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null != nil !!! It is good to see some partial solutions to this issue. It plagues most languages and introduces a nice little ambiguity that is just trouble waiting to happen. Iro…

Good to have a name for this! My favourite debugging technique is "introduce a known error". This validates that your set of "facts" about the file you think you're editing are act…

Any chance you'd Open Source it?

You did say philosophy of engineering, right? Look no further than “The Specialist” by Charles Sale “YOU'VE heard a lot of pratin' and prattlin' about this bein' the age of special…

To me this looks like a Jevons Paradox situation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox [1] Increased developer productivity will lead to a lot more software development, at…

Well each of our microservices is also a Node package, so we also do that ourselves for the Lambda deployments - load 'em all up in the one Lamdba!

fs.watch is definitely a high priority in order to support day-to-day dev as a build system. (Hey Jarred - Let’s get that zig package thing done soon!)

This is pretty fun - used it to generate diagrams for my book!

Not really safe to assume there's a decent one. Better to install directly from https://nodejs.org/

I will hire the founders of a failed startup any day of the week over just about any other category of candidate. They are "salted" horses of the finest calibre. In my last shop, w…

Salty, but a true classic. Having read easily several hundred "business" books, this one is my desert island book.

Visible light was scattering off densely packed electrons up to about 300k years after the Big Bang - so I guess - white.

Microservices are about reusability - at the "business logic" level. This framework and its services gets that exactly right. All the network stuff is fine and dandy but first you …

Speaking from the company side, this is our main method of hiring! It works great. A key factor would be that we as a company support and maintain an open source framework. I'm not…

Is this not equivalent to medical triage? Those who will die anyway, and those who will live anyway, get no immediate treatment (apart from morphine). Those who will not survive wi…

That's it. That's the reason. You can usually get Emacs key bindings (or a shallow approximation thereof) in most editors. But yeah, we're stuck, so I guess we just gotta double do…

You'll be wanting https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-... - The Gervais Principle, Or The Office According to “The Office” - the ultimate meta discussion of…

Try cuelang.org/play - it's exactly that. Seems to be just a demo though.

Our implementation is in TS. However that's just an API. Do you have some ideas on how you'd like the TS type system to work with the Cue type system. It's an open question for us.…

And we kinda leverage the docs on cuelang.org since the syntax and semantics are mostly the same!

Yeah - we're just cheating and using YAML syntax modes for the moment which mostly works. The plan is to support LSP for much better DX of course.

Started working on a JS version a few weeks ago [1]. Even with 20% of the features it’s already so useful we’re building systems with it. And not just config - model all the things…

If you’re like me and noise cancelling headphones make you seasick, try 3M Peltor Optime ear protectors - very effective.

This is awesome! How much is open source? Fascinated to see how you put the code together...