Existenceblinks (u/Existenceblinks)

Existenceblinks commented on Go ahead, write the “stupid” code spikepuppet.io/posts/writ... · Posted by u/spikepuppet

Tenemo · 3 months ago

And reading the Linux kernel mailing list would allow him to... do what exactly? And by when? Compared to writing simple, working, usable apps in TypeScript, immediately after reading about how Deno/TypeScript/etc. work?

Existenceblinks · 3 months ago

To avoid writing stupid code since they will see qualified people put reason on why some codes are "garbage" (I'm not saying this).

Existenceblinks commented on Go ahead, write the “stupid” code spikepuppet.io/posts/writ... · Posted by u/spikepuppet

Existenceblinks · 3 months ago

> Fast forward to today. I’ve been doing a dive on JavaScript/TypeScript and different runtimes like NodeJS and Deno,

That's why. If all codes in a project are stupid, there's no stupid code indeed relatively.

Go read Linux kernel mailing list.

Existenceblinks commented on WASM 3.0 Completed webassembly.org/news/2025... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

alabhyajindal · 3 months ago

The WebAssembly community should really focus more the developer experience of using it. I recently completed a project where I wrote a compiler¹ targeting it and found the experience to be rather frustrating.

Given that Wasm is designed with formal semantics in mind, why is the DX of using it as a target so bad? I used binaryen.js to emit Wasm in my compiler and didn't get a feeling that I am targeting a well designed instruction set. Maybe this is a criticism of Binaryen and its poor documentation because I liked writing short snippets of Wasm text very much.

1. https://git.sr.ht/~alabhyajindal/jasmine

Existenceblinks · 3 months ago

i found assembly is easier to assemble from scratch (it's apple and orange but.). Most materials should exclude these tooling, mostly rust based tools. We should be able to write them by hands just like when assembly was taught. Compiler and assembly are separate classes. I think it's bad assumption that only compiler devs only care about wasm. It's compiling target, sure, but framing it this way will not broaden its knowledge.

Existenceblinks commented on Offline-First Landscape – 2025 marcoapp.io/blog/offline-... · Posted by u/Onavo

Existenceblinks · 4 months ago

These topic and mentioned tools always fail to demonstrate how sync engine works in multiple players modes. And mostly only for backend written in TS/JS, worse it's only for using with 3rd service (which you couldn't put your business logic in here). The first thing i scan in these tools' docs are how they handle write conflict whose conflict is semantic level, not data exchange format level.

Existenceblinks commented on Local-first software (2019) inkandswitch.com/essay/lo... · Posted by u/gasull

Existenceblinks · 6 months ago

Tried to adopt this last month at work, it failed. E.g. the mentioned Automerge, it has poor docs https://automerge.org/docs/reference/library_initialization/... and that left out a lot of question, it seems backend agnostic but have to figure out how to store, how to broadcast ourselves.

Existenceblinks commented on Getting Past Procrastination spectrum.ieee.org/getting... · Posted by u/WaitWaitWha

kriro · 6 months ago

I disagree with the idea that getting past procrastination should (always) be the target.

Mostly because I don't think procrastination is inherently bad. There's a lot of stigma attached to procrastination as it's seen as being "unproductive". But I think procrastination can lead to great insights.

Your brain is telling you that it is not interested in the current task. The question is: Why? Overworked and needs a break? Much more interested in exploring something else? Protecting against the pain of failure?

Investigating the why instead of forcing "overcoming" is quite fruitful in my personal experience.

My guess is "action leads to motivation" might be helpful for solving one of the root causes (likely fear of failure/imposter syndrom) but not all of them.

Existenceblinks · 6 months ago

many such as cases, it's clear why. People hate doing task x, because it's not fun nor valuable to them, but need to do because of duty.

Existenceblinks commented on My AI skeptic friends are all nuts fly.io/blog/youre-all-nut... · Posted by u/tabletcorry

Existenceblinks · 7 months ago

Ironically all nuts friends seem to be talking less, less defensive than other nuts friends who keep talking about other people not buying what they believe nuts.

Existenceblinks commented on Progressive JSON overreacted.io/progressiv... · Posted by u/kacesensitive

danabramov · 7 months ago

It’s definitely not useless. You’re right that it requires the interpreting layer to be able to handle missing info. The use case at the end of the article is streaming UI. UI, unlike arbitrary data, is actually self-describing — and we have meaningful semantics for incomplete UI (show the closest loading state placeholder). That’s what makes it work, as the article explains in the last section.

Existenceblinks · 7 months ago

Thanks Dan. Yes, I agreed on the ui part, it seems to work in most cases. Some html tags have relation like `<datalist>` or `[popover]` attribute, but if we make all kind of relations trivial then it's benefit for sure.

Existenceblinks commented on Progressive JSON overreacted.io/progressiv... · Posted by u/kacesensitive

Existenceblinks · 7 months ago

It's useless as data is not just some graphic semantic, they have relation, business rules on top, not ready to interact with if not all are ready, loaded.

Existenceblinks commented on Show HN: PgDog – Shard Postgres without extensions github.com/pgdogdev/pgdog... · Posted by u/levkk

Existenceblinks · 7 months ago

Looks neat, the first thing I search for in the docs is:

    Unique indexes  Not currently supported. Requires query rewriting and separate execution engine to validate uniqueness across all shards.

But still looks promising.