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The demo video is great, I would consider putting it higher up on the page and possibly on autoplay. I wonder when Amazon will integrate LLM into the native reader. Nice work!

Indeed. I wrote a Python pretty printer that uses a Wadler/Leijen algorithm, and it's a great fit. It doesn't take too long to learn how to use the layout primitives, and it allows…

I love using attrs, like the idea of bringing something similar to the standard library, but strongly disagree with the dataclasses API. It treats untyped Python as a second class …

I think that's natural and OK. I would compare writing my thesis to writing my first full application after learning how to read and write code—even after several iterations under …

Thanks. The thesis is really mediocre academically, so I don't feel comfortable putting it out in the public, but if you leave an email address here or contact me through Twitter I…

Agreed. I think this kind of research can give ideas on what kind of experiments to run on pricing pages, but there are so many factors affecting real life plan choice that everyon…

I did my MSc thesis on SaaS pricing pages. I'll share what I found, since I think many people in this thread may find it useful. I tested how Mechanical Turkers (N=~400) chose plan…

I've migrated a lot of code from moment to date-fns because of moment's bulky size and vast, mutable API. Luxon seems to fix the API issue. date-fns is still great for simple opera…

How does this compare to elasticsearch-dsl?

Where can I order a physical copy?

What was the optimization?

I agree, that doesn't look bad. However, this type definition forces you to supply one argument per function call, which looks awful in JavaScript: fn(1)(2)(3) That's a big drawbac…

Currying in JavaScript is really nice if you can remember the arities of each curried function you're using. If you forget to call up to the last argument, you'll be passing a curr…

Hypothesis has been highly useful in the team I work in. It is also one of the most robust property-based testing library in any language. Thanks to the project contributors and St…

I haven't tried pyparsing, but I enjoyed implementing a simple DSL with funcparserlib having no previous experience with parser combinators: https://github.com/vlasovskikh/funcpars…

Property-based testing has made testing more productive and fun for me. You write a few lines of code that produce a large amount of tests. The idea is obviously so useful, I'm sur…

I've applied the Monoid and Semigroup patterns often in Python and JS. Knowing about CT helps you leverage their properties (associativity, often commutativity, having an explicit …

Implementing a find function makes this read a lot nicer. You could also call it find_first or find_next. def find(predicate, iterable, default=None): """Returns the first value th…

While it's far from a functional language, I find that it's possible to build functional style abstractions without too much headache. The iterator protocol is so well supported by…

Related: https://edgedb.com/ I can't remember where I stumbled upon that, but it implements an object database over PostgreSQL and offers a GraphQL superset for querying. Don't kno…

I haven't read the book OP linked, but I've been going through Haskell Programming from First Principles for the last 6 weeks or so and it's been fantastic. The price tag is well w…

Author of that repo here, I'm glad you found it useful! I've used that template as a starting template for purely personal projects, so beware: it does not have the polish of a wel…