Lewis Campbell
@LewisCTech
Contractor: https://outdata.net Advanced testing. distributed systems, databases, local first & vanilla JS.
Finishing up my first Deterministic Simulation Testing contract. So I ask you, X, are there other companies looking to introduce DST to improve reliability? Doesn't have to be a DB - any code you need to be resilient in the face of real world input data will benefit. DMs open.
"Most data is akshually relational" says the NoSQL hater as he smashes the document shaped data coming into his system into hundreds of tiny pieces, carefully placing the broken remnants into tables too small for useful queries.
In computing we often use the term "deterministic". Is there a formal definition?
I'm going to fork prettier, with my own defaults, and call it "WAY better looking"
I have so much time for Alan Kay. Yes he's smug and critical of everything, but he's also from an era before the world calcified around Unix and the WWW. Computing in the 60s and 70s was wide open and experimental. I'm glad he's reminded us that we can still have new ideas.
this is an example of that meanspirited style of take that always seems to get engagement on here. sick of seeing these personally.
Hello everyone, future Lewis here. I was wrong about Ocaml tooling, it was a Neovim config issue. LSP and dune watch work fine actually.
NEGATIVES: - dune does not like to be run in watch mode, and keeps erroring out - LSP needs constant restarting (may be related to above?) - Default html renderer of dream framework was not the nicest, used tyxml which is neat (statically verifiably correct html5) but definitely…
Here's what hitting the front page on HN looks like. The server costs me 2.44 USD a month.
"I like that old consultant better. His code didn't need NPM or any complicated build system, it just ran. Also, he never said 'smoochies' which is something I really took for granted at the time."
After you hire this consultant to build a very shitty version of react to build your app that you can’t get around and it’s just garbage, hit me up and I’ll get you sorted out. K? K. Smoochies.
Hey it's The Primeagen's junior dev friend
> guy who thinks his blog is a “web app”
Vanilla JS is by far the most sensible thing to build your web app in. The mild discomfort of manual DOM manipulation absolutely pales in comparison to the endless grind of transitive dependency and tooling updates. I will die on this hill. The front-end emperor has no clothes.
Anyone have real life experienced with ctypes and ffi in general? Ocaml strings are very sensibly byte sequences and not utf-16, though I wonder how well the tagged int stuff works across the Ocaml/C boundary.