XSLT is amazing.
It really is. It's extremely handy albeit a bit niche these days.
Readit NewsKimitri commented on Intent to Deprecate and Remove XSLT groups.google.com/a/chrom... · Posted by u/CharlesW
Kimitri commented on LoC is a dumb metric for functions theaxolot.wordpress.com/2... · Posted by u/Axol
It's not the LoC I care about, it's the logical separation of concerns and testability. Large functions usually do many things which makes them really hard to test. Also, just mashing all the things in a single function is indicative of the author not having a clear picture of what problem he or she is dealing with.
I have been programming for 30 years and, while I don't consider myself a great programmer, I don't like large functions. In my experience they usually fail at clearly expressing intent and therefore make the code a lot harder to reason about. There are, of course, exceptions to this.
Kimitri commented on Use the Accept Header to Serve Markdown Instead of HTML to LLMs skeptrune.com/posts/use-t... · Posted by u/hahnbee
The concept is called content negotiation. We used to do this when we wanted to serve our content as XHTML to clients preferring that over HTML. It's nice to see it return as I always thought it was quite cool.
Kimitri commented on Benchmarks for Golang SQLite Drivers github.com/cvilsmeier/go-... · Posted by u/cvilsmeier
This is interesting and very timely for me. Just this week I was building a small Go system that uses SQLite. I needed to cross-compile it for FreeBSD on a Mac and ran into issues with CGO. The easiest fix seemed to be to switch from a CGO based library to a pure Go one.
Kimitri commented on Minecraft Server in FreeBSD Jails Container vermaden.wordpress.com/20... · Posted by u/vermaden
It probably has its advantages but until the UX reaches what we get with “docker run” this technology will never achieve its potential. When developing we need to think not only about what is possible but also how people do things currently and how does that compare to what we are proposing in terms of ergonomics. How many commands to get from 0 to hero with incumbent solution? How many with proposed solution? You get the point.
I personally really like Bastille for jail management. It's way more ergonomic than creating jails by hand and allows you to focus on the stuff running in the jails rather than the jails themselves.
Kimitri commented on Amiga 600: From the Amiga No One Wanted to Retro Favorite dfarq.homeip.net/amiga-60... · Posted by u/rbanffy
That sounds awesome, do you have any pictures of your Sikakone?
Unfortunately not. It was quite the setup! The A600 had a built-in dock for a hard drive but the turbo took its place. I ran a long ATA cable through the PCMCIA slot and had the drive just sit on the table next to the computer. The turbo also ran extremely hot (it had a plastic cover that started to melt almost immediately so I took it off) which meant I couldn't keep the case closed. I propped it open by shoving a 3,5 inch floppy between the disk drive and the case and have it sit there completely vertically. This allowed for enough air flow to keep the thing from overheating too much. Good times!
Kimitri commented on Amiga 600: From the Amiga No One Wanted to Retro Favorite dfarq.homeip.net/amiga-60... · Posted by u/rbanffy
I think the article is a little hard on the 600 in its stock configuration. (That's not to say that Commodore did a great job with it, in terms of product-line placement. Oh, Commodore... >sigh<)
The 600 isn't a "repackaged Amiga 1000" or a "cut-down version of the Amiga 500". It didn't make sense in the line-up when Commodore introduced it, but it's definitely a step-up from the A1000 and A500. Having the Enhanced Chip Set[0] meant getting the Productivity video modes on a multisync monitor.
The internal ATA controller was also a big enhancement as compared to the A500 and A1000, too. Laptop IDE/ATA drives were getting pretty common. When equipped with a hard disk it was vastly more portable than an A500 (w/ a "sidecar" hard disk drive module).
Having the built-in color composite video output was a "win" for just plugging it into a TV or VCR. Again, that helped with portability as compared to an A500.
As a retro machine it is a cute little machine. The community has definitely stepped-up with enhancements for the A600, though.
Exactly. Commodore made a mistake when they introduced it but I loved mine to bits! After owning it for about a year I upgraded it with a 68030 turbo (incl. 4 megs of fast mem, an FPU and an MMU) and a 4 gig IBM Travelstar HD. The upgrade made it one of the flakiest bits of computing hardware I've ever used (you'd be lucky to use it for an hour without it crashing) but it was just so frigging cool! I painted it pink and purple and labelled it "Sikakone" ("Pig machine" in Finnish).
I had a Teal Indigo2 for a few years about 15 years ago. I loved it! It had the cool feet that let you prop it up sideways so you could have it in tower mode. The feet had these little scoops embedded in them so the machine could more effectively hoover up all the dust from the floor. Fantastic!
Kimitri commented on Show HN: Weave - actually measure engineering productivity app.workweave.ai/welcome... · Posted by u/adchurch
Check out our main landing page: https://workweave.dev/
Let me know if you have any questions that aren't answered there!
I just want to inform you that the pricing section is effed up. It talks about FramerBite pricing - which I guess is the thing you used to throw this landing page together. That seems very low effort and I would estimate the output metric of that to be 1.03 with a correlation of 0.96.