Fan of HTML, CSS, Datastar, Lua, R, Julia, Odin, Zig, Go, Kotlin, Elixir, Gleam and Roc who doesn't yet have time to use most of them.
Joined November 2022
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29 Jan 2024
According to cwvtech.report 🤓 sites using @htmx_org 🗿or @elixirphoenix 🔥 perform better on CWV, INP & Lighthouse score than sites using React, Svelte, Vue, Angular and even Rails Hotwire Turbo, Laravel Livewire😎 probably due in large part to the lower page weight 🗿
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It'd be nice to have more programming languages that are "X but with breaking changes".
I don't care if it's called "Go 2" or "Julia 2" or if it's called "Gone" and "Julietta". Neither stops you from continuing to work on improving the stable versions Go 1 and Julia 1.
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Jun 4
Programming languages strive for stability after reaching mass adoption to avoid breaking existing usecases. But this stability comes at the cost of improvement.
• C# struggled to add unions
• Python can't enforce types
• Java has unsafe nulls
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May 24
Friend> "what's the position in the company called where they act like your friend but they're not?"
Me> HR
Friend> yeah, that
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I think this is evidence that an LLM's "meaning" matrix is still largely a predictive text matrix.
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Yeah it seems terrible at this, I suspect because rare words are extremely unlikely to be the predicted next token. Its vocab is pretty limited even if you ask it to use more rare words with you.
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🧪 Experiment in building a minimal programming language. Focus on parsing and executing directives, less about language features. Inspired by the legendary c4 project.
View everything on langsagne.vercel.app
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May 19
The biggest risk of fully autonomous AI coding isn't bugs, it's comprehension debt.
Your codebase evolves whlie you're not looking and now you don't understand how it works, what tradeoffs were made and why, and lose confidence in the direction to push the project.
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"Client-side" & "front-end" often get mixed up, as do "server-side" & "back-end".
Client-side front-end = vanilla JS/hyperscript/Alpine/datastar signals
Server-side front-end = datastar http/htmx
Back-end = database, event sourcing, business logic, networking, infrastructure
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why use LLM generated Bun to run LLM generated Javascript? Just generate Rust yourself
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May 13
The team that has members doing 200 commits a day? Bro, I don't even think they know how to fix claude code
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Kind of crazy that Anthropic spends more time trying to lock out better apps and harnesses instead of just fixing Claude Code
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Found some footage of when Delaney made the perfect framework for any language to avoid Javascript and people choose Javascript
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May 10
It's true directionally true but missing context. fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g…
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May 10
Is this true? Or is this just statistics?
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Teal is the based Lua version of Typescript.
Fennel is the based Lua version of Clojure.
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Remember to please don't use Datastar it's really bad. Use React or better get real job like nursing, child care or paramedic.
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A short list of things that I don't like about Zed (@zeddotdev) text editor, followed by the things that I do like.
All of the things I don't like about it are problems in other editors too, and configurable.
Some of the things I do like about it are unique to Zed❤️🔥
@rtfeldman
Prompt to ask whether people want format_on_save the first time they save. I didn't realise my formatting had been greatly changed in one part of the file before I made further changes. I'd guess this creates more overall inconvenience & dissatisfaction than a prompt. @rtfeldman
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The JangaFX website is an unreliable source for the software they use because it's a primary source. Let's do a round of Chinese Whispers first and then ask the person at the end.
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List of things I prefer about Datastar to Javascript-heavy SPA frameworks like React, and even compared to the good ones like Svelte.
To answer your question about what Datastar has to offer that's better, all I can say without better tests of performance and code complexity is:
1) Core framework is <250 LOC. Everything else is an optional plugin, 12KB total, can write your own.
2) Easy mental model. It... 2/n
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“who should we lay off first”
CEOs:
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JUST IN: Cloudflare lays off 1,100 employees through email as it restructures for the “agentic AI era.”
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