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“At the same time, React has done nothing (besides an abandoned experiment in 2019) to improve their pitiful client-side story. It is a legacy framework created to solve Facebook-scale problems with Facebook-scale resources, and as such is a bad fit ...
Creating a subtle, peripheral, and synchronous sense of shared space and context on the web
title: Create WireGuard VPN with Ansible tags: [ansible, security, vpn, devops] author: twimprine layout: post
When contributing to other users’ repositories, always start a new branch in your fork.
Giving people a visible, useful trail of where they've been over the course of an exploratory journey
Hi All! 🤗 In the previous issues, we looked at how you can choose a domain name, how a personal website can change your life, and what people are using to build their sites. But Matthias, I hear you say, ...
How to identify fitting work to you - avoid burnout, have meaning and enjoy work.
We want to be able to run tests in a suite, and debug them in isolation, and have the behavior be the same. If the behavior is different in isolation vs in a suite, it's a nightmare to debug. In ...
I worked on a little hackathon project at AGI House with Sasha. We won!
A fireside chat featuring new gear, old dotfiles, and updates on what we've been up to. Kiwi the puppy doesn't code Rust (yet), but she knows how to sit! Does she have the patience to sit through Jesse's Vim course, ...
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
We’re probably familiar with preconnect, but are we getting it right?
Hi All! 🤗 In the previous issues, we looked at how having a personal website can change your life and what’s in a domain name. Once you’re fired up and registered your domain though, your next decision is probably the ...
Test Driven Development. Red, Green, Refactor. Do we have to do the refactor part? Does the refactor at the end include tests? Or can I refactor the tests at any time?Why is refactor at the end? This episode is to ...
Introduction LibSQL is an **Open Contribution** fork of SQLite. Open Contribution means that it allows suggestions and contributions from the community as oppos
My first introduction to bouldering was in 2017, in DUMBO Boulders in Brooklyn Bridge Park (now closed):
“Performance challenges with a React SPA created an opportunity to explore Liveview. After two days of exploration, we were convinced Liveview provided a path forward, and within a few weeks, we replaced our React SPA with Liveview.”
What is it like to go abroad to South Korea to do an exchange semester at Hanyang University ERICA campus? (Summer 2023)
A deep dive into my tooling setup on the JS Party podcast
Hi All! 🤗 So, you registered a domain. And you started working on your personal site. Maybe you already got a first version of your site online. Perhaps you even published a few posts. But suddenly, there’s this question in ...
How do you test the argument parsing bit of an application that uses argparse?This episode covers:Design for Test: Structuring your app or script so it's easier to test.pytest & capsys for testing stdoutAdding debug and preview flags for debugging and ...
I tend to run my Django application in a Docker container for all the benefits it gives when working with a team or deploying the application. It does however introduce extra hundles in everyday development.
A warm welcome and introduction to Terminal Trove, a curation and showcase of the best of the terminal.
How I got here is already far too long of a post, so I must include this for all the credits and gratitude I need to extend to those who made this possible. To my parents: who supported me every ...
Following up on the first impressions post, let's solve a problem in OCaml and compare the Rust solution. In Response to how well received my last post was I thought I would follow up with some comparisons between how I ...
Humorous article, completely unrelated to, and written before, the others ended up actually on the front page. The Goal: To get a post on the front page of the infamous Orange site... The Plan: There are four guaranteed strategies. No ...
The Why I'm somewhat of a language nerd to begin with, and it was Rust that originally got me interested in the whole functional paradigm. Not due to it's lineage, but the heavy use of chained iterator methods in favor ...
While Python's `bisect` module is very simple - containing really just 2 functions - there's a lot one can do with it, including searching data efficiently, keeping any data sorted, and much more - and in this article we will ...
Code & Context shows how studying at university should be done. A B.Sc. program combining Computer Science, Design and Entrepreneurship.
My story, and how this is all possible Introduction My name is Preston Thorpe, I'm 31 years old and I've spent just under 10 years of my life in Prison (all for non-violent drug crimes.) I am currently incarcerated at ...
“You should stop using React. In fact, you probably should have never used React in any of the projects you used it on. But before you pull out your sawed-off shotgun and shoot me, hear me out.”
Hi All! 🤗 Let’s talk about one of the first things to consider when setting up your personal website: the name, or to be more specific, the domain name. Picking a domain name is something people often struggle with, because ...
I was recently involved in moderating a chat with Kanjun Qiu of Imbue at the MIT AI conf:…
Managing project junk drawers and building the same thing over and over again. Desktop apps, backlogs, great UX, and a dang good time. --- Listeners, how do you handle project management?We'd love your feedback and to hear how you manage ...
“Hooks in React are tricky to use correctly and even harder to use in a performant way. This has left many applications with poor code quality and bad performance, but that doesn’t have to be the case anymore.”
Why on earth would you want to write a test with no assert statements?After all, aren't assert statements how you decide wether a test passes or fails?In this episode, we walk through a handful of useful examples of test code ...
Introduction In this section of the series, we will be exploring how to send a HTTP request in golang. We will be understanding how to send a basic GET request,
