…

"Their experience is different from mine; therefore, they haven't worked in big tech" is a bit reductionist. While it's true that in large companies you typically have much less ag…

IDK why these vacuous corpo tropes appear on the front page of HN every now and then. Sounds like exactly what a quasi-technical, management-leaning staff engineer would say. Sure,…

It's great that they are recreating much of the fundamental software stack using LLMs. But if you're going to 'vibeslop,' at least do it in a language other than JavaScript. I stru…

I'm not bored of the technology per se but the people around it. The yappers, doomers, and the shills are insufferable.

I dream of a SQL like engine for distributed systems where you can declaratively say "svc A uses the results of B & C where C depends on D." Then the engine would find the best way…

Damn. I got a bunch of idea around atproto from this comment. Also found out your blog. I wish digging out human written blogs wasn't such a chore. I like the idea of blogs but the…

I follow this religiously. The process of posting is manual but it works fairly well if your intention is good and you're not blog spamming in different forums. But I intentionally…

Go binary says hello. No VM overhead. Everything is statically linked.

We have vibe leadership mills where AGI-pilled leaders are driving their companies into a death spiral.

There is literally no reason to write it in a JVM language in 2026 when better options exists. Either Go for simplicity and maintaininability or Rust to get the most out of the mac…

Mandatory read by Peter Norvig - even more relevant now https://norvig.com/21-days.html

I come from a developing country where the only OS people know is Windows. Macs used to be too expensive, and Linux didn’t have any of the applications people would use (read: pira…

Ha ha I wish. Then both corporate and your coworkers hate you. Also, there is no point in asking questions when you know that they just yoloed it and won't be able to answer anythi…