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This looks really well done! I've thought about writing an app like this and you've got every feature I envisioned and then some.

Thanks! That was a fun conversation.

I hear you and I agree. The HN vibe is nitpicky, for sure. I was a little surprised the comments here were 100% negative (or not positive, to be fair). I usually wouldn't bother re…

As I type this, every top-level comment here is a criticism or a nitpick. A cool new feature is being added to Ruby. People have done difficult and meaningful work that benefits ot…

Dine Alone: https://open.spotify.com/track/27X1P8USDRbZ5RNjbbQ9d1?si=942...

A full-blown civil war, circa 1800s? Probably not, although a growing number of fascist types are fantasizing about it and planning for it. More frequent and extreme episodes of vi…

Wow, memory lane here. My first programming job was working on Symbian apps. I think I had a 1MB heap and something like an 8KB stack to work with. Good times!

I'm an old timer. I paid a small, one-time fee over ten years ago and have used Pinboard (not without some frustration) ever since. I paid the subscription fee when I received the …

Thanks for sharing this, I've been thinking about building something like it, now I may not need to.

Thanks for reading and providing feedback. Yes, it definitely could've been shorter, but everything in it is intentional. Many longer pieces suffer from lack of editing, which was …

I agree naming is one of the most important things we do. Would love to get your thoughts on the article I linked in this comment thread.

I recently published an article on naming: https://codedevotional.com/blog/naming-climbing-towards-abst... I spent a lot of time on it and about halfway through the process decided…

As a motorcyclist, this has become my primary concern on the roads in the past few years. I constantly and actively check for drivers using their phones. If I can see their eyes or…

I think your argument is focused too far along the timeline. Yes, the Republican majority was elected. What's in dispute is the legitimacy of how they came to be elected, given the…

I love the ideas, but I doubt the reality of ever getting this workflow implemented. I've been a professional developer for 17 years and exactly zero of the companies I've worked f…

There are hard copies. This site is a direct rip-off of Martin Fowler's Refactoring book, among others.

Yes, it is. https://twitter.com/search?q=%22sourcemaking%22%20from%3Amar...

Guilty as charged. :) I'm super-interested in seeing a sample app, particularly the rails_adapter.

42 years old with an English degree. I. am. so. fscked.

The bus system here in Chapel Hill, NC is fare-free.

The problem isn't necessarily the MacGyver hacks. It's building stuff on top of them that hurts. If you realize you're making a MacGyver hack, the responsible thing to do is refact…

Wow. I would argue that you have quite a bit more than "relatively few moments of 'brogrammer' culture" there. A TWSS bot? I can't imagine that ever being okay on any dev team I've…

You don't want to test external APIs. You probably do want to test how your application behaves in response to using the APIs. One way is to mock the API calls with canned response…

The opposite, libertarian answer (and the way we seem to be going right now) would be to let those who can't capitalize on the bounty simply suffer. Cut social services along with …

Well, if you're passing out invites... pretty please? I'm currently trying out different editors, not stuck on any particular one.