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Contribute to a mature open source project. Learn from the masters.

Sounds bad. Hope Rust Foundation get their act together.

Yup. Can we build the same for less "power users"? - A single startup file that starts up gitserver, a p2p node to enable repo discovery and submission of PRs. - A web/electrum cli…

Wish we could stop using such msft run nonsense, and build a p2p decentralised PR system. What's the challenges we need to address to make it happen?

No it shouldn't. We can do without one more centralised gateway to apps.

Crowdsourcing surveillance!

Had a similar experience. Typed languages are great for systems development, and I think, not so good for writing web applications. I also think, Ruby, Python, JS have dominated we…

Well said! Couldn't agree more. The GraphQL confusion is one more bullshit in the world of web dev.

If you don't like REST, don't use it. Whatever you do, don't even think that GraphQL will solve your problems. You were on the right track staying away from it till now. I can't al…

I like my front end team to not write queries. I have seen too many front end developers write queries equivalent to "select * from users, t1, t2, ... tn, left outer join on users.…

k8s and even docker are trying to solve a problem not many people will ever face. However, being the sexy new things loads of people get sucked into integrating it into their stack…

My personal mantra of being a late adopter when it comes to cloud deployment tools has some benefits has served me well. I am even reluctant to integrate docker in my work flow. Gi…

I have been remoting for over ten years now. The only rule I have now is to work with remote first teams. If there's an office where a big clique meets, you'll eventually feel left…

Thanks for sharing. Was a pleasure to read, and might inspire me to finally start keeping a journal. The title could easily be switched to the original title "Why I keep a journal …

Thanks for those links. I found them really educational. Does seem like we need some more tooling to avoid as much webpack pain as we can.

I have done close to a decade of work in js, with jQuery in 2008, all the way to react and webpacker madness. I hope someone builds a wasm based front end framework. I did a quick …

Thanks for this excellent reply. I want to print this out and stick it up on a wall.

One more reason to stay away from corporate OSes

Urgh... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_cau... or https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/195024.A_Mathematician_R...

There's so much data in this universe, people don't know what to do with it. When people don't know what to do, an industry grows to let them "feel" they are doing something useful…

It has to be from the factory farms. Right?

Does Matrix allow for anon communications?

1. Go to Africa. 2. Put an elephant in Cairo. 3. Start at the Cape of Good Hope. 4. Work northward in an orderly manner, traversing the continent alternately east and west, 5. Duri…

TIL: A sentinel value is sometimes known as an "Elephant in Cairo", due to a joke where this is used as a physical sentinel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_in_Cairo

Thanks for sharing. I am trying to build a in-memory database and need to rapidly pick up some object pool management ideas.